Please provide the clear explanation of your problem and/pr issue so that some knowledgeable SMEs could provide you some better advice .....

Yoshi

it is stalling

Connecting to mx.devuan.org via SMTP...
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Here: https://github.com/xlibre-debian/devuan/

#!/bin/bash

sleep 40

sleep_period=4m

while true; do
 
###high="$(ps -eo %C --sort -%cpu | awk 'NR==2')"

if ps -eo %C --sort -%cpu | awk 'NR==2 { exit !($1>8); }'; then
      xdotool key shift
  fi
  sleep ${sleep_period}
done

I gave up a long time ago trying to fix that screensaver problem. If you're binge watching something it is most annoying. This script works better than the other one. I think. Using it now.

I'll have to look that BOM thing up.

That said, my *.txt/*.conf/etc. files are (in all probability) not going anywhere.
Save maybe one of my other Linux systems. 8^)

I agree, [Featherpad] seems fine for what I usually do.
Worst case scenario, I'll always have [MCedit].
It also renders all the accented characters correctly.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

have made a change in audio setup

now only with monitor audio + dac  for some time.

would like be unpretentious;

but this thing a bit strange ,

since am sure that with this browser "nightly" could play audio , but now it seems it no longer plays any audio.

previously had firefox-esr + nightly (compiled via instructions from forum)

now have firefox-esr + nightly (had audio) + firefox developer (has audio).

it is bit strange, because  am pretty sure it functioned before, and now it seem no longer;

please just ignore this thread if you like because maybe  i am just a bit oomm.

the nighly reports (max channel = 0) -  am a bit puzzled.

https://ibb.co/GvpTY1DM
https://ibb.co/PGWVwQBz
https://ibb.co/cS2XQjNC

thanks for ignoring.

Yes, regarding the compositor - your assumption is generally correct. Not having it enabled is actually a good thing in many cases. Lutris has an easy switch for this called Disable desktop effects. I'm on Xfce, and I encountered an issue with at least Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal and FlatOut - in both games the polygons and textures flickered annoyingly at random times. The xfwm4's compositor was to blame for this. Interestingly, I experimented with picom, and it also caused flickering, but at much lesser intensity. With most games, it can't hurt to keep compositing disabled - if anything, for added performance.

However, I did encounter one game where the compositor actually helped me. It's a fairly obscure title - Faery: Legends of Avalon. Without the compositor, I'd get awful tearing, and the only way to get proper vsync in the game was to keep it running. So it may still vary from game to game - but this situation seems far more rare.

Some games may also refuse to give your display resolution back after the exit. Lutris has an option for this as well.
But it does not have one when a game changes your gamma settings, so here's one more fix you may need:

Create a new registry string value:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"UseXVidMode"="N"

This will stop Wine from messing with display gamma settings. As a side effect, the in-game brightness settings will probably stop working, but you can of course adjust them at system level instead, if needed.

I'd say take your time, go slowly. You are right - this is indeed a lot of information, but it feels so rewarding when you finally get it all working! Wine is great for old games, oftentimes it runs them even better than the native platform.