I've heard about ImageMagick, a very versatile tool indeed. Not sure if xnview uses it for anything, I think it has its own internals for metadata swiping (can do that at least). But it sure would've been nice to have everything in one toolbox - that's why I like trimage (and PNG Gauntlet on Windows). Maybe one day they will finally add real optimizer options in xn. As for the frontends to IM, I do like converseen. And for applying various filters, gmic is just another great tool that seems to be inspired by the IM.

Oh, this is pretty cool, although I'm sure xnview can do basic batch resize as well. By optimization I meant the lossless compression of JPEGs by optimizing their Huffman table, clearing metadata and optionally making them progressive. The actual image data is left intact by this operation, but the size is reduced considerably if the pictures are big and there's a lot of them in the folder. This is what IrfanView can do using jpegoptim as a backend. Xnview currently cannot, however in Debian 12 there was a program called trimage which is a very basic GUI for this kind of lossless optimizers (for JPEG and PNG... the latter ones are very slow), and I just found out the package still works in 13 even though it's not in the repositories for whatever reason. Anyway, nice trick, it can certainly be useful for quck resizing of needlessly huge images!

Wine should not generate a separate prefix for every program launched/installed via it. It provides a way (winecfg) to configure .dll overrides etc. separately for each application if necessary, but it's all done within the current prefix. If you use some kind of frontend for Wine, like playonlinux or lutris, prefixes may be generated for every application, depending on the frontend's settings. But plain Wine doesn't do that, as far as I know.

By default, the only time when a prefix (a 'Windows installation') is generated automatically is when you launch winecfg or a Windows program the first time after installing Wine (and it will be a 64-bit prefix which is not desirable in many situations).

In Wine 10, the ~ HIGHDPIAWARE value also fixed fullscreen games for me - without it, they opened in huge windows with only the top left corner visible. In Wine 8, there was no such problem so the switch is probably unnecessary there (or maybe not even recognized). Some suggest using ~ DPIUNAWARE instead if you have any scaling/blurring problems.

No problem, glad to see that this information is actually useful to somebody! ^_^

Yes, with buttons it's such a small thing but very annoying I agree, that's why I bothered to look up a solution...

I think having a subforum for Wine-related questions is a good idea, the howtos tend to be scattered all over the internet (and many sites are laggy mess) so it's always nice to have a 'native' place where people can look up and post their guides & tips.

Glad to hear that it works well!

@golinux, if it's of any reassurance, I can confirm that the setting suggested by HardSun in post #6 works. Just tried it in Tor Browser which was also affected by the changes, and the duck's gone.

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They may eventually get to the terminal and the WMs as well, should they decide it gives people too much freedom to operate outside of their paradigm.

I don't think that even Windows and MacOS are end-user-oriented anymore. The days when they tried to please the average Joe or Jane are now gone. Gone are the eyecandies like the bubbly Aqua, the Aero transparency, the Bliss wallpapers and the like. Nowadays it's the wonderful choice between concentrated Bleach or Charcoal for your eyes, coupled with the most depressing and confusing GUIs ever possible on the market that no one could have imagined in their worst nightmares just a couple decades ago. Or the endless updates that cause your devices to malfunction or lock you out of your computer. Or outright destroy your data. Windows is no longer trying to hide the fact that it's been designed as a data collection and advertizing platform all along. MacOS maybe less so, due to the somewhat more niche audience, but the story is pretty much the same either way...

I don't believe it's all just about money. Of course the lack of material compensation and appreciation of another's work plays a role, but I feel that something much more important was forgotten. The whole idea of sharing and mutual support seems to have practically evaporated from the spirit of Linux community (and many other communities as well). Back in the day people seemed to have a much clearer grasp that corporatocracy etc. was a rotten game all along, and were willing to put their efforts and resources in a completely different direction, were willing to help and share with each other unconditionally, finding more and more kindred souls along the way and knowing their work will not be in vain, which allowed things to prosper. And in the golden age (the 2000s?) things were going along quite nicely. And it was not about any political ideology either, as we see quite well nowadays that all of them turn out to be one and the same, none of the -isms were meant for anything good. (Even Open Source was not fully about it, as today we see it everywhere but it doesn't really solve anything.) Perhaps back then people simply knew how to avoid that, and how to work best in each other's interests rather than trying to adjust themselves to something that's only going to bring more ruin and suffering. Today it's easy to acknowledge that we are on the wrong path, but we have lost the sight of the right path altogether...

There's Haiku, which seems to be heading in the right direction so far and one day may become usable (as a light multimedia type of OS, at least). Unless it also falls prey to the omnipresent corruption, which seems to be the trend lately in pretty much everything. Greed, powermongering and malevolence have poisoned many souls...

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