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Screen magic possible only on Linux

Recently xssfox posted that xrandr is able to do incredible things, for example render the image diagonally on the screen.


What if you could do the same, but automatically, in real time?


What have I just seen


You saw a computer monitor on a pivot that levels the displayed output when the monitor is turned. It's not much different than what smartphones do when set to alternate between the portrait …

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Dragit goes to production!

Dragit logo


Quite recently Dragit, the local file sharing app written in Rust, GTK and libp2p, was positively reviewed and joined Flathub. On that occasion let's see what is Dragit and why it can be a useful tool.


What is Dragit and why one would use it


If you ever tried to send a file from one computer to another, perhaps you've noticed that this task is more …

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Gtk-rs: how to have mutable object in a closure?

In the previous post The Ulam spiral in Rust I described application that generates prime numbers spiral. I have chosen gtk-rs to write the user interface, because of the pretty good documentation and examples in the repository. If something is not documented there, you can easily check the original Gtk library written in C, which was a base for the Rust version. Also, I just like Gtk, no big story. …

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