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  1. Flatpak apps won't start on Fedora — a hung Keybase FUSE mount (/keybase)

    Extension Manager (and every other Flatpak app) hangs forever at launch with unkillable processes. The cause is not the app: it is the Keybase redirector's dead FUSE mount on /keybase, which Flatpak stats while building its sandbox. How to identify it, unblock it without rebooting, and remove Keybase for good.

  2. Give Ptyxis a Starship powerline prompt with a Tux logo on Fedora

    Turn Fedora's default Ptyxis terminal into a polished setup: a JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, a Starship powerline prompt, and a leading OS glyph swapped from the Fedora mark to the Tux penguin.

  3. macOS-style screenshot shortcuts on GNOME (Fedora)

    Replicate the macOS screenshot key bindings (Cmd+Shift+3/4/5) on GNOME so muscle memory carries over from a MacBook — including the non-obvious part: Dash to Dock silently steals Super+Shift+N, and the pre-GNOME 42 gsettings keys no longer exist.

  4. macOS-style Super+C / Super+V copy-paste everywhere on Fedora GNOME (incl. Ptyxis terminal)

    Remap the Super key so Super+C/V/X copy/paste/cut in every app and in the Ptyxis terminal on Fedora GNOME Wayland, just like Cmd+C/V on macOS.

  5. git clone / SSH to GitHub hangs on Fedora + GNOME (gcr-ssh-agent)

    git/ssh to GitHub hangs because GNOME's gcr-ssh-agent freezes when signing passphrase-protected keys and keeps re-hijacking SSH_AUTH_SOCK; fix by running an OpenSSH ssh-agent user service, exporting its socket via environment.d, and masking gcr-ssh-agent.

  6. Framework Laptop 16 — keyboard backlight in GNOME (Fedora 44)

    Wire the FW16's separate QMK keyboard backlight into native GNOME control (Quick Settings slider + brightness keys) via a kernel uleds virtual LED and a qmk_hid bridge daemon.

  7. GNOME keeps asking to unlock the Login keyring after fingerprint login (Fedora)

    After fingerprint login GNOME repeatedly prompts to unlock the password-encrypted Login keyring; the practical workaround (LUKS required) is to remove the keyring password so it auto-unlocks at session start.