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Changing monitor or screen Brightness and Gamma​

# List available outputs
xrandr

# Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 16384 x 16384
# DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
# HDMI-A-0 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 621mm x 341mm
#    3840x2160     60.00 +  50.00    59.94    30.00    30.00    25.00    24.00    29.97    23.98  
#    2560x1600     59.97  
#    2560x1440     59.95* 


# Change the brightness and gamma of the HDMI-A-0 output
xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --brightness 0.65 --gamma 0.65:0.65:0.65

Make a startup script using XDG startup​

mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
nano ~/.config/autostart/gamma_on_startup.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=gamma-on-startup
Type=Application
Exec=bash -c  "/usr/local/bin/gamma_on_startup &> /dev/null" 
Terminal=true
desktop-file-validate ~/.config/autostart/gamma_on_startup.desktop
chmod +x ~/.config/autostart/gamma_on_startup.desktop

Example program:

sudo chmod a+rwx /usr/local/bin/
nano /usr/local/bin/gamma_on_startup

sleep 5
export DISPLAY=:0
xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --brightness 0.65 --gamma 0.65:0.65:0.65 
sudo chmod a+rwx /usr/local/bin/gamma_on_startup

Font​

Locations​

  • ~/.local/share/fonts/
  • /usr/local/share/fonts/
  • /usr/share/fonts/

List​

List installed fonts

fc-match -a
fc-list NotoSansBengali-Light

Cache​

sudo rm -v /var/cache/fontconfig/*
fc-cache -r

Resetting KDE​

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend;
rm ~/.cache/ksycoca5*;
kquitapp5 plasmashell;
killall plasmashell;
kstart5 plasmashell;

Disable KDE desktop effects​

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend
## qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor resume
xset -dpms
xset s off

Resetting sound, audio​

systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

# OR

pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --start

Vulkan​

sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon
sudo nano /etc/environment
VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.i686.json:/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.x86_64.json

Resseting Steam, lutris and Wine​

sudo killall winedevice.exe wineserver services.exe EpicGamesLaunch EpicWebHelper.e explorer.exe lutris-wrapper:;
sudo killall steamwebhelper gitstatusd steam;
sudo killall -9 winedevice.exe wineserver services.exe EpicGamesLaunch EpicWebHelper.e explorer.exe lutris-wrapper:;
sudo killall -9 steamwebhelper gitstatusd steam;
pkill -f -e -c lutris-wrapper;
pkill -f -e -c lutris;
pkill -f -e -c wine;
pkill -f -e -c steam;
rm -r ~/.wine

Steam​

Install Proton GE​

nano custonpge.bash
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# make temp working directory
mkdir /tmp/proton-ge-custom
cd /tmp/proton-ge-custom

# download  tarball
curl -sLOJ "$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | cut -d\" -f4 | grep .tar.gz>

# make steam directory if it does not exist
mkdir -p ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d

# extract proton tarball to steam directory
tar -xf GE-Proton*.tar.gz -C ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/
echo "All done :)"
chmod +x custonpge.bash

Fix common bugs​

  • Move Games to your local linux machine
  • Disable steam overlay, steam inputs, ...
  • Link NTFS game folder
sudo mkdir -p /media/gamedisk
sudo blkid ## FA709D69709D2CFF
id -u ## 1000
id -g ## 1000
sudo nano /etc/fstab
# UUID=FA709D69709D2CFF /media/gamedisk ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
UUID=FA709D69709D2CFF /media/gamedisk ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,user,exec,umask=000 0 0
mkdir -p ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata
sudo reboot
ln -s ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata /media/gamedisk/Steam/steamapps/

Scaling Interface​

Run Steam like this:

STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.5 steam-runtime

Run using proxy​

proxychains steam steam://rungameid/100

lutris​

Installation​

sudo pacman -S telegram-desktop lutris vkd3d tsocks proxychains

With Proxy​

sudo nano /etc/tsocks.conf

server = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 1080
server_type = 5

tsocks lutris
## make sure proxy_dns is commneted
proxychains lutris

Proxy per game​

# Check show advanced options
# Put /usr/bin/tsocks in
# Game -> configuration -> System options -> command prefix

AMDGPU​

TearFree, EnablePageFlip, DRI3​

# settings files
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "AMDgpu"
    MatchDriver "amdgpu"
    Driver "amdgpu"
    Option "TearFree" "true"
    Option "DRI" "3"
    Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
EndSection

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i tear

Reducing DRI latency​

sudo nano /etc/drirc

<driconf>
   <device>
       <application name="Default">
           <option name="vblank_mode" value="0" />
       </application>
   </device>
</driconf>

check xorg config file​

sudo Xorg -config /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf

Blocking radon​

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf

blacklist radeon

Install AMDGPU-PRO​

# https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU_PRO
pamac install vulkan-amdgpu-pro lib32-vulkan-amdgpu-pro 
pamac install amdgpu-pro-oglp lib32-amdgpu-pro-oglp 
# pamac install amdgpu-pro-libgl lib32-amdgpu-pro-libgl
# pamac install opencl-amd
# pamac install amf-amdgpu-pro
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL vendor string"
lspci -v | grep -A 10 VGA
vk_pro steam

Uninstall AMDGPU-PRO​

pacman -R $(pacman -Qg Radeon_Software_for_Linux | cut -f2 -d" ")

Blacklist Radeon​

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf 
blacklist radeon