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A Framework touchpad that "lagged" after resume, and the one-line driver rebind that fixed it

Jul 13, 2026 · 4 min read · framework linux fedora i2c-hid touchpad power-management wayland ·

This morning I sat down at my Framework as usual, but the touchpad was annoying — glitchy, laggy, unresponsive, a whole bunch of little problems at once. At first I suspected something mechanical, so I tried all sorts of things, including bending the chassis a bit to see if it was a flaky connection. I was too lazy to …

Migrating my remote Emacs from alacritty+mosh to foot+et

Jun 27, 2026 · 6 min read · emacs terminal foot linux ·

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I run Emacs on a handful of different servers and connect to it from my laptop. In this article the server is genos and the laptop is framework, talking to each other over Tailscale. For years my remote setup has been: alacritty — the terminal emulator mosh — a resilient remote shell emacsclient — to attach to the …

Fedora 43 → 44 broke my Hyprland, and I had to rebuild hy3 in shell

May 17, 2026 · 8 min read · hyprland fedora wayland linux ·

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A few weeks after the Sway-to-Hyprland post, Fedora 44 dropped. I upgraded the laptop. Half the desktop fell over. This is the log of putting it back together — including realising I had to write my own mini-hy3 in five small shell scripts. A little background first. I have moved from I3 to Sway to Hyprland, mostly for …

From Sway to Hyprland, with all the sharp edges

Apr 24, 2026 · 10 min read · sway hyprland wayland linux ·

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I'd been on Sway for years. It's solid, i3-compatible, boring in the good way. But Hyprland kept showing up in screenshots with features I wanted (proper mouse-drag move/resize on floating windows, smoother animations, the hy3 layout plugin) and I finally caved. This post is the log of that port, including the bits …