cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63055455

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab may shut down without $250K in funding. Projects like Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, and many more rely on it.

I use three keyboard layouts for three different languages. On Plasma, for instance, I can either configure two active layouts so that alt+shift alternates between them, or assign a shortcut to switch to the previous layout, which achieves the same effect. I don't want to cycle through all three layouts.

Can I do something similar in Cinnamon? Here, I only found rather wild options like 'left ctrl to switch to layout 1, right ctrl to switch to layout 2,' which are hardly usable.

After I started up my computer, having updated the last time I used it, going past the log in screen just shows the lock-screen background for a little bit, before a black screen with just a cursor. The Lock Screen still works if I shut the laptop lid or leave the computer enough, but the screen doesn’t seem to turn off properly when shutting the lid and most keyboard shortcuts don’t work, though I can still go to tty.

I tried updating. I tried reinstalling Cinnamon. That didn’t work, but installing lxde and selecting that at login worked, but Cinnamon still doesn’t.

I eventually found out that right clicking the black screen Cinnamon desktop still works, and I can get windows such as the terminal like that, but the windows won’t move or resize.

Probably just going to do a new install.