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Pekka Paalanen

@pq@floss.social

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I work on Wayland and color management, Weston and HDR.

A Finn, he/him.

216 Followers

60 Following

9 Posts

Joined May 01, 2025

Gitlab:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/

blog:

https://ppaalanen.blogspot.com

Github:

https://github.com/ppaalanen/

IRC (pq):

OFTC, IRCnet

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 2mo ago

I have been working for @collabora@floss.social for 15 years now. They suggested that I should look into this new idea called #Wayland when I was being interviewed (in IRC!) for the contractor position. That is how I got to where I am today, and mental health permitting I am in a very happy place. Just wanted to brag about the 15 years. 😋

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 6mo ago

Why don't usb keyboards advertise their layout and model? Would be nice to be able to unlock LUKS at atomic Linux distro boot without having to remember a foreign kbd layout I did not use while setting up the encryption. Desktop kbd setup would be easier too.

What if there was a usb forwarding dongle for keyboards that modified the HID descriptors to add this info? And an interface to program that info into the dongle.

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@swick well written, and awesome work!

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@gregkh I tend to use the command line utility of the same.

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@alcinnz@floss.social Not all keys generate characters. Sometimes one needs to know which key was hit rather than what character would be generated, like for hotkeys.

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@suihkulokki@society.oftrolls.com we have 100 EUR keyboards with programmable macros and leds, shouldn't be that much to add a programming interface for some HID descriptor.

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@troy_s Is it irrelevant to artists what set of paints they have available to paint a picture with?

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@troy_s and pears. It would be the artist themselves saying this set of paints is not enough for them. Does that never happen?

Pekka Paalanen @pq@floss.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@emersion@hachyderm.io I wonder if someone could make a business out of making USB "adapters" that add such descriptors.