Updated Asus Screenpad Management service to support Gnome lock screen events

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This updated script provides an additional systemd service to manage and restore the screenpad state when locking the device and the original service for resuming from sleep on Asus laptops with a Screenpad installed. This has been tested with the Asus UX482EG but it should… work with other models.

This updated script provides an additional systemd service to manage and restore the screenpad state when locking the device and the original service for resuming from sleep on Asus laptops with a Screenpad installed.

This has been tested with the Asus UX482EG but it should… work with other models.

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Asus Screenpad Management service – Asus UX482EG

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This post provides a script that can be used in conjunction with systemd to manage and restore the screenpad state when resuming from sleep on Asus laptops with a Screenpad installed. This has been tested with the Asus UX482EG but it should work with other models.

This post provides a script that can be used in conjunction with systemd to manage and restore the screenpad state when resuming from sleep on Asus laptops with a Screenpad installed.

This has been tested with the Asus UX482EG but it should work with other models.

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Chromium Browsers incorrectly handling dropped files from Nautilus

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For a while now I’ve had a strange issue where files such as images when dragged from the Nautilus file manager to the browser. The event doesn’t appear to handle the file correctly. This issue seemingly impacts every instance of file upload that support drag and drop that I’ve encountered.

For a while now I’ve had a strange issue where files such as images when dragged from the Nautilus file manager to the browser. The event doesn’t appear to handle the file correctly. This issue seemingly impacts every instance of file upload that support drag and drop that I’ve encountered.

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Fedora/Ubuntu power optimisations for the Asus UX482EG

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This post provides two configurations for optimisation power consumption on the Asus Zenbook Duo model UX482EG; one configuration uses TLP the other configuration uses a configuration of TLP and auto-cpufreq (plus its requirement thermalid). This has been predominately tested on Fedora 39+ and quickly trialled under Ubuntu 23.04. Without this power consumption would idle around…

This post provides two configurations for optimisation power consumption on the Asus Zenbook Duo model UX482EG; one configuration uses TLP the other configuration uses a configuration of TLP and auto-cpufreq (plus its requirement thermalid).

This has been predominately tested on Fedora 39+ and quickly trialled under Ubuntu 23.04.

Without this power consumption would idle around 14~ watts; with the TLP configuration the average idle drops to 8~ watts.

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