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Fixing Avro Phonetic on Linux Wayland — Left Shift, GNOME, KDE Plasma

Avro Phonetic for Linux had a 14-year-old bug that broke the Left Shift key, and Wayland broke input switching entirely. I forked it, fixed the Shift bug, ported the install to GNOME 50+ and KDE Plasma 6, built a GTK4 manager, and shipped it as `ibus-avro-fixed` — one install for both desktops.

Linux & Open Source•Apr 13, 2026• 7 min read

Making a Cheap USB Fingerprint Scanner Work on Linux — The CS9711 Story

I bought a $10 USB fingerprint scanner for my Linux desktop and discovered it was not supported. So I built an open-source installer with a GTK4 GUI that makes it work across Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and more.

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Fixing Avro Phonetic on Linux Wayland — Left Shift, GNOME, KDE Plasma

Making a Cheap USB Fingerprint Scanner Work on Linux — The CS9711 Story