I'm itching to use this but it malfunctions when I run `hints` in the Terminal:
https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/hints
It yields:
(hints:10812): dbind-WARNING
: 17:25:16.703: AT-SPI: Unable to open bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/at-spi2-1RE4O3/socket: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/redacted/.local/bin/hints", line 10, in
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/home/redacted/.local/share/uv/tools/hints/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hints/hints.py", line 375, in main
hint_mode(config, window_system)
File "/home/redacted/.local/share/uv/tools/hints/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hints/hints.py", line 229, in hint_mode
mouse_action["x"] + mouse_x_offset,
^^^^^
KeyError: 'x'
Does anyone have any idea of what to do here? Thanks in advance!
14 May 2026 00:26
You're missing the at-spi2-core package
https://github.com/GNOME/at-spi2-core 14 May 2026 01:50
Hmm, thanks, though... I have no idea of how to make heads or tails of this. I see nothing to install. Would you know how to go about not missing it? lol you're definitely smarter than this newbie!
15 May 2026 05:05
You just need to install the package from mints repos
sudo apt install at-spi2-core
15 May 2026 05:30
Huh, I apparently already had this installed amid my tinkering. Thanks, but it didn't seem to help... I had to keep clicking or alt+tabbing to the window where I wanted the hints to appear right after typing `hints` in the console. Then the hints displayed in a zigzag fashion with no rhyme nor reason with respective to the buttons' location. FWIW, my display is at 200%, which may be what's causing the mouse to overshoot the coordinates, but even the hint locations are off.
I also wasn't expecting to have to pull up the Terminal to type "hints" and quickly Alt+Tab to the target window to generate the hints... though I suppose a keyboard shortcut could bind the script to a function key or something...
16 May 2026 00:32
Lemmy
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