#WeblogPoMo2024, Day 3: mutter

Who knew a hitching command line could be so irritating?

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Shannon Quinn

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Posted on the 3rd of May in the year 2024, at 8:24pm. It was Friday.

Today, as I was getting back up to speed on work (just in time for the weekend, lol) following travel in the first half of the week, I noticed…something.

Occasionally, my command line would—for lack of a better term—“hitch”.

It became more noticeable as I would type faster; eventually I took to typing gibberish, and it became clear that there definitely was a hitch.

A few minutes of searching (read: tweaking the search parameters, and filtering out “AI”-generated fluff), I found exactly what I was looking for: what is apparently a known issue with Ubuntu 22.04.4. The fix, aside from upgrading wholesale to 24.04 (not quite ready yet), was a new mutter install.

I installed it and rebooted, and the hitch is gone. Thank you, internet!


Yeah, I missed #WeblogPoMo2024 yesterday, so I’m already behind. I’ll continue to do the best I can!

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{quinn2024,
  author = {Quinn, Shannon},
  title = {\#WeblogPoMo2024, {Day} 3: Mutter},
  date = {2024-05-03},
  url = {https://magsol.github.io/2024-05-03-weblogpomo2024-day-3-mutter},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Quinn, Shannon. 2024. “#WeblogPoMo2024, Day 3: Mutter.” May 3, 2024. https://magsol.github.io/2024-05-03-weblogpomo2024-day-3-mutter.