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He tells an LLM how he wants his Linux desktop and it changes in minutes

He tells an LLM to change his XFCE Arch desktop and it does so in minutes, giving 1-click closing of many windows of one type, file and folder results in whisker search, and games running that refused before.

How it works

  1. He describes the changes he wants
  2. The LLM reconfigures his XFCE desktop in minutes
  3. One-click closing of many windows, better search results and games running through the setup he wanted

Why it’s worth knowing

Window behaviour, search and games were all set by describing them.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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