Sadly I can’t recommand pop-os. In 2 years, the updates broke twice on me.

The resolutions where simple enough if you can use the command line to run sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade. But the GUI shop updater just crashed on me without the apt error message visible.

It is a nice distro overall with which you can even try tiled windows without commiting to it.

-> pop-os is nice but it may break from times to times. So if (like me or most dev) you are ok with the CLI and just a bit of fixes from times to times then go for it. But if you are affraid of the CLI or never want to fix anything, then some other distro may be a better choice.

Where can I learn what each colors means? Is it buried in man htop somewhere? Or in a website?

Yeah, I’d rather register cls play <id, name or path> in streampi or other macro box. Especially if cls let me add new sounds and configure things easily. Like I see having multiples “public laughing”, so when starting the sound any can be played. Which provide a bit of variety in the stream. And allow to repeat the sound for a longer effect on the fly without being too repetitive.

I read that global hotkey is not possible in Wayland. Or, at least, not as easily as with XOrg. Did you achived it ? Can you link to where you are doing it in your code please ? I’m curious, especially since its the first time I heard global hotkeys from a terminal program.

I try not to use global hotkeys myself. Do you have another way of controlling the soundboard ? Either from websocket, DBus, launching a command, … I like to use streampi¹ (open source streamdeck clone) for streaming and it may use any of this interraction methods. (Websocket may require to write a plugin for yëur program.)

¹ Streampi as stopped developpment for now in its v2 snapshots. Still usable. But the dev want to rewrite in C++/Qt for a v3.