Changed my #OpenBSD writing-dedicated box from running #cwm to #i3wm -- I like cwm, but it's still a bit too mousey for my taste.
I also changed all of my fonts (both xterm and i3/i3status) to be bitmapped (the "fixed" font), so everything is looking REALLY crisp.
Maybe I'm getting quite crochety, but at this point, I think I'd much rather have a lower res screen with crisp bitmapped fonts than a crazy high-res screen and vector fonts.
The only thing I'm missing is #emoji. My i3status looks like
cpu 31% | load 0.80 | mem 9% | dsk 13.4% | net Gallifrey 82% | chrg 89% 0.00W | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM
instead of
cpu 05% | 📈 load 0.29 | 28.5% | disk 59.7% | Gallifrey 67% | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM
Quite enjoying Ubuntu Budgie. Seems to be a little lighter than stock Ubuntu and with fewer issues? I don't know. I did a full install instead of upgrading in place. Luckily the laptop doesn't hold a lot of files.
I have settled in nicely to Plasma for my work machine. The project has matured a LOT in the last couple of years, and I can't help but shake my imaginary rhetorical pom-poms at their success.
On my home machine, it's almost always tiling window managers. I just love the clean, pseudo sci-fi look and incredible efficiency.
Yeah, the onboarding for tiling wms is not easy. Fortunately for me, my first experience was with the old #i3wm community build of #Manjaro (yes, yes, boo, hiss, arch folks, get it out of your system, lol). It booted you into a very basic screen with just a basic infobar, but they used conky to both give you a small system info panel but also a panel where the basic keybinds are spelled out for you, and they had one that opened up a PDF document with ALL the keybinds.
J'ai « essayé » l'environnement #Plasma KDE (pas plus de 10min ; en ce moment, j'utilise #i3wm) ; bah c'est très sympa ! C'est visuellement agréable, mais je pense que je vais rester sur un environnement en tuile, j'ai un peu perdu l'habitude d'utiliser massivement la souris (il me semble qu'on peut configurer des raccourcis clavier, mais je n'ai pas pris le temps de vérifier/configurer).
Ubuntu 24.04 daily builds are really solid.. ..i've been messing around with my Ubuntu Server post-install i3wm script a bit, removing more server specific packages and disabling more server specific services that are unneeded for desktop use.. ..this is fun to test and optimize, but i would still just use vanilla Debian
"For those who may be interested in trying to setupo & use SwayWM, I just updated & enhanced (?) my tutorial on the topic. The materials provided are all freely available and without copyright encumbrance."
Depuis ce matin, toutes mes app #GTK sont en light thème alors que j’ai bien précisé : gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
dans ~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini (et 3.0)
Est-ce que vous savez s’il y a eu des changements dans une mise à jour récente ?
#Nokia#N900 update: It works, but it's slow. Any UI like #Xfce or #MATE is just too much for the little 600 MHz CPU.
So I'm going to make myself comfortable with a terminal environment. Or rather: I will MAKE myself a terminal environment, because unfortunately there is no good preconfigured terminal "desktop" that just works. I'm going to have to edit a lot of config files...
I wish there was some kind of vintage desktop I could use like... I don't know, #KDE 1? Surely that worked with 256 MB of RAM back then. 🤔
..the "With Teeth" album is insanely good.. ..so many layers of sound.. ..i have the multi-channel audio disk somewhere.. ..i need to experience it that way again sometime soon
I run a "minimal" #Debian system based on #i3wm, but I'd like my laptop to suspend or shutdown when the battery power gets too low, to avoid running the battery right to zero. What is a reasonable to do this? #upower seems like it might be part of the answer, but it seems like it is mainly glue to provide non-root users the ability to suspend etc...
@cjerrington@TomRobinsonIO I know there are many users who love #i3wm too. The configuration is supposed to be easier, but with Lua, you can do a lot too.