"You don't know that you need it, but when you use it once then you do"
@Lioh talks in a very nice @gnulinux podcast episode about her experience of running a tiling window manager with SXMO on the Pocophone F1 and using it as full featured, hackable, real Linux computer in pocket format! 🐧
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.
Adjusting #corne, #sway, #neovim and various #tui applications for my preferences to be more productive and less mouse dependant. Takes some time but fun and benefitial \o/
#wayland on #OpenBSD seems to be pretty damn solid. I ported my #sway configure over after installing a handful of apps and it just damn works. Though I can not find a wayland native terminal emulator in the repos but just getting started here. I just need to compile #waybar and hope it works than I'm all set!
Upgrading broke things in some surprising ways. Most (not all) icons are gone in my Plasma panels now. It's a good excuse for me to finally play with #sway and go full #wayland though, which has been excellent 😁. I suspect it's my config that broke as opposed to some flaw in the new release (or maybe both?).
Thanks to everyone on these projects for your hard work. You're making a difference and pushing open source forward!
Finally a #convergence solution to my likings and needs. A pocketable machine that runs the OS I want ( #iusearchbtw ), looks how I want ( #sway#waybar#sxmo ), and does what I need (Citrix for work, Spotify on the web, and phone things).
Friends of energy efficiency - the Light Video 0.1.0 #Flathub update is out, build with #gtk4 4.14 and #GStreamer 1.24.1.
This should be the first app targeting the #linux / FDO desktop enabling Wayland video offloading (think zero-copy playback) by default. In many cases (actually more than I expected) this can improve battery lifetime - and on low-end devices even playback performance - significantly.
This is kinda a technology preview in order to see if we can ship features like this enabled by default in a lot more apps in the ecosystem.
Thus I'd be very super happy if you'll try it on lots of hardware - be Intel/AMD laptops or ARM64 devices (with V4L2 stateless decoders, such as most #LinuxMobile devices).
Chances that you really hit a zero-copy path are highest with a recent #Wayland compositor - i.e. if you are using #GNOME46, #kde6 or a recent version of #sway, #weston, #cosmic etc.
I would love to continue using #Wayland & #Sway, but ugh, there's so many little things that just don't work right.
• The #Audacity playhead only updates each time I move the mouse in & out of the tracks area. Tooltips open as windows with title bars in the center of the screen.
• #Kdenlive has unintentionally transparent areas. My wallpaper shines through around the video previews, some lists (e.g. file browser) are initially fully transparent/empty.
Wow, I just got #arbtt capturing to run with a #wlroots based #wayland compositor (like #sway, I use #river) and it was surprisingly simple. Just run this command once per minute:
lswt --json | jq '{date:now|strftime("%FT%TZ"),rate:60000,inactive:0,windows:map({title,program:.app_id,active:.activated}),desktop:""}' | arbtt-import -a -t JSON
I have also a homegrown solution to set the inactive flag, but it’s not as pretty.
Hab ich das bei dem #Wayland Vortrag richtig verstanden, dass es bei #Sway mit der Sicherheit nicht soweit her ist, weil sie auch die BSDs unterstützen wollen (Stichwort Keyboard abfangen)? D.h., dass Wayland derzeit nur unter Linux richtig sicher implementiert werden kann? #swaywm#clt#clt2024 (im Relive ist die entsprechende Frage ab etwa 01:10 zu hören).
For those of you interested in our recent video offloading / zero-copy playback work: I quickly put together some #livi#flatpak s to make it easy to test stuff already. Compositor offloading should work on all semi-recent Intel/AMD and a variety of ARM64 devices.
Things should generally work on #gnome45, #kde6, #sway and #weston - not sure about other compositors.
I haven't tried #kde myself yet as NV12 support was only added recently. But tomorrow there's a local #kde release party where I hope to convince some people to try on their devices.
With the release of Debian 12, I decided that - instead of my usual setup of Xorg + Openbox - I would explore Wayland and a different desktop environment.
After making the switch to Sway and using it on both Linux and FreeBSD I find myself liking it very much!
Sway quickly gets you 90% towards a usable desktop. Its that 10% where you're crafting your own desktop just the way you like it that takes some experimenting!
After spending 2 days searching on how to show the mousepointer and switch to trackpad mode in #sway, the final solution to use #krita on #linuxmobile is way more simple and pragmatic:
Just create a workspace which fits the mobile needs.
The file open/save dialog is a bit sketchy, but so far the best image editing experience on my #op6. Including cropping and colorgrading.
As usual, get the setting from my codeberg repo:
codeberg.org/magdesign/sxmo-userscripts/