RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117101641122516933

There's an easy explanation for why xwayland is semi-broken: hostile engineering. @bragefuglseth was trying to advertise for the @XOrgFoundation but they're responsible for BOTH #X11 and #Wayland, so if X11 back-compatibility with Wayland is defective, then they probably WANT it to be defective. This is typical #tech sector "planned obsolescence".

Because the geeklords are all salivating over the new thing and want it to be FORCED on people (so they can start profiting faster from the new thing) they make sure the old thing, which is still perfectly useful and in fact has a massive user-base, is sabotaged.

(cont'd)

One again I must stress that I doubt whether any developer in the #Wayland space is actively cackling with glee about leaving end-users out in the cold...except, I must inform @bragefuglseth and @XOrgFoundation, that's EXACTLY how snobby #tech and #programming people talk about users when they're even the least bit angry or peeved that they're not being taken seriously, as the grand creators and benefactors that they always imagine themselves to be.

(cont'd)

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#CoW #fvwm #Wayland #RunBSD

Alt...

A screenshot of the cow window manager desktop. There is a pager at the top left of the screen showing all 10 desks. Desk 0 has two terminals and qutebrowser open. In the middle at the top is the full date and time displayed in a cowbutton and to the right five cowbuttons displaying keyboard language, screen idle status, laptop brightness, volume control and laptops battery charge status. The cowbuttons have different colored text using the gruvbox theme.

GNOME 51 Beta è arrivato con nuove funzioni, miglioramenti all'accessibilità e diverse novità per Shell, Mutter, Nautilus e le applicazioni GNOME. #GNOME #Linux #GNOMEShell #Wayland #LinuxDesktop https://www.linuxeasy.org/gnome-51-beta-arriva-con-una-nuova-gestione-delle-impronte-digitali-e-altre-migliorie/

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

The bad news: pasting a several-kilobyte-long single-line string into Konsole doesn't work. It gets truncated.

The good news: I can still pipe it into other programs using wl-paste.

The more you know! ⭐️

#Linux #XDG #Wayland #clipboard

RustDesk: Unbeaufsichtigter Fernzugriff unter Wayland
https://linuxnews.de/rustdesk-unbeaufsichtigter-fernzugriff-unter-wayland/ #rustdesk #wayland #opensource #linux #linuxnews

Lambdock – Wayland-native GTK4 dock with a live Lisp REPL

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/lambdock

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260628

#HackerNews #Lambdock #Wayland #GTK4 #Lisp #REPL #open-source

🚀🙄 Behold, the hipster's dream: a "modern, hyperhackable" dock for the 3.5 people who use #Wayland and have a #Lisp fetish. 🤓 Just what the world needed, another reason to pretend we're all still living in the 1980s while sipping overpriced, artisanal coffee. ☕👴
https://codeberg.org/jjba23/lambdock #hipstertech #retrocomputing #artisanalcoffee #HackerNews #ngated

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300759

#HackerNews #RustDesk #Wayland #RemoteAccess #UnattendedAccess #OpenSource #TechNews

🚀 Wow, groundbreaking news! #RustDesk finally allows you to ignore your #Linux machine from afar using #Wayland, because who doesn't love playing hide and seek with their own desktop? 🎮 Just what the world needed: yet another way to neglect our computers while pretending we're productive. 🙄
https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/ #RemoteDesktop #Productivity #Gaming #HackerNews #ngated

🌗 使用 RustDesk 在 Wayland 上實現無人值守遠端存取
➤ 突破 Linux 遠端桌面限制：RustDesk 推出支援 Wayland 的無人值守連線預覽版
✤ https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
開源遠端桌面軟體 RustDesk 釋出全新預覽版本，成功在 Linux 的 Wayland 顯示伺服器上實現真正的無人值守遠端存取。該版本支援多螢幕設置，並允許使用者在系統重啟後的登入畫面直接連線，無需遠端設備手動確認連線要求。
+ Linux 的 Wayland 協定長期以來在遠端桌面支援上存在不少限制，RustDesk 這次的突破對 Linux 使用者來說是非常實用的進展。
+ 支援重啟後登入畫面的遠端存取大幅提升了管理遠端主機的便利性，期待未來穩定後納入正式發行版本。
#RustDesk #Wayland #遠端控制 #Linux #無人值守

Normal developers:
Hunt down the bug and fix it.

#Wayland developers:
Always blame others and claimed that their product is "perfect".

#fvwm #cow #wayland

Rather cheekily, I've just added a theme to CoW to emulate what the canoe WM provides:

https://github.com/roblillack/canoe

If anything it's an honour as this look-and-feel is excellent. I've attached a screenshot of the result in CoW.

The theme can be found in CoW's repository.

Thank you, Canoe!

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117072168428690503

OK! Only forty-four respondents but still enough to give me some general picture of the roughly even balance between #X11 and #Wayland and the relative slightness of other options. And I learned about #tmux for multiplexing console terminal sessions so that's good!

🗳

Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen [They/Them] » 🌐 2026-08-10
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

OK first #poll related to #UNIX / #Linux / #BSD desktop matters. Let's start with something more fundamental: what's your protocol?

X11:	3
Wayland:	3
text / console apps:	1
other graphical environment:	0
direct mental contact like Mr. Spock:	1
other:	0

Xfce: Zweite Vorschau auf Wayland-Compositor erschienen
https://linuxnews.de/xfce-zweite-vorschau-auf-wayland-compositor-erschienen/ #xfce #wayland #x11 #linux #linuxnews

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117072168428690503

Still at forty votes. Hoping for more because more #data is always better, right? That's what the genAI boys say!

Anyway it's interesting to see that #X11 and #Wayland are roughly par. I was hoping to learn about something brand new heh

🗳

Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen [They/Them] » 🌐 2026-08-10
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

OK first #poll related to #UNIX / #Linux / #BSD desktop matters. Let's start with something more fundamental: what's your protocol?

X11:	3
Wayland:	3
text / console apps:	1
other graphical environment:	0
direct mental contact like Mr. Spock:	1
other:	0

Паравиртуализация при отладке графических приложений KasperskyOS в QEMU

Привет! Меня зовут Денис Молодяков, я — тимлид команды графики в KasperskyOS . Мы отвечаем за разработку графического стека полного цикла для микроядерной ОС: от создания низкоуровневых графических драйверов до всего необходимого для фреймворков. Современная реальность разработки диктует новые правила: удаленка и распределенные команды стали нормой. Моя команда не исключение — ребята базируются в разных регионах. При этом каждому разработчику требуется доступ к аппаратным платформам для сборки, запуска ОС, написания и отладки драйверов. Обеспечение каждого сотрудника полным набором плат сопряжено с серьезными логистическими и финансовыми затратами. В этой статье я хочу рассказать, как мы искали оптимальное решение этой проблемы и почему пришли к использованию методики паравиртуализации.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/kaspersky/articles/1067226/

#gpu #virtio #ci #системное_программирование #паравиртуализация #микроядро #wayland #kasperskyos #qemu #виртуализация

Espanso Wayland ist da und funktioniert :-)

Espanso ist aus meiner Sicht einer der besten Cross-Plattform-Textexpander, der unter X11 super funktioniert. Schon länger gab es Versionen, die den Umstieg auf Wayland versucht haben, aber im Alltag doch oft Probleme hatten.

Mit Version 2.4 scheint es nun zu laufen. Dann darf von mir aus auch Linux Mint zum Jahresende auf Wayland umsteigen :-)

#espanso #linux #wayland

🐭 Xfce’s Wayland Compositor Gets Second Preview with Better Window and Input Handling

https://linuxiac.com/xfces-wayland-compositor-gets-second-preview-with-better-window-and-input-handling/

#xfce #wayland #opensource

LightDM torna protagonista del mondo Linux con la versione 1.33.0, dopo quattro anni senza nuove release. Arrivano Qt6, miglioramenti per Wayland, VNC, FreeBSD e systemd. #Linux #LightDM #Ubuntu #LinuxMint #Wayland #OpenSource https://www.linuxeasy.org/lightdm-1-33-0-arriva-dopo-quattro-anni-supporto-qt6-e-importanti-miglioramenti/

@adx I hate to badmouth free software developers. I am particularly fond of #xfce, and you can't argue with the effort to add #wayland support.

But this guy just sat down and typed out an account of his own self-contradictory weaselly amoral hypocrisy.

... or perhaps he delegated that task to the bullshit machine

@wchouser3 @joeress

#fvwm #cow #wayland

CoW's first release -- v0.1 is live.

After many months of hard work, bug fixes, and feature requests, I've decided to release the first version of CoW:

You can download it here:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow/releases/tag/0.1

I still expect it to be full of bugs, etc., so do keep those coming in.

Thanks to @justine, @lgsl, and others for their help!

What is CoW? It's a window manager running in on top of the River compositor. See:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

"But here I am, with [this arsenal of smallpox and nerve gas] for the past [century]. I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am."

We're at the stage of cultural decline where we just publicly announce our amorality.

I want to denounce him, ridicule him, but who has the rhetorical powers to execrate this individual more than he has just willingly done to himself?

https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

@wchouser3 @joeress

#xfce #wayland #foss #noslop #noai #fuckai

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117071922023981288

What we've settled on personally, for now, is #LXQt on CachyOS Linux, which we hadn't gotten working with #Wayland previously but which seems to be working fine now after a system reformat, and #twm on FreeBSD. There's considerable virtue in the dead-simple twm approach although we may tire of the lack of elaboration. Unfortunately all our attempts to get Wayland working with the FreeBSD Nvidia DRM drivers have failed so we're puttering along with X11.

Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen [They/Them] » 🌐 2026-08-10
@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

A while ago on my older seattle dot pink fediverse account I ran a survey about preferred desktop environments on #Linux / #BSD / other #UNIX systems. Now that there's bad news about #Xfce (which has been claimed by the genAI slop-monster it seems) and after a lengthy period of rebuilding my own system at home, the question seems ever more pertinent!

So, let me put together another poll or two. Let me figure out how I should do this...

~Chara of Pnictogen

OpenLogi: open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ released in version v0.6.24 https://playingtux.com/en/articles/2026/08/openlogi-v0624-released/ #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming #Logitech #OpenSource #HID #Wayland

🚥 LightDM 1.33.0 a sosit după patru ani: Suport pentru Qt6 și îmbunătățiri majore!

După o pauză lungă de dezvoltare de aproximativ patru ani, populorul manager de autentificare (display manager) LightDM a primit versiunea 1.33.0. Această lansare marchează un pas important pentru modernizarea interfețelor de logare pe distribuțiile Linux.

✨ Noutățile principale din LightDM 1.33.0:

🎨 Suport nativ pentru Qt6:
• Introducerea suportului pentru biblioteca grafică Qt6 permite dezvoltatorilor să creeze teme de autentificare (greeters) moderne și fluide, perfect integrate cu medii de desktop precum KDE Plasma 6 sau LXQt.

⚙️ Tranziția și modernizarea codului:
• Curățarea bazei de cod prin eliminarea dependențelor învechite (precum referințele vechi la Qt4/Qt5 în modulele de bază) și optimizarea performanței generale la pornirea sistemului.

🔒 Îmbunătățiri de securitate și stabilitate:
• Corecții aduse la gestionarea sesiunilor utilizatorilor, optimizarea comunicării prin protocoalele PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) și rezolvarea diferitelor erori de memorie adunate în ultimii ani.

🌐 Compatibilitate mai bună cu Wayland:
• Ajustări la nivelul infrastructurii interne pentru a facilita lansarea sesiunilor grafice moderne bazate pe Wayland direct din ecranul de autentificare.

O revenire excelentă pentru unul dintre cele mai ușoare, flexibile și populare display manager-e din lumea Linux! 🚀

#LightDM #Linux #DisplayManager #Qt6 #Wayland #OpenSource #TechNews #LinuxEasy #FOSS

#cow #wayland #fvwm

Based on the image renderer code already in CoW, I've now written an XPM3-compatible parser to support XPM images.

I was in two minds about this, but I also didn't want to depend on libxpm for this.

What I have works, and will be mostly useful for menu icons, application icons, etc. The "wm-icons" package still produces XPM files, and I'm already using some of those in cow.

What is cow? It's a window manager for Linux/*BSD written on top of the #river wayland compositor:

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

Passare da Windows a Linux senza rinunciare ai propri cursori è più semplice con Flexa, lo strumento open source dedicato alla conversione dei temi. #Linux #Windows #OpenSource #Wayland #Desktop https://www.linuxeasy.org/flexa-convertire-i-temi-del-cursore-tra-windows-e-linux-in-pochi-clic/

it's taken us too long to get back to this point: poking away at #X11 programming from Common #Lisp (cmucl in this case) using the CLX library. This image captured from our CachyOS Linux system running LXQt + labwc Wayland desktop environment.

But that brings up the question: we spent a couple years in college plugging away at learning X11 programming with the help of those massive O'Reilly books back in the 1990s. 1990s computer #programming books tended to be written to a far more literate standard than is usual in the tech sector of today (generative #AI fanboys probably hope to get away without even knowing how to read) so it was relatively painless despite the somewhat tedious nature of the X11 APIs.

So...does anything like this exist for #Wayland? Are there books that are any good? I'd like to know in particular whether it's at all possible to create non-rectangular windows.

Alt...

partial screenshot of LXQt desktop environment using the Wayland labwc compositor, with two terminal windows open and in between them a small X11 window showing a single line of white text on a black background, successfully created from cmucl Common Lisp using the CLX interface.

unbelievable. reinstalled CachyOS clean from a fresh image and now #Wayland is working better. Here's Wayfire (just a bit too barebones for me)

Alt...

Pnictogen Wing's widescreen monitor showing Wayfire desktop running via CachyOS Linux, with an electric blue swirly background, a Waterfox window and a terminal emulator