#Labwc

2025-07-06

WOAH!!!! Who would've thought that #Xfce 4.20 works under #Wayland on #FreeBSD? This is so awesome!

Granted I have to use #labwc but that's ok! I'm super happy! 😄

Supreme Sexp System (SSS)sss_project
2025-06-26

SSS releases v3.1.44, with an feature now baked in, a handy virtual on-screen that you can toggle with your mouse directly from , it works nicely in and sessions

codeberg.org/jjba23/sss

sorry for the screenshot in 4k screen, but keyboard is highly usable and should help accessibility, as well as people that control pc from the

2025-06-18
@ottobackwards@hachyderm.io One thing about #FeeeBSD that stands out for me is its native support for #ZFS. In cases like you mentioned I don't make a choice but instead I just created many boot environments and go ahead install things I want to just try out. I have BE for #Xorg with different #WM or #DE and also #Wayland with #labwc
2025-06-18

LabWC's solution is to use a ToggleKeybindings keybinding to temporarily disable all keybindings globally while you use the VM, then re-enable keybindings when your done. This is obviously not optimal if you're constantly switching between VMs and other windows.

github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/

#labwc #virtmanager #virtviewer #remoteviewer

2025-06-18

What solutions do Wayland users use for passing keybindings (ex: Alt-Tab) through to a VM being viewed with virt-viewer or remote-viewer in a Wayland WM? X11 had some kind of special hint to tell the WM to pass all keybindings through to the VM's viewer window. Do you just temporarily disable keybindings while viewing a VM? Is it possible to run virt-viewer or remote-viewer in a separate instance of Wayland/wlroots that only displays that windows and passes all keyboard input to it (e.g. the Wayland equivalent of xinit virt-viewer ... -- :1)?

#virtviewer #remoteviewer #virtmanager #libvirt #qemu #wayland #labwc

2025-06-17

Continuing my LabWC testing. Appears that LabWC or Wayland has issues with not allowing virt-manager to capture keys/mouse when viewing a VM in fullscreen mode. Apparently this was a known bug in Gnome/Wayland that was fixed two years ago, but for some reason I'm running into the same issue on labwc 0.7.1 (latest version available on Ubuntu)?

#wayland #labwc #virtmanager

2025-06-15

Is there some kind of trick to running GNOME applications under LabWC? Whenever I start gnome-terminal or nautilus it causes LabWC (or other wlroots based WM) to start having random freezes/pauses.

#labwc #wayland #gnome

Schluffiger Schluffschluff@norden.social
2025-06-12
2025-06-11
@psilonaut@idtech.space @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I think #X11 is all good as long as I stay away from #Nvidia stuff. #wayland on the other way will only be good when I stay with #Gnome or #KDE and willing to spend some time. Last time I tried #wayland was #labwc on #FreeBSD , was hard but many of my little tools wouldn't work without tinkering.
2025-06-11

Has anyone had luck running labwc under QEMU? Getting screen tearing running under Virtio Graphics, but better under QXL. Setting the resolution to the native resolution using wlr-randr seems to slow things down. Also having random freezes when moving my mouse around. Seeing lots of "Failed to commit output to Virtual-1" error messages when I check the stdout/stderr of labwc.

#labwc #qemu #qxl #virtio #wayland

2025-06-03
labwc users: https://github.com/labwc/labwc-gtktheme/ this converts your current gtk theme into a labwc theme. Works fine! #labwc
2025-05-23
Haha ! I have #Labwc running on my #OpenBSD desktop. Yes that's right I'm running #Wayland on OpenBSD. Nice ! 😁
#RunBSD
2025-05-22
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk #openbox has always been my first choice when I just want a WM instead of DE. And #labwc really makes me feel at home
2025-05-22
Playing around with #Labwc and it's really quite nice. I could get used to a stacking #Wayland compositor and the best bit is it can window snap to the edges too. So it's okay for basic tiling like most. I have built labwc myself from their repo though just to get the latest updates.
#FreeBSD
A screenshot of three foot terminals running in the labwc wayland window manager
2025-05-22
Back on my trusty ThinkPad with external 32" screen running #FreeBSD and using #Wayland which gives me less headaches than I've had today on my #OpenBSD desktop running X. I've just done a git pull on the #Labwc repo to get the latest updates and built it without issue and yes I know there is a package but I'm enjoying tracking progress. I also use #RiverWM and sometimes #SwayWM .
I will go back to my desktop as I do like OpenBSD and I will not be beat. I just need to clear my head first. ;) #RunBSD
Supreme Sexp System (SSS)sss_project
2025-05-12

SSS 🐂 (The Supreme Sexp System) proudly announces version v2.3.23 of the project:

codeberg.org/jjba23/sss

It brings stability fixes and small improvements, to and configurations, as well as the ability to turn into clean persistent code that can be bound to keys.

SSS is a Lisp machine adventure with where culture is celebrated.

Can you get enough Emacs really ?

Emacs configuration in SSS
2025-05-09
Decided that using xorg on my dell optiplex 3080 tower under #FreeBSD isn't for me although it bought back memories. I have seen how certain software has already become stale by which I mean no updates or bug fixes in a good 4-5 years. So I've switched back to #Wayland which I still use on my #ThinkPAD . But my experience of using twm and xterm have made me go explore #Labwc again with my favourite Wayland terminal Foot. It's a lovely minimal stacking window manager which can be themed using #OpenBox themes. I have gruvbox dark installed which I quite like. As to what bar I'm going to use ? I'm not sure maybe waybar or sfwbar or even something else ? #RunBSD

https://github.com/labwc/labwc
2025-03-28
Ha ! Just built #Labwc from their git repo on #FreeBSD and it worked like a charm. I expected to hit problems but no. I now have the very latest commit version.
#RunBSD #Wayland #WindowManager
2025-03-28

@justine
I recommend reading this evident provocation.
xahlee.info/linux/why_tiling_w

I am happy with #labwc.
I have configured the titlebar with double left click to iconify and middle click to lower, xfce4-panel as vertical #deskbar with intelligent autohide.
I use "Run or Raise" with single key shortcuts for most used applications.

Here is a link to an old implementation request of mine.
github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/

Below is the current state of my #FreeBSD desktop environment

#RunBSD #Wayland

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