I don't think I've posted a fetch from this machine before, so here it is.

#fedora
#sway

@stib Weird to hear about scale issues in #sway . Never have any issues on different monitors since 2020

I've installed just about every tiling compositor / Window Manager for #Wayland, and am slowly eliminating the ones that have showstopper issues.
* #Sway is good, and I love that all my i3 configs can be used, but scaling the display on my high-DPI monitors was just unusably awful,
* #MiracleWM just flat-out refused to run, and I'm not motivated to put the time in to fix whatever is wrong
* #hyprland is another of the mainstream WMs (as much as a tiling window manager for #Linux can be called mainstream), and works really well, in terms of having the most bells and whistles—like really good scaling with the option of leaving XWayland windows unscaled—but at the cost of a pretty greedy amount of CPU usage even when it's not doing anything.
* #RiverWM looks like a good contender, though it feels like it's a small project and early in the development process. Best thing: they use good ol' IRC for the user forum, rather than reddit. I think I've found my people.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/River

@sandwich I’ve been using Sway for quite a while now, but sometimes this scrolling paradigm might come in handy. Also, in comparison, Sway really feels somewhat bland; I might give Niri a try someday. Thanks for the demo!

#Linux #Niri #Sway #Wayland

Historically, I’ve been a big fan of tiled window managers. I used ion and ion2 for ages, I mostly work in terminal with `tmux` which feels pretty similar.
That said, I tried sway and didn’t feel like it wasn’t a necessity. Windows and GNOME shell both support window snapping with Super+arrows, and that’s basically all I need. Obviously, you can like sway or tiled window managers still, this is just the half-formed opinion of one middle-aged nerd.
#sway #WindowManagers

#nwg-look 1.0.6

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-look/releases/tag/v1.0.6

#sway #swaywm #Hyprland #Wayland #gtk #nwgshell

Great Wayland experience today. Updated to FreeBSD 14.3, shifted back from Poudriere to packages as I found it too time consuming so I deinstalled and reinstalled all required packages from the repo.

Then I figured out that swaymsg reload didn't work anymore. The whole desktop froze immediately and the only chance I had to access my machine was logging in via ssh and killing the sway process. Then I started commenting out my whold config for wayland and uncommenting line by line, performing a swaymsg reload after each uncommented line.

It turend out that the freeze was caused by this entry: output * bg ~/share/mybackroundimage.jpg fill

After replacing this line with exec swaybg everything kept working as expected. But everything worked before until today. This is really annoying. If I wouldn't need HiDPI support for a 4K display, I would consider going back to Xorg. It took me two hours to figure out what caused this issue!

#Wayland #Sway #FreeBSD #swaybg

@futurebird It's not the strangest computer I own or have access to, but it is the strangest one I use for "normal" fediverse access. It's a £100 ARM-based #PineBookPro I bought back when they were new, and installed #PostmarketOS on. It saved me in a pinch at work when I had a laptop die on me, although I definitely drove it harder than it wanted that day.

I'm running absolute nerd-bait stuff on this thing: #sway, #waybar, etc. My normal laptop is straight GNOME, usually.

#Linux Weekly Roundup for June 15th, 2025: Linux 6.14 EOL, #Ubuntu dropping X11, #Nitrux adopting #Hyprland, #Denmark ditching Windows for Linux and #LibreOffice, #KDE Frameworks 6.15, #Sway 1.11, #DXVK 2.6.2, #Audacity 3.7.4, #RockyLinux 10, #Kali Linux 2025.2, #Mixxx 2.5.2, PeaZip 10.5, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-june-15th-2025

#OpenSource #FOSS

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Ubuntu 24.10 will reach EOL on July 10, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-eol-july-2025

Ubuntu 25.10 (shipping GNOME 49) will remove GNOME X11 session:
https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-to-remove-the-gnome-on-xorg-x11-session

Linux Mint 20 reached EOL, upgrading to 22 is recommended:
https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20-eol/

Linux Mint 22.2 adds out-of-the-box fingerprint authentication support with Fingwit app:
https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-will-feature-fingerprint-authentication-with-fingwit-app

Nitrux drops the Plasma-based NX desktop for Hyprland, due to the discontinuation of Plasma LTS released:
https://9to5linux.com/nitrux-linux-drops-its-kde-plasma-based-nx-desktop-for-hyprland
(It's a bit weird choice that they ditched a full DE for a standalone compositor, which is tiling in fact, and requires editing some config files manually, not sure if DE users want that.)

Kali Linux 2025.2 released with revamped Kali Menu, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 8.3, 13 new tools (including Azurehound, binwalk3, bloodhound-ce-python etc.):
https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-2-released-with-revamped-kali-menu-13-new-hacking-tools

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 available with preparations for disabling X11 by default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alpha-0-Packages

Sway 1.11 released with explicit sync support, support for the ext-image-copy-capture-v1 and ext-image-capture-source-v1 protocols for improved screen capture, support for the alpha-modifier-v1 protocol for setting an alpha multiplier for a surface, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling-wayland-compositor-adds-support-for-explicit-synchronization

(More Linux and FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2410 #Ubuntu2510 #LinuxMint #LinuxMint22 #Nitrux #KaliLinux #Kali #GNOME #GNOME49 #GNOMEDesktop #Sway #WaylandCompositor #DesktopEnvironment #LinuxDistro #LinuxDistribution #DistroRelease #DistributionRelease #DesktopLinux #LinuxDesktop #FosseryTech

I need a fix;

When waking from sleep, my laptop's display seems to freeze on sway.

I can hear notifications continuing to run, and other than the GUI display the laptop is fine. I can switch to a TTY and kill sway, switch back and login just fine.

Nothing I do sees to wake the GUI except pkilling sway and restarting it.

OS: Debian Sid
Kernel: 6.16.0-rc1
Sway: v1.11

#askfedi #fedihelp #sway #linux #gui #gpu #freeze

@eugen @vermaden Does it (#Sway and / or #Wayland) have window switching (toggling between the last two used windows)? This functionality is *vital* for me. NB #i3wm does not have it either, BUT XOrg can do it for me: https://github.com/sagb/alttab is it possible in Wayland? Also, does it have a clipboard? You know, MMB click to paste? Those are the 2 I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are a couple more.

If Alt-tab works on Sway, I'll try it right away 🙂

Right, so, I'm now daily driving #Wayland on my #Linux install on the main laptop. The switch from X wasn't all that of a kerfuffle. I already prepared a few years ago by switching from xmonad to i3, and #Sway just takes i3's config. And I was forced to use Wayland on my #FreeBSD install on this laptop as well, because X refused service.

Had to configure waybar a bit to look less like a circus and more like something you'd expect to see on an 80s serial terminal, and initially the whole thing segfaulted on me a few times.

It's fine now. It's just a bit annoying that from time to time it shows a black screen for 0.5 seconds, for no obvious reason. And the fact that X apps look fuzzy. But hey, this is the future!

So now all the Wayland devotees can praise me and all the X devotees can deride me.

Meanwhile, I'll be trying FreeBSD 14.3 on this laptop, I hear the wifi support has drastically improved.

#nwg-panel 0.10.7

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-panel/releases/tag/v0.10.7

#sway #swaywm #Hyprland #Wayland #nwgshell

@0Alexx sadly nothing with #lua that I know of. #sway could be a functional successor. But I am using #niri now. I don’t know why but it just resonated with me :-)

Further adventures in #cyberdeck configuration:

I've replaced the #wyse 3040 with the wyse 5070. It's a lot faster, and 8GB of storage just wasn't enough space to work with. There are also enough USB ports for peripherals.

The current configuration also has two Ethernet ports, one of which is 2.5Gb.

I'm currently theming #sway and making some progress getting it to behave like I'd want.
The amount of gorilla tape on this thing makes it look interesting. I won't be taking this to the airport.

I'd be happy for feedback / corrections / suggestions regarding (#electron 's) auto-discovery of secret service providers using #dbus in https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/47436

As a long-year #sway (prev #i3) user, this has been bugging me for literally ages, and i would love to see a better usage of the available #freedesktop APIs. With packages like electron, there is a lot to gain, as (like it or not) many desktop applications use electron nowadays.

Bon je dois me rendre à l’évidence : je crois que j’aime bien écrire des articles de blog/tuto sur des sujets #tech comme j’ai fait pour celui sur #neovim
Est-ce qu’il y aurait d’autres sujets qui pourraient vous intéresser ? Mon setup #desktop #linux optimisé pour l’utilisation clavier avec #sway, #kitty, le lanceur #rofi (apps, emojis, etc), mes mappings #ergol et mes quelques apps #cli dont je peux pas me passer ?
Des tutos #python sur #litestar notamment ? Autre chose ?