@ErikUden I will forever call it #Shitter because it's an #enshittified #Twitter and one cannot #deadname a #corporation!
But that's beyond the point:
Said goodbye to #XMonad today on my development machine. It's been a good run, but #Wayland is coming to replace #XServer and it doesn't look like XMonad is coming to the other side.
So far feeling fairly okay with #Niri, though of course the beginning is always stumbly and I've yet to drive it in an actual workflow. And many of the keybinding defaults are some flavour of disaster in my locale, but that's a given with a lot of tech. Little bit at a time, this will become more usable. Especially after I also finally ditch the big tech OS on my daily driver later this week. This whole smaller migration was a preliminary task for that.
Slightly updated my blogpost about X11 (again):
1) Add subsection about xlock to the "Screensaver" section with sample configuration involving xlock and xautolock usage.
2) Add subsection about how to properly start xdm — according to the documentation in the FreeBSD — the /etc/ttys should be changed, not the /etc/rc.conf.
3) In the "GTK3" subsection wrote about hack from ArchWiki to force GTK3 not to conform X server settings (I starting to think that this is impossible), but to display fonts and UI elements at least the same size like other toolkits — when the HighDPI display is in use.
4) Remove wrong line ("XTerm.vt100.selectToClipboard: true") from xterm X resources, so the mouse selection appears in the right clipboard and can be pasted with middle-click of mouse.
https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html#fonts-size-tweak
This week's Linux and FOSS news:
LINUX NEWS
Arch Linux Powered CachyOS To Develop A Server Edition:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Server-Edition-Coming
(An Arch-based server OS? Well, good one for those who like their adrenaline rising while updating the system. New extreme sport found lol (Just joking, don't take it seriously))
Parrot 7.0 brings KDE Plasma 6, Wayland support, new security tools, and RISC-V support:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/parrot-7-0-brings-kde-plasma-6-wayland-support-new-security-tools-and-risc-v-support/
Qubes OS 4.3.0 released with Fedora 41, Xen 4.19, updated templates:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/qubes-os-4-3-0-released-with-fedora-41-xen-4-19-updated-templates/
postmarketOS 25.12 brings Alpine 3.23 base, GNOME 49, Plasma Mobile 6.5 & kernel updates:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/postmarketos-25-12-brings-alpine-3-23-base-gnome-49-plasma-mobile-6-5-and-kernel-updates/
We Have Another New Linux Phone Before 2025 Ends - Void Phone VX1: An Enterprise-Ready Phone:
https://itsfoss.com/news/void-phone-vx1/
Proton Experimental brings improvements for CoD: Black Ops Cold War, Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER and more
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/proton-experimental-brings-improvements-for-cod-black-ops-cold-war-farlight-84-chrono-trigger-and-more/
GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/ge-proton-10-27-brings-fixes-for-star-citizen-the-first-descendant-and-more-tweaks/
Phoenix: A New X Server Written From Scratch With Zig:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoenix-X-Server
Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-0.3
Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Weston-15.0-Alpha
KVM Guest VMs Using Intel AMX Can Cause The Linux Host To Kernel Panic:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KVM-Guests-AMX-Host-Panic
Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Fix-ARM64-EFI-Crash
NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-Tile-IR-Open-Source
Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-Development-Halts
Wine 11.0-rc4 Brings 22 Bug Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-rc4-Released
(FOSS news in comment)
#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #CachyOS #ParrotOS #Qubes #postmarketOS #VoidPhone #VoidPhoneVx1 #Proton #GEProton #Phoenix #XServer #X11 #Wayback #Weston #KVM #LinuxKernel #CUDA #NVIDIA #IWD #Intel #Wine #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #DistroRelease #DistributionRelease #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #FosseryTech
Huh, looks like my today's presentation about X server setup for minimalists (based on my https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html blogpost) will be kinda … controversial, lol :drgn_blush_giggle:
Usually, announcments in this #hackspace channel have only positive emojis :drgn_cup_mlem:
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
#HackerNews #Xlibre #Xorg #Xserver #CodeCleanup #OpenSource #Linux
The Input Stack on Linux – An End-To-End Architecture Overview
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_devices_linux.html
Patrick Louis writes: ""Let’s explore and deobfuscate the input stack on #Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer:
#Kernel-level handling: It deals with what happens in the kernel and how events are exposed to user-space
[…]
Exposed layer (middle)
[…]
User-space handling:
[…]
The Widgets, #XServer, #X11 window managers, and #Wayland compositors, which rely on everything else
We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.""
🚨 Oh no! The X.Org X server has more holes than a Swiss cheese! 🧀 For the six people who still use it, the suspense of those 'multiple issues' is killing us. Who knew X could stand for 'xtra' vulnerabilities? 🤦♂️
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.html #XOrg #XServer #Vulnerabilities #SwissCheese #CyberSecurity #TechNews #VulnerabilityAlert #HackerNews #ngated
X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-October/003635.html
#HackerNews #XorgSecurity #Advisory #SecurityIssues #XServer #Xwayland #Cybersecurity
Ah, the #SIXEL #revolution is here! 🚀 Now you can enjoy the #retro excitement of running an X server on your #terminal, because who wouldn't want to squint at pixelated #graphics in 2023? 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, real developers are busy inventing #AI that writes code while you nap. 💤🔧
https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL #Xserver #HackerNews #ngated
X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals
https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL
#HackerNews #Xserver #SIXEL #terminals #implementation #open-source #GitHub
Updated my blogpost about simple [*] X11 configuration — add a section for Qt 6 configuration — how to make Qt 6 applications looks like the other GTK2/GTK3/Qt5 programs.
https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html#qt6-theme
[*] "Simple" — by using console and editing the text files. Without DEs and heavy programs.
@raven @RecurringBloatware @probono Same story, I used different monitors (CRT 17" iiyama, some Samsung 17", Benq XI2420z 24", 2k panel from some HP EliteBook in my laptop and tons of secondary displays and projectors), various OSes and distros (Slackware, Debian, Linux Mint, Oracle Linux, Devuan, Gentoo, FreeBSD, etc) and various video cards (old Palit with AGP bus😃, GTX 760 Ti and Intel GMA X950/X3100).
Also I've installed a lot of Linuxes on my previous work and for some friends too :drgn_happy:
And I never saw something like that people posting when speaking about "screen tearing". Tend to think that despite the problem exists — it isn't so widespread as people like to claim :drgn_sigh:
🔍 / #software / #app / #windows
#MobaXterm The ultimate toolbox for remote computing - includes #Xserver, enhanced #SSH client and much more!
Participated in the Undefined hacker's festival and have a speech about my modded #Thinkpad X220.
Looks like I'm not only like to write enormously big blogposts. But also I'm able to make an enormously big presentations :drgn_blush_giggle: — my limit was 30 minutes and (looks like) my presentation was made for 1.5 hours, so @nikhotmsk stopped my endless speech :drgn_blush_giggle:
It was a lot of fun. First, I fixed the lamp, when came to the place. Then, I perform the presentation in the #Emacs through the VGA cable. Looks like it was unshielded, so a lot of cool video-noise from a DJ's devices were visible on the projector's screen during the presentation.
At least, I spoke something about WiFi drivers in #FreeBSD and about #Xserver before my time was out :drgn_happy:
Also, I met one of the fedifriends IRL. Sadly, I forgot to ask about his username, so if you are reading this — please mention me in the replies :drgn_lurk_cute:
#Wayback 0.1 has been released (#Wayland / #WaylandCompositor / #XServer / #XorgServer / #XOrg / #X / #XFree86 / #XWindowSystem / #X11 / #DisplayServer / #WindowServer / #WindowManager / #FreeDesktop) https://wayback.freedesktop.org/
Wrote a blogpost about simple (I mean with a shell and a text editor) #X11 configuration.
Covered topics:
1) #Trackball configuration for left hand. Also remapping of some buttons to have scrolling and middle button (not exists out of the box).
2) Theming: #GTK2 #GTK3 #QT , installing cursor(s), fonts and icons.
3) #Xrandr for multimonitor configuration
4) #Xserver settings for #HighDPI
5) #XDG utils and #Emacs as a system file manager
6) #XDM login window
https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html
#XLibre 25.0.0.5 has been released (#XServer / #XorgServer / #XOrg / #X / #XFree86 / #XWindowSystem / #X11 / #DisplayServer / #WindowServer / #WindowManager) https://x.org/
Oh boi! Looks like on the August my schedule is big :dragnaww:
1) Speech about #Emacs in SaintP #hackspace (https://0x08.in/)
2) Speech about #Xserver (configurarion and hidden gems) in the same hackspace
3) Speech about my heavily modified #Thinkpad X220 in SaintP area (Roschino town) in #Undefined #hacker festival (https://undefined.chaosconstructions.ru/). It will be streamed in the Internet and if I'll be able to obtain a resulting video — I'll upload it to my PeerTube.
