nwg-hello 0.4.2
#nwgshell
Back to using Sway on NixOS with Home Manager. It was the same combo that sort of burned me out on nixos last year, but I've got a bit more confidence now in the whole stack to make it work. I love the i3/sway way of doing things, and I can't really get the same experience anywhere else, so it's back WMs for a while.
This time, I'll experiment with writing my dotfiles in their native format before delegating home manager to hold onto their state, I'll ask home manager to do less overall so it doesn't do dumb things like step on my gtk config on every rebuild, and I'll slowly build the system up over a longer period of time instead of like in a weekend.
Slower, simpler, and hopefully less nixos-rebuild switch calls.
I'm also using nwg shell for the common UI components and settings managers, which is fantastic by the way. It solves needing to learn an entire esoteric config language for every program in your system, and the final look and feel is very cohesive. Nwg-panel has me sold on just that alone.
I also pushed a new #nwgshell liveslak ISO!!
I listed changes on the page, but we're going to call this a 'test'. It features the full nwg suite w/ Sway WM, as well as includes flatpak, extra pkg manager 'slpkg' (both setup), and 'sboui' which is configured for my slackbuild repo (where all this comes from). The source repo isn't 100% clean (lxqt for instance, needs plasma 6 to build) but almost all of it builds on a stock system. May be worth playing with. https://rekt.lngn.net/liveslak/
Random LQ visit and I find an appreciation post from a happy repo user! https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/this-is-my-slackware-desktop-725754/page364.html#post6597835 #nwgshell #slackaroni
Building a first test refactored #nwgshell ISO which will need some more changes yet, but I’ve got to start somewhere with it. I’ll be playing with that later to finalize and update that as well hopefully today. #slackaroni https://slackware.lngn.net/
I’ve pushed some changes for #nwgshell users completely removing Hyprland from the nwg default installation. Sway is default and included but I’ve now added a few more hypr utilities and separated it so one can add/remove it from their system easier by its directory name “hyprwm”. I also added *very early* quickshell packages basically only useful with niri using the DankMaterialShell addon. More changes coming soon. Oh yeah, the link https://slackware.lngn.net/ (no info on the site yet)
Updated webkitgtk* to 2.48.4 with a rebuild of libavif and including rav1e for av1 encoding support as well within the webkitgtk “repo”. Added the pillow-avif-plugin to #nwgshell for use with azote and updated a few things within on the Intel side today. https://slackware.lngn.net/
I pushed some updates for #nwgshell earlier and a few missed point releases for #kde6 bits just now. Things seem slow around here (it’s summertime) so enjoying the downtime doing cleanups! https://slackware.lngn.net/
There is a slackbuild for RiverWM, but it's very old. Grabbed the rpm from Fedora y'day and added River to my Slackware-nwg setup. Niri, river, hyprland and sway. For my panels to behave correctly I use nwg-panel (with niri-tasks) on Niri and Waybar on River. Nwg-panel with the hyprland config on Hyprland. Now I'm merging the applications, so keybinds relate to the same applications across the board.
@dobbie003 : I'll dive into that beer now!
#slackware #slackeroni #nwgshell #riverwm
Wiped a partition today to re-install #slackware 15.0 and setup all these graphic updates and such to see just what I can pull out of 15.0’s ass now. Outside of possible #nwgshell tricks, maybe I should do some cleanup for #gnome 3.38 afterwards. It feels like going back in time!
Updating #hyprland in the #slackware #nwgshell repos and then I’m signing off to play some 16bit games until sleep overcomes me. I hope sleep overcomes me anyway. https://slackware.lngn.net/
Because we all know the ultimate geek garden is Slackware, alive and kicking after 32 years. Running Hyprland 0.50, with nwg-shell on top. Another fine Slacker0ni production!
#slackware #slackeroni #hyprland #nwgshell
@jloc0 And then, with the speed of light, I see that 0.50 of Hyprland flying in from your Slackeroni repo 😜
As usual, we get spoiled with the best rolling features on Slackware :ablobcatbouncefast
#slackware #slackeroni #nwgshell #Hyprland
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