Since I have had no luck with getting risc-y, I have dusted off the #MangoPi Quad to play with.

I have a #Debian sever iso installed and updated to #Trixie. #Xorg is installed and now I am compiling #CDE (Common Desktop Environment). Hopefully this turns out to be something fun.

Mi #viernesdeescritorio con #gnu #guix ejecutando varios progrmas como la #terminal, #inkscape, #librewolf, #gajim y el administrador de archivos de #Gnome sobre #xorg

No olviden que pueden ver este toot y muchos mas en:
https://libretics.org/viernesdeescritorio/

Updated: How to Check If Wayland or Xorg Is Being Used

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Find out if Wayland or Xorg is being used as the GNU/Linux display server using a graphical interface or terminal.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/find-display-server-wayland-xorg/

Wow, #SteamOS 3.7 will be huge for #SteamDeck - honestly didn't think #Valve would even consider upgrading to #KDE Plasma 6 seeing how, while has been superb for me, it's still buggy and rather littered with regressions compared to Plasma 5 mostly due to #Wayland, unless they'll still be using #Xorg instead (unlikely)?

Also super curious to see whether it's true that the update will really bring the "wake from sleep" using Bluetooth controllers on the LCD Deck, cos I've always thought, based on what others have been saying that only the OLED Deck has the (hardware) capabilities to do so - maybe not? All in all, super hyped for this tho I wonder when can we expect it to reach the Stable branch.

RE: https://mastodon.world/users/steamdeckhq/statuses/114164430520325919

Well, I really like #X11 (#Xorg) ... and my son loves #PeppaPig. Which gives me a stupid idea. I could write something called #Xchicken. Make some chicken lay some eggs with mouse clicks on some #XRender surface.

Rough roadmap:
- Draw some chicken and eggs, probably as SVG?
- Reuse code from #Xmoji, add special widget supporting some "layered canvas"
- Implement game logic
- Add sound? (Hm, gotta look into #OSS and maybe #sndio, cause #FreeBSD ... #Linux weirdness maybe later)
- ....?

I'll probably never start though

X.Org und Xwayland: Sicherheitslücken ermöglichen Codeschmuggel

Mehrere Sicherheitslücken in X.Org und Xwayland ermöglichen Angreifern das Einschmuggeln von Schadcode. Updates stehen zum Teil bereit.

https://www.heise.de/news/X-Org-und-Xwayland-Sicherheitsluecken-ermoeglichen-Codeschmuggel-10295910.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

wtf is up with Flathub calling X11 "legacy windowing system" and marking apps with X11 support as "unsafe".

I know GNOME likes role-playing as the sole owners of the Linux ecosystem, but it's not a good look to push their opinions on an otherwise neutral marketplace.

Wayland: The Modern Display Server Protocol for UNIX-like Systems

Wayland represents a significant evolution in the way graphical systems are built for UNIX-like operating systems. It was conceived as a response to the longstanding complexity of the X Window System, aiming to create a simpler, more efficient, and secure mechanism for managing display output and user input.

Read More: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/wayland-the-modern-display-server

I was listening to a podcast and they mentioned a poll of a community. Let’s see what the Fedi think.

What desktop server do you run: XOrg or Wayland?

#AskFedi #FediPoll #PleaseBoost #Wayland #XOrg #Linux

30 days on this poll - get the most reach. Please boost for reach too.

I moved back to #i3wm in @fedora for a while and had a difficult time isolating my Xorg logs to hunt down a problem. Here's a post to help you find your Xorg logs and the metadata behind each log line in journald:

https://major.io/p/xorg-logs-fedora-journalctl/

Reassessing Wayland: https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2025-02-03-wayland-xorg-2/wayland-xorg-2.html
#linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #wayland #xorg

TinyX: Small Featured X Server: https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx #linux #foss #tinyx #xorg #server

This is day two of having my main Linux workstation on Debian Testing (Trixie). It was running PopOS previously.

Things I've noticed:

* Moving from Stable to Testing is worth it just for the extra polish of Gnome 47 vs 43.

* Gnome 47 may be a touch less 'opinionated' on things that a user can change & resize.

* Trixie has updates but is not the 'firehose' of other 'rolling release' distributions (depending on your orientation that may be a good or bad thing!). Yes, I called Testing a rolling release.

* Gnome (Wayland) is SNAPPY! on a RTX 4070 running proprietary drivers.

* I haven't noticed any 'weirdness' or 'artifacting' with respect to the NVIDIA card on Wayland; still have to tear into some FreeCAD, Blender, or Prusa Slicer stuff to see if there are issues in 3D.

* Gnome 47 is 'old enough' at this point that all the Gnome extensions that I like are available without version'itis or other issues (Debian 13 is going to ship Gnome 48 btw).

* Testing / Trixie uses kernel 6.12 currently.

* Gnome 47 / GDM 3 understands my dual monitor (Benq PD3277U) setup and understands which screen is #1 properly (annoying little thing w/ v43).

* KDE Plasma 6 works quite nicely as well but I ended up switching back to Gnome just 'cuz.

* I should install XFCE to try it out. It's been a number of years since I ran a heavily customized XFCE setup - would have to be Xorg to be fair to XFCE.

Gnome 48 is scheduled for March 19th.

Debian 13 hard freeze is scheduled for May 15th. Official release will be a number of weeks after that. Mid June(ish)? Past releases says some time during the summer.

Watching the latest @thelinuxEXP show and the first segment is about #Mesa, #Wayland and #Xorg losing their hosting. My naive self thought, perhaps I could sponsor some hosting for them at #Hetzner or something, then came the price and bandwidth they use ..

Then I remembered that there is clearly a difference between hosting and hosting..

Any xorg / xfce4 experts here? I log into my Mint desktop fine, but if I try to connect to xrdp via MS Remote Desktop Connection, *something* is overwriting my xfce4 configuration with the default one. How can I get xrdp to start xfce4 correctly as normal xorg does? #Xorg #XFCE #LinuxMint

Instead of an #introduction post, I'm just going to put a whole bunch of tags in here:

I wonder how long must we wait for #KDE Plasma 6/#Wayland to be developed to see seemingly basic needs for a good OS to be met, like they did not too long ago on #KDEPlasma 5(.27) and #X11/#Xorg.

I'll def be missing a bunch here but some that are frustrating me rn, and made me write this post includes having to do some things, TWICE such as entering a text input on the #Dolphin file manager - before this, if I'm entering a name for a new directory, I'd have to enter it once, as you'd expect it. Now, I've to enter it twice for some reason for it to register.

Weird ass clipboard issues people are very aware of rn - where some things just don't copy over some apps or widgets (presumably some sort of incompatibility between Wayland and #Xwayland apps) - sometimes they can be done, but requires some sort of stupid ritual like pasting what you had copied first on the source app, before pasting again on the target app. Atm though, for wtv reason, my computer decided to copy some things but not others, ON THE SAME APP (i.e. Within the same #VSCode window, or the same #Firefox window). I'd copy a word, paste it and see that it's pasting a word I copied earlier, not just now. I'd copy the same word again and paste it, and this time it works. Just a while ago NONE of this was happening, and now it started, it wouldn't stop. WTF? The only workaround to this is for me to literally make any copy I wanted to do, TWICE - to make sure it's copied. I'm pretty fucking sure copy and paste is an ancient computing feature, not something revolutionary or new.

Another thing happening I recently reported is how more and more apps are suddenly appearing with broken ass fonts or theming (rendering) for wtv reason - font on Firefox and #Thunderbird looks different than how it was, font on Angry IP Scanner looks broken as hell, apps like #Handbrake are no longer using KDE's Breeze theme and looks ugly as hell (all of these on #Flatpak), when all of them looked fine some updates ago. I'm not putting the blame on KDE/Wayland for all/some of these tho, cos it might very well be a (very annoying) #Gnome/#GTK quirk instead for all I know. Regardless, to the end user, your beautiful desktop experience has seemingly become fucking ugly overnight.

I love KDE, I (generally) love Plasma 6 (tho I personally am not seeing any improvement over Plasma 5.27), I love that we're spearheading Wayland, but fuck my desktop went from a huge boost in productivity moving away from #Windows/#macOS to #Linux, something I still love and will continue to daily drive, but is becoming something that is wasting more and more of my time from actually getting things done. Every #PlasmaDesktop update I'm hoping for these (and more) to be addressed, but nope, not yet.

Built a thing! Route your #linux #xorg bars and widgets to monitors based on criteria like "largest" or "rightmost".

https://github.com/davidmreed/monitor-affinity

I use it for #polybar but it ought to work on any command that takes a monitor name as a parameter or env var.

X.org Server Development Hit a Decade High for the Number of Commits in 2024: https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-2024-GitStats #linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #xorg #dev