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Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:<p>Well, I really like <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X11</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xorg</span></a>) ... and my son loves <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/PeppaPig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeppaPig</span></a>. Which gives me a stupid idea. I could write something called <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Xchicken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xchicken</span></a>. Make some chicken lay some eggs with mouse clicks on some <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/XRender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XRender</span></a> surface.</p><p>Rough roadmap:<br>- Draw some chicken and eggs, probably as SVG?<br>- Reuse code from <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Xmoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xmoji</span></a>, add special widget supporting some "layered canvas"<br>- Implement game logic<br>- Add sound? (Hm, gotta look into <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> and maybe <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/sndio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sndio</span></a>, cause <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> ... <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> weirdness maybe later)<br>- ....?</p><p>I'll probably never start though 🙈</p>
AskUbuntu<p>I can't run dwm in wsl2 windows 11 <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/drivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drivers</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nvidia</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/windowssubsystemforlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowssubsystemforlinux</span></a></p><p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/1543632/612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">askubuntu.com/q/1543632/612</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
AskUbuntu<p>LTS 18.04.6 xorg update on 2025-03-11 broke desktop <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/lts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/1543514/612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">askubuntu.com/q/1543514/612</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)<p>'"The (basic) kwin split had been completed yesterday. […] Both kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland are co-installable […] lwin_x11 is expected to be maintained until Plasma 7, no new features are expected to be backported (to be fair, the feature freeze has been in place for quite a while already […]). New fixes should be landed in kwin_wayland first, then backported to kwin_x11."'</p><p><a href="https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2025-March/123654.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-</span><span class="invisible">devel/2025-March/123654.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kwin</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wayland</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/x11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>x11</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a></p>
AskUbuntu<p>LTS 18.04.6 xorg update on 2024-03-11 broke desktop <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/lts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/1543514/612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">askubuntu.com/q/1543514/612</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
AskUbuntu<p>Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS xorg update ensures that applications no longer start (Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird ..) <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/apt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apt</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>upgrade</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thunderbird</span></a></p><p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/1543415/612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">askubuntu.com/q/1543415/612</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
AskUbuntu<p>How to stop abstract ( @/tmp/.ICE-unix/randon-number ) xorg listener? <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a></p><p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/1543361/612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">askubuntu.com/q/1543361/612</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
AskUbuntu<p>Is possible run wayland applications in an X11 session? <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wayland</span></a> <a href="https://ubuntu.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a></p><p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/1543264/612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">askubuntu.com/q/1543264/612</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Несерьёзный Выдумщик<p>Про миграцию на Wayland.<br>Последние пару лет у меня Xorg оставался на машинах из-за Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM). <br>Несколько месяцев назад <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/sddm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SDDM</a> таки ушёл на <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/wayland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wayland</a> и больше <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/xorg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xorg</a> не используется, можно удалять.</p><ul><li>Пару лет назад претензии к Wayland были, но скорее к его поддержке окружениями и софтом.</li><li>С год назад почти не осталось нареканий к работе десктопов с Wayland, что не могло напрямую с ним работать, то вращалось через его Xwayland.</li><li>Последние же месяцы поддержка и переход софта состоялись в полном объёме.</li></ul><p>Если что-то из софта потеряло функциональность, вынужденно работая через <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/xwayland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xwayland</a> на тех системах, где нет Xorg, то в этом софте ментейнеры довольно быстро реализовал поддержку Wayland.<br>Однако, пошло это лишь тогда, когда дистрибутивы стали использовать Wayland в качестве основного GUI-сервера.</p><p>Не фанат Wayland, просто <a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/x11" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#X11</a> сам по себе и Xorg крайне небезопасны и категорически не способны сделать безопасный десктоп для пользователя. А потому и неизбежен переход на Wayland, альтернатив нет.</p><p>И в тоже время, комично наблюдать как толпы жалуются, что якобы Wayland плохой\сырой и т.д. так и не вкурив, о необходимости переключать софт на работу с ним.</p><p>Например, можно в <code>/etc/environment</code> вставить:</p><pre><code>QT_WAYLAND_TEXT_INPUT_PROTOCOL=zwp_text_input_v2 MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 QT_QPA_PLATFORM="wayland;xcb" SDL_VIDEODRIVER="wayland,x11" </code></pre><p>Перезагрузиться и тогда уже составлять впечталение о работе десктопа с Wayland’ом.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://idealists.su/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@russian_mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>russian_mastodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://lor.sh/@ru" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ru</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://3zi.ru/@Russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Russia</span></a></span></p>
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p>Yeah, yeah, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xorg</span></a> old, unmaintainable, whatever. It's still my only choice for desktop.</p><p>What surprises me, though, is how some distros can keep it running super smooth, while others seem to have this problem at every few updates or so (it gets fixed, just to break again a few weeks later).</p><p>I guess this is smell of its unmaintainability - you fix something, but break another in the process. :S</p>
Magiilaro<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@eobet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eobet</span></a></span> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wayland</span></a> and <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nvidia</span></a> are not at all a good combination, it is way better but still all glitchy and slow and error prone. <br>Due to that I would recommend to switch back to <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/Xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xorg</span></a> for at least a year (or two) and hope that Nvidia gets its drivers in a state that is somewhat on the same level as the drivers from Intel or AMD.</p>
-fab-<span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://phpc.social/@adele" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adele</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.pollux.casa/@adele" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adele</span></a></span><br><br>I ended my <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/consolechallenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConsoleChallenge</a> and I hope some people will also partake. I made a <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/gemlog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gemlog</a> post on my capsule which describes my experiences:<br><br>gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-03-03-Mission_accomplished_-_ConsoleChallenge.gmi<br><a href="https://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-03-03-Mission_accomplished_-_ConsoleChallenge.gmi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-03-03-Mission_accomplished_-_ConsoleChallenge.gmi</a><br><br>So the challenge has finished for me and it was an interesting and educational experience. I can only suggest to try it yourself. Have fun!<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/consolechallenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConsoleChallenge</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xorg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xorg</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/wayland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wayland</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/console" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Console</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/tty" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTY</a>
-fab-<span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://phpc.social/@adele" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adele</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.pollux.casa/@adele" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adele</span></a></span><br><br>I started my two days <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/consolechallenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConsoleChallenge</a> today (CET) :). I disabled my display manager and my T460s (named sneezy) will directly boot into the console. No X anymore! Hopefully more than one person (me) will partake in this challenge :). But maybe some people will also participate. Would be cool to read other people's experiences in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/console" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#console</a>.<br><br>I know there are lots of people who have a Console only setup, but for me it's new. So if you're only used to use X or Wayland then maybe you should also try.<br><br>It's still the last of February, but I wanted to do the challenge over the full first weekend of March.<br><br>I'll end the challenge on monday (2025/03/03) morning with posting a gemlog article about my experiences still only from the console.<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/consolechallenge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConsoleChallenge</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xorg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xorg</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/wayland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wayland</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/console" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Console</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/tty" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTY</a>
Francesco P Lovergine :debian:<p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wayland</span></a> released in June 2008. Debian 12 (bookworm) has been released in June 2023. After 14 years it is still not able to properly see and activate a secondary display attached on HDMI on fly (among other silly issues).</p><p>Of course, no such problems with <a href="https://floss.social/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xorg</span></a> </p><p>How to move forward to return back, a quite common pattern in IT.</p>
It would be great if Cryptomator some day becomes Wayland native.

Currently it only supports Xorg and that hasn't got the security I need.

So for now I will continue to create LUKS vaults and upload them to the cloud.
One downside is that I have to decide the size of the vault beforehand.
Another downside is that I can only open the vault on Linux.

But I'm pretty confident in the security it provides.

#Cryptomator #LUKS #Linux #Security #Encryption #CloudStorage. #Vault #Wayland #Xorg