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Arch /Surface Users - What's working and what's not?
Anyway, I'm just curious how other Arch/Surface users are faring. What have you tried that works, and what doesn't? I've seen mention that there are DEs, like paperde, which is designed for touch screen access, and I'm curious if they offer a better experience. Lastly, please feel free to share any tips/recommendations.
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PaperDE v0.2.0 released with simple UI and light desktop. https://gitlab.com/cubocore/paper/paperde
Link: https://gitlab.com/cubocore/paper/paperde
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Has anyone ever been able to figure out how to actually install PaperDE?
PaperDE It's a small project I've been interested in for a very long time. I don't know how usable it is yet, but I'd really like to try it out. But there is like zero documentation on this thing. There's the official installation guide, but well it's really not an installation guide at all. I did all these things and the best result I managed to get was manually initiating a wayfire session(?) that sort of uses PaperDE except it's completely broken. I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong, but well with no real documentation it's impossibly difficult to find out what. Anyone here managed to figure this out? Cause I'm completely lost.
- LXQt 1.0.0
wayfire
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
Unusable until moving your mouse to the edges of the screen and clicking makes it hit the scrollbar, or the exit button. Right now it initiates a resize.
Illustrated example from a different compositor https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/570
It's the only DE I'm excited about it so I hope they fix that. Very very promising and the best part is that it made the GNOME people mad.
GNOME: "Sorry I don't see the use case for that, PR closed. Make your own project. "
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Wayfire (a Wayland compositor) 0.8.0 announcement
One of the developers just responded on the github issue referecing this thread.
"After a bit of discussion on HackerNews, I got a bit better understanding of the actual problem. People don't want to just configure the keys according to a particular layout - the actual 'issue' here is that they expect the key binding changes together with the layout. Unfortunately, the 0.8.0 changes didn't make this possible to implement as a plugin.
I would reconsider adding this as an option if there are enough interested people. React with a thumbs up to this comment if you are interested in having this option (though the defaults will certainly remain as they are now). Please, react only if you actually use Wayfire or would use it if it had this feature :)"
https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/1601#issuecommen...
- I'm ending the WM/DE discussion... PERMANENTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Is wayland still bad with Nvidia?
I have been on Wayfire for over a year now, and I can't possibly praise it enough. It's entirely modular, so you can make it look and behave exactly as you want. It does tiling, it does Compiz-style wobbly windows and 3D desktop cubes, configurable rules and hotkeys, everything. It's stable and handles gaming flawlessly.
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Do we finally switch to Wayland or not?
Your impression of Wayland is going to be very much determined by the quality of the compositor implementing it, and I've found Wayfire to be the best, by far - but oddly, also the one least talked about. Everybody's paying attention to stuff like Hyprland, Sway and Mutter - you're barking up the wrong tree there. Wayfire is fantastic, has most of the bells and whistles Compiz on X11 has, and is as pretty or as functional as you want it to be.
- Guide to setup Wayfire on Artix?
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Which technology / protocol etc. is the next big thing, coming the next few years in Linux gaming?
- VR support
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BGFX problem
I thought so too not long ago, but Wayland compositors needed some time to mature, and some of them are getting pretty damn good. Ever since I discovered Wayfire I'm a total believer, it's better than any X window management solution I've used. Much lighter too.
- Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows
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Swayfire and Wayfire news
might be a small window when wayfire releases a version, before master identfies as the next release number. (see: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/blob/master/meson.build )
What are some alternatives?
lxqt - Checkout all LXQt components at once by using git submodule. Discussions, Wiki and general issues are here.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
libinput-gestures - Actions gestures on your touchpad using libinput
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
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