x11
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
Delightful commons news 🔥
Thanks to @nlnet I was able to give new impetus to delightful commons, and yesterday added new sections to the #fediverse experience list:
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience
New sections added under Fediversity:
- ActivityPub bots
- Browser extensions
- Fediverse metrics
- Tools and utilities
- Mastodon API based
🥳 Even better.. There is a new delightful list created and maintained by @lmemsm and collecting delightful #X11 resources.
Check it out at:
Before systemd. Before Wayland.
Just KDE 3, Konsole, and Slackware doing exactly what you told it to do.
20 years later and the philosophy hasn’t changed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/H0QrkazxbJ
#slackware #kde #x11
I even found and reported a small -snap bug in evilwm while testing 🙂
#Slackware #X11 #Unix #pekwm #evilwm
I spent the last days building and testing a few minimalist X11 window managers on Slackware: evilwm, shod and Notion — even patching Notion to build with GCC 15.
evilwm is still my lightweight, workspace-oriented backup WM, but for a tab-based, rule-driven stacking workflow, nothing I tried comes close to pekwm.
Firefox, terminal and mail living in one frame, out of the way — that’s still the sweet spot for me.
#pekwm #Slackware #X11 #Unix
Please boost and thanks in advance.
Options: (choose one)
expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how
system design choices age over time.
Instead of replying inline, I wrote a short,
standalone note to capture the trade-offs around
scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.
Original thread:
https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819
Document:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt
Blog:
https://4c6e.xyz/
#Unix #Linux #BSD #Wayland #X11 #SystemDesign #Minimalism
expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how
system design choices age over time.
I already had notes on dwm, st, and X11 usage, and
this thread was the motivation to turn them into a
short, standalone document about the trade-offs
around scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.
Original thread:
https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819
Document:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt
Blog:
https://4c6e.xyz/
#Unix #Linux #BSD #Wayland #X11 #SystemDesign #Minimalism
Super+Space opens a small menu script that launches apps and system actions (WiFi, reboot, shutdown),
all keyboard-driven via sxhkd.
No panel, no mouse menus, WM-agnostic.
#!/bin/sh
ROOT=doas
# Open a terminal (st) with the given title and command
# example: st -t terminal_title -e command
term() {
st -t "$1" -e "${@:2}"
}
choice=$(printf "%s\n" \
"Browser" \
"Terminal" \
"IRC" \
"Mail" \
"PDF" \
"Editor" \
"Files" \
"Mixer" \
"WiFi" \
"Bluetooth" \
"Reboot" \
"Shutdown" |
dmenu -i -l 12 -p "Menu" \
-fn "Iosevka Term-11" \
-nb '#000000' -nf '#ffffff' \
-sb '#005f87' -sf '#ffffff')
case "$choice" in
Browser) firefox ;;
Terminal) term st tmux ;;
IRC) term senpai senpai ;;
Mail) term mutt mutt ;;
PDF) pdf-open.sh ;;
Editor) geany ;;
Files) term fff fff ;;
Mixer) term alsamixer alsamixer ;;
WiFi) term wifitui "$ROOT" wifitui ;;
Bluetooth) blueman-manager ;;
Reboot) "$ROOT" /sbin/reboot ;;
Shutdown) "$ROOT" /sbin/poweroff ;;
esac
#dwm #dmenu #sxhkd #x11 #linux #suckless