I think I have removed all the Wayland bits that I can from my Debian OS. I don't need stuff I do not use on my system. I tried Wayland the other day and some of my programs didn't even work. That was the last straw. <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/xwindows/" rel="tag">#XWindows</a><br>
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<p>Wrote a blogpost about simple (I mean with a shell and a text editor) <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> configuration.</p><p>Covered topics:<br>1) <a href="/tags/trackball/" rel="tag">#Trackball</a> configuration for left hand. Also remapping of some buttons to have scrolling and middle button (not exists out of the box).<br>2) Theming: <a href="/tags/gtk2/" rel="tag">#GTK2</a> <a href="/tags/gtk3/" rel="tag">#GTK3</a> <a href="/tags/qt/" rel="tag">#QT</a> , installing cursor(s), fonts and icons.<br>3) <a href="/tags/xrandr/" rel="tag">#Xrandr</a> for multimonitor configuration<br>4) <a href="/tags/xserver/" rel="tag">#Xserver</a> settings for <a href="/tags/highdpi/" rel="tag">#HighDPI</a> <br>5) <a href="/tags/xdg/" rel="tag">#XDG</a> utils and <a href="/tags/emacs/" rel="tag">#Emacs</a> as a system file manager<br>6) <a href="/tags/xdm/" rel="tag">#XDM</a> login window</p><p><a href="https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/202</span><span class="invisible">5/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a></p>
<p>Delightful commons news 🔥</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nlnet</span></a></span> I was able to give new impetus to delightful commons, and yesterday added new sections to the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> experience list:</p><p><a href="https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">delightful.coding.social/delig</span><span class="invisible">htful-fediverse-experience</span></a></p><p>New sections added under Fediversity:</p><p>- ActivityPub bots<br>- Browser extensions<br>- Fediverse metrics<br>- Tools and utilities<br>- Mastodon API based</p><p>🥳 Even better.. There is a new delightful list created and maintained by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@lmemsm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lmemsm</span></a></span> and collecting delightful <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> resources.</p><p>Check it out at:</p><p><a href="https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-x11" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="delightful.coding.social/delightful-x11"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">delightful.coding.social/delig</span><span class="invisible">htful-x11</span></a></p>
Someone posted an old Slackware 2005 setup (KDE 3.3.2, kernel 2.4) and it instantly brought back memories.<br><br>Before systemd. Before Wayland.<br>Just KDE 3, Konsole, and Slackware doing exactly what you told it to do.<br><br>20 years later and the philosophy hasn’t changed.<br><br><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/H0QrkazxbJ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/H0QrkazxbJ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/H0</span><span class="invisible">QrkazxbJ</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#slackware</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#kde</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#x11</a><br><br>
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Spent a few hours today testing and tweaking pekwm vs evilwm on my Slackware system (same st + tmux + Firefox, same X setup). evilwm is beautifully minimal and will stay as my backup — and I’ll probably use it more whenever I feel like switching things up — but pekwm feels smoother, with less flicker and cleaner redraws.<br><br>I even found and reported a small -snap bug in evilwm while testing 🙂<br><br><a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/evilwm/" rel="tag">#evilwm</a><br>
<a href="/tags/tinkertuesday/" rel="tag">#TinkerTuesday</a><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Firefox, terminal and mail living in one frame, out of the way — that’s still the sweet spot for me.<br><br><a href="/tags/pekwm/" rel="tag">#pekwm</a> <a href="/tags/slackware/" rel="tag">#Slackware</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a><br>
Right I'm not interested in starting a flame war but I am interested to see how many folk in 2026 use <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> or <a href="/tags/wayback/" rel="tag">#Wayback</a> and how many use <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> or even <a href="/tags/xlibre/" rel="tag">#Xlibre</a> . Feel free if you wish to say what OS/Distribution you use and which window manager or desktop environment below. <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a><br>Please boost and thanks in advance.<br>
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A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux<br>expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how<br>system design choices age over time.<br><br>Instead of replying inline, I wrote a short,<br>standalone note to capture the trade-offs around<br>scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.<br><br>Original thread:<br><a href="https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115</span><span class="invisible">973122695310819</span></a><br><br>Document:<br><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/b</span><span class="invisible">lob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt</span></a><br><br>Blog:<br><a href="https://4c6e.xyz/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>4c6e.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/systemdesign/" rel="tag">#SystemDesign</a> <a href="/tags/minimalism/" rel="tag">#Minimalism</a><br>
A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux<br>expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how<br>system design choices age over time.<br><br>I already had notes on dwm, st, and X11 usage, and<br>this thread was the motivation to turn them into a<br>short, standalone document about the trade-offs<br>around scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.<br><br>Original thread:<br><a href="https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115</span><span class="invisible">973122695310819</span></a><br><br>Document:<br><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/b</span><span class="invisible">lob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt</span></a><br><br>Blog:<br><a href="https://4c6e.xyz/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>4c6e.xyz/</a><br><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> <a href="/tags/systemdesign/" rel="tag">#SystemDesign</a> <a href="/tags/minimalism/" rel="tag">#Minimalism</a><br>
I use dmenu as my main UI, not just dmenu_run.<br><br>Super+Space opens a small menu script that launches apps and system actions (WiFi, reboot, shutdown),<br>all keyboard-driven via sxhkd.<br><br>No panel, no mouse menus, WM-agnostic.<br><br><p>#!/bin/sh<br><br>ROOT=doas<br><br># Open a terminal (st) with the given title and command<br># example: st -t terminal_title -e command <br>term() {<br> st -t "$1" -e "${@:2}"<br>}<br><br>choice=$(printf "%s\n" \<br> "Browser" \<br> "Terminal" \<br> "IRC" \<br> "Mail" \<br> "PDF" \<br> "Editor" \<br> "Files" \<br> "Mixer" \<br> "WiFi" \<br> "Bluetooth" \<br> "Reboot" \<br> "Shutdown" |<br> dmenu -i -l 12 -p "Menu" \<br> -fn "Iosevka Term-11" \<br> -nb '<a href="/tags/000000/" rel="tag">#000000</a>' -nf '<a href="/tags/ffffff/" rel="tag">#ffffff</a>' \<br> -sb '<a href="/tags/005f87/" rel="tag">#005f87</a>' -sf '<a href="/tags/ffffff/" rel="tag">#ffffff</a>')<br><br>case "$choice" in<br> Browser) firefox ;;<br> Terminal) term st tmux ;;<br> IRC) term senpai senpai ;;<br> Mail) term mutt mutt ;;<br> PDF) pdf-open.sh ;;<br> Editor) geany ;;<br> Files) term fff fff ;;<br> Mixer) term alsamixer alsamixer ;;<br> WiFi) term wifitui "$ROOT" wifitui ;;<br> Bluetooth) blueman-manager ;;<br> Reboot) "$ROOT" /sbin/reboot ;;<br> Shutdown) "$ROOT" /sbin/poweroff ;;<br>esac<br></p>Curious how many dwm users do something similar vs bars / mouse menus.<br><br><a href="/tags/dwm/" rel="tag">#dwm</a> <a href="/tags/dmenu/" rel="tag">#dmenu</a> <a href="/tags/sxhkd/" rel="tag">#sxhkd</a> <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#x11</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/suckless/" rel="tag">#suckless</a><br>
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<p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> tip: There is a way to use only part of a word as a hashtag!</p><p>For example, you might want to say the word “toots”, but use the hashtag “toot”.</p><p>To do this, place a U+2060 WORD JOINER before the “s” in “toots”. Example: <a href="/tags/toot/" rel="tag">#toot</a>s.</p><p>If you're using <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> or <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> (i.e. <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> or <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> desktop), you can add the following line to ~/.XCompose to give yourself a keyboard shortcut:</p><p><Multi_key> <w> <j> : "" U2060 # WORD JOINER</p><p>Then just type Compose, then W, then J.</p>