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Raven

I stumbled across this article while searching for informations about the future of some X11 window managers. probonopd created a good article about the differences between Wayland and X11 and the problems with Wayland (which perhaps could be fixed in the future)

Good to see that XLibre forked the X11 server so projects depending on X11 can go on further.

gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb

@probono

Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
GistThink twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
#wayland#xorgserver#x11libre
Barry Schwartz 🫖

That fontconfig chooses your font at random (rather than by following the OpenType specification) is DOCUMENTED.

Yet, if you report the behavior, you will be told ‘It is a known bug’.

IT IS NOT A BUG. FONTCONFIG MUST BE REMOVED. Software MUST stop using to select fonts, and instead use the OpenType specification!

To be more specific, the pattern matcher and fonts.conf MUST BE REMOVED.

Otherwise GIMP, Inkscape, etc., are jokes.

#Linux#BSD#illumos
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Nick

Is there a command one can use to bring up a GUI terminal in a way that's somewhat desktop environment agnostic, similar to using xdg-open to open a document? Obviously you could just use an ancient terminal like xterm, making the assumption it will exist everywhere, but is there a better solution?

#linux#freeSoftware#freeDesktop
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argv minus one

@nazokiyoubinbou

Side note: shouldn't the #FreeDesktop / #XDG people define a standard API for thumbnailers? From the look of things, every file manager has its own. Not great—apps can't reasonably generate thumbnails for their file formats if there isn't a standard API for doing so.

There is a standard for *storage* of thumbnail images specifications.freedesktop.org but not for generating them.

specifications.freedesktop.orgThumbnail Managing Standard1 History #December 2020, Version 0.9.0Added x-large and xx-large thumbnail sizesMay 2012, Version 0.8.0Modified to respect the XDG Base Directory Specification (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)September 2004, Version 0.7.0Added readonly support for shared thum…
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Hippo 🍉

In the same theme is #Geoloquent, an attempt to rewrite the #FreeDesktop geolocation API in a type-safe language :rust_ferris:

nlnet.nl/project/Geoloquent/

While I use #KaiOS on my main phone, I also carry a #Mobian device, so I'm happy for anything that'll help improve location services on there!

(Side note: the #Furiphone @furilabs has done a good job of making a "mainline" Linux phone that works, though with the compromise of having a bit of #Android some layers down)

🧵 6/n

nlnet.nlNLnet; Geoloquent
R1 Open Source Project

NetworkManager 1.54 released with support for per-device IPv4 forwarding, updated nm-cloud-setup for OCI baremetal setups, loopback configuration support in nmtui, and NVMe Boot Firmware Table support in the builtin initrd-generator

gitlab.freedesktop.org/Network

GitLabNEWS · 1.54.0 · NetworkManager / NetworkManager · GitLabNetworkManager — network management daemon
#networkmanager#linuxnetworking#linux
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

In case some of you #FreeDesktop + #Flatpak security/permissions sandboxing enthusiasts have particular areas of interests within the #GNOME portals, I have now created GitLab issue triaging labels for what seem to be the most prominent ones, that you can use or subscribe to for selective notifications :blobcatcoffee:
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-des

GitLabLabels · GNOME / xdg-desktop-portal-gnome · GitLabA backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment
​izzy

hot take, I feel xorg is here to stay despite its supposed technical flaws. i don't buy the propoganda that FDO is trying to "kill" it. they still maintain it, albeit with no new features, plenty of projects such as xenocara work with them and upstream fixes as need be. also, x11 is pretty dang featureful as it is tbh. besides, that enrico weigelt guy is certainly not "saving" anything considering his development track record.

#xlibre#xorg#linux
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