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  1. السّلام عليكم
    ليوم في
    #Linux, #Privacy, Open-source and open-web #news
    ثمّة تحسينات جاية في عالم ال
    #DesktopEnvironments
    و بالتّحديد مع
    #GNOME & #KDE
    أوّلا، ال
    #Shell
    متاع
    #GNOME
    في ثنيّة التّطوّر في بعض المجالات
    blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026
    و
    #KDE
    حاطط أهداف مستقبليّة تهمّ المستخدمين
    blogs.kde.org/2026/08/07/kde-g

  2. Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-14-26

    Let us complete our perfect Pook-Emu Bee link week before our regularly scheduled day off for Newsletter Saturday. 1 | Sekiwake Wakatakakage Begins Rehabilitation After Narrowly Avoiding Leg Amputation in Emergency Surgery (Sumostats. July 29, 2026.) Scary stuff. Hoping first for a safe and speedy recovery and second for him to quickly return to the lofty rank he achieved with his win in the May Basho once he is back in competition. 2 | Sixth Circuit Reverses Pretrial Release for Antifa […]

    social.emucafe.org/naferrell/p

  3. IceWM 4.1.0 released

    IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has put up a new maintenance release, version 4.1.0. It's got a small number of fixes, two very minor new features, as well a few updated translations. That's it.

    osnews.com/story/145703/icewm-

    #DesktopEnvironments

  4. COSMIC DE’s first seven months

    Honestly, it feels like only yesterday that System76, Linux OEM and the company behind pop!_OS, announced it was going to develop its own desktop environment, COSMIC. We're about seven months into the more general availability of COSMIC, and the company has put up a nice overview of the various improvements that have already made their way into the code since th

    osnews.com/story/145585/cosmic

    #DesktopEnvironments

  5. LXQt 2.4.0 released

    LXQt, the desktop environment which is effectively to KDE what Xfce is to GNOME, has released version 2.4.0. Quite a few changes in this release are further refinements and fixes related to LXQt's adoption of Wayland, but there are also a ton of small fixes, improvements, and small new features that have nothing to do with Wayland at all. There are also a few layout cleanups to make s

    osnews.com/story/144809/lxqt-2

    #DesktopEnvironments

  6. Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

    The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, Enlightenment E16, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has roots in a faulty implementation of Newton’s algorithm.
    ↫ Kamila Szewczyk

    I'

    osnews.com/story/144797/fixing

    #DesktopEnvironments

  7. My new #Cosmic desktop environment is making me work in a slightly different way to my norm. More workspace usage in particular. And you know what? It works well and I'm really enjoying it.

    Yes there are one or two very minor niggles. I have had to go back to keyboard print screen as the Screenshot app that came with Cosmic isn't working for some reason. As I say, minor stuff. Overall very pleased with Cosmic.

    #Linux #desktopenvironments

  8. I don't distro hop much these days. For the last 6 years or so I've been on @pop_os_official with it's Gnome DE. Its a system I'm comfortable with. Today I successfully upgraded to @system76 new release, 24.04 LTS with a Cosmic DE. This was a painless upgrade for me.

    Have to say, its a very clean and fresh looking desktop environment. I like it. Nowhere near the amount of customization that KDE has, but at first glance its going to suit me well. I prefer things familiar and simple. Thanks to the developers.

    #Linux #desktopenvironments

  9. Budgie 10.10 released

    Budgie has fallen a bit by the wayside in recent years, but it's still in development and making steady progress. The project's just released Budgie 10.10, the final release in the 10.x series which also marks the end of the transition to Wayland.

    Budgie 10.10 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, marking our first release to migrate Budgie from X11 to Wayland. Thi

    osnews.com/story/144158/budgie

    #DesktopEnvironments

  10. I just wanted to share this awesome article dropped this month from datagubbe.se about customized Amiga desktops. As someone who's kind of obsessed with UX and desktop designs, these are a beautiful collection of pixelly goodness:

    www.datagubbe.se/wbshots/

    #amiga #icons #pixelart #desktopenvironments

  11. IceWM 4.0.0 brings alt+tab improvements

    IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released a new version, bumping the version number to 4.0.0. This release brings a big update to the alt+tab feature.

    The Alt+Tab window switcher can now handle large numbers of application windows in both horizontal and in vertical mode. Type the first letter of an application class name in Alt+Ta

    osnews.com/story/144105/icewm-

    #DesktopEnvironments

  12. Hype for the Future 45G: CWM → Moving Windows

    Using the cwm window manager from video 45F, novaTopFlex shall attempt to open the xclock application for demonstration 45G. 45G is supposed to refer to the window movement as well as management, with the following keyboard shortcuts to be demonstrated: Meta-h, Meta-j, Meta-k, and Meta-l to move the xclock window by small amounts Meta-H, Meta-J, Meta-K, and Meta-L to move the xclock window by large amounts

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025

  13. Hype for the Future 45F: CWM → The Basics

    Prior to beginning the video, novaTopFlex shall launch a 540x960 VNC server session on port 5901, using TigerVNC and the cwm startup file. The window manager shall be tested as follows: Press Control-Meta-Return to spawn a new terminal. Press Meta-Return to hide the terminal window. Press Meta-Slash to search for windows. Press Meta-Down to lower the current window. Press Meta-Up to raise the current window. Press Control-Meta-x to close the terminal window. To locate the video stream, […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025

  14. Hype for the Future 45D: YouTube Content

    novaTopFlex continues to pursue new interests in technology and often prefers diversity in terms of the different desktop environments and window managers in question. Even on YouTube Shorts, diversity of desktop environments and window managers is absolutely essential for an effective demonstration of a vast plethora of Linux, BSD, Solaris, and otherwise UNIX-like environments. So long as the system is POSIX-compliant and supports such desktops and window managers, successful software […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025

  15. COSMIC Desktop reaches first stable release

    System76, creator of Pop!_OS and prominent Linux OEM, has just announced the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS - normally not something I particularly care about, but in this case, it comes with the first stable release of COSMIC Desktop. COSMIC is a brand new desktop environment by System76, written in Rust, and after quite some time in deve

    osnews.com/story/144011/cosmic

    #DesktopEnvironments

  16. CDE 2.5.3 released

    So my love for the Common Desktop Environment isn't exactly a secret, so let's talk about the project's latest release, CDE 2.5.3, released a few days ago. As the version number suggests, this first new version in two years is a rather minor release, containing only a few bug fixes. For instance, CDE's window manager dtwm picked up support for more mouse buttons, its file manager dtfile

    osnews.com/story/143920/cde-2-

    #DesktopEnvironments

  17. LXQt 2.3.0 released

    LXQt, the other Qt desktop environment, released version 2.3.0. This new version comes roughly six months after 2.2.0, and continues the project's adoption of Wayland.

    The enhancement of Wayland support has been continued, especially in LXQt Panel, whose Desktop Switcher is now enabled for Labwc, Niri, …. It is also equipped with a backend specifically for Wayfire. In addition, th

    osnews.com/story/143728/lxqt-2

    #DesktopEnvironments

  18. #DesktopEnvironments #CosmicDesktop

    Sehe gerade ein Video zum Cosmic Desktop und huiuiui...also mein erster Eindruck ist:
    Wenn Gnome, KDE Plasma und MacOS ein Baby hätten, dann wäre es wohl Cosmic. 😁
    Fixt mich schon bisschen an, das als nächstes auszuprobieren, gerade weil mir bei Gnome die Flexibilität und die Funktionen fehlen, die Cosmic aber hat.
    Mal schauen, mal schauen...aber ja, bin schon echt interessiert. 😊

  19. Anyone know if there’s a way to add a delay to the auto-hide panel in KDE Plasma?
    Right now it pops up instantly when the mouse hits the screen edge. Would love a small configurable delay.

    Is this possible in Plasma? 🤔

    #KDE #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #DesktopEnvironments #fedora #linux

  20. IceWM 3.9.0 released

    Another small release for the IceWM window manager - one of the staples of the open source world. IceWM 3.9.0 seems focused mostly on cursor-related changes, as it adds libXcursor as an alternative to XPM cursors. This means IceWM is no longer dependent on libXpm, and gains the benefits that come with Xcursor. There's the usual few bugfixes and translation updates as well.

    osnews.com/story/143234/icewm-

    #DesktopEnvironments

  21. Orbitiny Desktop 1.0 Pilot 4 released

    It's not every day you stumble upon an X11 desktop environment you've never hard of, but today's one of those days. The Orbitiny Desktop Environment is a one-person project, consisting of an entirely custom desktop environment written in Qt. Version 1.0 Pilot 4 was just released.

    Built from the ground up using Qt and coded in C++, Orbitiny Deskt

    osnews.com/story/142974/orbiti

    #DesktopEnvironments

  22. IceWM 3.8.0 released

    IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor cycles, among other small tidbits.

    osnews.com/story/142636/icewm-

    #DesktopEnvironments

  23. Twin: a text-mode window environment

    Wayland this, Liquid Glass that - but what if you just want a nice, comforting text-based environment? Sure, you can just boot straight into a terminal, or perhaps get fancy about it with Screen or whatever, but what if you want a text-based environment, but don't want to give up windows, menus, your mouse? How about a graphical user interface made up

    osnews.com/story/142584/twin-a

    #DesktopEnvironments

  24. Fvwm3 1.1.3 released, completes transition from autotools to meson

    Fvwm3, the venerable, solid, configurable, no-nonsense window manager for X, has been updated: fvwm3 1.1.3 has been released. While the version number indicates that this is a minor release, there's one reason why 1.1.3 is actually a much bigger deal than the version number suggests: it switch

    osnews.com/story/142480/fvwm3-

    #DesktopEnvironments

  25. plwm: X11 window manager written in Prolog

    plwm is a highly customizable X11 dynamic tiling window manager written in Prolog.

    Main goals of the project are: high code & documentation quality; powerful yet easy customization; covering most common needs of tiling WM users; and to stay small, easy to use and hack on.
    ↫ plwm GitHub page

    Tiling window managers are a dime-a-dozen, b

    osnews.com/story/142441/plwm-x

    #DesktopEnvironments

  26. Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress

    Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it's an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it starts to dawn on

    osnews.com/story/142373/access

    #DesktopEnvironments