#xingsday — Public Fediverse posts

The YouTube channel "TheBlackDon" has been daily driving X11/XLibre on #CachyOS with #bspwm in 2026. He shared his experience regarding compatibility, screensharing, OBS plugins, absence of tearing, etc. at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrirCxiN458 .

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The YouTube channel "I use Devuan btw" has been testing XLibre with the #Nvidia RTX 4060 using CUDA driver 590.48.01. He says, "It works great. OS is #devuan 6 excalibur with #openbox window manger. If your gpu supports version 570+ it'll work." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbhtNWhtp1A

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There's an article on #XDA about staying with #X11 rather than using #Wayland for now.
"Despite the shiny new tech, X11 seems to be a more reliable option due to its compatibility with a variety of apps. It doesn’t break as often…" https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-linux-users-would-stick-with-x11

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The developers of @sonicdesktop forked the #X11-related core components of #KDE and are already improving them. There are #SonicDE packages in #ArtixLinux, in the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sonicde-meta, and co-hosted at https://x11libre.net/repo/arch_based/x86_64/. #XLibre #XingsDay

https://mastodon.social/@sonicdesktop/115647870589018483

On Jan 6, the #VendefoulWolf #Linux maintainers released a new ISO with #IceWM and #XLibre by default. According to them, it boots very fast and uses only ~200 MB RAM. You can read more about this #Devuan based distribution at vendefoul-wolf-linux.sourceforge.io. #XingsDay

The YouTube channel necuz is testing whether some classic and some newer video games are runnable on #CachyOS #Linux. Recently, he switched his platform from Wayland to #XLibre and #SonicDE. You can find the channel at https://www.youtube.com/@necuz. #Xingsday

The #FVWM developers have released version 1.1.4. of their FVWM3 #X11 window manager containing minor enhancements and bug fixes. Please see the announcement at https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases/tag/1.1.4 . #XLibre #Xingsday

The #XApp developers have created the XSI (XApp Symbolic Icons) to provide symbolic icons for applications outside of the #GNOME adwaita-icon-theme. Please see the repository at https://github.com/xapp-project/xapp-symbolic-icons and the announcement at https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4936. #LinuxMint #XLibre #Xingsday

#VendefoulWolf Linux has launched a tool to easily switch from any other Vendefoul Wolf desktop to #XLibre, called CambiaX. You can find the spanish tutorial video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LHIpBklUFE. Thank you, https://vendefoul-wolf-linux.sourceforge.io! #Xingsday

On Sep 24 the #bspwm project tagged version 0.9.11 of their #X11 tiling window manager at https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/releases/tag/0.9.11 . This brings along quite a few changes since their last release on Aug 3, 2020. #XLibre #Xingsday

In https://x.com/fjcameron/status/1968821277461778660 fjcameron https://x.com/fjcameron said that he has successfully compiled the #XLibre Xnest/Xephyr servers with Fil-C. This complements the work of filpizlo https://x.com/filpizlo regarding the memory safe C implementation https://fil-c.org. See more at https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4871725 #filc #Xingsday

#libSDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer introduced a "toolkit" for the #X11 backend, allowing to create a non-Zenity file dialogs implementation, a non-Steam overlay keyboard implementation and a tray implementation for legacy desktops in https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/13855. #XLibre #Xingsday

#GNOME 49 RC re-enabled the #X11 Support in #GDM, quoting https://www.ubuntu-server.com/ubuntu/gnome-49-rc-released-re-enable-x11-support-in-gdm: "... meaning there’s NO 'Gnome on Xorg', but it still can load other X11 based desktop sessions, e.g., XFCE, MATE, and Cinnamon ..." #XLibre #Xingsday

The #Devuan based #VendefoulWolf #Linux distribution is already starting to use #XLibre. See the spanish explanation of how to install it easily at https://youtu.be/HwmEAiId9pc Source: https://x.com/vendefoulwolf/status/1962983856186782055 #Xingsday