XLibre
Liberated Screens 01 Archive #211
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XLibre X Server 1.25.0 on s6 supervised systemd-free Gentoo |
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Can we delete thread 01? Nobody listens to your appeal to post on 02 or 03 anyway. |
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no ? why people still have there screenshot ... just click the bell to mno longer have notif |
For sure we'll keep all of the Liberated Screens. Regarding the workflow: New screens go to the latest thread, comments go everywhere. That's exactly what's happening. |
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I'm sorry, that was certainly some destructive thinkings back then. |
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Okay. Thanks for telling. |
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That big, they told only wayland and android can have gpu acceleration... (see random armbian link ) 
Recent Xlibre 1.25.5 (it was live ebuild from X11Libre/xserver@c20704f) see more details: X11Libre/xserver#396 |
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I really like it and never expected someone, in this case: you 😉, to pull off something like this on this chipset. 👏 |
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@callmetango why do you think gentoo is dominating here and not arch? i am sad :( i think i am the only arch user here 🤣 |
Nope...see here. :) |
Fwd: I think this might be the first picture of XLibre running on FreeBSD...
Posted on 2025-06-30 by @b-aaz in Porting XLibre to FreeBSD · X11Libre · Discussion #91 |
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tor browser ? you like hacking 🤣🤣🤣 |
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My x11libre image from 29.6.2025(before xlibre-ports) |
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Awesome. Next stop OpenIndiana and other Illumos. |
He may be British, in which case it is only rational to protect oneself from the thought police /j |
XLibre-1.25.0.0.5 Yes, I'm that old:) |
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wow, FVWM3! |
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Slackware + FVWM + X11 is a standard of stubbornness :) |
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Just noticed FVWM is also the OpenBSD default WM, I didn't noticed it before because it looks quite different in your setup. I am surprise that you can customize like this, great! |
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It is an advantage of FVWM that it allows to do almost anything (maybe except real transparency for all windows, not only for menus), but sometimes patching is necessary (the team is not so big, and the developers are not necessarily focused on things that You need the most). |
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love that windows xp luna theme ! |
First? NixOS QEMU VM running XLibre 1.25.0.0.5, basic i3, still haven't tried booting a native machine yet. Making slow steady progress, time permitting :) |
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what is your host os ? also nix ? |
Yes, this is the first known screenshot of XLibre on NixOS. 👏 |
by host i mean the Linux kernel running QEMU/KVM and me i have the first pure arch linux on liberated screen :) |
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Yes, both the host and guest are NixOS |
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Oh I forgot to test it on VM guest |
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XLibre X Server 1.25.0 xlibre-overlay for NixOS: https://codeberg.org/takagemacoed/xlibre-overlay |
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@buggyfound As this is not the proper forum, if you want to persuade me further in reasoned debate, you can (note that attempting connection to any other ports than 22, or at logging in as anything other than user |
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@MurderFromMars @K1D77A @xgui4 Could you please take this political discussion to X11Libre Miscellaneous · Discussions · GitHub? This thread is about the Liberated Screens. This is note 1 of 3. |
Usage: Daily driver |
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Gentoo is dominating |
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Why is gentoo dominating (i am mad, cause i use arch and i want arch to win 😭) ? i am joking btw |
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Gentoo makes specific demands of it's users. Once you've met that bar, installing from a git source is a short step.... and if you can find an already working |
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I used arch for years, until it's started to become more like every other distro. Never expected them to go with the flow. Now I'm back on Gentoo after years away, and I'm doing the ''impossible'' with openrc and X11. Bought a new computer last summer. Only installed gentoo on it not even windows dual boot anymore. Playing all modern games without issues. Gentoo always surprises me, one of the lesser used distros, most probably pales in comparison to other distros in amount of developers, yet always does what others try to paint as impossible. |
XLibre 1.25.4 on Artix Linux using the Dinit init system |
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Thank you for sharing and thank you for updating the "works" status of XFCE at Are We XLibre Yet? · X11Libre/xserver Wiki as well. 🙏 |
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Wow, first Artix XLibre liberated screen! |
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Is this a laptop ? |
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here is my of a artix qemu vm (when i will eventually succed installing on arch as arch doesnt have a iso with xlibre pre-installed sadly and i am quite a noob) |
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Oh, ok. I misread this. |
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can you please share the wallpaper? i love touhou |
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@xgui4 If you share could you please post a link only? This thread is already quite heavy on images. |
also, by "the wallpaper" i mean not only this one, but also wallpapers from your other screenshots (especially the cirno one) |
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Here is my repo for wallpaper will update it soon https://github.com/xgui4/Wallpaper |
XLibre X Server 1.25.0 -- built from source from master (0c261e010), so this may just be the older static label from meson.build |
There are short instruction for linux mint : https://t.me/x11dev/1/48672 I don't thing it will be too much different |
but Linux Mint is Ubuntu based and while Ubuntu is debian based, it has it's difference. So linux mint is not debian based but Ubuntu LTS based. |
It wasn't too bad. I just cloned the repo and installed the dependencies given by menson and installed the dev versions so they'd have the appropriate c headers. Most installed without any issues from apt, but some needed to be hunted down. I compiled drm and xorgproto from source. Not sure if that's strictly required, but was easiest since the versions didn't line up from apt. Then you can launch it by either just running the build directly or moving to PATH and running startx. |
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why is kitty named lolcat in this screenshot? is this a fork ? |
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@xgui4 the titlebar is just displaying the running command. lolcat adds random color to the text output. |
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My pure arch linux image ! it is a work in progress but a big part is done ! |
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You can use some commands like |
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I am actually using old Nvidia hardware so I have to use proprietary driver. I have to enable You can also see Graphics devices & drivers for compatibility of different devices. I think for Nvidia it only affect old GPU, because new GPU can use the open driver. But I am not sure. |
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but for me the nouveau driver does not work at all on my laptop probably cause of optimus |
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@xgui4 I kindly ask you to discuss any efforts to get things working on Arch Linux in the X11Libre Xlibre On Arch Linux · Discussions · GitHub so other users will be able to see it as well. This thread here is more meant to be about the end result and how it was achieved. |
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i may it work thank you :) now i just have to make i3 work for my audhd brain 🤣 cause right now it look just way tooo ugly and i do not see enough movement ! 🤣 |
Xlibre 25.0.0.5 running on BTW |
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did you like my touhou wallpaper ? |
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Haha, those colors were auto generated with Pywal, for some wallpapers they look great it is just not the case with this one. |
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great! |
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status bar is sleek! |
Hey Thanks, |
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X11Libre compiled with TCC compiler on FreeBSD |
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I have a Reddit post on r/suckless too |
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but will freebsd even boot on a laptop with nvidia gpu that cannot be disabled on the UEFI firmware ? @Medvidek77 |
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but that Wallpaper is sooooo beatiful !!!! |
I think probably yes, as long as the Nvidia driver isn't loading. |
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Screen liberated in compiler level crazy |
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my bare metal i3 ! :) |
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@xgui4 So you're running XLibre on bare metal and EndeavourOS, right? Where did you get the XLibre packages from? Did you use X11Libre/pkgbuilds-arch-based: PKGBUILD files and binary package repository for Arch based distros or AUR (en) - xlibre-server? |
yes this is polybar |
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@xgui4 Are you still using EndeavourOS? |
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yes :) |
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black metal ist krieg! |
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oh, great sound. they can easily compete with Eisregen. by the way, you could also try a friend of mine's band: Needle. |
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nackskott.. |
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@kernelfucker One question: Which init system do you use? |
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no image shows here ... |
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first fedora liberated |
is there is a alternative to get xlibre working on nvidia driver on nvidia or arch (my main) is the only way ? |
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I suppose you could either just run the upstream installer script (with the drawback that this bypasses the packaging system and may even overwrite packaged libraries in place, which breaks the next time the Fedora package shipping that library is updated) or extract the |
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ah , i guess i will keep arch as my main system , i am too much of a noob for that. do xlibre work easier on a other distro with nvidia on bare metal ? one that support sb cause i need win11 on that machine for school and win11 require secure boot |
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Wow how many distro you have been liberated in this two months? |
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Many! This where we started on Jui 1, 2025: Are We XLibre Yet? @c2206732 · X11Libre/xserver Wiki |
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AIRxBSD!? |
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MATE, XLibre, FreeBSD, punkiest three things in a technical world. Brings back the golden 90s. |
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Plus AIR in the early 2000s |
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I realized that you might want this wallpaper, so here you are: air_kbgm1024.jpg |
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Thank you for the link!!! |
Ghostbsd. Yay I ran this! |
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what is your setup ? |
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OS : ghostbsd 
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Thank you for sharing and I think this is a "First one on GhostBSD!" |
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Actually GhostBSD is FreeBSD with pre-installed desktop environment, so 😏 |
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My freshly set up testing VM: |
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And in case you wondered how I managed to make those windows so small (below the normal minimum size), KWin allows you to manually override the minimum size requested by the application (right-click the title bar, "More Actions", "Configure Special Window Settings…", "Add Property…", "Minimum Size", "Force", then set whatever you want there, e.g., 640 × 32). |
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That is a very good feature especially for small screen computer! |
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second fedora !!!! |
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Thank you for sharing and bringing XLibre to Fedora! |
Second screenshot, but the first one would not be there without my packages either. ;-) |
Haven't seen Trinity Desktop yet. I am kinda old school with desktops, though TDE has some basic tiling support. Also witness Amarok in it's qt3 glory. The window decorations are from IceWM, which can be used in TDE. I also managed to have a somewhat consistent desktop style throughout tqt3 - qt5 - qt6 with qtcurve. |
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Thank you for sharing and I think this is a "First one on Trinity Desktop!" |
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The only thing holding me back from switching to wayland: Global Menus 
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We all believe that. That's why X11Libre was created in the first place.
Yes it is, and it has always been. Today, Red Hat simply can't bother to pretend it isn't.
Theoretically speaking, a robust X11 sandbox mechanism is all you need to address most, if not all, security issue.
That's exactly what Red Hat wants you to think. It's a technique called "scheduled obsolescence". Don't have the intention to kill the others (like I previously said "needs to die"), but be on guard against them, especially when it comes to Wayland. |
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I wouldn't personally call it scheduled obsolescence since there is no definitive date or time in which x11 would have been left behind in its entirety, never to be used again. If anything it was pending obsolescence. It is not the same situation, as the case with DOS was, which was in fact, killed. Heck, it wasn't even until this year that DOS was made opensource, doubtful anyone is interested in resurrecting it in a meaningful way. Either way, what you think the situation should be called differs from what I think it should be called, it matters little, what matters is where we go from here. |
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@atouu One question: Which init system do you use? |
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@callmetango OpenRC |
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Thank you! |
Can't switch to wayland because there is no DWM I Cannot live without DWM.
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Yes I cannot live without dwm neither! |
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have you tried Hyprland? |
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I tried it about 2 years ago and found that I have to explore a lot of toolkit which is troublesome. |
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@AlopexTMNT One question: Which init system do you use? |
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I want to retain control of my computer. To do that I must understand exactly what it is doing. That means I must make it as simple as possible, so I have removed everything which is not providing functionality I actually need to use. Those packages add extreme complexity, especially as they interact with each other in ways none of their authors could have imagined. (the "three body" problem) I'm always looking for more processes to terminate, and just recently removed There are still things running that are too complex for me to fully understand yet, but only one or two of them ever has root privilege. |
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but i do have control over my laptop with arch right ? |
I'm sure you do. Having control, and retaining control are separate issues. When I ran an ISP, I was a target, and developed specific defensive strategies, at specific cost. Have you ever tried to break in to your own systems? Have you ever looked for evidence that someone else was trying to break in to your own systems? What I do is not for everyone. On a related note: Gentoo... is not for everyone. |
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@smj-cc How did you emerge the Ladybird browser? I tried the https://gpo.zugaina.org/www-client/ladybird ebuild from the sft overlay but this thing is missing at least half the dependencies. |
@callmetango: I had to As I have no "seat", it promply crashed. Subsequently, I've tried to use it in the stead of I still use it though.... by forwarding links to it from my "daily" |
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Liberated screen OpenBSD, obviously virtual machine: 
Only 2 line patch was necessary. |
Yes, right now OpenBSD has Xenocara. @cepelinas9000 Would you mind to share your patch and maybe some more words at X11Libre Xlibre On Other Distributions · Discussions · GitHub? That way we could tell the world about it. 😉 Aaand: fastfetch-cli/fastfetch recently added XLibre support in Release 2.50.2 · fastfetch-cli/fastfetch. That might improve your screenshot. 😉 |
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@cepelinas9000 : WOW! |
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Added step-by-step installation for vesa driver https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/346 |
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Excellent, thank you very much! |
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And this on OpenBSD + Xfce: For the same active apps, on Linux + Xfce, |
Two independent seats, integrated Intel (TV) + discrete nVidia GTX 560 (two monitors). Open i915+modesetting drivers peacefully coexist with proprietary nVidia v.390.157.
Observe a little cheating with X.org server version, this is built in to make greedy capitalists happy :) No configuration needed for nVidia, it just works. Slackware-current as of 25.08.2025, 6.12.6 kernel, xlibre-xserver-25.0.0.9, FVWM-1.1.3. |
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What xorg.conf do you use with this? |
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I am afraid this is an offtopic here and will be removed, but: to assign input devices to seats and to tell intel not to use nvidia GLX library, and to say what belongs to Seat0 and Seat1. All this would be unnecessary if Intel were not used simultaneously, nVidia works happily without this. |
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Sir... Please keep sharing. Proper xorg.conf-ness is never denied. |
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can u share link to wallpaper? |
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First Microsoft Word 2007 on XLibre ever ;) 
NVidia GTX 760, proprietary driver v. 470, no xorg.conf or other configuration (apart from keyboard layout) was necessary. Slackware-current 25.08.2025, 6.14.0 kernel, xlibre-xserver-25.0.0.9, FVWM-1.1.3, Wine-10.5 WoW. |
MS Office 2007 SP3 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) covers my needs and works stably under Wine, so I just haven't tried newer versions. I saw reports that they have issues with Wine, for example, MS Office 2010 Installer is rated as "Garbage" with a recent Wine 9.12, MS Office 2013 and MS Office 2016 Installers work on older Wines (6 or 7) and have not been tested on Wine 9. So I feel comfortable with Office 2007 (have not encountered a file that cannot be normally open and edited). Installation is simple (although slow, Wine implementation is not complete), I just run Some preparations with Winetricks are necessary beforehand, but it is definitely not a place here to go into details, maybe in another topic, but it is more specific to Wine than to XLibre. All this wisdom I have googled in the net )) UPD: Well, I'll take the risk ;) winecfg
winetricks atmlib
winetricks riched20
winetricks wsh57
winetricks mspatcha
winetricks msxml3
winetricks msxml6
wine start regedit.exe fontsmoothing.regwhere Then You run |
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@ONykyf That was quite risky, man! 😆😉 I will bear with you, but it would be really nice if you could create a new discussion for answers or further questions about MS Office 2007 under Wine at X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub. |
@callmetango |
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Do you know if wine can run on a "pure" Wayland system (without XWayland)? |
wine 10 can but it is in experimental mode and you have to disabled xwayland and build it with a flag to enable wayland support |
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First on a Raspberry Pi I think? 
Xlibre was installed using extrepo on the nightly build of Raspberry Pi OS Trixie. |
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No, I just booted up the desktop edition for the screenshot. |
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isn't the rasperry pi os a wayland desktop labwc ???? |
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Yes but |
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Thanks, Java Swing without X is slow. |
why do you use java swing in 2025 ???? and doesnt jetbrain use swing and it is not slow on wayland right ??? |
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XLibre on NetBSD! 
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Thank you for sharing and I think this is a "First one on NetBSD!" 👏 |
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Thanks for the thanks! But @cepelinas9000 helped me a lot, so thanks to him too. |
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is this a router ? isnt netbsd for router ? |
You can use NetBSD as a router, but NetBSD is primarily a completely independent BSD operating system that can use the X11 server, like Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD. |
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XLibre on LinuxMint |
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First on Mint !!! just warning, i just want you to know that liberwolf is extreme political ... |
I just use it for sake of arkenfox script. |
you can use arkenfox on Firefox ? |
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recomend using floorp for browser. baded on firefox with extra lprivscy and feature. |
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You made XLibre a "first one on...!", your average person's daily driver or center of ricing and tinkering? Excellent! Please capture it and share your screenshot here. As you are onto it, we kindly ask you to mention what OS and distribution you are on, the desktop environment or window manager, your GPU and type of usage, etc. You may also include the output of fastfetch or one of its siblings in your shot.
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