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Wayland: The Future is Now.
#Wayland #Linux #FreeSoftware

»Ubuntu 25.10 — Rust statt C, Wayland statt X11:
Die Linux-Distribution Ubuntu 25.10 nutzt Rust-basierte Systemkomponenten. Der auf Version 49 aktualisierte @… Desktop läuft nur noch auf Wayland.«
Ich pers. bevorzuge @… nicht als Desk…

Ubuntu 25.10: Rust im Userland und Wayland-only
Die Linux-Distribution Ubuntu 25.10 nutzt Rust-basierte Systemkomponenten. Der auf Version 49 aktualisierte GNOME-Desktop läuft nur noch auf Wayland.

GoldenDict's pop-up window doesn't work in KDE/Wayland when you are selecting a word in any app & pressing [Ctrl C, Ctrl C]?
Put "goldendict $(wl-paste)" in a proper .sh script. Add it in your Application Launcher. Set [Ctrl C, Ctrl C] (or whatever) in System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts

After the great feedback on my KDE Wayland setup on FreeBSD I'm now going through the paces for Hyprland on FreeBSD. Already have 95% done and dusted; expect to wrap up by tomorrow.
A satisfying setup, and I finally got rid of those crazy big gaps between everything. Took me four years to find the solution 🤣 You'll still be able to keep them of course 😜
#freebsd

Ok, Gnome removed the X11 backend and only supports Wayland. I'd be fine with that when they finally had separated the window manager from the full session. It's just annoying¹ to get logged out because the window manager crashes again – and that happens way to often!
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¹to use a mild term
#gnome

No need to be left behind.
The adjusted how-to is up and running at https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland.
So, go and get your latest KDE Plasma 6.5.2.Wayland on FreeBSD!

@… thank you!
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland/pulls/1 includes suggested changes. (Avoidance of SDDM should be…

Does anyone know of an app using Linux DRM (so that it doesn't require X or Wayland) that can do a slideshow of images with smooth transitions?
It's for a pavilion at an event.
#AskFedi #Linux #SBC

Just tested my FreeBSD KDE Wayland setup on 15-PRERELEASE and it works as well.
The part in my write up about switching to the Latest branch doesn't apply obviously. We're there already 🥳
#freebsd #kde

And this is why not just any program can take screenshots on most #Wayland compositors:
https://www.pixnapping.com/
Google despite the difficulties when exploiting this, classified

@… I began testing 26.04 in April, switched from FreeBSD to Kubuntu with Wayland in July. For me, it's perfectly stable.
HP ZBook 17 G2 with Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (4th generation Core processor integrated graphics controller), and an NVIDIA GK107GLM (Quadro K1100M).
Four minor issues, which I have not taken the time to properly invest…

@aleksandrayulia@floss.social I have been using #Secureblue for about a month and have only encountered one issue where I needed to set @… to use Wayland by adding "QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland". Other than that, I have had no problems.

So, after a week spent on #Wayland with #sway and #hyprland, it's back to xorg and Enlightenment for me. WebEx is unusable in tiling WMs and on Wayland, and muscle memory with E is too strong. Year of the …

Wait, VR on Linux nvidia Wayland works nowadays? Whathefuck? When did this happen?

McKinsey-Tarski algebras and Raney extensions
Guram Bezhanishvili, Ranjitha Raviprakash, Anna Laura Suarez, Joanne Walters-Wayland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01233 https://

McKinsey-Tarski algebras and Raney extensions
We introduce the notion of Raney morphism between MT-algebras and show that the resulting category is equivalent to the category of Raney extensions. This is done by generalizing the construction of the Funayama envelope of a frame. The resulting notion of the $T_0$-hull of a Raney extension generalizes that of the $T_D$-hull of a frame.

GM plans to roll out Google Gemini in its vehicles starting in 2026 and plans an advanced driver-assistance system with eyes-off driving capabilities in 2028 (Michael Wayland/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/gm-tech-google-ai.html

GM plans to launch eyes-off driving, Google AI and other new in-vehicle tech by 2028
The company announced other tech initiatives as part of its "GM Forward" event in Lower Manhattan.

If you can't see what Canonical are doing with their snap obsession, or IBM-RedHat with Wayland and GNOME, then let me spell it out: they're trying to remake Linux in their own proprietary image to steer the ship away from common standards and kill the competition, or at least force it to be downstream of their control. We've been here before:

TIL: In #Linux, when you "switch user" (in Wayland or X11), the second user opens up a separate session which you can directly switch to using the Ctrl-Alt-F-keys without re-authenticating, as long as the user-specific sessions aren't locked.
In Debian 13 #GNOME, the first user session is Ct…

Wayland Sway = ❤️

@… Just running xrandr with no parameters in a terminal with the mis-sized monitor on fixes this for me. But I'm not on Wayland...

My FreeBSD KDE Wayland page (#freebsd

My install instructions for KDE 6 Wayland on FreeBSD have been updated.
First of all I changed the base to KDE and KDE base apps, instead of just a very minimal install. This follows the recommended install by KDE more closely.
Second: the browser of choice has been changed to Vivaldi and I have included a how-to-update the script and make Vivaldi run under FreeBSD.
Which you can apply anywhere on FreeBSD of course ;-)
Thanks to all for the positive feedback!

Detailed theoretical modelling of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich stacking power spectrum
Amy Wayland, David Alonso, Adrien La Posta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18732 https://…

Detailed theoretical modelling of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich stacking power spectrum
We examine, from first principles, the angular power spectrum between the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) and the reconstructed galaxy momentum - the basis of existing and future "kSZ stacking" analyses. We present a comprehensive evaluation of all terms contributing to this cross-correlation, including both the transverse and longitudinal modes of the density-weighted velocity field, as well as all irreducible correlators that contribute to the momentum power spectrum. This includes …

What's a good #XFCE alternative that supports #Wayland?

Love it when a plan comes together.
KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland on FreeBSD 15 beta 5. My how-to will be updated tomorrow (some minor tweaks), but this is running solid on that laptop.
Thanks to @… for useful additions!
#freebsd

Obviously there's still work to be done in the Wayland session of KDE Plasma 6 on FreeBSD.
Let's see what'd be the best way to 'report' those oddities.
For instance: the volume icon shows and tells a disconnect from the sound service. Nevertheless it's working fine.
Those little niggles 🥳
#freebsd

CachyOS is all the rage.
CachyOS is indeed very fast, even on this underpowered Chromebook.
It is also kinda broken.
The installer is so close to unusable (as in, it's a GUI, but the mouse cursor doesn't curse and the display brightness is pegged at minimum and can't be controlled) that I very nearly gave up. Installing Arch on the CLI is far faster.
Wayland is irritating, the font rendering is still fucked (text literally jiggles around on screen!) and the s…

#GNOME 48 with #Debian13 #Trixie and #Wayland: Has anybody an idea how to enable horizontal window scrolling via Shift T…

I obviously had a great short break. Totally forgot my revitalized setup of the River wm on FreeBSD, finished the night before departure 😆 . Cleaned up applications for Wayland. My educated guess is that Tumbleweed will be moved off the laptop (I mean who needs AI?) in favor of FreeBSD KDE pretty soon...
Configs at: (https://

They say a change is as good as being arrested, or something like that, and being reckless (and retired) I upgraded my vintage laptop to #Ubuntu 25.10 because why not, it was already broken from a few upgrades ago, and it was already clear #plasma on #x11 with my Radeon 570 was, well, not fun.
So down the list I go. Those of you on Mac or that other O/S ("little&soft"?) won't understand, but I went through each of the various desktops, just to see, not expecting a lot given my hardware.
Well, Ubuntu on Wayland works now, but, egad, it is ugly. Gnome and its Classic look, well, almost the same. One of the others is just a blank screen, but remember, my machine was already broken.
I ended up in #xfce which I hadn't used in, omg, never mind, only I'm thinking, hey old man, learn some new tricks! Need to add panel and some widgets and…
why is my panel's outline slowly blinking red? (left it in Add mode and buried the dialog box)

On a totally different note:
re: up-to-date-ness of Wayland on FreeBSD.
What a great surprise to find wideriver in the Ports!
Wideriver is the window manager you slap onto the River wm. They are different pkgs, from different devs. FreeBSD's got you covered.
#wayland #riverwm

I don't understand why so few people use openSUSE compared to Fedora, Debian, Ububububu, and the meme distros (btw). It's basically perfect. It has every package you could hope for, even Nvidia and Steam, right there in the repo. Tested packages with snapshots for rollback. Doesn't force Wayland (yet?). The sensible defaults on weird hardware work great. Why waste time with anything else? I'm old and grumpy now, I just want a *nix computer, not a hobby.

Disruptive.
Of course, on the first day of me traveling, Plasma 6.5 appears in the FreeBSD ports collection.
When 15beta 4 appears tomorrow or the day after I'll do a fresh install.
Gotta make sure that my howto of KDE Wayland on FreeBSD is still good 🥳
#freebsd

FreeBSD-Saigon-River
Another notch on the guitar. If you'd ever wanted to run the River window manager I've got you covered.
River’s window management style on Wayland is quite similar to dwm, xmonad, and other classic dynamic tiling X11 window managers. Windows are automatically arranged in a tiled layout and shifted around as windows are opened/closed.
Dots and setup are available on codeberg.org/thesaigoneer!

Weariness with hyprland. I hardly ever use it these days.
Of course KDE in many shapes and sizes.
Riverwm on FreeBSD is doing great. And next project lined up: port my dwm to dwl and fresh it up. On FreeBSD at first.
They have really the best Wayland stack out there, especially with window managers.
#freebsd

There's no such a thing as coincidence.
There you have EuroBSDCon.
And FreeBSD 15-alpha3 is available.
And then your wifi card does work, showing lots of progress and hard work on the devs side.
And Plasma 6.4.5 has been packaged, so it installs straightaway.
Time for me to update my howto for Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD this weekend!
Cheers and thanks to all in Zagreb 🍻
cc @…

Okay, so that install went well. Except for that darn Dank stuff. But I'll ask Jay about that, waybar is fine for now.
EDIT: on Slackware you start it by adding { spawn-at-startup "qs" "-c" "DankMaterialShell" } to your config.kdl
Where I stranded last time was (not) running Brave, but a { spawn "brave-browser-stable" "--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform" "--ozone-platform=wayland" } fixed that 🥳 .
Two items …

After yesterday's encryption shizzle on my beloved Slackware, I'm happy to report FreeBSD 15 installed in under 15 minutes.
Providing all required encryption ootb, in a straightforward install process.
River window manager and all other related applications, on Wayland, are working perfectly fine.
One issue remains though: I had exactly this setup up and running two days ago.
ADD is the unnecessary state of mind for the restless.

So I talk about encryption on Slackware, bcs I bring my laptop next week when I'm travelling. It turns out to be a hassle, to say the least.
Then it sinks in I'm the one who practically put out the how-to for KDE 6 Wayland on FreeBSD. With encryption, all software, you name it.
Only goes to show reinventing that wheel isn't always necessary. Hardly ever 😆

Service announcement (for myself and all ye geeks):
For all that newish Wayland KDE Hypr *SD Niri Atomic-or-composable dinit shizzle:
I love it all (you know I do), but nothing comes close atm to my Slackware dwm in productivity. And fun!
It-just-works.
Realitycheck ✅
#slackware

Home. And the advantage of the kitchen sink.
The dwm part of my tilers setup, combining sway, hyprland, niri and dwm.
Slackware is one of the very few distros that enables you easily to have both wayland as well as x11 in one setup.
Dots on my Codeberg @ thesaigoneer/slackware-tilers.
#slackware

I wrote up how I installed KDE Plasma 6.4.4, running Wayland, on FreeBSD:
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install