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@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-02-11 15:08:28

I'd noticed on apps with Client side decoration that if they blocked on something they were much more of a pain - you can't move the window like you could when they had a window manager driven title bar. This is much more of a pain than not redrawing or responding for a few seconds.
I'm seeing it in Thunderbird's matrix client as it's syncing.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-02-25 21:42:03

from my link log ā€”
yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.
github.com/asmvik/yabai
saved 2026-02-25

GitHub - asmvik/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - asmvik/yabai

@alecsargent@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-29 16:17:19

I tried Niri and you should probably as well, here is my review about it.
#niri

Niri The Scrolling Window Manager
Niri will tile your windows horizontally into infinity

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2026-02-01 20:28:10

'Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn' is essentially 'Wallpaper Engine' but for #KDE.
Managed to grab MP4's from the Wallpaper Engine files and put them in.
The background blurs whenever there is a window open and pauses when full-screen.
Added some wobbly windows and a glitch effect for opening/closing.

Screen recording of KDE desktop with different 'live' wallpapers. It shows changing of the desktop via the right-click menu. Dolphin (the file manager on KDE) is opened with a glitch effect. The windows are wobbly. The window is moved off-screen to remove the blur effect on the wallpaper. Reintroducing the windows blurs it again.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2026-01-30 15:01:09

Uh. Is this a known #ubuntu thing? Or is this a quirk of #Wayland?
Sometimes when I bring a window from the background it stays like this, text and icons all garbled. Sometimes if I resize or jiggle it, it sorts itself out, sometimes I have to kill it.

Screenshot of a file manager window in #Ubuntu but the file listing text is all garbled and unreadable, almost as if the character code page has switched to weird Matrix style glyphs.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-02-28 18:42:02

from my link log ā€”
Switching from i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04.
autodidacts.io/switching-to-sw
saved 2020-08-19

Switching to Sway (Wayland) from i3 (X11) on Ubuntu 20.04
When I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS, I finally took the plunge and switched from the i3 window manager on X11 to Sway, an almost drop-in Wayland replacement. Here's my experience of the transition. Here be Dragons Tiling window managers are not for the faint of

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-14 13:33:40

Federal agencies ordered to patch Microsoft Desktop Windows Manager bug therecord.media/desktop-window

Federal agencies ordered to patch Microsoft Desktop Windows Manager bug
CISA is giving civilian agencies until February 3 to fix a Windows vulnerability that can reveal where code resides in memory.

@anildash@me.dm
2025-12-13 03:00:59

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

iPadOS screen for choosing between three different ways of managing apps, "Full Screen Apps", "Windowed Apps", and "Stage Manager".
@marcus@hachyderm.io
2025-12-19 08:50:23

Got couple of nice QOL improvements merged into the #DankMaterialShell Pomodoro Plugin yesterday - IPC bindings so you can bind Pomodoros to shortcuts in your window manager and automatic muting of notifications while you work. (optional setting)