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@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-22 21:09:30

Everybody is crushing their challenges, but I'm ashamed to have lost my 0 post challenge for this year :) Here is the evidence: www-gem.codeberg.page/picom/.

Animations with picom
I’ve relied on Compositor in X11 for years to manage window transparency. My tiling manager doesn’t display borders or gaps, and I find decorations distracting. Initially, I used picom leveraging only its basic functionality. I’ve long considered animations counterproductive and visually taxing. However, I discovered that picom allows custom animation creation (you learn everyday with Linux). The level of customization offers both extensive personalization options and the ability to maint…

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-05-30 23:33:02

Nested virt is always fun; #fedora42 /virt-manager/#qemu/kvm running #AlmaLinux 10/cockpit-virt/qemu/kvm running #debian 12 plain qemu/kvm running

A set of nested windows on a Linux/xfce desktop; first we have a terminal just showing fedora 42's kernel version; then we have a big virt-manager window with an Alma 10 desktop in it, inside that is a firefox connected to cockpit-virt running a debian VM xfce desktop, and inside that is a qemu running a textual void linux.
@piger@mastodon.social
2025-05-19 10:18:46

recap from my weekend distro hopping (that was severely limited by the good weather):
- tried Hyprland: cool but I still don't care about tiling window managers; terminals have tabs, emacs is its own window manager, the rest can be full screen or half screen.
- cool to learn about "new" things like Universal Kernel Image, a bit about UEFI, etc.
- I don't like the LEGO approach to build a Desktop; I care about this as much as 10 years ago: 0