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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrir... . #XLibre #XingsDay
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." #XingsDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbht...
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…"
#XLibre #XingsDay www.xda-developers.com/reasons-linu...
At #FOSDEM 2026 there was a talk about "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager." While some of the #X11 facts are not entirely correct, we welcome the idea from a technical standpoint. ;-) #XLibre #XingsDay fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
The developers of @sonicdesktop.bsky.social forked the #X11 related components of #KDE and are already improving them. There are #SonicDE packages in #ArtixLinux, in the AUR aur.archlinux.org/packages/son..., and co-hosted at x11libre.net/repo/arch_ba.... #XLibre #XingsDay
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Vendefoul Wolf Linux Excalibur with IceWM and XLibre
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
DeLinuxCo Workstation, a Manjaro Linux Cinnamon spin version 25.1.0-251226 with XLibre
The @delinuxco.bsky.social #ManjaroLinux spin released a new version 25.1.0-251226 with updates to #Cinnamon, #XLibre and other components. The ISO is available at www.delinuxco.com/category/dow.... #Xingsday
The YouTube user onlyfastcode created a tutorial about one way to correct the scaling of #XFCE on 4K displays at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnde... . Thank you, www.youtube.com/@onlyfastcode! #X11 #XLibre #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 www.youtube.com/@necuz. #Xingsday
The #DebianDog developers are experimenting with #XLibre to replace #Xorg on their very small #Debian Live CD shaped to look and act like #PuppyLinux. Please see the discussion at forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.ph... and learn more about Dog Linux at debiandog.github.io/doglinux. #XLibre #Xingsday
The #KLV developers are experimenting with #XLibre to replace #Xorg on their #VoidLinux-based #KennelLinux variant. Please see the discussion at forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.ph... and learn more about Kennel Linux at kennellinux.github.io . #XLibre #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 github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm... . #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 github.com/xapp-project... and the announcement at blog.linuxmint.com?p=4936. #LinuxMint #XLibre #Xingsday
kitu has created a tutorial video showing the #XLibre installation on #VoidLinux at www.youtube.com/watch?v=f26t... . Thank you, kitu www.youtube.com/@kitu272! #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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LHI.... Thank you, vendefoul-wolf-linux.sourceforge.io! #Xingsday
The #CuerdOS team annoucend their possible incorporation of #XLibre in their version 2.0.
The #CuerdOS team announced the possible integration of #XLibre into its version 2.0. Find out more about CuerdOS at cuerdos.github.io #Xingsday
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El grupo de #CuerdOS ha anunciado que podría incluir #XLibre en su versión 2.0. Por favor, consulte t.me/CuerdOS_Noti....
There is a discussion on the @artixlinux.org forum about dropping the support for #GNOME 49+ due to GNOME removing the non-systemd fallback code in gnome-session at forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/to.... A fairly straightforward patch of using elogind no longer works either. #XLibre #Xingsday
On Sep 24 the #bspwm project tagged version 0.9.11 of their #X11 tiling window manager at github.com/baskerville/... . This brings along quite a few changes since their last release on Aug 3, 2020. #XLibre #Xingsday
#batticonplus, a lightweight GTK+ battery status icon for the system tray and notifier based on #cbatticon, released their version 2.0.0 on Sep 28 at github.com/artist4xlibr.... #XLibre #Xingsday
There is a tutorial video showing the #XLibre installation on #ArchLinux at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sleg... Thank you Linux Mench www.youtube.com/@linuxmench2... ! #Xingsday
In x.com/fjcameron/st... fjcameron x.com/fjcameron said that he has successfully compiled the #XLibre Xnest/Xephyr servers with Fil-C. This complements the work of filpizlo x.com/filpizlo regarding the memory safe C implementation fil-c.org. See more at gitlab.com/-/snippets/4... #filc #Xingsday
#XLibre #Xingsday
During our #XLibre week of the #BSD s, we've gathered some minor but good #X11 news that we'd like to share with you. X11 lives on—thanks to all the small things. On #Xingsday.
#fastfetch, a maintained and feature-rich neofetch like system information tool, added detection support for #Xlibre in version 2.50.2 github.com/fastfetch-cl... #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 github.com/libsdl-org/S.... #XLibre #Xingsday
#GNOME 49 RC re-enabled the #X11 Support in #GDM, quoting www.ubuntu-server.com/ubuntu/gnome...: ... 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 youtu.be/HwmEAiId9pc Source: x.com/vendefoulwol... #Xingsday
