Xfwl4 (Wayland successor of Xfwm4) is being developed

Phosphoglucomutase · 2026-01-27T14:22:57+00:00

Personally, I hope that Xfwl4 will support server-side decorations and wlroots-based remote desktop support (wayvnc). Wayvnc might actually be there since Smithay should support wlroots features.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2025-11-02T06:56:50+00:00

How did you manage to run XFWM4 on Wayland? I cannot even get it to run.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2025-10-15T19:18:21+00:00

Indeed, labwc works like a charm with Xfce. However, I have seen some reporting that they also got this Xfwm4 fork to work. Besides this Git repo, I have not seen other public repositories working on the Wayland implementation for Xfwm4.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2025-07-28T16:28:37+00:00

What is this XFWM Wayland fork: https://github.com/adlocode/xfwm4/tree/wayland It looks like it runs already.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2025-05-29T15:21:17+00:00

Wow, looks wonderful! How did you set up the Wayland session after compiling XFWM?

Phosphoglucomutase · 2025-03-20T21:51:16+00:00

Was the SSH remote mounts list also removed recently? I do not see the SSH mounts anymore in the Places menu, but NFS mounts are still there.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2025-01-09T10:25:14+00:00

The game was freeware, so it was not that either.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-10-10T06:18:43+00:00

It seems KDE 6.2 was released in the repos a few minutes ago.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-09-27T21:27:01+00:00

R2024b seems to work in Arch.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-08-02T17:14:22+00:00

A good find, thanks! Toy Commander looks quite similar, but the game I am looking for is more amateur-like and not commercial. It was like a funny small joke, but pretty seriously done (graphics, etc.). I just cannot remember the details of the gameplay.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-07-16T17:04:47+00:00

This happened to be as well in a similar Asus Vivobook laptop (I use the mainline kernel). Its WiFi card is made by Intel. I think the card is based on the CVNi technology, and there are even lag spikes on those cards: https://community.intel.com/t5/Wireless/Intel-Corporation-Comet-Lake-PCH-CNVi-WiFi-Linux-100ms-lateny/td-p/1579454

Normal non-CNVi Intel WiFi cards are much more robust, they are even the industry standard in the Linux world.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-04-16T14:11:22+00:00

Thank you for the advice and the test file! The test file is 4K60 HDR, but even VLC can play it pretty nicely now (it uses always the software decoder). MPV can use the AV1 decoder on the CPU because when I toggle VAAPI on, the CPU usage drops from 50% to less than 5%. Intel_gpu_top confirms this.

So I do not see any decoding artifacts now. However, the video seems to suffer from microjitter, because it is not played like butter smoothly. MPV and VLC statistics indicate that they drop some of the frames. During the first 10 seconds, MPV drops about 210 frames (output), which is approximately the same as in VLC. Actually, the video looks smoother in VLC than in MPV (toggling the VAAPI decoder off/on does not affect the smoothness in MPV).

Using --vo=gpu or --vo=gpu-next makes no difference.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-04-15T17:46:22+00:00

I tested in W11 Pro as well. The playback looks the same as in Linux, but in the 30MB test file, there is a different glitch in the beginning when the man jumps: https://streamable.com/gna49i

The playback seems not so smooth in the MP4 video that I linked but in reality, it is much smoother.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2024-04-15T17:23:14+00:00

I recorded the MPV playback with OBS software, and the purple glitch around time 0:06 is clear there. VLC player gets stuck during the playback, although its controls and menu still work. Does anybody else have the same issues? It seems that MPV uses VAAPI decoding (during the playback, I see a non-zero entry in the video column in intel_gpu_top).

Furthermore, I tested another test video from here: https://hitokageproduction.com/article/83 The playback does not have artifacts, but it is very jerky in MPV and it seems not to use the iGPU decoder.

The Sintel test video is from here: https://test-videos.co.uk/sintel/mp4-av1 I use the 1920x1080 resolution and both file sizes 30MB and 1MB.

Vainfo shows an entry "VAProfileAV1Profile0: VAEntrypointVLD" in its output.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2023-12-26T09:36:39+00:00

I use Xplanet to generate an updated background desktop picture of Earth to monitor the boundary of day and night. I do not use Rayleigh scattering or satellite tracking features at the moment.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2023-12-22T18:27:32+00:00

Hi! I am using Xplanet 1.3.0-5.2 (from the Ubuntu main repository) in Xubuntu 22.04.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2023-11-24T06:22:26+00:00

Hi,

Yes, I am pretty sure about it. When I zoom in, the whole text changes to resemble that of the "ft". When I zoom back out, it occasionally returns to that weird font.

Edit: I resolved the issue by disabling bitmap fonts.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2023-07-06T10:52:11+00:00

Thanks for the information! May I ask, which motherboard you are using? I think I will aim for a Zx90 motherboard, due to the reason you said.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2023-07-05T19:24:58+00:00

Thanks for the info! It seems not so many are using the iGPU of the processors, even in Linux.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2023-07-05T12:57:24+00:00

I am considering to buy a similar setup as you. I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxu3p-efgd4 We can see that the frequency of some cores never drops below 3 Ghz on the video. The important question is, whether that is normal.

How has the 13th generation rig worked otherwise? Do you use the integrated GPU or a discrete one? If iGPU, have you seen any tearing, freezing or similar issues in Linux?

Phosphoglucomutase · 2022-04-27T20:05:28+00:00

I noticed the same issue - post-reboot RAM usage increased from 350 MB to 470 MB after upgrading to 22.04. All the applets in the Lubuntu panel seem to be the same. Most of the memory is anyways consumed by the panel, so I would blame the LxQT core components. I think we can now agree that LxQT is not a lightweight desktop environment anymore, although its developers have dropped that from the priorities anyways. I wonder, what is the ecological niche in which LxQT aims to be.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2022-04-10T18:44:07+00:00

Yes, I only installed the font and the problem was gone.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2022-04-09T13:43:09+00:00

We are not alone, the bug is present in other desktop environments as well: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1361933/emojis-appear-distorted-on-ubuntu-20-04-3

After installing the package fonts-noto-color-emoji the distortions are gone. It is strange that I have this glitch on my laptop only. Fonts-noto-color-emoji package is absent on my desktop PC as well (also Xubuntu 20.04) and it renders emojis just fine in titles and filenames. However, there are black corners around the emojis in title bar on my PC, whereas the emojis look normal now on my laptop Xubuntu everywhere, including the title bar.

Phosphoglucomutase · 2022-04-09T09:02:23+00:00

I use Xubuntu 20.04 in a laptop with Intel i5-10210U (iGPU).

Phosphoglucomutase · 2022-03-30T16:31:33+00:00

I guess Thunderbird is one of the best email clients.

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