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Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

Hacker News Top · 4d ago Cached

KDE announces that Plasma 6.8 will drop X11 session support, fully transitioning to Wayland after 15 years of development. The change affects only Plasma desktop; XWayland support remains for legacy applications.

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NNN Stack: NixOS, Niri, Noctalia

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-29 Cached

The NNN Stack combines NixOS, Niri compositor, and Noctalia shell to create a declarative, scrollable, and reproducible desktop environment, inviting users to contribute their dotfiles.

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Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-13 Cached

The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested over €1 million in KDE to support the development of its free and open-source software, aiming to strengthen digital sovereignty and security infrastructure.

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The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-05-11 Cached

This article explores the revival of the KDE Oxygen theme as part of a broader anti-minimalist backlash and nostalgia trend in software design, drawing parallels to architectural preferences.

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@wsl8297: While browsing GitHub, I stumbled upon a real powerhouse: niri. It directly bypasses the age-old desktop problem of "windows getting squished when there are too many" and completely reimagines window management. niri adopts a scrollable tiling approach: windows are arranged in columns on an "infinitely extending" horizontal strip. When you open a new window, it doesn't forcefully compress existing ones; on multi-monitor setups, each screen has its own independent workspaces and window strips, clean and efficient.

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-05-08 Cached

This article introduces the open-source project niri, a new Wayland-based desktop compositor that avoids traditional window crowding issues through a scrollable tiling layout, and supports features such as dynamic workspaces, independent multi-monitor management, and custom shader animations.

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This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-04-20 Cached

KDE Plasma 6.7 introduces per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, and numerous UI improvements following the annual KDE mega-sprint in Graz, including calendar app configuration, Alt+Tab positioning options, and app action favorites.

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Hello old new “Projects” directory

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-04-18 Cached

The xdg-user-dirs 0.20 release enables the 'Projects' directory by default in Linux desktop environments, providing a standardized location for project files that don't fit other categories. The release also includes Meson build system support and security fixes.

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