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A deep dive into the Linux graphics stack, tracing from GPU triangle drawing through Mesa3D, GLFW, OpenGL, Vulkan, Wayland, and Linux DRM to understand how the system works.
Nourish is a free and open-source Wayland compositor for Linux that provides an infinite canvas with zoom and pan capabilities, built with Rust and Vulkan.
A website tracking the progress of XDG Global Shortcuts integration for applications on Wayland, aiming to encourage secure 'least privilege' model adoption by developers.
Brian Tarricone announces the first preview release of xfwl4, Xfce's Wayland compositor, after six months of work, detailing known missing features and future plans.
A review of Fedora 44 Gnome edition, discussing installation and software management, with criticism of QR code use and Gnome Software bugs.
The author shares their positive experience with FreeBSD 15 on a laptop, highlighting improvements like pkgbase, LinuxKPI drivers, and the Laptop Support Project, and provides a step-by-step guide to install and configure KDE Plasma 6 on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
A blog post arguing that every UI frame should be visually perfect, with examples of poor animations and transitions.
A detailed investigation of Linux latency in gaming using a Teensy-based LDAT tool, measuring click-to-photon latency with various settings on Nvidia GPUs under KDE Wayland, comparing to Windows.
A guide on using Fedora Silverblue, an atomic distribution, for developing the niri Wayland compositor, highlighting benefits of immutable systems for system component development.
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.
A personal account of how the Linux desktop's upcoming Wayland-only future will break accessibility for users relying on input tools like Talon Voice, highlighting the lack of attention to input accessibility compared to output accessibility.
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.
fht-compositor is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor inspired by dwm and xmonad, offering automatic window layout and keyboard-focused workflow.
A Minecraft mod that implements a fully functional Wayland compositor inside the game, allowing users to run and manage applications within their Minecraft world. Linux only.
Triad is a dynamic window manager for the River Wayland compositor that separates display from policy, using tags, rules, IPC, and embedded Janet scripting to enable scriptable window placement and multiple layouts.
The author investigates excessive memory usage by the `kitty` terminal on Linux, performing a benchmark to compare resource consumption across various terminals including `xterm`, `alacritty`, `gnome-terminal`, and `konsole`. The analysis demonstrates that lightweight terminals like `xterm` and `st` offer significantly lower memory footprints compared to modern GPU-accelerated alternatives.
wayland.fyi is a minimalist special interest group advocating for simpler Wayland implementations, criticizing the complexity of mainstream libraries like wlroots and promoting lightweight alternatives such as neuswc.
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.
Article advocates Firejail as a mature Linux sandboxing tool to restrict program network, filesystem and hardware access without needing new display tech like Wayland.
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.