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unklar · 2021-11-25 10:40:13

^^Thank you, my friend.

I am only, like @PackRat, a modest audio/video user.
So I don't want to "compromise" the bullseye/beryllium unnecessarily.
It's enough for me to have the whole pipewire installation on the safe siduction.

... and, in case anyone is rubbing their eyes now, yes, siduction is an absolutely secure distribution. I already started with it, when it was still called aptosid.

DeepDayze · 2021-11-25 19:44:39

unklar wrote:

^^Thank you, my friend.
I am only, like @PackRat, a modest audio/video user.
So I don't want to "compromise" the bullseye/beryllium unnecessarily.
It's enough for me to have the whole pipewire installation on the safe siduction.
... and, in case anyone is rubbing their eyes now, yes, siduction is an absolutely secure distribution. I already started with it, when it was still called aptosid.

I've used it back when it was called sidux...

hhh · 2021-11-25 23:35:57

aptosid here, it was my first migration away from Ubuntu (ty @glittersloth for the recommendation, he also recommended #! Many moons ago).

unklar · 2021-11-26 09:54:33

Old boys!

In the meantime, since I have an installation on bare metal, I had almost forgotten about this one in my VM. That was over 4 months ago now.
Over 500 packages have been updated ... Everything went well.

By the way, the weather actually looks like this in Austria and Germany for weeks.

link link

deleted0 · 2021-11-27 18:47:57

Fedora 35

8bit

hhh · 2021-11-27 19:05:34

^ Ahem. GNOME is looking very pretty! Great theming, al. I love that you went without shadows, it really adds to the look of those window borders against that wallpaper.

Now, let's talk about those bottom borders... You have three that are beautifully rounded, three chopped off at the knees and one that is... transporting up from the planet surface?

deleted0 · 2021-11-27 20:03:18

^ I tried the theme on Fedora/Xfce first and it did even worse. I only installed Workstation to see if it was better on Gnome. The terminals might be deliberate. Firefox fails. After that, IDC.

8bit

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hhh · 2021-11-27 20:18:00

eight.bit.al wrote:

After that, IDC.

I don't care. That's the problem with today's youth.

DeepDayze · 2021-11-28 01:17:36

hhh wrote:

eight.bit.al wrote:
After that, IDC.
I don't care. That's the problem with today's youth.

Lol...

deleted0 · 2021-11-29 01:42:46

Calinix Linux - Feel The Power

Awesome WM on ArchLinux

"CalinixOS is a keyboard-centric linux distribution based on Arch Linux, with
beautiful looks and elegant UI Interface, targetted at intermediate and advanced users."

https://get.calinix.tech/index.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/calini … CalinixOS/

Then I found a newer ISO, a little further developed.

A new, to me, WM to play with.

8bit

Edit: smaller/lighter images for bandwidth constrained readers;

https://scrot.cloud/images/2021/11/29/W … -57-29.jpg
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hhh · 2021-11-29 02:41:44

^ Wait, you never tried awesome before? Dude! It's great, ain't it?!??

PackRat · 2021-11-29 11:04:53

hhh wrote:

^ Wait, you never tried awesome before? Dude! It's great, ain't it?!??

I'd use it all the time if it wasn't for lua. Configuring awesome can give you a migraine.

hhh · 2021-11-29 19:59:56

^ Yeah, it's definitely a "set it and forget" WM.

DeepDayze · 2021-11-29 20:23:51

hhh wrote:

^ Yeah, it's definitely a "set it and forget" WM.

So it's just configure it for your workflow once and that's it? Should be some good configurations around out there that can be a good starting point.

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PackRat · 2021-11-30 00:22:51

DeepDayze wrote:

hhh wrote:
^ Yeah, it's definitely a "set it and forget" WM.
So it's just configure it for your workflow once and that's it? Should be some good configurations around out there that can be a good starting point.

That's part of the problem with awesome. Since it's configured in lua, a user needs the same lua environment before you can drop in a configuration. If you know lua, it's not too hard to figure it out. If you don't know lua, it can drive you nuts trying to get a configuration to work. Xmonad (haskel) and qtile (python) are similar to awesome in that regard. The developers of spectrwm used the phrase: "crazy-unportable-language syndrome".

lowrider · 2021-11-30 01:09:10

PackRat wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
hhh wrote:
^ Yeah, it's definitely a "set it and forget" WM.
So it's just configure it for your workflow once and that's it? Should be some good configurations around out there that can be a good starting point.
That's part of the problem with awesome. Since it's configured in lua, a user needs the same lua environment before you can drop in a configuration. If you know lua, it's not too hard to figure it out. If you don't know lua, it can drive you nuts trying to get a configuration to work. Xmonad (haskel) and qtile (python) are similar to awesome in that regard. The developers of spectrwm used the phrase: "crazy-unportable-language syndrome".

Yes, as good as awesome/xmonad/qtile are i go with i3 for its ease of configuration. Heck i rather go the not so hard way of compiling dwm after a config change.

hhh · 2021-11-30 03:46:07

To be fair, the default config of awesome on any OS is pretty damn good. Hell, I'm going to install it. Why not?

https://wiki.debian.org/Awesome

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/awesome

hhh · 2021-11-30 03:52:53

Default awesome session (well, my icons and theme were carried over) on Bullseye (sorry for the daul-screen scrot with that huge white rectangle artifact, I haven't set xrandr up in this session yet for my second monitor)...

If you think about it, all window managers are set it and forget it, even the DE ones. You're tweaking walls, icons, themes, panels, conkys, widgets, extensions... not the bloody WM!

With the screens configured...

PackRat · 2021-11-30 11:36:24

That's true; awesome has pretty sane defaults and the themes are easy to tweak. And awesome handles dual monitors well.

Setting up key bindings, window management, and widgets is a different story though.

It's a lot better now. I remember when awesome configs would bork every time Lua got an update.

DeepDayze · 2021-11-30 19:12:05

PackRat wrote:

That's true; awesome has pretty sane defaults and the themes are easy to tweak. And awesome handles dual monitors well.
Setting up key bindings, window management, and widgets is a different story though.
It's a lot better now. I remember when awesome configs would bork every time Lua got an update.

Lua has gotten pretty mature so not so many changes now, and that's good. I may try this out once I get my new 27" monitor as an upgrade for my 24"

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