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beaker

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

Chimera HOAS ...any good?

chroot

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https://i.postimg.cc/zyxBrvkw/20250116-10h46m22s-grim.png

Trying out labwc, which is very nice, and waybar, which is far too busy for my tastes

Anybody know how to kill Xwayland under labwc? I've used pkill but it keeps coming back to life. Maybe I need a silver pkill...

Chimera seems to use dinit. If that's the case, use

#dinitctl start/stop/restart service_name

to start/stop/restart a service, and use

#dinitctl enable/disable service_namep

to enable/disable a service

#dinitctl list

lists all services in your system

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

^ Thanks chroot but the xwayland package doesn't supply any dinit service files.

Turns out it's because of GDM rather than labwc, which would have been obvious had I checked the process tree.

@beaker: I am liking it very much so far and it's the only system I've been using recently.

The musl libc/dinit/apk base is perfectly aligned with my preferences and whilst I would chose an OpenBSD base for the userland tools the FreeBSD alternatives are more similar to the GNU ecosystem and so the culture shock is lessened, and I think the FreeBSD utilities are quite perfomative.

I have to admit their choice of FreeBSD's /bin/sh implementation as the default interactive shell is a bit too bare-bones even for me — it has basic tab-completion but doesn't offer brace expansion, which is critical for me when manipulating files & directories. Fortunately the latest version of OpenBSD's default interactive shell (ported by @ibara, one of the OpenBSD devs) is in the repositories, maintained by Chimera's head dev, so I use that instead.

The system is very simple and clear, with some useful abstractions for systemd-boot and even EFI_STUB booting in addition to the usual `update-grub` wrapper. Automatic kernel post-upgrade scripts are run from /etc/kernel.d/, which has allowed me to generate unified kernel images and sign them for Secure Boot support.

I was using Arch but my laptop wouldn't come back from a blank screen and Proton games kept crashing so I tried Debian stable and got the same problems there (perhaps unsurprisingly because I had to use the Liquorix kernel) so I was briefly forced into Windows before trying Chimera as a multi-boot alternative. To my surprise both the blank screen problem and the Proton games problem are not present in Chimera so I'm sticking with it. I presume Steam works because it's a flatpak, which is developed by Valve themselves, but the blank screen thing is really weird because the graphics stack should be exactly the same as Arch & Debian. Musl magic?

Anyway, here's a shot of the GTK4 applications to stay on-topic:

I really like GTK4.

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chroot

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

Musl magic?

Have you tried Void Musl version? It would be interesting to see if the same problems happen there.

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

I've never managed to install Void, it's never booted for me after installation, and the live environment lacked sound last time I tried it. That was a while ago though, so I should probably try again.

Chimera does seem particularly well suited though: GNOME is my favorite desktop, and the first class option for the distribution, and dinit looks to offer all the features I like from systemd with a much smaller codebase and resource overhead. I love runit but it is fairly crude and offers no dependency management for services.

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^Wow! Is that the moon?

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

I think so.  It's a fantastic piece of art.

https://www.deviantart.com/oviotti/art/ … 1141574716

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

deadbang with xfce4-panel instead of tint2, and mate-polkit instead of GNOME's old version:

A taste of trixie? Well, for amd64 at least...

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

deadbang with xfce4-panel instead of tint2, and mate-polkit instead of GNOME's old version:

https://i.postimg.cc/YLFTb0Gz/2025-01-20-180434-1920x1124-scrot.png

A taste of trixie? Well, for amd64 at least...

Nice & clean @PackRat @Pinhead @HOAS

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hhh

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@Pinhead, you're using the Xfce compositor or Picom?

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Hello

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@hhh, Xfce compositor

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Re: January 2025 Screenshot Thread

^ I just don't remember any Xfce WM themes with the bottom corners rounded. I guess the Kali themes have them. Cool!

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