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hhh · 2026-02-08 02:35:11

^ Damn, that's the stuff! Is that pretty much OOTB?

PackRat · 2026-02-08 02:57:32

hhh wrote:

^ Damn, that's the stuff! Is that pretty much OOTB?

Yes, that's the labwc live session with waybar. Xfce4-terminal, thunar, firefox-esr, geany, and some Wayland apps I've never heard of. I think sway is also an option, but I didn't get that far.

unklar · 2026-02-08 08:24:49

^Thanks, @Colonel Panic, omegalinux with lxde on a severely disabled ThinkPad.
Don't forget to include non-free software when installing, otherwise *ubuntu* will be a mess.

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Waydog with sway.
Both labwc and sway use the waybar and fuzzel. Colors and images are impressive as always.

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Colonel Panic · 2026-02-09 08:20:02

PackRat wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
The Trixie version of Lilidog has just been released and has appeared in Distrowatch's listings, and I look forward to giving it a try soon.
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12724
And there is a new one; Waydog; labwc compositor -
https://i.postimg.cc/5XpwmRPD/20260208-02h15m49s-grim.png

Thanks for that suggestion, but I'm in no hurry to move on from X11 at the moment (maybe I should start a thread about this).

Colonel Panic · 2026-02-13 11:48:18

The latest version of Omega (3.40) has just been released. Here's the changelog;

Rebuilt from scratch, and so far i tested it feels more stable.
Finaly figured out how to fix Pipewire (so we got rid of pulseaudio).
Added full bluetooth support.
Updated fastfetch to 2.58.0.
Remove every SINGLE lubuntu/qt/lxqt mention i ever know
Updated packages as of 12 february 2026.
Updated Loc-OS kernel to 6.1.161-loc-os (made by Nico, aalways shout out to him)
1374 packages on installed environment aprox.

https://github.com/ohjhas/omega-linux/releases/

I haven't downloaded this new version but I have done a standard (Ubuntu) update on my present one, and also added Wine, Opera for a second browser, Neovim for text editing and Softmaker Free Office (since Omega doesn't come with an office suite), and it's all working well.

Still wish I could access the full Ubuntu repository, though maybe there's a reason I can't do that (because I'd have to enable Snap first, which the developer has explicitly said he wants to avoid?).

In other news, I've downloaded the full Slackware package of Wine (version 11.2) and installed it; and it seems to be working OK. It's a good thing I've got a 500 GB hard drive on my computer though, because Slack alone takes up more than 36 GB of space on it now.

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Colonel Panic · 2026-02-15 18:48:05

Zenwalk looks like it's a sole developer distro now, and its last release was sometime last year. I've downloaded and installed it and am posting from it now. As ever, it's based on Slackware with XFce as standard.

As far as I can see it's working OK but it's got a very black theme and wallpaper (night time in New York) for some reason, and these might not be to everyone's taste; I must admit I preferred the old wallpaper with that incredibly long bridge (was it in China)?

Anyway. props to the dev whoever he might be for keeping such a venerable project alive.

[EDIT: yes it does have the "long bridge" wallpaper, for those who want it.]

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Martin · 2026-02-19 15:23:47

Complaint:

I was writing a post about my experience of getting Python up and running on FreeBSD. I was timed out while writing and only found out when hitting the "Preview" 'button'.

:-(

/Martin

johnraff · 2026-02-20 07:34:40

^Yes that's extremely annoying.

I think all you can do is hit Preview more often.

Or else write long posts on a text editor and paste it in to the forum post when you're done.

unklar · 2026-02-20 10:01:37

^^This has happened to me several times too.
Since I work with FF, the "back button" always helped me to get back the text I had written.

johnraff · 2026-02-21 04:41:44

unklar wrote:

^^This has happened to me several times too.
Since I work with FF, the "back button" always helped me to get back the text I had written.

Yes, I've found "Back" to be a lifesaver at times.

DeepDayze · 2026-02-21 22:38:49

johnraff wrote:

^Yes that's extremely annoying.
I think all you can do is hit Preview more often.
Or else write long posts on a text editor and paste it in to the forum post when you're done.

That would be the best option in my experience.

Sector11 · 2026-02-21 23:35:20

The FF addon "TextArea Cache" has saved my bacon a LOT!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … rea-cache/

unklar · 2026-02-22 09:14:37

Sector11 wrote:

The FF addon "TextArea Cache" has saved my bacon a LOT!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … rea-cache/

Interesting. Thank you my friend.
I'll take a look at that.

unklar · 2026-02-22 11:18:30

^For the openbox lovers, @HoaS released its new hybrid ISO two days ago.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbang/files/
It works much faster for me with wget:

❯ wget -c https://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbang/files/deadbang-13.3.0-amd64.hybrid.iso
❯ wget -c https://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbang/files/deadbang-13.3.0-amd64.hybrid.iso.sha512

check the sha

❯ sha512sum deadbang-13.3.0-amd64.hybrid.iso

determine my stick

❯ lsblk -fp

my stick shows up as sdb, so, the ISO moves to the stick with the time displayed

❯ sudo dd if=deadbang-13.3.0-amd64.hybrid.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=16M status=progress oflag=direct conv=fsync

done.

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greenjeans · 2026-02-22 17:08:43

^^ That's nice, HOAS does some great work!

Colonel Panic · 2026-02-22 21:01:50

greenjeans wrote:

^^ That's nice, HOAS does some great work!

Good stuff!

I've recently installed Argent (a Romanian distro based on Gentoo), and found that the available repostories were very small; I couldn't even install xterm or mc. No doubt there's a solution for this but I don't know Gentoo very well so I've put it on ice for the time being and am posting this from Extrox instead (which continues to work well).

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Martin · 2026-02-23 10:56:44

Sector11 wrote:

The FF addon "TextArea Cache" has saved my bacon a LOT!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … rea-cache/

Installed it.
(Should have thought of the back button...)

/Martin

DeepDayze · 2026-02-24 00:13:42

johnraff wrote:

unklar wrote:
^^This has happened to me several times too.
Since I work with FF, the "back button" always helped me to get back the text I had written.
Yes, I've found "Back" to be a lifesaver at times.

Not all sites may work with the back button and previously entered text may not always be saved (cached) in certain situations, such as job application sites.

johnraff · 2026-02-24 02:13:45

^No the back button doesn't always help, but it's such an easy fix it's worth trying.

Colonel Panic · 2026-02-24 09:59:51

I've just installed TROMJaro (a customised version of Manjaro) and it's got some good features, for example you can change the desktop layout when you log in (I've chosen Unity).

However, Pacman was locked for some reason and as a result I was unable to install any fresh software;

error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)

There's also a quirk in that the menu tells you the function of the software that is installed in it but not its name, for example, under "Graphics" you get "Drawing Program", "Image Viewer", "PDF Viewer" etc., which is probably great for beginners but may not suit more experienced users.

One other thing that's worthy of note is that the devs, like antiX's, very much nail their political colours to the mast and you're left in no doubt about what they believe in - they're clearly socialist in their opposition to trade.

https://www.tromjaro.com/about/

This may be fine or even great for some people but it's worth knowing about in advance.

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