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chroot

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Re: 2026 Screenshot Thread

^ Thanks for the link!

Cosmic is... heavy. Idling at ~3.3 GB for the live session on my laptop with 12 available ram G things. GNOME is ~1.5 installed.

https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/a1/d0/eZMs3LXN_t.png

Nice so far, I like it. Maybe it can be slimmed down.

I did a quick test on Cosmic DE. It's noticeably heavy on memory. According to wiki, it's written in rust from scratch, but I can see the shadow of GNOME. No idea why every cosmic app is so hungry on memory, but it seems that the DE runs faster/smoother than GNOME. If the cpu/gpu runs cool, I don't mind heavy memory footprint. Use memory to gain speed is normal in programming.

PackRat

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Re: 2026 Screenshot Thread

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Gaucho

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Re: 2026 Screenshot Thread

Maybe it can be slimmed down.

Do share.

I'll have to install it. Maybe in a week, I'm still giving @malm feedback on labwc...

https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/3495
https://github.com/labwc/labwc/pull/350 … 4070359242

Anyone, are there move/resize keybinds for labwc? action="move" isn't doing anything as a keybind.

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Gaucho

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Re: 2026 Screenshot Thread

^ Thanks for the link!

Cosmic is... heavy. Idling at ~3.3 GB for the live session on my laptop with 12 available ram G things. GNOME is ~1.5 installed.

https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/a1/d0/eZMs3LXN_t.png

Nice so far, I like it. Maybe it can be slimmed down.

I did a quick test on Cosmic DE. It's noticeably heavy on memory. According to wiki, it's written in rust from scratch, but I can see the shadow of GNOME. No idea why every cosmic app is so hungry on memory, but it seems that the DE runs faster/smoother than GNOME. If the cpu/gpu runs cool, I don't mind heavy memory footprint. Use memory to gain speed is normal in programming.

Agreed, the ol' "Unused RAM is wasted RAM." I'm looking forward to installing it.

Counterpoint... "Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS requires a 2 GHz dual-core processor or better, a minimum of 6GB RAM and 25 GB of free hard drive space." Do I need my OS to suck up so much RAM? A wlroots system (labwc/niri/hyprland/sway) can run on 2G RAM hardware.

@PackRat, you've been posting some bangers, nice!

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PackRat

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Re: 2026 Screenshot Thread

Anyone, are there move/resize keybinds for labwc? action="move" isn't doing anything as a keybind.

What sort of move? A keybinding that moves the active window 10px in a specified direction?

There are MoveToEdge and MoveRelative

    <keybind key="A-S-Left">
      <action name="MoveRelative">
        <x>-5</x>
        <y>0</y>
      </action>
    </keybind>

    <keybind key="A-Right">
      <action name="MoveToEdge" direction="right" />
    </keybind>

There is also SnapToEdge which is faux tiling

There is a man page - labwc-actions - for info on the various actions. And there should be a /usr/share/doc/labwc/rc.xml.all file for examples.

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