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^ That and your earlier one, are those conky widgets? Very slick.
Thanks, yes all conky.
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I've discovered Noctalia shell and its greetd greeter and was intrigued, so I installed sid to metal and built deb packages of xwayland-satellite and niri (surprisingly simple thanks to cargo-deb!) and got everything running in an afternoon, then broke it some, then figured it out more and... consider my flabbers gasted. There were several points during the setup where I was just staring at the screen with my mouth open in awe. It's all unified, it has it's own GUI settings, wallpaper picker, notifications, widgets, bars, type-to-search app launcher, its own polkit, and it can theme itself based on the wallpaper...
I actually kept a few notes, if anyone is interested I'll start a thread.
-edit- I almost forgot, I also did a quick labwc setup using lab's defaults. No theming, Noctalia is auto-theming based on the wall. Not the best theme, but way better than the default. I just created the default labwc configs, integrated the few noctalia configs into them, checked for errors and logged in.
Why why why why?!!???
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I actually kept a few notes, if anyone is interested I'll start a thread.
Oh, yes, please! ![]()
I already have a prepared Trixi installation and originally wanted to install my beloved 'niri' on it. After installing 'QuickShell', I realized that Debian doesn't currently have a niri package...
and, I didn't have the time/desire to build it.
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I've discovered Noctalia shell and its greetd greeter and was intrigued, so I installed sid to metal and built deb packages of xwayland-satellite and niri (surprisingly simple thanks to cargo-deb!) and got everything running in an afternoon, then broke it some, then figured it out more and... consider my flabbers gasted. There were several points during the setup where I was just staring at the screen with my mouth open in awe. It's all unified, it has it's own GUI settings, wallpaper picker, notifications, widgets, bars, type-to-search app launcher, its own polkit, and it can theme itself based on the wallpaper...
https://i.postimg.cc/d7q7xgy1/Screenshot-from-2026-09-09-15-55-24.png https://i.postimg.cc/xJ8X0H5K/Screenshot-from-2026-09-09-18-28-02.png
https://i.postimg.cc/CdtvkpZG/scrot.pngI actually kept a few notes, if anyone is interested I'll start a thread.
-edit- I almost forgot, I also did a quick labwc setup using lab's defaults. No theming, Noctalia is auto-theming based on the wall. Not the best theme, but way better than the default. I just created the default labwc configs, integrated the few noctalia configs into them, checked for errors and logged in.
1.13 GB memory use. Where does your Gnome desktop land with similar apps open?
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I have more stuff running on my GNOME partition, but stripped GNOME on Wayland is 1.2 at idle. BunsenLabs is, what, just shy of 1G?
I love GNOME, but it's got so many stupidities. Why put a huge bar at the top but make it useless? GUI configs are set in gnome-control-center, gnome-tweaks, gsettings and gnome-shell-extension-preferences? Fuuuu...
@unklar, I'll have it up in a little later today. ![]()
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hhh wrote:I love GNOME, but it's got so many stupidities.
Cosmic tries to get away from that; so more power to the System76 crew.
But it's a heavier on RAM, and still not all that stable. What's RAM at idle in the live session? Also, try changing themes, I've had that crash the desktop in my very limited testing.
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@unklar...
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9879
moderator edit - bad link.
try this one - https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 34#p152634
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PackRat wrote:hhh wrote:I love GNOME, but it's got so many stupidities.
Cosmic tries to get away from that; so more power to the System76 crew.
But it's a heavier on RAM, and still not all that stable. What's RAM at idle in the live session? Also, try changing themes, I've had that crash the desktop in my very limited testing.
pop-os@pop-os:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16134944 3025656 8193928 738292 6692948 13109288
Swap: 16135164 0 16135164
pop-os@pop-os:~$You must unlearn what you have learned.
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Nice scrot, Döbbie03. So with a dark wallpaper Niri/Noctalia should also theme dark?
This WM I may check out...thanks hhh!
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It's been deleted?
Debian 12 Beardog, SoxDog and still a Conky 1.9er
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hhh wrote:It's been deleted?
Bad link.
Try this one - https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 34#p152634
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Nice scrot, Döbbie03. So with a dark wallpaper Niri/Noctalia should also theme dark?
This WM I may check out...thanks hhh!
Thanks! I'm not sure sorry mate. I'm using dwm here.
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DeepDayze wrote:Nice scrot, Döbbie03. So with a dark wallpaper Niri/Noctalia should also theme dark?
This WM I may check out...thanks hhh!
Thanks! I'm not sure sorry mate. I'm using dwm here.
Ahh thats right but still very nice desktop you have still.
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Döbbie03 wrote:DeepDayze wrote:Nice scrot, Döbbie03. So with a dark wallpaper Niri/Noctalia should also theme dark?
This WM I may check out...thanks hhh!
Thanks! I'm not sure sorry mate. I'm using dwm here.
Ahh thats right but still very nice desktop you have still.
Thanks again ![]()
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"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
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