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Looks like you’ve gone alpine.
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I’ve thought often about rebasing all my stuff against it. Works perfectly. The only catch for me is onlyoffice for work. If euro office shapes up and alpine gets it I’ll probably be over there.
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I have, well for today anyway. I learnt from my last Alpine exercise. As long as you don't need glibc you'll be okay.
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude"
- Theodore "Ted" Logan
"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
- Wayne Campbell
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@PackRat, it's been a couple of days running this setup. I think Noctalia shell with any wayland compositor is way better than GNOME, both in design and philosophy. Using Niri on sid...
https://i.postimg.cc/zHVjN88q/Screenshot-from-2026-09-13-13-26-52.png
They do nice work. I was running noctalia with mango (dwm-like compositor) and it was pretty smooth.
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@PackRat, it's been a couple of days running this setup. I think Noctalia shell with any wayland compositor is way better than GNOME, both in design and philosophy. Using Niri on sid...
https://i.postimg.cc/zHVjN88q/Screenshot-from-2026-09-13-13-26-52.png
KaOS dropped plasma not too long ago; niri + noctalia shell is now default - https://kaosx.us/#features
You must unlearn what you have learned.
-- yoda
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KaOS dropped plasma not too long ago; niri + noctalia shell is now default - https://kaosx.us/#features
Niri with Qt apps? I'll check it out, thanks.
The project is built directly on Wayland and OpenGL ES with no Qt or GTK dependency, so the UI, rendering, configuration, and IPC model are designed as one cohesive shell instead of a collection of unrelated panels and scripts.
Looking back at my original Noctalia post, the labwc scot had gedit, gnome-terminal and nautilus open (plus the volume popup and the labwc right-click menu) and the RAM widget showed 868 MiB being used, that's a bit lower than Carbon IIRC.
Why why why why?!!???
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Yes, you can have Noctalia auto-theme your terminal colors as well.
Why why why why?!!???
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^ So cool it deserves a double post.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
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^ lol, fixed,and I do think it's really cool!
Why why why why?!!???
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^ I thought that was cool... If you install papirus-icon-theme, either system-wide via apt or locally from the github repo, use them as-is without the papirus-folders script and set icons in nwg-look to 'Papirus', Noctalia will theme them with the closest available color.
Now everything is pretty much auto-themed with a change of wallpaper (pick a wall, color-generation scheme and whether you want a light or dark theme, put your bars/docks/notifications/desktop widgets where you want them, sync the login theme if you want, set your wall to crop or stretch or center, done)...
https://phazzadelic.bandcamp.com/album/ … ove-memory

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Wallpapers (from The Movie Database)..,
Godzilla Minus Zero
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/138107 … /backdrops
Muppets
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/194573-th … /backdrops
I thought Animal on the drumkit was in there, I don't see it. I guess I got it somewhere else. This should be OK...
https://www.peakpx.com/en/hd-wallpaper-desktop-akdff
Bride of Frankenstein
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/229-br … /backdrops
Why why why why?!!???
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Yes, you can have Noctalia auto-theme your terminal colors as well.
https://i.postimg.cc/3yrqyPFF/Screenshot-from-2026-09-14-23-26-01.png
Great!
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make this change yet. I must be doing something wrong.
Instead, here is the 'material-suruplusplus-icon-theme' by @micko01, which is my personal favorite.
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