The #RaspberryPi 5 is here and like its predecessor it supports decoding and displaying H.265 in 4K@60fps.
Some of you may wonder: does that really work on a modern #Linux / #FDO desktop? If my laptop fan starts spinning when playing such content, how can the PI handle it?
Here I'd like to draw your attention to a pretty cool feature we just introduced in #GNOME45 - support for YCbCr or YUV pixel formats in the system compositor (Mutter).
I am once again considering to write my own window manager
...unless the setup I am thinking of is already possible, let me construct this in your head:
On the top of the screen, there is narrow status bar, which is split into two parts. On the right side of the bar, you have your clock, your battery, your signal strength and so on.
On the left side, there is a clickable tab for every window you have opened. It's like browser tabs: Every window always uses the entire space below the status bar.
On the far left, there could be an icon which opens a searchable list of applications, kind of like #dmenu but vertical. Everything supports mouse input as you would expect.
Does that exist? Should I make it? It would be awesome for smaller screens, like phones.
Edit: I should add that I'm planning to run it on a Nokia N900 with a single 600 MHz CPU core, 256 MB RAM and a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Existing full desktop environments like Xfce4, LXDE, and so on are way to heavy to run.
Chiming in to say #Wayland is what resolved this issue for me. I had to switch from Linux Mint Cinnamon to #EndeavourOS + #GNOME and I'm much happier with my setup now.
Was using a Hyper-V VM with Debian Sid. Installed Steam but UI wasn’t displaying and the login window wasn’t responding. On GNOME I also had the cursor leave sprites of itself. Planning on using Xorg with 125% fractional scaling. Any advice?
Though I enjoy and am currently using #LinuxMint, I wish I learned about #Wayland sooner. I didn't understand why game performance felt so off with my dual monitor setup for several months. I have since dabbled with an #Ubuntu#Gnome DE for some gaming, and Wayland support has alleviated those problems. However, I plan to look into other options when I've organized my data a bit more and establish proper backups. Learning #Bash, #scripting, #aliases, #workspaces and tweaking #hotkeys were also useful for making my workflow into what it is. Also, I wish I knew how bad #ProtonVPN and #ProtonDrive#Linux support would be. Despite getting used to their #CLI applications, the absence of feature parity is immensely disappointing.
Question about High Refresh Rate Monitors and High Res Monitors on linux
Hello, I cant seem to find any upto date info on this topic and all the old threads seem to suggest that these features do not work well on linux....
Xorg or Wayland?
Was using a Hyper-V VM with Debian Sid. Installed Steam but UI wasn’t displaying and the login window wasn’t responding. On GNOME I also had the cursor leave sprites of itself. Planning on using Xorg with 125% fractional scaling. Any advice?
Wayland or X11? Why?
What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?
I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.