Now I know you may have me on mute, @BrodieOnLinux ...
But let me repeat again: #Snap packages rely on a centralized repository. Let me repeat:
#Cannonical is trying to do a #VendorLockin situation with snaps, whereby they become the gatekeeper to your software.
Juxtapose that with #flatpak, which is designed from the get go to be repo agnostic. Sure, you need the #FreeDesktop runtimes for most flatpak repos, but it isn't actually a hard dependency.
Another episode of playing with #Freedesktop XDG portals in Emacs. I tried the Dynamic Launcher portal, which lets apps to add .desktop files (like #GNOME Web PWAs). Here’s an example in #Flatpak Emacs.
Launchers can even be set as URL handler, useful since Emacs Flatpak ships only one desktop entry.
--name sets WMClass and must match StartupWMClass to get the correct dock icon. Emacs can’t create frames with different WMClass, so multiple icons require separate Emacs instances.
Days since last "The #Linux kernel let an app* allocate infinite RAM, OoM'ed and locked up into a I/O death grind for no good reason whatsoever" incident:
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How many more decades will we endure this BS on the #FreeDesktop?
*: the app in this case: #LibreOffice Calc, which encountered an autocompletion infinite loop when double-clicking the corner of a cell. And since LibreOffice's autosave is a roulette game, I lost at least 30 to 60 minutes of work even with its automatic document recovery.
It took 11 years, but @razze and I managed to create a folder on Linux...
https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/04/hello-projects-directory.html
¡Acaba de salir de novena revisión del tiempo de ejecución #freedesktop 25.08! Trae las típicas actualizaciones, correcciones de seguridad y demás.
Para los que jugamos trae Mesa 26.0.4 y activada la capa Vulkan de AMD anti-lag; hay que activarlo manualmente no está siempre activo.
https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/releases/freedesktop-sdk-25.08.9
In case you needed more reasons to love Niri: custom shaders!
Niri lets you define the animation you want for several events, and most notably when you open or close a window.
I can add completely unnecessary glitchy artifacts and look cool in the eyes of my inner 14 year old.
Jotted down an idea for a small GUI utility app for webmasters and casual sysadmins: a htaccess+htpasswd generator: https://gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-ideas/-/issues/306
This is totally a niche usecase, but maybe it's an itch that a someone out there would be interested to scratch with, say, a tiny Python+GTK app…
The modern web is a security nightmare, and for basic usecases there are many webmasters out there (or self-hosted folks) who may want to protect certain things (ex:...
RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116362932751003053
Es como un acuerdo por escrito de un principio que ya ocurría. ¿No, @Pos_yo?
A mí me parece de cajón. Tener al día la *versión estable* de #Mesa es tan importante como tener el núcleo al día.
El tiempo de ejecución #freedesktop, por ejemplo, tiene la manía de permanecer en versiones obsoletas. No mucho, a decir verdad, pero sí lleva un mes o dos de retraso.
Mesa corrige errores en aplicaciones / juegos, introduce mejoras en las API y el hardware que tiene su importancia estar al día.
Thor A. Hopland
Antonio Romano
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
GNU/Trinukso ۞
Matthias Klumpp
Thib