Mastodawn

I really think @ifreund ’s work on river is great for Wayland devs and users. So many window managers have already sprung up and the new protocol has been stable for, what, a few days? Really cool stuff; between this, niri, and the neuwld/neuswc stack, I think the arguments in favor of X are finally starting to carry less water.

Nathaniel Mott 10h ago

just a word to the wise if you're using machi and have foot installed but it's not launching: change foot=super+enter to foot=super+return in your config file.

(I assume this varies based on keyboard layout or some other factor I haven't considered.)

cc @gbrlsnchs

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Nathaniel Mott 10h ago

Links

river: https://isaacfreund.com/software/river/

channel: https://codeberg.org/Sivecano/channel

kanshi: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/kanshi

machi: https://codeberg.org/machi/machi

river

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Nathaniel Mott 10h ago

all that being said, I am currently using fastfetch as my battery monitor, so maybe don't take my word for any of this

Nathaniel Mott 10h ago

Chimera setup has gone far better than Alpine's did, with the exception of installing Zig, but that's not surprising.

I've been playing with the new river stack—so far I'm liking the combo of channel (input), kanshi (output), and machi (window manager) but I'm looking at the ratpoison-like mousetrap with interest.

I've also discovered the joy of the Compose key thanks to this blog post: https://crescentro.se/posts/compose-key/ And setting all this up was as easy as:

#!/bin/sh

channel &
kanshi &
ibus start --type wayland
machi

The Compose key is magic

Fast emoji and special character input on your Linux desktop? For free? In THIS economy?

Nathaniel Mott 18h ago

lhp 19h ago

mesa, the one library even harder to replace than harfbuzz, decided to accept slop as well 🙄

Pretty unfortunate

Nathaniel Mott 19h ago

I’m Tired And Everything Hurts Mar 5

I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

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Nathaniel Mott 20h ago

@brettm weird!

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Nathaniel Mott 20h ago

@brettm did you install the zig package or direct from the project website?

This is my fstab for reference:

d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.b none swap sw
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.a / ffs rw,noatime 1 1
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.l /home ffs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.d /tmp ffs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.f /usr ffs rw,noatime,nodev 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.g /usr/X11R6 ffs rw,noatime,nodev 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.h /usr/local ffs rw,noatime,wxallowed,nodev 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.k /usr/obj ffs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.j /usr/src ffs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2
d1c9e688a9b2ad1f.e /var ffs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid 1 2

Groups:

tanis wheel network _shutdown _seatd

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Nathaniel Mott 21h ago

@brettm meanwhile in Rust-land:

$ pwd
/home/tanis/repos/test
$ ls
src  Cargo.lock  Cargo.toml
$ cargo run
   Compiling obsdtest v0.1.0 (/home/tanis/repos/test)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.67s
     Running `target/debug/obsdtest
Hello, world!