Hey everyone! Over the last few months I've been working on a lot of accessibility focused projects to do with Wayland, because a lot of the gaps just weren't getting filled. I've created an accessible waybar alternative, notification daemon, clipboard history manager, accessibility first greeter for greetd, and a lot more. Each one is designed with screen reader accessibility first, visual stuff later. You can find them here: https://github.com/destructatron
#accessibility #a11y #linux #wayland #opensource

@dcz ∆ #fedihire #Rust #Wayland

Good talk BTW!

Slides from my #wayland input method presentation are up now!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/

I'm impressed by the new activity on input methods! Is that the usual post-talk excitement, or will things switch to a new gear?
We'll know in a week or so. Thank you all anyway :)

#FOSDEM #fosdem2025 #fosdem26

Hey everyone! Over the last few months I've been working on a lot of accessibility focused projects to do with Wayland, because a lot of the gaps just weren't getting filled. I've created an accessible waybar alternative, notification daemon, clipboard history manager, accessibility first greeter for greetd, and a lot more. Each one is designed with screen reader accessibility first, visual stuff later. You can find them here: https://github.com/destructatron
#accessibility #a11y #linux #wayland #opensource

Hmmm Me thinks that #Waybar has a memory leak as normally it runs with 64Mb ram using my config and uses about 1.5% of the CPU's but after an hour or two it ramps upto 100% useage on all cores and ram useage goes into Gigs until I kill it and restart it. #Wayland #FreeBSD

Just thought I'd retoot a handy link for those thinking about trying #Wayland as it lists a lot of Wayland tools and compositors old and new.

https://github.com/rcalixte/awesome-wayland

I've got a weird issue with #XWayland. It's not a total deal-breaker, but it's just a bit annoying...

(I'm running KDE Plasma 6.3.6 on Debian Trixie (stable))

My laptop display (left) is set to 1.85x scaling. My 1080p display (right) is set to 1x.

If I don't turn on the option to manually scale XWayland applications ("Legacy applications (X11): Scaled by the system"), the X11 applications I use look SMALLER than normal on my main (right) screen. Left screen too, IIRC.

If I DO turn on that option ("Scaled by the system"), then the applications look great on the main (1x) screen, but they're of course a blurry mess on the left (1.85x) screen.

I thought the setting meant that the applications would be smaller than normal (unscaled) on the left screen, but they're actually tiny on both screens.

Any ideas?

#Linux #Wayland #X11 #AskFedi #HiveMind

Soo, which tiling window manager, or any compositor really on #wayland has night light implemented?

A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux
expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how
system design choices age over time.

I already had notes on dwm, st, and X11 usage, and
this thread was the motivation to turn them into a
short, standalone document about the trade-offs
around scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.

Original thread:
https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819

Document:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt

Blog:
https://4c6e.xyz/

#Unix #Linux #BSD #Wayland #X11 #SystemDesign #Minimalism

A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux
expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how
system design choices age over time.

I already had notes on dwm, st, and X11 usage, and
this thread was the motivation to turn them into a
short, standalone document about the trade-offs
around scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.

Original thread:
https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819

Document:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt

Blog:
https://4c6e.xyz/

#Unix #Linux #BSD #Wayland #X11 #SystemDesign #Minimalism

A discussion that started with GNU/Linux vs Linux
expanded into sudo vs doas, X11 vs Wayland, and how
system design choices age over time.

Instead of replying inline, I wrote a short,
standalone note to capture the trade-offs around
scope, ecosystem complexity, and sustainability.

Original thread:
https://swiss.social/@LukePhilipps/115973122695310819

Document:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Understanding_Wayland_X11_and_Minimalism.txt

Blog:
https://4c6e.xyz/

#Unix #Linux #BSD #Wayland #X11 #SystemDesign #Minimalism

Elementary OS 8.1: Il MacOS Gratuito Che Conquista Tutti! 🍎💻✨

Benvenuti in Elementary OS 8.1, la distro Linux appena uscita che porta l'eleganza di macOS nel mondo open-source! Se state cercando un'alternativa gratuita a macOS con un design pulito.

https://youtu.be/0rS0JSiA7C4

@linux

#opensourceitalia #unolinux #gnulinux #distro #ita #opensource #ElementaryOS #ElementaryOS81 #Linux #MacOSAlternative #OpenSource #Wayland #ARM64 #TechReview #DistroLinux #SecureOS #PantheonDesktop #UbuntuLTS

Elementary OS 8.1: Il MacOS Gratuito Che Conquista Tutti! 🍎💻✨

Benvenuti in Elementary OS 8.1, la distro Linux appena uscita che porta l'eleganza di macOS nel mondo open-source! Se state cercando un'alternativa gratuita a macOS con un design pulito.

https://youtu.be/0rS0JSiA7C4

@linux

#opensourceitalia #unolinux #gnulinux #distro #ita #opensource #ElementaryOS #ElementaryOS81 #Linux #MacOSAlternative #OpenSource #Wayland #ARM64 #TechReview #DistroLinux #SecureOS #PantheonDesktop #UbuntuLTS

Finally #XFCE will move to #wayland and be based on #rust

https://9to5linux.com/xfce-desktop-environment-is-getting-a-rust-based-wayland-compositor

nwg-displays 0.3.27

#sway #swaywm #Hyprland #Wayland #nwgshell

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-displays/releases/tag/v0.3.27