IceWM 3.8.0 released
IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor cycles, among other small tidbits.
Twin: a text-mode window environment
Wayland this, Liquid Glass that - but what if you just want a nice, comforting text-based environment? Sure, you can just boot straight into a terminal, or perhaps get fancy about it with Screen or whatever, but what if you want a text-based environment, but don't want to give up windows, menus, your mouse? How about a graphical user interface made up
https://www.osnews.com/story/142584/twin-a-text-mode-window-environment/
Fvwm3 1.1.3 released, completes transition from autotools to meson
Fvwm3, the venerable, solid, configurable, no-nonsense window manager for X, has been updated: fvwm3 1.1.3 has been released. While the version number indicates that this is a minor release, there's one reason why 1.1.3 is actually a much bigger deal than the version number suggests: it switch
plwm: X11 window manager written in Prolog
plwm is a highly customizable X11 dynamic tiling window manager written in Prolog.
Main goals of the project are: high code & documentation quality; powerful yet easy customization; covering most common needs of tiling WM users; and to stay small, easy to use and hack on.
↫ plwm GitHub page
Tiling window managers are a dime-a-dozen, b
https://www.osnews.com/story/142441/plwm-x11-window-manager-written-in-prolog/
Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress
Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it's an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it starts to dawn on
TDE’s Qt 3 fork drops the 3
The Trinity Desktop Environment, the continuation of the final KDE 3.x release updated and maintained for modern times, consists of more than just the KDE bits you may think of. The project also maintains a fork of Qt 3 called TQt3, which it obviously needs to be able to work on and improve TDE itself, which is based on it. In the beginning, this fork consisted mainly
https://www.osnews.com/story/142297/tdes-qt-3-fork-drops-the-3/
Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4 released
The Trinity Desktop Environment, the modern-day continuation of the KDE 3.x series, has released version R14.1.4. This maintenance release brings new vector wallpapers and colour schemes, support for Unicode surrogate characters and planes above zero (for emoji, among other things), tabs in kpdf, transparency and other new visual effec
https://www.osnews.com/story/142238/trinity-desktop-environment-r14-1-4-released/
Linux PC maker System76 has released a 7th Alpha of the Cosmic desktop environment with new tools for managing workspaces (virtual desktops), more accessibility features, global shortcuts, and more. https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta #System76 #Linux #Cosmic #DesktopEnvironments
LXQt 2.2.0 released
LXQt, the Qt-based alternative to KDE as Xfce is the GTK-based alternative to GNOME, has released version 2.2.0. LXQt is in the middle of its transition to Wayland, and as such, this release brings a number of fixes and improvements for Wayland, like improved multi-display support and updated compatibility with Wayland compositors.
Beyond all the Wayland work, LXQt Power Management
exwm: Emacs X Windows Manager
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.
↫ exwm GitHub page
It supports both tiling and stacking windows, dynamic workspaces, RandR, a system tray, and a lot more. XELB stands for X protocol Emacs Lisp Binding, and it's a "pure Elisp implementation of X11 protocol based on the XML description files f
https://www.osnews.com/story/142132/exwm-emacs-x-windows-manager/
Enlightenment 0.27.1 released
A few months after 0.27.0 was released, we've got a small update for Enlightenment today, version 0.27.1. It's a short list of bugfixes, and one tiny new feature: you can now use the scroll wheel to change the volume when your cursor is hovering over the mixer controls.
That's it. That's the release.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141949/enlightenment-0-27-1-released/
Enlightenment 0.27.0 released
Enlightenment 0.27.0 has been released, and we've got some highly informative release notes.
This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features.
↫ Carsten Haitzler
That's it. That's the release notes. Digging into the commit history between 0.26.0 and 0.27.0 gives some more information, and here we can see that
https://www.osnews.com/story/141530/enlightenment-0-27-0-released/
There’s a market out there for a modern X11/Motif-based desktop distribution
EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. The idea behind this is to provide compatibility with current xorg extensions and applications, without changing the way the window manager looks and behaves. This includes support for multi-monitor s
Cinnamon Desktop 6.4 released
The Cinnamon Desktop, the GTK desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint project, has just released version 6.4. The focus of this release is on nips and tucks in the default theme, dialogs, menus, and other user interface elements. They seem to have taken a few pages out of GNOME's book, especially when it comes to dialogs and the OSD, which honestly makes se
https://www.osnews.com/story/141238/cinnamon-desktop-6-4-released/
New desk set up.
I’ve had some pain in the intercostals on my mouse side recently. Yesterday I realized it was because my desk was too tall.
So today I took it all apart, cleaned it and adjusted the table to its lowest setting. Hopefully that will help. #desktopenvironments #rsi #ShowYourWorkspace
TDE R14.1.3 released, and KDE developers hold impromptu TDE installfest at Akademy 2024
The Trinity Desktop Environment, a fork of the last release in the KDE 3.x series, has just released their latest version, R14.1.3. Despite its rather small version number change, it contains some very welcome new features.
TDE started the process o
COSMIC alpha 2 released
System76, the premiere Linux computer manufacturer and creator of the COSMIC desktop environment, has updated COSMIC’s Alpha release to Alpha 2. The latest release includes more Settings pages, the bulk of functionality for COSMIC Files, highly requested window management features, and considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support, as well as some notable bug fixe
https://www.osnews.com/story/140824/cosmic-alpha-2-released/
What Desktop Environment or Window Manager are you currently using?
I’m currently using BSPWM.
KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop makes it easy to set up remote desktops from the Settings, the ability to remember and restore windows from your previous session upon startup, and support for synchronizing RGB keyboard colors to your Plasma desktop accent color. https://buff.ly/4b5hF0V #KDEPlasma #PlasmaDesktop #DesktopEnvironments
Cinnamon 6.2 released
Cinnamon, the popular GTK desktop environment developed by the Linux Mint project, pushed out Cinnamon 6.2 today, which will serve as the default desktop for Linux Mint 22. It's a relatively minor release, but it does contain a major new feature which is actually quite welcome: a new GTK frontend for GNOME Online Accounts, part of the XApp project. This makes it possible to use th
