FreeBSD Screen Shots

rsronin said:
What dictionary program are you using?
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vmisev said:
It looks like german/ding
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It's BEOLINGUS.de
Since the website of this exemplary (I never really liked leo; but that's another topic, needs to be elaborated too long as to be told here) online german-english dictionary by TU Chemnitz was shut down, they (its developers) deployed the dictionary (a many years lovingly groomed collection of practically useful words and phrases) for download to be used with Ding, yes.
I downloaded it, and got it run under FreeBSD (was no rocket sciences; just follow the instructions on the site, and port the Linux terms to FreeBSD.)
 
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A wee bit of eye candy to the setup. I do run KDE on the side as well.

For some reason 14.3-RELEASE completely bricks my wayland compatibility, but smooth sailing on 14.2.
 
astyle said:
Nice! I assume this is packages, not ports?

How does session restore work?

How does power management work? can you step away from the computer for 5-10 minutes and just wiggle the mouse and be right back where you left off?
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The last version of KDE bring back session restore, as for the rest you can manage it in setting, for my part I don't use sleep or screen time out. When I leave the screen I let it open, or use the lock screen option.
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Charlie Brown said:
The last version of KDE bring back session restore, as for the rest you can manage it in setting, for my part I don't use sleep or screen time out. When I leave the screen I let it open, or use the lock screen option.
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Screen timeout and sleep are still plenty important for me. The session still needs to respond correctly when I wiggle the mouse and get to the lockscreen. If THAT works, on amdgpu, I believe I'll be ready to proclaim KDE Wayland ready for use as daily driver.
 
astyle said:
Nice! I assume this is packages, not ports?

How does session restore work?

How does power management work? can you step away from the computer for 5-10 minutes and just wiggle the mouse and be right back where you left off?
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Packages, correct.

Session restore does not work, at least the apps that are supposed to automatically open at startup do actually open but all on the main monitor, whilst on X11 they open where they are supposed to do.

Power management does not work reliably either. Manually invoked suspend and resume work fine most of the time but not always.

In short, KDE Wayland is not ready yet, at least for me and in fact I still run X11. At least it has been greatly improved, I have yet to find a single non working app.
 
fmc000 said:
Packages, correct.

Session restore does not work, at least the apps that are supposed to automatically open at startup do actually open but all on the main monitor, whilst on X11 they open where they are supposed to do.

Power management does not work reliably either. Manually invoked suspend and resume work fine most of the time but not always.

In short, KDE Wayland is not ready yet, at least for me and in fact I still run X11. At least it has been greatly improved, I have yet to find a single non working app.
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I'm on x11 too
 
This is a slightly different screenshot, being my X201 using mpv to play a youtube Astrum movie fullscreen about the Vera Rubin telescope - this one.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4cpaDZ68g


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The two round things near the front on the palm-rest are two mini bluetooth speakers, which I got working with freebsd following the bluetooth howto on this forum. These particular speakers are av:link soundshots from avsl,
see: https://www.avsl.com/assets/manuals/1/0/100620UK.pdf

This is a huge upgrade to the X201's built in speakers, and you get true stereo, the speakers form a stereo pair, and stereo sound playback via them works with freebsd (I'm running 14.3). Sound quality is very good. The go perfectly with the laptop and are highly portable.

I highly recommend this kind of setup for anyone who wants an upgrade to their thinkpad's sound. I'm sure there are other similar small speakers available if you can't get hold of these ones.

It's nice to see bluetooth audio working on freebsd :-)
 
johnjohn said:
I'm a FreeBSD newbie and i'm sure that some of you want to vomit when a newbies uses a panel :) I actually like simplistsic but sometimes i want the familiarity of my Windows Desktop whenever i work in a gui environment. I have been using compton, openbox and lxpanel but i hate the fact that so many desktops are blue and gray. I am starting to hate blue. I moved to red since it is my favorite color and it happens to match the FreeBSD colors.

Anyway, i am modifying a gtk2 theme and i have called it Ruby-Slippers. Thus, i present to you Ruby-Slippers (a wip):
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this reminds me of the old version of the kali linux , backtrack r5 it was so cool i like your desktop
 
Nothing fancy, KDE under Wayland works just fine so I moved away from X11. I only changed the wallpaper and the color accent from the default Breeze Dark which I like a lot actually. Oh, I enabled pipewire just because... why not?

I managed to have a few more pages of kinfocenter working under FreeBSD but I still don't understand why the S.M.A.R.T. page does not.

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fmc000 said:
Nothing fancy, KDE under Wayland works just fine so I moved away from X11.
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Most Wayland proponents would call that a smashing success.

However, I'm now curious about the Ctrl-C bug that is being discussed in this thread at this time: Thread trying-to-run-kde-6-plasma-with-wayland.93951. Start on p. 24 for an idea of how the conversation went.

Does Kate demonstrate the bug for you like in that conversation? Because that is quite a showstopper right now.
 
astyle said:
Most Wayland proponents would call that a smashing success.

However, I'm now curious about the Ctrl-C bug that is being discussed in this thread at this time: Thread trying-to-run-kde-6-plasma-with-wayland.93951. Start on p. 24 for an idea of how the conversation went.

Does Kate demonstrate the bug for you like in that conversation? Because that is quite a showstopper right now.
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That's not a KDE bug. That's a sddm bug and I don't use sddm, therefore I'm simply not experiencing it.

My system is geli-encrypted and I use autologin for my user; I start KDE directly via a script invoked as the last line of my .zshrc.

Edit: BTW, the most outstanding bug I found using KDE under Weekend is about power management, in the sense that more often than not when the system stays idle so that powerdevil gets involved in adjusting the screen brightness of trying to sleep the system the only way out is to press the power button to force a clean shutdown. My solution: disable all automatic actions, with the only exception of letting powerdevil shutdown the system when idle more than five minutes in low battery mode. So far this worked for me as all the manual actions work just fine.
 
What you are looking at:

Two monitors, side by side.
Window manager:
- x11-wm/herbstluftwm.
Top row:
- I like to maximise application real estate so herbstluft is configured to use a "tabbed" layout for applications on a per virtual desktop (herbstluftwm calls virtual desktops 'Tags', each monitor can display one tag at a time) basis.
- Four applications open in primary monitor virtual desktop: misc/vifm, x11/rxvt-unicode, mail/mutt, and www/firefox.
- One application open in secondary monitor virtual desktop: www/firefox.
Bottom row on left (primary) monior:
- Task bar created by "wrapping" x11/lemonbar-xft with custom configurable scripts.
Right side of task bar:
- Date and time. Currently UTC time zone, can toggle between system time zone and UTC by left clicking date/time in task bar.
Left side of task bar:
- 0:"primary" and 1:"primary"': primary and secondary monitor status (0, 1 is monitor number as per herbstluft), and "primary", "secondary" are monitor names (as per herbstluft configuration). Orange indicates currently focused, grey indicates unfocused. Can focus by left clicking on desired monitor in task bar (or anywhere in desired monitor).
- graue0 and graue1: virtual desktops (Tags) status. Light green indicates focused, dark green indicates unfocused. Can have more virtual desktops than monitors in which case the virtual desktop label that is not displayed by any monitor is either white if it has one or more applications open, or grey if no applications open. Can display a different virtual desktop in currently focused monitor (replaces existing virtual desktop displayed) by left clicking desired virtual desktop in the task bar.

Colours, monitor and virtual desktop separators, date and time display format, position of task bar display elements (left justified, centered, and right justified), and the like can be changed by editing scripts's configuration files.
 

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