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thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2026/01/14! Thank you also to kpedersen for demo'ing Project Glass! For those, who missed it - you can watch the recording on YouTube or check out the slides. View...

JONSBO Z20 μATX case video (Google Drive) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZp079zvUM WM: picom -- bspwm -- dmenu -- Polybar Components: Intel 12700KF -- G.SKILL RIPJAWS @3600 CL16 -- Sapphire RX 7600 -- ASUS ROG STRIX B760-G GAMING WIFI D4 -- JONSBO Z20 black -- ARCTIC F14 -- bequiet...

Dear community, First of all, a (slightly belated) Happy New Year to everyone! The Laptop & Desktop Workgroup calls have been running for just over a year now, and I think this is a great moment to pause and reflect together. We started strong, with many active participants and great...

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I have Tanshi m15c laptop with amd touchpad. The cursor movements are strange: too smooth and sometimes jumpy. This might be because iichid enables sampling mode. Is there a fix for this?

FreeBSD-idesk-linkmaker is a script for getting desktop laucher desktops like icewm, fluxbox, jwm, etc. Packages yad and idesk are required. This script/program is not good, but it is the best available for making idesk launchers. Custom launchers whose desktop files are located somewhere...

Genuine question, does this work on desktops out of the box? Does this work on any hardware?

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thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/07/09! There has been some great progress on the Foundation's Laptop project - this call highlights work around graphics by dumbbell@ and progress on sleep states improvements by obiwac@...

Good afternoon, I followed the instructions to install the latest version of the Budgie desktop. I followed the instructions on the website: https://docs.buddiesofbudgie.org/developer/workflow/building-budgie-desktop/ and I installed all the requirements for this latest version, but in the end...

Hello FreeBSD community, Since I updated my FreeBSD last week (and today), Telegram Desktop cannot be started anymore. Before it was simply possible by executing telegram-desktop through CLI or calling it through the shortcut, which of course also doesn't work anymore. The issues started with...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/05/14! This one includes a great introduction to Mark Philipps, the Foundation's new technical marketing manager! There's some great progress, particularly from the Foundation's Laptop...

For example, if I try pressing Fn+F11 to raise my volume, it just doesn't work. I've tried using cat to see if it returns any escape code (?) for any of those fn+F... keys, and it didn't display anything for some reason. It's as if I hadn't pressed any key at all in the first place. What's going...

I am Currently running FreeBSD 14.2 I am unable to get Nvidia GT215 working with Nvidia-driver-340. I am running Lumina-desktop which also crashes at times. inxi Device: Nvidia GT215. driver: vgapci Display server: X.org 1.21.1.14 driver: loaded: nv resolution 1920x1200...

Good moorning, I need help for install COSMIC desktop on FreeBSD I need the instructions, please Thanks

Hello All BSD'ers One day, GhostBSDCon will be the premier online conference for Desktop users and developers on BSD based systems, but for 2025 GhostBSDCon will be a MVP (minimum viable product) while the community develops. In response to limited initial engagement the GhostBSDCON Committee...

We recently ran a community survey around the use of FreeBSD on desktops and laptops. To all of you, who participated: a big thank you for taking the time and sharing your thoughts and insights! We now summarized the survey results in an 8 page report, with some charts and a lot of details...

This is a guide about installing LXQT with X11 on FreeBSD and turning it in to a fully featured desktop OS. The intended audience for this guide are people with little experience with FreeBSD and people with old hardware. Assumptions: 1. FreeBSD is already installed on your system. 2. Your user...

Dear community, This is a friendly reminder about our upcoming Laptop and Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) call is scheduled for Monday, January 20, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC. Whether you participated in our first meeting or are joining us for the first time, we warmly welcome your presence and...

quick reminder for those interested in joining: the first Laptop and Desktop Workgroup Call starts tomorrow at December 16, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC The call can be joined via browser at...