GNU/Linux and KDE Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2025

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Tux Digital ☛ CachyOS, Hyprland, Chrome OS & Android Merging?, Lossless Scaling for GNU/Linux & more GNU/Linux news

    This week in Linux, we have some interesting distro news from CachyOS & Chrome OS. We’ve also got new releases from the open source 3d rendering powerhouse Blender & the popular dynamic tiling wayland compositor Hyprland. Then, Plasma Bigscreen is back on the air from KDE.

  • This Week in Linux 320: CachyOS, Hyprland, Chrome OS & Android Merging?, Lossless Scaling for GNU/Linux & more GNU/Linux news

    00:43 CachyOS July 2025 Release

    03:41 Hyprland 0.50 Released

    05:50 Blender 4.5 LTS Released

    08:31 Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux

    12:42 OCCT for Linux

    13:38 Chrome OS is Apparently Merging with Android

    15:11 Plasma Bigscreen is Back on Air

    17:08 Outro

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ XScreenSaver, Wayland and locking

    Welp, I got crickets in answer to my question, "How do I find the wl_surface backing an Xwayland X11 Window?" and that does not bode well for XScreenSaver ever being able to lock your screen on Wayland.

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • KDE sources and custom Git commit hooks

      KDE’s Gitlab setup has a branch naming rule that I always forget about – branch names should start with work/ if you want the server to allow you to rebase and push rebased commits (that is, only work branches can be --force pushed to).

      I had to abandon and open new PRs a few times now because of this.

    • Carl Schwan ☛ Backpacking in the Balkans - Part 1

      I’m currently backpacking in the Balkans and, considering that it’s been such a long time since I wrote a blog post on my blog, I figured it was a good idea to write about it.

      As I am traveling, I am also field testing KDE Itinerary and sending patches as I buy new my tickets and reserve my hostels.