GNU/Linux Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 21, 2025

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

  • Rui Carmo ☛ Window Managers - Tao of Mac

    Window managers on macOS (and Windows) are auxiliary programs that try to complement the system’s own handling of windows, and are not as powerful as X11 window managers. However, there are a few exceptions, and as I started using bigger and bigger (and more) displays I’ve been using them on a daily basis.

    My requirements change over time and in different circumstances (sometimes I need an automatic tiling window manager, sometimes I just want good window snapping to predefined zones), so I experiment a fair bit–the listing below contains most of my favorites over time in various operating systems.

  • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

    • Text Tool Phase 3

      When I started work on the text tool, I had planned it in three phases.

      The first phase was going to be the on canvas editor. And I handled inserting and removing text, moving the cursor around, and creating simple wrapping areas. IME support and simple copy-paste was also handled during this phase.

      The second phase was about rich text editing. I created a text properties docker, implemented a font database, style presets, a glyph palette and went over each property individually to make 100% sure it worked. I wrote a bunch of blogposts about this in the past (text layout, fonts, OpenType, metrics, and more).

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Barry Kauler ☛ Show/hide password checkbox when mount partition

    When you click on a partition icon, if it contains fscrypt encrypted folders, then a window will pop up asking for a password: [...]

  • Arch Family

    • LibreNews ☛ What Have I Learned From Daily Driving Arch Linux For Three Years?

      So, about a three years ago, I made the decision to install Arch Linux on my main PC, which I use extensively for all my professional work, including video editing. I was a bit reluctant at first (pun intended) and sceptical about the idea. After all I’ve been daily driving Pop!_OS back then and only tried Arch on my spare laptop.