Spent lots of time with Gnome 2.

In Dec 2024 I got hooked in Hyprland on Arch and have a cool rice for it. But I’ve tried KDE on desktop now with Parrot OS since Plasma is popular. Still need to find some cool dot files or rice it myself.

I’ve noticed SwayFX getting lots of love lately. I might use that as an option with Plasma but am afraid of conflicts. I’m excited about it since Linux has now officially replaced windows on my gaming rig, which is the very last MS computer left in my house.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    I’m aware of labwc.

    I wonder if people have experience with it, and would like to share it.

    It uses OB’s theme spec and all other familiar config files afaics, that’s good. Almost (? again, asking for experience) a drop-in replacement.

    I seem to remember there were one or two other candidates though.

    • IceVAN@beehaw.org
      2·
      15 days ago

      I’ve been using openbox for more than a decade and a half and 3 years ago I moved to wayland with labwc. The theme is compatible and the config syntax similar but you can’t just copy the openbox config and load it into labwc. The experience is VERY similar to openbox…but better. I’m not going back.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Thanks, sounds good. No paper cuts at all? (Not that openbox doesn’t have any)

        config syntax similar but you can’t just copy the openbox config and load it

        Sure; I’m not opposed to a migration process, it’s just that I have so much muscle memory with all my key- and mousebinds. But would you like to expand on this a little? I guess at the very least
        <openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc">
        will be replaced with
        <labwc_config xmlns="http://labwc.org/x.x/rc">
        or some such?

        • IceVAN@beehaw.org
          2·
          14 days ago

          A little from my config:

          
<?xml version="1.0"?>
...
<core>
    <decoration>server</decoration>
    <gap>0</gap>
    <adaptiveSync>no</adaptiveSync>
    <reuseOutputMode>no</reuseOutputMode>
	<primarySelection>no</primarySelection>
	<allowTearing>no</allowTearing>
	<autoEnableOutputs>yes</autoEnableOutputs>
	<xwaylandPersistence>no</xwaylandPersistence>
  </core>
...
 <keybind key="A-Tab"><action name="NextWindow" /></keybind>
...
 <mousebind button="Right" action="Drag"><action name="Resize" /></mousebind>
...
<windowRule identifier="xfce4-appfinder" matchOnce="false" fixedPosition="yes" serverDecoration="no">
      <skipTaskbar>yes</skipTaskbar>
	  <skipWindowSwitcher>yes</skipWindowSwitcher>
	  <ignoreConfigureRequest>yes</ignoreConfigureRequest>
	  <fixedPosition>yes</fixedPosition>
      <action name="ToggleAlwaysOnTop"/>
      <action name="MoveToEdge" direction="up" snapwindows="false" />
      <action name="MoveToEdge" direction="right" snapwindows="false" />
    </windowRule>

          …etc etc.