MX-19 screenshots

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Do you have a recipe for your Wayland/Weston setup that you can share?

Install the packages:

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sudo apt install weston xwayland

Create a basic configuration file to allow xwayland so that X-based applications can run under Wayland:

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tee ~/.config/weston.ini <<END
[core]
xwayland=true
END

For more options see weston.ini(5) and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/We ... figuration

Now stop the display manager:

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sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop

Then log in to the console and start Weston:

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weston

The weston package does supply an xsession .desktop file and so is available as an option from the display manager but it doesn't seem to work in the live environment, not sure why.

[manyroads]

Here's the weston WM link:
https://github.com/wayland-project/weston

Here's another interesting although not wayland wm (I'm certain Nate will have it running wayland when wayland is ready for prime time.):
https://bitbucket.org/natemaia/yaxwm/src/master/

I assume you have tried/ are aware of/ used sway:
https://swaywm.org/

[imschmeg]

@Head_on_a_Stick

I was hoping you had somehow integrated weston into MX as dm session choice next to Xfce and Fluxbox, with menu capabilities to launch apps (other than weston's own built-in terminal). I know that running weston from a text-mode tty will give you what you have there.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I was hoping you had somehow integrated weston into MX as dm session choice next to Xfce and Fluxbox

It is available as a session but it doesn't work, no idea why. If you open a thread in the support section I'll take a look at it.

with menu capabilities to launch apps (other than weston's own built-in terminal).

Weston doesn't have a menu system. You might be able to get jgmenu working via a launcher though. If that doesn't work under Wayland then try sgtk-menu, nwg (the developer) uses sway so it definitely works there.

EDIT: scrot of MX-19 running bspwm instead of xfwm to stay on-topic:

[rmiguel]

Not much, just my edited gtk.css for whisker menu and thunar but will change thunar background.

[richb]

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[rmiguel]

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Sorry about that, noted should have read the guidelines, thanks for fixing it.

[richb]

No problem and welcome to the Forum.

[asqwerth]

Clever tweak to the Whisker menu, rmiguel!

[asqwerth]

Finally have some breathing space after a busy week, so to unwind in geek-like fashion, I stayed up late last night and installed KDE-Standard and Kvantum onto one of my real metal MX19 installs for the first time.

Then I did some exploration into the world of Plasma customisation, because I'd never really got into it. I've had KDE Neon and Sabayon KDE on my multiboot machine for maybe 4 years now but have not done much tweaking. When "blur" became a Plasma feature, I did make my own adjustments to Desktop Effects and Konsole's settings to get some transparency blur but without applying a full set of customised themes, the blur look won't be shown off to maximum effect.

Previously, I'd kept mainly to Breeze Dark (with different colour schemes) or the Kvantum version of very standard themes like Arc Dark and Adapta Nokto, and a few early "blurred look" kvantum themes. Found a few window decorations with a "glassy" look to go with the blurred effect. Tested a few SDDM themes and found them a little buggy (can't get the reboot/shutdown controls on login screen to work). After that I hadn't bothered to check out Plasma customisation for more than a year.

I was aware of how much Plasma could be dressed up though, through the screenshots threads in Manjaro forums. So last night I checked out newer themes for SDDM, desktop, window decorations, and applications (ie kvantum styles).

There are very nice ones that make full use of the blur effect.



https://imgur.com/1Bruw7J

This is mainly the Cleaia theme for Plasma Desktop, window decoration, colour scheme and kvantum.
KDE Splash Screen - Sweet theme
SDDM - Monochrome theme. Different SDDM theme from what I used in Neon, but again the shutdown/reboot controls don't work. I suspect it's a Plasma 5.14 bug because Neon is now running Plasma 5.18 and the newer sddm themes I tested yesterday are now able to use those controls.
Unfortunately Debian Buster's Plasma 5.14 is too old to utilise those newer SDDM themes like Cleaia, Sweet, Ant-Dracula, Ambient-Blue or Layan.

The options for customisation in Plasma are endless and I've hardly scratched the surface. E.g. you can reconfigure the layout for Dolphin, make the desktop look more like other DEs, install a Unity-like HUD, etc etc. However I'm not interested enough to explore further.