Vanilla Dpup 11.0.x Development Builds

[Clarity]

Many members are now using TVs as their monitors.

Ubuntu/Mint has a utility to create zones for large format screen 24 inches and beyond and it runs on Wayland. it is named "softhint's split screen" and is described here.

Any chance that this utility will be available for Vanillas?

[dimkr]

Are you sure this is not just a list of keyboard shortcuts?

[Clarity]

Hi @dimkr
I happened to be looking for a utility that allows large format screens to be sectioned into smaller sections/zones running different distro apps within each section on the TV's screen. It was my understanding that this is a feature of Ubuntu/Mint that allows such. It appeared something that some more users are using as their main system monitor via those PC with HDMI ports. I think it could be a useful utility for your Wayland Vanillas.

I might be mistaken as to the utility and to its name. I will have to check.

Edit: Found this video that demonstrate this
Edit2: That video doesn't indicate if it is wayland compatible. I will continue to search for that readng I had which suggested wayland compatibility, as, like you, I feel that very is important

[wiak]

Hi @dimkr
I happened to be looking for a utility that allows large format screens to be sectioned into smaller sections/zones running different distro apps within each section on the TV's screen. It was my understanding that this is a feature of Ubuntu/Mint that allows such.

Using keyboard shortcuts to split screen in that way is a feature of every distro that uses XFCE. Tiling window managers provide even more flexibility for doing that (including with Wayland). KL distros (XFCE and tiling) pretty much all offer the facility out of the box now. The facility is indeed very useful on wider screen monitors.

[Clarity]

Thanks. I did not know.

Excellent Linux feature for any who have large monitors/TVs.

[dimkr]

labwc has some of these keyboard shortcuts, and I also publish builds with dwl instead of labwc if you want automatic tiling.

[d-pupp]

@dimkr
Following this thread with interest. Looking forward to trying it out.
Thanks for doing this.

[d-pupp]

@dimkr
I have a manual frugal install of Vanilladpup 11
It is fast and picked up all my hardware. I like what I see so far
Is there a way to increase font size globally? it's kinda small for me.
What is the command to make the launches and bars reread their config files?

[d-pupp]

@dimkr
I created a save folder and now when I boot Vanilladpup 11 in pupmode 12 I get the background and then it take 25 seconds for the launchers to load.

[dimkr]

I still don't know why but sometimes it takes a very long time for sfwbar to start. I'll need to investigate this at some point.

[d-pupp]

FYI for anyone trying Vanilladpup 11
Don't put copies of the sfwbar config file in /root!!
It seems sfwbar searches for config file and uses the first on it finds.
I put a copy of launcher.widget in /root and started editing /root/.config/sfwbar/launcher.widget and nothing I did made any difference!

[Nokedli]

Hi Guys!

I tried the vanilladpup-11.0.108-labwc-uefi.img image on a new laptop (ryzen 7 7735hs). It works quite well only the keyboard does not switch after startup (HU). How to set this later in "wayland"?

Regards

[dimkr]

@Nokedli

Try to add this to /etc/environment:

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XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=hu,us
XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=grp:alt_shift_toggle

(Hungarian and English, alt+shift to switch between the two)

[d-pupp]

I am playing around with Vanilliadpup 11 again.
How do I sett Firefox to open maximized under labwc?

[d-pupp]

Second question
Is there a quick way to change sfwbar icon theme?

[dimkr]

I am playing around with Vanilliadpup 11 again.
How do I sett Firefox to open maximized under labwc?

I haven't tried this myself but try to add this to ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml:

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      <windowRule identifier="firefox">
        <action name="Maximize" direction="value" />
      </windowRule>

or

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      <windowRule title="*Firefox*">
        <action name="Maximize" direction="value" />
      </windowRule>

If this doesn't work, see man labwc-config and man labwc-actions.

Is there a quick way to change sfwbar icon theme?

Not really. It uses the GTK+ icon theme. You can change it from the default Adwaita to something else using gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme something but Adwaita no longer follows the spec like other icon themes. If you change to another theme, you'll have missing icons or inconsistent icons (some from the chosen theme, some from fallback to Adwaita) in various applications, not just sfwbar.

[d-pupp]

I finally got this to work.
You need the <windowRules> tag around the <windowsRule> tag

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windowRules>
   <windowRule identifier="firefox*">
     <action name="Maximize" direction="both" />
    </windowRule>
 </windowRules>

[d-pupp]

I think I will leave the icons for now. It is easy enough to switch them one at a time.
Going to work on a dark theme next. css I beleive

I tried to get the workspace working. However I guess it is still busted in this version of labwc.
I got the code from his git page but no luck. Am I missing something or is it not working yet?

[d-pupp]

My bad...
labwc workspace works. Just needed a reboot.
Now I want to see if I can get sfwbar pager to work??

[d-pupp]

Does anyone know how to give spacefm a dark background and white text?
Also does spacefm have color for file types?

[d-pupp]

where is the best place to put a script I want to run on startup?