Yes, I tried WSL on my company-laptop. It immediately choked on filenames with a ‘:’ in it 
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Maybe that was WSL v1?
Like this? Saved file in Ubuntu with : and opened with notepad in windows and gedit with WSL2:
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No, it was WSL2 (on windows 11).
It seems that it has been fixed. I’ll try it again in a few days. This is interesting. 
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This is fire. And from what I’ve been reading, watching and digesting. Hyprland lives up to the Hype. See what I did there? I’m being corny, I know. That joke belongs in our Kernel Lounge > Watercooler Chat sorry lol
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Didn’t feel too great this morning… Thought I’d try and raise my spirits a bit by adding a splash of retro to my setup (Debian Xfce). Let me know if you have any tips/improvements, just got this together:
Theme: Bluecurve
Icons: Bluecurve
Cursor: Hackneyed-Dark
Firefox: Firefox-98 theme
Font: Virtue
I use a dynamic workspaces script and Cortile for tiling.
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I hope you feel better today @andreas, I had that feeling from last evening and this morning as well. So here’s to our spirits being lifted. If you’d like to share more back and forth about our day to day, remember we are here to support each other privately in Kernel Lounge > Sudo Room, Staff or one on one. DM me any time! That goes for all of us here!
This setup is really clean!
Someone will have to pry me away from X11 because for me it’s all I need. I don’t see myself needing anything more unless the change is 100% free of cons.
I think only XFCE will achieve that because of how meticulous the main dev is.
Arch Linux impresses me for a similar reason. Rewind the clock 10 or 15 years, install Arch, visit their wiki or ask a repeat question in their forums, and everything is still the same. For a cutting edge distro they have remained true to their KISS approach. Pure. Like Slackware, like Gentoo and like XFCE.
That’s my point, I like modding with XFCE because the risk of things changing and breaking your setup is so extremely low. The cadence is slow and deliberate, roughly two years between 4.20 and what should be 4.22.
Brut with XFCE desktop settings are data, not code. Everything lives in xfconf XML under ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/. Panel layout, keybindings, workspace config, window manager tweaks all survive upgrades because nothing is hooking internals. There’s no extension API to break, like GNOME for example.
So when you share a setup like this, I see and feel the confidence in it that it’s not only functional but it’s set it and forget it.
I just had a quick look at Cortile, I see that I starred it, but honestly don’t remember it. It isn’t a WM replacement at all. It runs on top of xfwm4 over EWMH, so it doesn’t take over your XFCE apps and keybindings the way i3 does.
Workspace based tiling, auto panel detection, keyboard and hot corner bindings. That answers my main worry, my shortcuts stay mine and the fast workspace switching is there.
I’ll give it a go!
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@hydn and @andreas I wish you both well.
Regarding the use of XFCE instead of the other desktop environments (DE), IF I’m going to use a DE at all, I agree, it’s XFCE and it has been for me, ever since they moved from their initial approach - I think it was with Xforms a VERY long time ago, back to the VERY FIRST years of desktop environments between 1995 and 2000. Sometime right around the turn of the century XFCE went to Gtk as it’s toolkit and it’s slowly followed the evolutionary updates to Gtk+ and version changes.
Nevertheless, I don’t even need a DE at all. On my current laptop, I do have XFCE with Endeavour OS, Slackware and MX Linux, but I have window manager configurations set up with antiX Linux - two versions, 23.2 and 26. Most of the time I simply use IceWM. While I do benefit from Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments, that’s mostly because of Web Browsers and graphical text editors; I have few other reasons to extend that to a DE and I certainly do not use or care much about drag & drop and whatever else I supposedly gain from them; often that stuff COSTS me time trying to figure out how to get it to cooperate with what I do, wheres I can cut, copy, paste, or remove using simple selection mechanisms that are common to almost all GUI configurations.
The only thing that ever drives my usage up into the 1-2 GB range on my systems is multiple open tabs in a Web Browser; that’s the number one memory consuming tool that I use, so perhaps that explains why I really don’t need even XFCE, IceWM, Fluxbox, JWM, and similar alternatives work fine.
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Yes, I absolutely love the sense of stability and reliability that Xfce offers, even when you throw themes and custom settings at it. Not every desktop environment provides such a sense of well-craftedness in that area!
I’d actually love to hear a comparison between Cortile and i3 if you do decide to try it out. Sometimes a thought pops in my head that I ought to try i3, but it feels yet a bit too “hardcore” for me.
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Well, I made a complete mess with my first attempt on my PC. lol. Nothing broke in my xfce-i3 session but I had to abandon the xfce-cortile login session.
So I’m going to instead try on my laptop, with fresh Linux reinstall, then add Cortile, but later down once I have a bit more time not to rush it. 
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I love that minimalistic look @andreas, looks clean and somewhat nostalgic. Whatever DE I try, I keep coming back to XFCE, and made Debian my home.
I’ve been down for the last couple weeks too; taking care of my backups and learning more about Debian Trixie keeps my mind on track.
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I’m sorry to hear that @ClaudioDC , I hope you’ll feel better soon!
I think it’s quite charming that we can all find some relief and perhaps distraction in tinkering with our systems.
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I started out with Red Hat 5 in the late 90’s, and currently run Mint, but over the years I’ve tested out nearly 60 distros. Some were good, some not so good. If I couldn’t run Mint I’d probably be using CachyOS. Tried adding a neofetch of my system, but I’m a new user so I can’t at the moment.
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Hope you continue to feel better; glad you’re able to be here.
You’ve been around a while; nearly 60 distros is a pretty solid variety of distributions. Mint is a pretty trusty configuration to use, though I’ve not given it a test run in a long time myself.
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I’m currently running Garuda with the Cosmic DE.
I love the minimalism of Gnome, but I don’t love the design. The breaking point for me was the reliance on Gnome extensions and how they break with each Gnome update. Poor design, IMHO.
The Cosmic DE isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imaginable, but it is finally at a point where I can tolerate it. I don’t miss having to wait for extentions to update to get their functionality back.
With my minimalist preference, there are no icons on my desktop. If you were to see the layout (Cosmic DE), you would notice that I spent some time in the Apple ecosystem (panel at the top, dock on the bottom).
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My ‘desktop’ is just a wallpaper because I want something pretty to look at for the 3 seconds I am before I start doing stuff. I have a panel running, lxpanel (also use it’s ‘run’ dialog becuase it’s there and I don’t have to install grun or something) and it’s hidden. I only ever use it becuase keepassxc opens quietly and lands in the tray and maybe to see what clipman is holding.
MIne is a spartan setup - windows TSRs left a deep scar, heh.
I do use a cronjob to swap my theme, though. As the sun rises my desktop swaps to nord and different desktop 1 wallpaper, and when it comes time for the sun to sink it swaps back over to gruvbox and a muted wallpaper. Basically blue for daytime and a softer green for night. Like shit through a goose!
screenshot is nord (blue) becuase it’s morning and the sun is up.
stealth edit:
12 18 * * * DISPLAY=:0 $HOME/bin/doris-theme --flip-to gruvbox --say "Hey, you see that? That's friggen magic!" >> $HOME/.local/state/doris-theme-cron.log 2>&1 0 7 * * * DISPLAY=:0 $HOME/bin/doris-theme --flip-to nord --say "MO magic for the new day" >> $HOME/.local/state/doris-theme-cron.log 2>&1
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That’s an interesting and very creative thing to do. I did see your Nord and Gruvbox wallpapers when I tried out DORiS yesterday.
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That’s a great idea! looks good too
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