Simon Ser @emersion@octodon.social

Gah, Sphinx really doesn't make it easy to contribute documentation to the kernel. I couldn't even figure out how to link to a section on another page.

At least it's not DocBook…

Fun fact: this cat is in fact the official wlroots logo

bl4ckb0ne managed to display radioactive cats with the WIP Pixman renderer for wlroots

Cheapest way to ship something to Mars is to contribute to Linux or ffmpeg:

https://youtu.be/gYQwuYZbA6o?t=4025

Status update, February 2021

A little late, because I've been drowned in more urgent work.

https://emersion.fr/blog/2021/status-update-26/

Just built a small tool to try KMS configurations:

https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/tentative

Can be useful to figure out what your favorite display hardware supports.

Apparently "I don't think D-Bus is the best choice" means "D-Bus is shit".

I've been trying to get in touch with the Flatpak folks, they are so aggressive. It's actually pretty scary.

Seeking Turkish speakers to review this Sway PR:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/6027

I realized that wlroots (with its à-la-carte helpers) sidesteps completely the "midlayer mistake" some other compositor libraries have made. Interesting LWN article about it:

https://lwn.net/Articles/336262/

And the Daniel Vetter article that led me here:

https://blog.ffwll.ch/2016/12/midlayers-once-more-with-feeling.html

https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.html

Added a short page about packaging wlroots/Sway, mostly notes about Meson for now.

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki/Packaging-recommendations

Wayfire 0.7.0 has been released:

https://wayfire.org/2021/01/29/Wayfire-0-7.html

There are even some images called "sway" in here.

If someone struggles to find an ARM image with user-space that doesn't come from the last century, there are a bunch of random Manjaro images here:

https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/osdn/storage/g/m/ma/manjaro-arm/

At least it's better than nothing…

"I'll just test wlroots master on this Rockchip board" has gone from "let me find a power supply" to "alright time to compile Mesa I guess".

Debian on ARM and its outdated user-space can be very frustrating.

Wayland 1.19.0 has been released!

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2021-January/041692.html

I've been using @lynne's cyanrip to rip a bunch of CDs. It just works™ and does just what I want, pretty happy with it.