[XFCE] Mojave Theme on XLibre

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A computer desktop with a dark, skeuomorphic theme and a cool blue desert wallpaper. Three windows are open, a text editor with some information on the popular framework Svelte, a file manager showing some recently deleted files, and a terminal listing installed XLibre packages.

I’ve never been too fond of Wayland, with it’s corporate sponsors and project architecture that threatens to kill-off smaller desktops and window managers: hurting one of *NIX’s best qualities IMO, it’s fragmentation and user-choice.

So, when I heard about the X11 revival effort, XLibre, and read that they had a mostly stable release, I switched over.

It’s been a drop-in replacement, my package manager (pacman) prompted me that xorg-xserver and xlibre-xserver would be in-conflict, and thus automatically removed xorg-* in favour of xlibre-*. Everything else has just worked.

Immediately off-the-bat XLibre has TearFree enabled by default, which improves the feel of the desktop massively. But that’s about the only change I can “feel”, a lot of the work is under-the-hood with code-cleanup efforts and refactoring.

System Details: - OS: CachyOS - Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-1-cachyos - CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U (8) @ 4.80 GHz - Memory: 32GB - WM: Xfwm4 (XLibre) - WM Theme: Mojave-Dark-solid-alt - Theme: Mojave-Dark-solid-alt [GTK2/3/4] - Icons: Mojave-CT [GTK2/3/4]

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Wow, they fixed the tearing problem? That’s really cool, considering the biggest reason i switched to Wayland was to fix tearing.

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Yep, completely tear free! :)

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Looks nice. Does it do better mixed dpi? I recently had to abandon XFCE because of my 1080p laptop and 4k monitor. I found rendering on monitor a bit blurry. I found my place with labwc in the end.

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I have the same situation, no, unfortunately there hasn’t been any improvement with mixed DPI or fractional scaling yet, though I believe that is something that will be considered once the codebase has been adequately modernised.

I spend most of my day away from my desk so it’s not a blocking issue for me, I just use my laptop standalone at my desk, might consider swapping my 4K monitor for a 1080p one from my work.

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In the “about” page:

“It is explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies.”

And this should convince me to join this project for ideological reasons?

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If you extend your quote to the full context:

Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed.

So their stance is entirely neutral, they make no explicit effort either direction which I believe in their eyes is discrimination.

As a transgender non-binary omnisexual individual, frankly I couldn’t really give a toss.

It’s important to keep in mind that a project, especially an open-source one, is not one voice. Sure, there may be more public-facing figures who may give a project bad PR, but you have to remember the countless people behind that person, and treat a project by it’s actions not it’s prose.

I am also not trying to “convince” you to “join” this project, not everything is a competition. I am sharing my desktop, which I believe is cool because it’s running on a fork of xorg-xserver, that is the purpose of this community.

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Anyone who thinks DEI is “discriminatory” is likely a white supremacist, and therefore decidedly not entirely neutral.

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