Nothing is better than the console login screen, so try EMPTTY, a fantastic display manager by tty that you can quickly compile. Because GDM, LightDM and beautiful company are an exaggeration when you are the only user to use the PC. And Xorg or Wayland, it doesn’t matter. A display manager, or a login manager, is typically a graphical user[…]
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Sway tiling Wayland compositor on openSUSE
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3’s features, plus a few extras. Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which maximizes the efficiency of your[…]
Read moreThe new Transmission Bit Torrent. File sharing at maximum
A new version of the open-source TransmissionBT torrent client is available to download and ready to push your file-sharing system to a new level. This is the first major update for the wide-spread torrent client and it comes with a batch of overdue bug fixes, feature enhancements, and compatibility improvements. Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is completely open-source[…]
Read moreThe best free alternatives to Adobe Lightroom
The world of digital photography has long been within everyone’s reach, even the novice can quickly become a good photographer and a skilled craftsman of photo editing. Through some computer programs, each device in our possession manages to become a powerful darkroom, a real post-production laboratory. How to develop and improve photographs after the shooting with the new digital darkrooms[…]
Read moreHow to solve the VLC is unable to open the MRL issue
After the latest system updates, VLC has also been updated and has given us a nice surprise: it is no longer able to play our multimedia files on the NAS (Network Attached Storage, so a network disk that serves files over the home network) disk. The problem occurs, in particular, with the Samba-type connection (SMB/CIFS) but also with the Apple[…]
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