xorg

Does anyone manage to use the #keyboard media controls in #FreeBSD #Xorg? I have a DasKeyboard with a volume jog that works out of the box on #OpenBSD.

The events seems to be working using xev tester. It regognizes the RaiseVolume and LowerVolume events.

Not sure where to actually start looking for a solution.

#RunBSD

GhostBSD is going to abandon Xorg after 15 years. Eric Turgeon explains why GhostBSD switched from Xorg to XLibre instead of Wayland.

Full details here: https://ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switches-to-xlibre-over-wayland/

#Ghostbsd #Xlibre #Xorg #Displayserver #Freebsd #Bsd #Unix

Trying FreeBSD as a Linux user – Kenvexity – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUwCQttWKM&t=25s

I enjoyed this video. Very down-to-earth.

Some key points at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ubn8mp/trying_freebsd_as_a_linux_user_kenvexity/>.

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #Xorg #TWM #graphics #hardware #Firefox #Linuxulator #Steam

Anyone running #FreeBSD desktop in a #QEMU VM? I remembered I simply had to install xf86-video-qxl and use a #Xorg conf file like:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "qxl"
EndSection

it should work. But today when I was firing up a FreeBSD 15.1 VM the Xorg session instantly crashed with a segment fault and returned back to tty, changing the qxl driver to scfb worked flawlessly though. Am I missing something? 1/n

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

This qxl video driver issue with #FreeBSD #QEMU VM appeared more interesting than I thought: in another boot environment #BE where I installed #Xlibre instead of #Xorg, using #qxl driver and startx in a #TTY brought up a bare X session with a #Xterm. Quitting the xterm instance successfully terminated X session and brought back TTY session, while on #Xorg quitting the session resulted in a full black screen, no tty. Switching ttys from with QEMU's sendkey failed to get any tty bacl either. If a window manager like #CWM was launched by startx, however, both Xlibre and Xorg failed with a #SegmentFault error. 2/n

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

This looks like new fun. No mention of #BSD systems though.

#YSERVER: Modern #X11 Server Written In #Rust With The Help Of Claude Code - #Phoronix

https://share.google/d7VGQnfQozqS3tX45

#Xorg #Unix #FOSS

Xorg/XLibre ServerFlags worth knowing:

Option "DontZap" "True" prevents Ctrl+Alt+Backspace from
terminating X.

Option "DontVTSwitch" "True" prevents switching to another virtual
terminal, but removes an important recovery path.

For most personal systems, DontZap alone is the balanced choice.

DontVTSwitch may make sense for kiosks or systems with stricter
physical-access requirements.

More details:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r1w1s1/code-notes/refs/heads/master/notes/X11_ServerFlags.txt

#slackware #x11 #xlibre #xorg

Having tasted the mighty #ZFS on #FreeBSD , I have always been wondering how it would work with #Linux , so I fired up #Alpine Linux with the #ZFSBootMenu on my #ThinkPad T470s. Not bad! And #systemd free experience is still nostalgic and enjoyable!

#Unix #Sreenshot #Xorg #pfetch #FunNixExperience