Eugenia L<p>These BeOS themes look good-enough via XFce on my EndeavourOS installation. Reminds me of the good old times. Ah, these were the days...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endeavouros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endeavouros</span></a></p>
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Eugenia L<p>I'm putting together a persistent USB installation of Linux Mint for a friend who wants to switch to Linux. It has both a tweaked Cinnamon in it, and an XFce that looks like MacOSX. Lots of apps & games pre-installed too. He'll love it, I'm sure.</p><p>Switching people to Linux, one by one.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxmint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linuxmint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mint</span></a></p>
meyca<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.heise.de/@vowe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vowe</span></a></span> I made my personal choice something like 10 years ago and ditched Windows for, then XUbuntu <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> and recently <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> spin. </p><p>I do not regret my choice. </p><p>Especially when comparing my personal desktop with my company (managed) Windows desktop or my father in laws personal Windows desktop. </p><p>All this nudging into the cloud, disrespecting (privacy) settings and awful update procedures make me smile when returning 'home' to my XFCE desktop;-).</p>
Miro Hrončok :fedora: :python:<p>Looking at the laptop screen at night with no surrounding ambient light is uncomfortable.</p><p>I struggled with the 2 low settings of brightness: a blank display (0%) or lasers into my eyes (10%).</p><p>`brightnessctl set 1%` is good.</p><p>Now I've figured out that <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> can change the number of steps (from the default 10). Moreover, it supports exponential steps (more natural for the human eye).</p><p>With 27 exponential steps, the first 10 options are "almost 0%". Perfection!</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LinuxDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxDesktop</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a></p>
Chris<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dmv.community/@killick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>killick</span></a></span><br>I don't know your DE, but on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> I have the thunar-volman-settings. Maybe search your start menu for "removable..."<br>It should give you something like the application shown, allowing you to disable automount features.</p>
Júlia V. ✨<p>Now ... 🐧 😍 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxMintXFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMintXFCE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Love</span></a></p>
DEKUVE<p>🇬🇧 A huge thank you to Sayro Digital for the review of DEKUVE! We truly appreciate you taking the time to explore and share your thoughts on our distro.</p><p>🇧🇷 Muito obrigado Sayro Digital pela análise do DEKUVE! Agradecemos sinceramente por dedicar seu tempo para explorar e compartilhar suas impressões sobre nossa distro.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/HGYSMSajMtA?si=EmrvMVu8zOC9nBW3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/HGYSMSajMtA?si=EmrvMV</span><span class="invisible">u8zOC9nBW3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/f9AfDn_V1nQ?si=zqCjdCvksqIwTLep" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/f9AfDn_V1nQ?si=zqCjdC</span><span class="invisible">vksqIwTLep</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brazil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/alternative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alternative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gamingnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamingnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a></p>
Guillaume Parent-Ruest<p>une petite capture d'écran de <a href="https://qlub.social/tags/kew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kew</span></a> sur mon vieux laptop qui roule sur <a href="https://qlub.social/tags/EndeavourOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndeavourOS</span></a> <a href="https://qlub.social/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a>. Une application minimaliste sur <a href="https://qlub.social/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> mais avec quand même les infos pertinentes et l'image des couvertures peut être changé en ASCII avec la touche b du clavier.</p><p>L'installation peut différer sur d'autres Distros de <a href="https://qlub.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> mais je suis en train de l'installer sur mes autres systèmes.</p><p>And yeah btw, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lazybear.social/@hyde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hyde</span></a></span> , thanks again for making me discover this app: i just love it!</p>
Stéphane<p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> with <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> is noticably faster than gnome, on my netbook.</p>
GNU/Linux.ch<p>Ephraims Wochenrückblick: KW 22, 2025</p><p>In KW 22 gab es in der FOSS-Welt ein paar interessante Geschehnisse. Von Xfce über Firefox zu Ubuntu. </p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Wochenr%C3%BCckblick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wochenrückblick</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Wayland_Unterst%C3%BCtzung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wayland_Unterstützung</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrueckblick-kw-22-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrue</span><span class="invisible">ckblick-kw-22-2025</span></a></p>
スパックマン クリス<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mhoye" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mhoye</span></a></span> </p><p>maybe not favorite, but a huge quality-of-life tweak: </p><p>xinput to switch mouse buttons for left hand, independently of other mice on the system - for some reason, (last I looked) only <a href="https://twit.social/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> had this option in a GUI.</p><p>most impactful: switching to <a href="https://twit.social/tags/dvorak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dvorak</span></a> layout</p><p>(I also considered editing the code and re-compiling <a href="https://twit.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> with <a href="https://twit.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> keyboard shortcuts. Maybe this summer.)</p>
🅹🅴🅳🅸🅴 🇺🇦🕊️<p>Aktuelle lieblings <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> Distributionen sind bei mir, sind aktuell:</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TuxedoOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuxedoOS</span></a> mit <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> für moderne Rechner: <a href="https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/de/TUXEDO-OS_1.tuxedo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tuxedocomputers.com/de/TUXEDO-</span><span class="invisible">OS_1.tuxedo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LinuxMint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxMint</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> edition für ältere Rechner: <a href="https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=320" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=3</span><span class="invisible">20</span></a></p>
Paul Kater<p>Writing laptop is back on <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ubuntu</span></a> and <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <br>OpenSuse is nice but too many things are not compliant with my brain. Updates keep telling me daily they want to be installed (despite setting check for once a week) for instance.</p>
the notorious gzt<p>trying to get xfce launcher to play 40 random shuffled mp3s from a specific folder using mplayer. can get the command to work in the terminal, but it doesn't work in the launcher. </p><p>command is this. what do i need to change to get it to run in the xfce launcher?</p><p>find /path/to/your/music/folder -type f -name "*.mp3" -print0 | sort -zR | head -n 40 -z | xargs -0 mplayer</p><p><a href="https://hulvr.com/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a></p>
Julius Kaiser<p>This is XFCE with the standard Adwaita theme and Win98SE icons. A nice, Windows2000-ish working environment without much ricing.. the Win98 icons alone make for such a clean simplicity IMHO. 🙃 It's always a joy to work with this VM.. I'm mostly using it for network maintenance wherever I need it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/unixporn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unixporn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows98</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/windows2000" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows2000</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
KMJ 🇦🇹<p>A <a href="https://mastodon.ctseuro.com/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> ( <a href="https://mastodon.ctseuro.com/tags/sid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sid</span></a> ) <a href="https://mastodon.ctseuro.com/tags/question" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>question</span></a> . My desk was cleaned and the <a href="https://mastodon.ctseuro.com/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> screen was locked. While cleaning she must have pressed some keys and the the system speeked (TTS like) when klicking on the user field. Unlocking the screen worked, but ended on black screen. Reboot (ctrl+alt+del)cleared the problem. Anybody has an idea what she has done?</p>
Ramin Honary<p><span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.linux.pizza/@theDuesentrieb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theDuesentrieb</span></a></span> I asked for the highest-spec computer the company would buy me (which turned out to be an Apple MacBook M2). I then promptly installed a QEMU-based emulator and installed Debian Linux into the emulator. The emulated disk is fully encrypted. I allow the VM full use of all CPU cores and 100% of all memory and disk space.</p><p>If you do get a Apple computer, I highly recommend you buy <a href="https://mac.getutm.app/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UTM</a> from the app store, it is by far the most cost-effective option, and works extremely well with Debian Aarch64. Once you install the <code>qemu-guest-agent</code> package onto Linux, the Linux screen resolution will automatically match the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/macbook" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MacBook</a>, copy-paste works seamlessly between <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/macos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MacOS</a>. Desktop environments like <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/cinnamon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cinnamon</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/xfce" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xfce</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/gnome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gnome</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/kdeplasma" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KDEPlasma</a> all allow you to select <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/hidpi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HiDPI</a> scaling which allows Linux to take full advantage of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/apple" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> “retina” display (it looks beautiful). The one and only drawback is that <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/qemu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QEMU</a> cannot use Apple’s hardware multimedia codecs, so it falls back to software codecs, and the CPU just can’t keep up with things like video conferencing, or often even ordinary 720p video playback. I use Mac OS for only multimedia applications and video conferencing. For everything else, I continue to use Linux.</p><p>I recommend the bridge networking adapter so you can have two-way network communications between Linux and MacOS, this allows for file transfer between Mac and Linux via <code>rsync</code>. The trade-off is that every time your Apple computer switches computers networks (e.g. between home and office), you must reset the networking services in Linux. If you choose the NAT network option Linux will always have network access directly via the MacOS interface, but you will not be able to easily transfer files between Mac and Linux.</p><p>The keyboard is the hardest thing to get used to, mostly that “super” and “alt” are swapped. Be sure to transpose those keys in the UTM configuration. It is easy to configure the Apple keyboard to (for example) make caps-lock another control key.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/computers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a></p>
argumento :socialiststar:<p>Is <a href="https://hispagatos.space/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> in active development, or is it abandoned or semi-abandoned? *he wondered, to lazy to do an internet search about it, but confident someone on Mastodon knows*</p>
Pete Orrall<p>I've been meaning to write about the state of <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> support in <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.</p><p>As a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/parent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parent</span></a> of a child with <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/disabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disabilities</span></a>, as well as being a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/advocate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advocate</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.</p><p>As much as I am an <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> has, unquestionably, the best support. <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.</p><p>One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> still treats it as a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNOME</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> nor is there any kind of unified API.</p><p>It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better. </p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/apple_accessibility_features_2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/05/18/app</span><span class="invisible">le_accessibility_features_2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
Damon Thomas<p>Debian Trixie Hard Freeze is here. Looking good! <a href="https://c.im/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnu</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xfce</span></a></p>
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