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I'm feeling more confident on MATE Wayland status as of this moment where it has reached "usable" condition for public testing, so i moved all the scripts under /testing to main directories (deps and base) so it will be included when you run the mate-buil…

It's been a while since i posted about Wayland progress on MATE, so here's a quick peek of MATE Wayland on my workstation at this moment.

Since yesterday's post, i was looking into how to get better user experience when using Wayland on top of MATE and since i saw upstream is really working on 1.29.x releases, i think it's time for me to test this new development release instead of staying…

Today i was looking at the progress of MATE and Cinnamon work for upcoming release and i just noticed a new repo that i may have not noticed it before: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-wayland-session.

Next Cinnamon will have full Wayland support, according to upstream developers mentioned on their latest blog post.

I have been using Flameshot to capture my screen if I need to post something on my desktop and share it with other people.

Once Plasma 6.6.5 packages gets included in -current, i have no doubt that Plasma 6.7 will be included as well, as some folks have been testing the beta version for some time and even research the new implementation of systemd timedate1 D-Bus interface wh…

After being discussed and being a speculation for a LONG time, yes, it's about few years back, finally Plasma 6 has landed on -current.

LinuxMint devs has posted some new updates on their project and that includes Cinnamon.

Upstream developer of Cinnamon project has finally added mozjs140 support into cjs, thus a new cjs and cinnamon changes has been pushed to the repository and binary packages has been uploaded to the normal repository.

Cinnamon developer has tagged 6.6.x releases on their github projects, meaning that the official release of Cinnamon 6.6 is imminent now official.

If you are MATE users and having issues with MATE uses reverse scrolling (when you scroll down using the middle mouse wheel, it went up instead of down) and want to use the natural scrolling, here's a simple tip to solve the issue: Open /usr/share/X11/xor…

During Cinnamon 6.4 development process, i opened a ticket for cjs in order to support mozjs128 since Slackware-Current has switched from mozjs115 to mozjs128 and cjs wasn't able to built against it.

Yesterday i took some time to push the updates for my CSB project to the latest major release of Cinnamon 6.4 on top of latest Slackware Current.

If you have just updated your Windows 11 machine recently and suddenly you found out that it broke your dual-boot setup, then most likely you were hit by another big regression by Microsoft.

My current laptop has been around for more than 7 years since i bought it on March 2017 and it was based on Kabylake CPU architecture.

Six months have gone by since i pushed Cinnamon 6.0 packages for Slackware-Current last year and here we are with a new Cinnamon 6.2 packages for Slackware-Current.

I have finished testing MATE 1.28 for Slackware 15.0 and current and packages for Slackware 15.0 is now available in the usual repository (Thanks to Tadgy for this space).

Cinnamon 6.0 tarballs has been released for some time and i didn't push the updates directly because normally it would take some time for upstream to stabilize the project with some minor releases before it's labeled as stable and the new version is annou…

If you are concerned about security vulnerabilities affecting your CPU like Spectre, ZenBleed, etc, you might want to add microcode provided by your CPU vendors, like Intel or AMD and also make sure to get the latest kernel that provided the support to mi…

It's been a while since i posted on this blog and last post was about Cinnamon 5.6.0 and now, it's time to jump to Cinnamon 5.8.0 packages for Slackware-Current.

Three months since i posted Cinnamon 5.4 and here we are with Cinnamon 5.6 release for Slackware-Current.

I have been playing with Cinnamon 5.4 packages for some time and i think it's now ready since it has reached 5.4.10 and LinuxMint 21 has been released, meaning they have been finalized.

Some people have been asking about how to send patches to SBo when submission is still closed (usually during development cycle for next SBo repository or for a while after new repo is released).

After more than 6 years of development and so many big changes happened during the development cycle, Patrick Volkerding finally released Slackware 15.0 into another stable release.

After 18 months, MATE 1.26 is officially released by the developer.

I noticed that Cinnamon 5 is now available from their github project page, so last night i started to work on it and it seems that it's a trivial update to the build scripts.