As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/564

#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #GTK #Libadwaita #Accessibility #a11y #Linux

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita

@wagesj45

I wonder if they really make money from Windows anymore, or if they're just passive-aggressive little berks that don't want to give up their paper kingdom.

Because AFAIK their web services (running #LINUX, of course!) are their real money makers. And I guess the "365" crap. lol

@frameworkcomputer Framework's continued commitment to "deliberately create a big tent" is paying off.

More than a month since the last public statement comment from Framework on the subject and they still haven't distanced themselves from this guy.

The forum thread has over 2000 replies at this point..

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/

https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

#framework #dhh #ruby #linux #omarchy

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DHH on twitter quote twitting another racist post. DHH's posts read: > The Danes have been publishing detailed crime statistics and other social outcomes of immigrant groups since the late 90s. > It's shocking how poorly some specific groups manage to integrate, how much violence they bring, and how expensive it is for the Danish state to host them. > It's equally remarkable how well other groups do. Japanese people literally have the lowest crime stats of any tracked group in Denmark. Americans almost as low. Immigrantion works fine when you cherry pick the very best from high-performing countries.

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Framework's CEO on a public forum thread: > We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to). > I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis, and more) published a beautiful video inspired by my latest blog post. I was really pleased! It's in Italian, but auto-generated English audio track is available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqbKEx2mBM

#ITNotes #Linux #OpenSource #OSS #OpenSource

Time to learn another configuration language: KDL, apparently pronounced "cuddle" is supposed to deal with some of pitfalls of XML, JSON, YAML and TOML.

The author kindly asks that you stop sending them to a link to the XKCD "One more standard..." comic strip.

https://kdl.dev/

#Linux

@malcolm @thumbsup Noctalia also has a nice demo and works with #Niri and #Sway

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

#Linux

Another option for a polished experience with Niri as a scrolling tiling window manager is to integrate it with COSMIC. Developed by hardware seller @system76 COSMIC recently reached stable status.

https://github.com/Drakulix/cosmic-ext-extra-sessions

If you've been trying a scrolling tiling WM, let me know which one and how you like it!

#Linux

Scrolling tiling window managers visualize a desktop as infinitely wide. So when a new window opens on a full monitor, existing windows don't have to get smaller, they simply scroll left or right.

Once such window manager I'm looking at on Linux is #Niri. Seee a demo video here:

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

To bring the bling for full a desktop to Niri, there's Dank Linux, which also a demo video:

https://danklinux.com/

#Linux

Support for being able to tile windows on your computer so they fill the whole screen has been growing. I appreciate being able to get the most out of my monitors and using keyboard to quickly manage my windows.

Now the next generation of tiling window managers is scrolling tiling window managers. In first-gen tiling window managers, as monitor filled up, existing windows many become smaller and smaller, until some windows become stupidly small. Scrolling Tilers solve this... 🧵

#Linux

@malcolm Dank Linux has an impressive demo video.

I may have to give it a try as well.

https://danklinux.com/

This appears to add a lot of bling to tiling window managers without packaging itself as a pile of shell scripts as #Omarchy does.

#Linux

Just a silly #meme...

#LossyPNG #doas #sudo #root #unix #linux #BSD #infosec

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Winnie-the-Pooh good-better-blurst meme: Good: sudo Better: doas Blurs't: ssh root@... Reduced to 8 colors to save space (#LossyPNG)

It's time to de-duplicate the desktops • The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ by Liam Proven, @lproven

＂… There are an almost ridiculous number of Windows-style desktops on Linux – and mostly this applies to the BSDs, too. …＂

#UNIX #Linux #FreeBSD #BSD

Ok, if #OpenBSD overtakes either of the #Linux categories, I'm gonna swoon. 😂

#Poll #LiveTooting

Ooo, the #Linux #CommandLine jockeys have just overtaken the #LinuxGamers! This is exciting!!! 😅

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

Does anyone have a remote desktop solution for #Linux and #Wayland that actually works?

#RustDesk disconnects after about 10 seconds, and #DWService gives me a garbled screen.

This is attempting to connect to a Fedora 43 Plasma laptop. Trying to support a family member that's clear across the country, RIP me lol.

No, I can't just use VNC/RDP and tailscale. If I had thought of it when I was setting it up, that would've been great. XD

Any ideas, #HiveMind?

P.S. I might try "Rabbit Remote Control" next chance I get.
https://github.com/KangLin/RabbitRemoteControl

@ajlewis2 @stefano Microsoft's anti-Linux #FUD was probably the #best #marketing and #advertising and #promotion for #Linux.

At the time, if memory serves correctly, Windows XP/2003 were the current OSes then. It wasn't like they were stable or secure. MS poured millions into those ads. 😂

@washbear @s0x41 @golemwire

> I'm not paid enough for the torture of having my work broken and invalidated every few months. You can build and install an X window manager from 1989 btw.

I wish more people would understand this.

The Linux "folks" (whoever they actually are) play patty-cake with constantly changing APIs and standards, and users are bewildered that other projects are falling behind.

This model of governance (for lack of a better word) leaves much to be desired.

#Linux #BSD

@stefano The *perception* that #Linux is anti- #Windows or #MacOS was understandable back in the day when Steve Ballmer was running the show and #Microsoft pumped out no shortage of anti-Linux FUD and propaganda.

It's also important to note at that time the OS landscape was very different.

I just realized that Hetzner does not treat #FreeBSD as a first-class OS, offering only #Linux distributions for its VPS products. Can anyone recommend a good hoster for a small (experimental) FreeBSD instance?

Edit: Thanks to everyone pointing out that it is possible to install FreeBSD on a Hetzner VPS. I would like to support a native FreeBSD hoster.

Day 20416, the wheel (group) keeps rising in popularity, meanwhile the WORKGROUP (group) keeps losing members.
Keep the wheel(8) spinning!

#Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD

I'm really proud of this #retrospective #article all about the history of #linux #gaming #linuxgaming

https://gardinerbryant.com/how-far-weve-come/?ref=masto

This is a beautiful machine. A bartop arcade cabinet with a wood look running Linux Mint.

Looks like it was built in the 70's or 80's.

#linux #arcade #gaming

https://hackaday.io/project/202861-bartop-arcade-cabinet-from-scrap-and-e-waste

RE: https://vt.social/@rogueren/115600686997864089

I'd also like to remind everyone that just a couple months back Windows 11 just killed people's SSDs, this wasn't resolved for WEEKS.

#Linux really isn't perfect, but at this point I'd say the things it's not perfect at are far less bad than what Windows isn't perfect at.

chatcontrol

#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #eu #chatcontrol #openbsd

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Girl and Fish walk home from a store. Girl: "But what was their excuse to take away the FOSS critters' rights?" Fish: "It's basically your fault." UNITED CORPORATE STATES OF EURAMERICAFRICA, VERY LONG TIME AGO: Speaker: "Our corporate benefactors have pledged full cooperation with the federal government. But as long as these... "animals" are allowed to exist, our children will never be safe." MATACORP representative winks and thumbs up. Crowd: "YEAH!" Penguin and Fish representatives of the FOSS republic: "He does know we're in the room, right?" "oh yes"

Tuxedo cancels Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop project

For the past 18 months, the Linux OEM Tuxedo Computers has been working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite ARM laptop to market, but now they cancelled the project due to complications.

Development turned out to be challenging due to the different architecture, and in the end, the first-generation X1E proved to be less suitable

https://www.osnews.com/story/143893/tuxedo-cancels-snapdragon-x-elite-linux-laptop-project/

#Linux

Why I (still) love Linux

I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/why-i-still-love-linux/

#Linux #OwnYourData #Server #SysAdmin #Workstation #OpenSource #ITNotes

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