Liberated Screens 02

[callmetango]

This series of threads is all about sharing your enjoyment of what XLibre is best at: displaying things on the screen.

Liberate and Share Your Screen

You made XLibre a „First one on ...!“, your average persons daily driver or center of ricing and tinkering? Excellent! Please capture it and share your screenshot here. As you are onto it, we kindly ask you to mention what OS and distribution you are on, the desktop environment or window manager, your GPU and type of usage, etc. You may also include the output of fastfetch or one of its siblings in your shot.

If you like someone else‘s work, hit the like button on it and write a reply with your appreciation.

Please Treat the Others Nicely

In case you are new to the Liberated Screens or have questions, please see the Welcome to the Liberated Screens! thread. For anyone to have a good time here, also please keep on-topic, only post screenshots related to XLibre and respect the rules.

Thank you and enjoy!

See More Screens

We have divided the Liberated Screens into several threads. Please also have a look at:

Thread 01 · Thread 02

[ionutcatana]

It appears to be working well on a Trixie VM. I hugely appreciate the packaging effort for Debian, Devuan and Ubuntu here: https://github.com/xlibre-deb

If 3D acceleration is enabled in Virtualbox, windows glitch massively when moved, but that's an Oracle issue. I'll try it out on hardware this weekend if I have the time (PC: Nvidia proprietary, Laptop: AMD integrated)

PS: You need the latest (>=2.51.1) fastfetch from Github to display "XLibre" as the display server.

UPDATE

I am running KDE Plasma 6.3 here on Debian 13.1

XLibre (xlibre 7.8+3, xserver-xlibre-core 25.0.0.11-2) is running great with the NVidia proprietary drivers. I would advise any Debian and Devuan users to create a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-ignore-abi.conf" file, just to keep track of any custom configuration better.

I've tried a few Linux native games and I haven't noticed any issues. I'll update this post if I encounter problems with Wine/Proton games.

UPDATE 2

I finally got to install XLibre on my laptop. Remember to always encrypt your drives with a strong password, kids!

As a sidenote, libinput does support 3 finger gestures in 2025, however on KDE only Wayland supports touchpad gestures. There is no reason they couldn't achieve this on X11, they just won't do it 🤷🤷

[xgui4]

this cow is BASED !!!

[smj-cc]

PS: You need the latest (>=2.51.1) fastfetch from Github to display "XLibre" as the display server.

I don't think we should gloss over this.

With all the controversy and backlash we have seen, I think the fastfetch team should be acknowledged for doing this: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/blob/c51cc8ce6bb553e3f6e47fcce769b599a7b2885a/CHANGELOG.md?plain=1#L129

[ionutcatana]

This comment was moved in the top post.

[callmetango]

@ionutcatana Thank you for sharing and your feedback! It is always appreciated when users report back, especially success. One question: Would you mind to make the above screenshot a top-level comment including your description? Then it could be recognized by more users.

[ionutcatana]

@callmetango yes, no problem.

[cepelinas9000]

Running Xlibre on DragonFlyBSD:

Mouse doesn't want work correctly out of the box (it appears there problem /usr/include/compat compat linux headers). The Xserver was not touched at all, the vesa driver needed some fixing.

More details in https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/350 topic.

[xgui4]

why do you are login as root ?

[cepelinas9000]

It was first light image. In discussion I did screenshot from xdm login as user.

[homeserverhq]

First Custom ISO(s) using only XLibre

XLibre 1.25 on Debian 12 Bookworm and Ubuntu 24.04
Usage: Production ISOs for self-hosting HomeServer
DEs: LightDM, Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, and XFCE

Pretty good story behind this

I spent the first 3-4 months of this year scripting out these custom ISOs. The objective is to make things easier for less experienced folks to set up a home-based server. Its probably the easiest Linux installation on planet Earth (5 simple questions). It's all Debian-based, currently only Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12, and Mint 22 are supported.

I had to do a bit of frankensteining to put together the most stable and consistent builds, i.e. Debian 12 comes with ifupdown networking default, and Ubuntu server comes with systemd-networkd, so had to tear those out and put in NetworkManager with Netplan (NM works better with desktop applets). I customized a bunch of other things as well, such as numerous packages required for the HomeServer, wallpapers, color schemes, a plymouth boot animation, etc. I originally had separate ISOs for each DE, but after building an all-in-one "Oliver" build, which includes all 6 of the above listed DEs, I've decided to just stick with that, as its the easiest to maintain.

Anyhow, the best part of the story, when I got to the display managers part, I decided to use LightDM as the initial login screen with Slick Greeter. From there, you can select your favorite DE and login. By default, GNOME and KDE push their wayland option to the front, and they are the default choices in the LightDM menu (without customization). Prior to this experience, I could honestly care less about which display manager to use. The only thing I care about is which one works.

During testing, I was constantly having strange unrepeatable issues with GNOME's wayland. Half the time it would load, other times would just hang. KDE's wayland had a couple of hiccups, but wasn't as bad. Anyhow, I got tired of the bugginess, and I didn't want to ship something like this to an inexperienced user. Plus, most VNC server packages require Xorg. So I entirely removed the wayland entries from the LightDM menu, since they serve no purpose. I kid you not, this was just a matter of weeks before all of the XLibre news broke. Had no idea what was going on. I'm typically too busy to care about the politics and I probably wouldn't even have tuned into the news, had I not spent excessive time pulling my hair out with wayland, lol.

After reading through everything that has happened, all I can say, is that you already had me at hello. It's truly a shame how much radical political extremism has infiltrated open-source software. I'm so very thankful that you all are on the right side of this, and that you took a stand. One passionate developer is worth more than 100 paid shills. There's clearly a lot of passion and energy behind this project by a lot of people so far, so I know its going to do well! I personally just want something that is stable and works, and X has proven itself over decades, so no interest in changing.

For my part, I will only and always ship ISOs with XLibre as default. If a DE decides to bail, well, that will be a sad day, as I'll have to remove it from the list. If XFCE (my go-to) leaves, that will be an even sadder day.

If you want to access the ISOs, here is my project's Github: https://github.com/homeserverhq/hshq. It hasn't gained a lot of traction yet because I'm a lone-wolf one-man operation atm, and I've spent the past 3.5 years full-time, purely on development. Don't have any time for "marketing". It's light years ahead of competing projects - like comparing boxes of bicycle parts to a polished Cadillac. If you have the time, it would be great if you stopped by, could use testers and stars.

I'm looking forward to XLibre's future work. By the way, brilliant work on these two repos:

• https://github.com/xlibre-deb/debian
• https://github.com/xlibre-deb/ubuntu

They saved a TON of time on the custom builds. With Deb 13 "Trixie" just released, probably be looking into that at some point in the next few months. Not sure if the above repo applies to that or not, but not worried about it at the moment. With Ubuntu, I'm only focused on the LTS's, so quite a ways off. Since 26 is Plucky Puffin, it means that 28 will be Q or R? I just hope that its Quality Quahog rather than Retarded Reindeer, due to all of the radical religious extremism within Canonical.

Anyhow, keep up the great work! FWIW, you have my axe!

P.S. I spent like 4 hours on this darn updated gif. You guys just added this second page yesterday due to the loading issue, which means my post possibly exacerbates the issue. If it's a problem, then let me know and I'll change it out. But hopefully I can keep it up for at least a few days?

[homeserverhq]

do the custom iso have xlibre pre-installed

Yes. What you see above is a fresh install.

with shim (secure boot support)?

No, it is not signed. But it is UEFI-capable.

or do i can install standard debian and ubuntu and have xlibre with nvidia wihtout the hassle/barrier of manualy install it

Sorry, not sure of your question. But in general, there's only one way to find out :)

[callmetango]

Thank you for sharing!

@homeserverhq

P.S. I spent like 4 hours on this darn updated gif. You guys just added this second page yesterday due to the loading issue, which means my post possibly exacerbates the issue. If it's a problem, then let me know and I'll change it out. But hopefully I can keep it up for at least a few days?

Yes, we had to create this new page due to the loading time of the old one. It got bigger than 40 MB and it showed. Unfortunately the GIF you posted is also about 40 MB. As a compromise, I would suggest that we leave the GIF up for three days and then replace it with a screenshot. That would be on Saturday, Aug 6.

Would you mind to wrap the text beneath the GIF into a <details> tag? That way we could keep the focus on the screens and keep your story for the interested readers as well.

[callmetango]

@homeserverhq One question: Are you using the xf86-video-qxl driver with XLibre? Your screenshot implies this, doesn't it? And what virtualization software are you using?

[homeserverhq]

@homeserverhq One question: Are you using the xf86-video-qxl driver with XLibre? Your screenshot implies this, doesn't it? And what virtualization software are you using?

Your guess is correct. In this particular instance, the installation was performed on a Proxmox hypervisor (v8.3.5) with SPICE selected as the graphics card, which allows for separate sizable windows as well as clipboard functions. As per Proxmox's documentation: "qxl, is the QXL paravirtualized graphics card. Selecting this also enables SPICE (a remote viewer protocol) for the VM."

FYI, I didn't do anything special other than what the standard docs require, i.e. installed spice-vdagent package onto the VM.

[callmetango]

Thank you!

[zazlux]

XLibre running on Deepin 25

[xgui4]

What do you use Deeping for ? Gaming, web browsing, Coding, or others ? And why did you choose deepin? The ui, the tools or the distro it came with ? And isn't Deeping chinese spyware ?

[xgui4]

is this the last version of xlibre ???

[ionutcatana]

@xgui4 Run xdpyinfo | grep vendor. It should say "XLibre." If it says "The X.org Foundation", then it's xorg.

[xgui4]

@xgui4 Run xdpyinfo | grep vendor. It should say "XLibre." If it says "The X.org Foundation", then it's xorg.

i knnow but i am talking about the version number

[ionutcatana]

Oh I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't think the version number is somehow reported by the X server. I think it's best you query the version number using pacman. The command might be pacman -Q, but I am not sure.

[xgui4]

First on Nyarch Linux

which is a custom "skin" of GNOME and Arch Linux, it is a meme disro, but this image show that GNOME do work well with XLibre, it does app some pre-app themes with weeb like show in this image,

NOTE : I am not a weeb and i am not the creator of this distro

[xgui4]

I am still very sad that GNOME will remove x11 competely in GNOME 50, i may not use it , but i know that some use it and like it, and it will a big shame if they are forced to use Wayland only cause even for me Wayland is not 100% ready for my use case so i use both xlibre with i3wm and i also use hyprland for the wayland session.

[99kaits]

check out my liberated debian 13 with tde with matching theming in modern qt apps via gtk2
first time using tde at all and its very interesting, first time using debian in a while but im using it now because it is the distro for lesbians and due to being one of those i was forced to use it

[callmetango]

Thanks for sharing, and I would say: a clear decision in favor of pink. 👍 😉

One question: Are TDE packages included in Debian 13, or did you use the third-party PPA described in Debian Trinity Repository Installation Instructions - Trinity Desktop Project Wiki?

[99kaits]

the third party ppa

[99kaits]

its a bit slow right now (happened right after i did my install)

[callmetango]

its a bit slow right now (happened right after i did my install)

If you like, you can create a new discussion at X11Libre Xlibre On Debian · Discussions · GitHub about the performance issues. There is almost always someone who has an idea.

[99kaits]

oh im talking about the ppa not tde itself
tde has been running great and xlibre basically identical to xorg

[i-lost-my-bagel]

I have liberated openbox. The box has been opened.

[callmetango]

Thank you for sharing and AFAIK you were the first one to "open the box". 😉 A true classic with a very modern and minimalist look.

[Xeverous]

What game is the one in the middle of the screen?

[nelk114]

What game is the one in the middle of the screen?

Looks like the Bridges puzzle from the Simon Tatham collection

[smj-cc]

git://git.tartarus.org/simon/puzzles.git

[Donieck]

My AnduinOS with XLibre

[xgui4]

first on arduinos !

[laczfy001]

Debian 13

[laczfy001]

now on a real hardware, everything is working fine

[Onlykievv]

For now, everything is working fine, I had some weird problems with Wine but I was able to make everything work well with Xlibre, I'm running it on hardware btw.

[siort4]

A memory optimized gentoo 32-bit install on the zero 2w with the magic of -Oz, -mthumb and musl libc.
The window manager is emacs with exwm and the font is uw-ttyp0.

[ionutcatana]

What GPU are you using?

[ghost]

The only Mint Screen here!!!

[xgui4]

hopefully cinnamon won't make x11 obselete else you will want to make a fork or change de ... but it will sadly probably happen since mint is a community distro not one made by org ... but even then most org hate x11 for some odd reason

[callmetango]

@kqizr Thank you for reposting your screen here.

[tseli0s]

XLibre running on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma (Also verified to work with XFCE). No configuration or workarounds were needed, just installing the AUR packages did it.

[xgui4]

the aur packages worked for you ???? me i couldnt get the aur package to work ... so i use the one from here : https://github.com/X11Libre/binpkg-arch-based

[laczfy001]

you have to do only theese steps:

Build and install xlibre-xserver-bootstrap
Build and install xlibre-input-libinput
Build and install xlibre-xserver and confirm pacman's request to remove xlibre-xserver-bootstap
Build and install the xlibre-input/video packages that correspond to the removed xf86-input/video ones

I installed it with aur yesterday for my arch

[xgui4]

it is easier with the bin package ... installing and compiling manually is way harder and kinda hard compared with that repo who do a part already for you ... plus it is a laptop and compiling sometime cause my linux system to freeze... i think it is cause i lack ram ... but i have 16 go of ram...

[tseli0s]

I only did what the AUR page told me to do, installing a bootstrap package and then compiling the rest as needed. I didn't touch anything else, didn't even do an upgrade.

[xgui4]

I only did what the AUR page told me to do, installing a bootstrap package and then compiling the rest as needed. I didn't touch anything else, didn't even do an upgrade.

for me it didn't work so i use the bin pkg arch - package and this is easy and the official repo