LightDM is awful. Are you really comfortable with X running under the root user?

And for Quake 3 try https://github.com/suijingfeng/vkQuake3 — ioquake3 has long-standing gamma issues[1] that do not occur under Vulkan.

Restarting X would only really work with autologin. Otherwise killing X also kills the login session so the user would have to log in again afterwards.

If you set up autologin for your user (preferably without LightDM because it's really not needed at all for that configuration) then killing X should do what you want.

And I have to ask: why do you think you have to restart X? What is the actual problem you are attempting to solve here?

^ Yes, I ran apt-build world to check if the configuration option was valid then interrupted it after the first few packages were built.

LAN party ftw!

Install it just as you would any other Q2 mod. Servers are still available but there aren't many players:

http://q2servers.com/

Quake II mod, check the link.

Max base health up to 120, grappling hook on the right mouse button and "runes" that buff the player (use only one at a time, dropped on the map as collectables):

• Strength (red): player does double damage

• Resist (blue): player takes half damage

• Haste (yellow): player attacks twice as fast

• Regeneration (green): player's health counts back up over time (max 200)

• Vampire (purple): damage dealt by player heals player by same amount (max 200)

Good combinations: haste+railgun, strength+super-shotgun, resist+rocket-launcher, vampire+chaingun

Bad combinations: strength+railgun (-:

It will make it to ceres eventually. The Xfce release is due mid-December and the bookworm (soft) freeze doesn't start until January so you might be in luck.

Bet it will be in Arch first though. I'll post a screenshot

Really good article about how mechanical watches work:

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

I don't approve of the date complication though. I can't stand date windows.

Action Quake is back!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1978800/AQtion/

For anybody not old enough to remember Action Quake was the precursor to Counter Strike and hence all modern, military, FPS games.

GNOME 43.1:

Now with added Dark Mode button, which even changes the FF theme. Trendy.

No idea about that. I use my laptop for games so I've pinned the charging to stick to 50% and leave it plugged in at all times.

Just installed GNOME and tried powertop with that & sway:

archie:~$ grep discharge power.{sway,gnome}                  
power.sway:The battery reports a discharge rate of:  10.1  W;
power.gnome:The battery reports a discharge rate of:  6.69  W;
archie:~$

So GNOME is looking good. This is v43.1 though, it's lighter & seems more responsive than earlier versions.

For a user accounts GUI install the gnome-system-tools package and run users-admin.

Nothing wrong with adduser though, any claims to the contrary are clearly nonsense.