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tyder

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Re: Devuan Excalibur mate-mini + Xlibre!

I think this is great work!  :-)
Does anybody know if there is similar work going on with Xlibre and Qt?

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: Devuan Excalibur mate-mini + Xlibre!

Good question, I don't have an answer though as the mate-mini doesn't have any packages that require QT libraries, it's all GTK, I would think it wouldn't matter what toolkit is used, but I could be wrong. I'm going to snapshot a new Xlibre version with the compositor turned off later today to make it easy for folks to test, maybe load some QT apps in a live-session and see how they work, I haven't even tried video yet, just wanted to make a base model to start with and go from there.

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greenjeans

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Re: Devuan Excalibur mate-mini + Xlibre!

3-31-2026 New Xlibre version available.

Got the new one uploaded, there were a fair number of updates including imagemagick and others.
For Xlibre, all Xorg packages that have a replacement available were swapped, while any that didn't
remain. I couldn't install the amdgpu package for the latest AMD cards dues to the backports libgallium
issue, and some very old amd packages for 15+ year old cards like mach64 are not available in the
current version of Xlibre, there are some packages for that available from an earlier version, but I
was advised that it's possibly a bad idea to mix-n-match, i'll test that later when I get access to an older
machine and report back.

This version has Mate's on-board compositor (Xpresent) turned off, and I had already previously removed
picom. And with that all the artifacts disappeared, everything seems to be working good and feels nice and
snappy again. Still have yet to test video, browser, or other major programs, just wanted a good working
base to start testing, so that's what this is for. All feedback very welcome, even if it's just to say it's
working/not working and what hardware you tested on, it helps a LOT.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … -6-xlibre/

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