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Kristoffer Lislegaard@lislegaard@sonomu.club

Favorite tiling window manager for Debian with Gnome?

Coming from Pop!_os I really liked their tiling system, but long story short I don't like their new Cosmic thingy and I want to keep all my Linux devices pretty similar.

Soooo what to do? Tried 0-Tiling extension, but it doesn't tile all windows.

Suggestion? Or are you all "floaters"?

Edit: Or maybe I can get 0-tiling to work if I just experiment a bit more with windows being maximized and what not.

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)@nekohayo@mastodon.social

I'm really enjoying the now accurate dates announcements in GNOME Calendar's minicalendar widget (in the sidebar and the event editing dialog's date picker) for screen reader apps for vision-impaired users, as detailed in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c.

Here's a video showing how the current nightly version works with Orca as I navigate the widget with the keyboard… there's more to it than the eye can see!

0:42Demonstration video where the day's numbers and month names are announced by Orca as I navigate through the mini calendar widget's dates grid
Val Packett 🧉@valpackett@treehouse.systems

In reply to @valpackett@treehouse.systems

Continuing the "week of random UI work": sent patches to Confy updating it to modern adaptive dialogs!

I haven't even had a chance to actually use Confy in practice yet because local events don't tend to publish schedules in any machine readable format lolsob but I like fidgeting with random apps on my phone and seeing non-mobile-friendly UX annoys me every time

dark theme app ui, background window title "The postmarketOS and Alpine Linux Conference", big dialog "Events" with a list of various conferences, on top an "Add Event from URL" dialog
Steven Rosenberg@passthejoe@ruby.social

I'm writing this from my new GNOME-running laptop. Everything works so well.

I can't remember if I ever ran before in OpenBSD. I might have done it briefly a number of years ago.

Given the touchpad issue in where my cursor was jumping all over the place, highlighting and deleting text at random, in OpenBSD touchpad tapping is off by default.

I turned it on with wsconsctl and am testing how well I can type with it.

So far it's a lot less sensitive (in a good way).

GNOME@gnome@floss.social

Thank you everyone who stop by our booth to chat and check what is going on in GNOME.

We even had a representative of the Athens cats committee!

See you next year!

White and orange cat visiting our booth
GNOME@gnome@floss.social

New day in FOSSCOMM!

Do you want to try GNOME in a phone!? We've got phosh and gnome apps!
Do you prefer to preview GNOME 51? We have that too!!

Come, try, grab some stickers or buy a t-shirt!

Table with laptop with GNOME 51 and phone. Some stickers and flyers too.
GNOME Latam@GNOMELatam@floss.social

Conviértete en un Amigo de GNOME, apoya el proyecto y reclama tu camiseta 👕!

Sabías que puedes convertirte en un "Amigo de GNOME" oficial, Puedes apoyar el proyecto y obtener una camiseta en los stands de GNOME Latam 2026.

¡Inscríbete hoy! donate.gnome.org

GNOME Latam 2026
FineFindus@FineFindus@floss.social

I never noticed it until today: Papers can show PDF attachments (additional files embedded within the PDF).

For example, the raw data used to generate the diagram is attached to the document.

Screenshot of GNOME Papers displaying a PDF document titled "Reverse Debugging - What if time travel was possible?". The sidebar on the left is open and shows an embedded file attachment named "perf-cmp.json" with a download icon next to it.
Pascal Garber@jumplink@floss.social

New blog post: build a app in in five minutes 🚀

With you write a 4 app with TypeScript, Blueprint and CSS, and use web standards like fetch and Node.js APIs like node:fs on . No browser engine, no Node.js process.

The walkthrough goes from an empty folder to a styled window, on 🐧

Feedback and questions are very welcome!

jumplink.eu/en/blog/gjsify-fir

Pascal GarberA GNOME app in TypeScript, in five minutes – Pascal GarberWith gjsify you write a GTK app in TypeScript, Blueprint and CSS, and use fetch and node:fs like on the web. A walk-through from an empty folder.
GNOME@gnome@floss.social

GNOME.Asia Summit 2026 is just around the corner!

From 31st Oct to 2nd Nov 2026, the GNOME community will gather in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, for three days of technology, knowledge sharing, community connections and cultural experiences.

events.gnome.org/event/376/tim

GNOME Events (Indico)GNOME Asia Summit 2026GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop but also covers applications and platform development tools. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments,…
GNOME@gnome@floss.social

Gaming enthusiasts can look forward to “The Convergence of Modern Linux Gaming and the Desktop with Bazzite and GNOME” by Syamsul Anuar Abd Nasir, examining how Linux gaming, immutable operating systems and desktop technologies are evolving together.

31st October 4:20 - 4:50 am UTC

Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:@cassidy@blaede.family

I accidentally tested GNOME OS Preview on my work laptop (I made an install flash drive for another computer and then left it in when rebooting…), and holy smokes this is smooooooth.

Idk if it’s just GNOME 51 updates, or something GNOME OS itself is doing, but it feels really, really snappy. And GNOME 50 on Fedora Silverblue was no slouch, either!

I’m telling myself to not use it for work, but everything I do is backed up… 👀

os.gnome.org/

os.gnome.orgGNOME OSTry the latest and greatest GNOME software
Alexander Vanhee@AlexanderVanhee@mastodon.social

Today is the first day Flathub reports 50K downloads over the past month, a number I look at way too much.

Thank you to all who checked out Bazaar!

50K+ Downloads per Month! with the GNOME Circle logo at the bottom
Hylke Bons 🥜@hbons@mastodon.social

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🔴 I'm live again on continuing where we left off designing 11 / 1,447 style emoji for @pidgin! :)

twitch.tv/planet_peanut_studio

Twitchplanet_peanut_studio - TwitchHello! I'm Hylke, a product designer who codes. I love building FOSS with people from all over the world! — planet_peanut_studio streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
GNOME Latam@GNOMELatam@floss.social

¡Extendimos el llamado a charlas de GNOME Latam 2026 hasta el 31 de octubre!

¿Aún no envías tu propuesta?

Esta es tu oportunidad de ser parte del evento impulsado junto a CCOSS que une a la comunidad de @gnome en América Latina.

¡Comparte tu experiencia como ponente!

Postúlate aquí: events.gnome.org/e/latam2026

GNOME Latam 2026
GNOME Latam@GNOMELatam@floss.social

Prorrogamos a chamada para palestras do GNOME Latam 2026 até 31 de outubro!

Ainda não enviou sua proposta?

Esta é sua chance de fazer parte do evento realizado junto com a CCOSS, que une a comunidade @gnome na América Latina.

Compartilhe sua experiência como palestrante!

Inscreva-se aqui: events.gnome.org/e/latam2026

GNOME Latam 2026
Modal Collective@modal@mastodon.design

Special announcement: We're having a theory-focused event next week at @offline 🤓️📖

We've been using the term "emancipatory computing" for some time, but we don't have a firm definition for it so far. We finally want to change that!

@swick will give a talk with some background, and then we'll have an open discussion on the topic.

Tuesday, November 3
offline, Lichtenraderstr. 49, Berlin

White event poster with a circular crop from a still life painting with a flower. The text says: Boiling The Ocean 14 Towards a Definition of Emancipatory Computing offline, Lichtenraderstr. 49 November 3, 2026 19:00
Daimar Stein :tux: :comunista:@joojmachine@ursal.zone

I know most people are aware on how Linux can save old hardware, but here's to the folks that like to complain that GNOME is "bloated" and "runs poorly":

Today I salvaged this old laptop from going to the junk, added an old 4GB DDR3 RAM stick I had, popped the GNOME OS Nightly USB I had just to know what the specs were on this thing, and well... the GPU is dying a slow and painful death but damn, this runs really, really well for a 13 year old chip that was already close to e-waste by the time it was produced and a just as old and slow HDD.

I obviously won't keep using it as a desktop due to the screen, but I'm baffled at the optimization work that is going on these days that enables this to be actully smooth and usable on hardware this bad.

GNOME OS Nightly running on a 13 year old Lenovo G405 laptop with a faulty GPU.
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)@nekohayo@mastodon.social

Achievement Unlocked: it turns out that the GNOME Calendar app is actually more accurate (i.e. not actively misleading) than Google Calendar when it comes to displaying the correct timezone offset when scheduling meetings in the event editor dialog!

Behold these screenshots. When creating the event in Google Calendar today, it claims Berlin is GMT+2 on Oct 26th (the day after Germany's DST ends), while GNOME Calendar correctly says "UTC+1"!

Screenshot of Google Calendar's UI erronously saying GMT+2 for October 26th on CETScreenshot of GNOME Calendar's event editor correctly showing the forecasted timezone offset (UTC+1) on the future event's day.
Modal Collective@modal@mastodon.design

We're doing another special event later this year in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony! Thanks to @razze and the local hackspace crew for organizing 💚

We'll probably have a focus on Flathub, Bazaar, GNOME OS, and related stuff, but any other of the usual topics including mobile, local-first, UX, etc. are of course welcome.

November 28-29
AStA of University Osnabrück, Alte Münze 12

Sign up here: pad.gnome.org/kmlUiUh2RvG2PjCv

Poster with a dark still life with fruit in the background. The text in the foreground says 'Boiling The Osna' in a very medieval looking typeface, and the date and location below: 'November 28-29, 2026, Osnabrück'.
GNOME@gnome@floss.social

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Our community members Jack and @cassidy are in The Matrix Conference, find them and say hi!

Don’t forget to snag a Fractal sticker from the community sticker exchange. 😊

Boxes full of stickers, including Element, ROOST, Matrix, and Fractal logos
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)@nekohayo@mastodon.social

Tonight, on Georges' coding livestream (starting momentarily), he will attempt to port GNOME Calendar's "GcalCalendarMonitor" to libdex! Tune in here: youtube.com/live/xNIyG-dccE0

You can learn more about @chergert's libdex through the various blog posts mentioned here: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libdex/ as well as blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/

youtube.com- YouTubeYouTubessa voit nauttia parhaista videoista ja musiikista, ladata alkuperäistä sisältöä ja jakaa kaiken ystäviesi, perheesi ja koko maailman kanssa.
Jan-Willem@jwh@social.tchncs.de

Haystack, my app for editing needles has been released on ! It's a tool to create and maintain needles (annotated screenshots) for testing operating systems. OpenQA is used by Debian, SUSE, GNOME and others to automatically test new releases.

Haystack is built for with and . The icon was designed by @hbons . Thanks to @sophie for the convenient "app.drey" domain.

Link: flathub.org/apps/details/app.d

flathub.orgInstall Haystack on Linux | FlathubEdit OpenQA needles
Christian Kruse@cjk@chaos.social

🚀 0.11.0 is out!

* Search the commit graph by message, author or commit ID
* Filter branches, tags & remotes in the sidebar (Ctrl+K)
* Commit trailers with templates & sign-off
* Amend the previous commit, including unstaging changes to remove them
* Choose your initial repository view
* Custom repository logos

Plus UI improvements & lots of fixes.

Flathub: flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gi
macOS: gitlab.com/dehesselle/gitte_ma
Repo: codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

flathub.orgInstall Gitte on Linux | FlathubManage your code history
Børge@forteller@tutoteket.no

In Fedora Silverblue Gnome Files showed all my .epub files with their cover photo as their icon. Now in CachyOS they are all just shown with the generic epub icon. This makes me sad. Anyone have any thoughts on how I can fix this? Thank you!

Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:@cassidy@blaede.family

“This is getting out of hand; now there are TWO of them!”

Trying out Era. It feels very nice and GNOME-y with some improvements over the core Calendar app. I have some concerns about dividing development effort, but I also get that sometimes it’s easier to start your own project from scratch without any of the legacy, conventions, or promises of a large, long-developed codebase.

If you’re on Linux, give it a try and report some bugs! :)

flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.

Screenshot of a GNOME desktop with GNOME Calendar window positioned behind an Era window, each looking very similar with a month full of events.