"New" laptop. Thinkpad X250 + NetBSD 9.0 RC1 + velox (tiling wayland
compositor).
reddit / BSD

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nia_netbsd · 2019-12-15 17:06

what works: graphical acceleration, suspend-to-RAM and resume, wifi,
SD card reader, audio, etc

what doesn't: ??? some minor ACPI nonsense on reboot. need to look
into it.

The web browser is vimb, a webkit-based thing for strange people. I'm
not using velox full time yet because it's a little bit unstable
still, but very much usable for browsing the web with a couple of
terminals open. Also, there is no screenshot tool available.

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jaypatelani · 2019-12-15 17:35

Awesome work :)

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[deleted] · 2019-12-15 18:20

Crosspost to unixporn, this is truly unique

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colfrog · 2019-12-15 18:33

Nice setup, have fun on NetBSD! What led you to choose velox over
sway?

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nia_netbsd · 2019-12-15 18:55

Drew DeVault.

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nia_netbsd · 2019-12-15 18:57

also, the code looked hackable enough to turn into something usable
without epoll or libinput shims. I like dwm too, and velox is
basically dwm.

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[deleted] · 2019-12-15 20:35

[deleted]

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swhizzle · 2019-12-15 21:17

Nice! How's the battery life on it? I wouldn't mind getting yet
another Thinkpad and tinkering with NetBSD..

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E39M5S62 · 2019-12-16 04:10

Can you elaborate on this? I've never interacted with him, but I like
the projects he has been involved with.

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polprog · 2019-12-16 16:15

Aww, dcss! Lovely!

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yourhelpfulfriend · 2019-12-24 21:44

At a glance it appears pkgsrc has maim and scrot as CLI screenshot
tools, plus xfce and KDE's own screenshot programs. Did the not work?
(Or am I wrong in thinking they are available via pkgsrc?)

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nia_netbsd · 2019-12-24 22:00

Those are for X11.

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yourhelpfulfriend · 2019-12-24 22:30

Ah, OK. I didn't realize you weren't using that. Thanks for the
clarification.

By the way, I wasn't trying to contradict you. I was a little worried
that maybe some pkgsrc packages were crashing or not even building.

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nia_netbsd · 2019-12-24 22:35

No, maim and similar are fine if you're using X11