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Martin Gräßlin
Personal blog · blog.martin-graesslin.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Martin Gräßlin writes Martin's Blog, a personal blog at blog.martin-graesslin.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 60 different Hacker News readers have linked it 105 times, most often “Mir in Kubuntu”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 37 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Martin Gräßlin's KDE/KWin developer blog for posts on Wayland, X11 screen locking, client-side decorations and KDE releases, often as technical background.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Posts on client-side decorations are recommended as a 'few posts' by a KWin developer who 'knows his shit'; 'worth reading' on X11 screen locking; 'check out' o
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 37 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
From the land of wobbly windows
Most-linked posts?
- Mir in Kubuntu5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-05-12
- Thoughts about the Open Source Tea Party4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-10-20
- KWin/X11 is feature frozen4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-01-16
- Plasma/Wayland and Nvidia – 2017 edition3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-31
- /blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-or-not/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-10
- Why screen lockers on X11 cannot be secure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-27
- Server side decorations and Wayland3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-05
- Fanboys in free software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-14
- Plasma Wayland and Qt 5.9 and beyond2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-15
- KDE Multi-screen woes explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-11
What Hacker News says?
> If you're willing to fiddle around, there are a few good themes that don't waste so much space. The point of this "first impressions" exercise was to explore the happy path. > It's not just Gnome that does that. There's an entire generation of designers that's cargo-culting mobile designs at the moment. Breeze, KDE's default theme, is equally space-wasting. I would agree with that sentiment, though I didn't want t…
Comment linking /blog/2018/01/server-side-decorations-and-wayland/
on “Debian 10 “Buster” Released”Submitted Mir in Kubuntu as a story · 71 points
HN discussion> My applications share an X11 display, and if I'm not mistaken, they are pretty well isolated from each other. You are probably mistaken. https://github.com/esonn/x11log http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/01/why-screen-loc... You might want to look at qubesos : https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/gui/
Comment linking /blog/2015/01/why-screen-lockers-on-x11-cannot-be-secure/
on “Another flaw in Signal desktop app leaks chats in plaintext”Submitted Plasma Wayland and Qt 5.9 and beyond as a story · 49 points
HN discussion> Hate to break it to you, but running a GTK2 app under KDE/KWin will still look inconsistent. Certainly, but at least I can be sure that the inter-application[1] inconsistency in terms of overall window behavior/L&F is minimized (as far as practical) if the decorations are server-side. ... and that's a real win, at least from my perspective. Others may place a higher value on the intra-application consistency of cl…
Comment linking /blog/2015/12/server-side-decorations-coming-to-kwinwayland/
on “Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt”Submitted Generating a private key I can trust as a story · 38 points
HN discussion> I don't see why I would care that apps like Blender or Steam have a window frame that looks exactly like the window frames Unless you use blender or steam, or evince (!) with anything other than gnome3 and default theme, that is, and unless any of the many reasons against CSDs resounds for you (as somebody below posted) http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/open-letter-th... Sounds very unrealistic, doesn'…
Comment linking /blog/2010/05/open-letter-the-issues-with-client-side-window-decorations/
on “Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt”Submitted Wayland in KDE Plasma 5.7 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA few posts on the subject of CSDs, by the developer of KWin (he knows his shit): * http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/open-letter-th... * http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/why-you-should... * http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/follow-up-on-c... * http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/11/october-plasma...
Comment linking /blog/2015/11/october-plasma-on-wayland-update-all-about-geometry/
on “Wireshark 2.0: Now with Qt”Submitted KDE Multi-screen woes explained as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHm, some folks have installed Ubuntu, plugged in monitors, and it works for them. KDE usually screws up when I plug a monitor into my notebook, but Xfce doesn't. It's not a kernel issue. KDE has a guy, he's singlehandedly awesome, yet of course a bit strange when it comes to interacting with mortals, who works on "these" things: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-... And see, that it's NVIDI…
Comment linking /blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-or-not/
on “AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU patch”Submitted Plasma/Wayland and Nvidia – 2017 edition as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe good tech picks are already posted, so I'd like to share a bit of a broader scoped list: - Adrian Kennard's (revk - CEO of Andrews & Arnolds UK ISP) blog: http://www.revk.uk/ - GOV.uk's digital services blog [UX, Design, Govt]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/ - Canonical design blog [UX & Design]: http://design.canonical.com/ - CGPGrey, excellent youtuber and podcaster [misc. history/politics/sciences]: http://www.cgpg…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?”Submitted KWin/X11 is feature frozen as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI'm well out of my depth here and welcome corrections: Managing and multiplexing access to hardware is a core responsibility of the kernel. When video drivers are implemented in user space as X11 has traditionally done there are a bunch of issues: the program that includes them has to be setuid root to have the right access to the hardware, opening up the possibility of security bugs; only one such program can run a…
Comment linking /blog/2017/10/plasmawayland-and-nvidia-2017-edition/
on “Chromium blacklists Nouveau”Submitted Why the Display Server DOES matter as a story · 6 points
HN discussionsee also: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu... for more details.
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu/
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted Unit Testing a Window Manager as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI don't know the specifics. Following some links in here and just saw this. http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu...
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu/
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted KWin/X11 is feature frozen as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMartin refers to http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295 , I think. He wrote about it in http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/10/thoughts-about... . It is about the Mir-Support of KWin/KDE (Martin is the current KWin developer) - while KDE doesn't want to support Mir right now, and says it is about technical reasons, Shuttleworth suggested it is a political thing, which Martin didn't like at all. Seems l…
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/thoughts-about-the-open-source-tea-party/
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted Announcing X11-less KWin as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor more info, here is his (Martin's) blog post about it: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/10/thoughts-about...
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/thoughts-about-the-open-source-tea-party/
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted Looking at the security of Plasma/Wayland as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat has this to do with wayland or XFCE? The only major DE that is using client side decorations is gnome. This has been true since 2018: > I heard that GNOME is currently trying to lobby for all applications implementing CSD. One of the arguments seems to be that CSD is a must on Wayland. That’s of course not the case. Nothing in Wayland enforces CSD. Wayland itself is as ignorant about this as X11. [...] In fact…
Comment linking /blog/2018/01/server-side-decorations-and-wayland/
on “XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support”Submitted Announcing the XFree KWin Project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOf course the good people of KDE will take a stand against the evil corporations and would never ever consider using that vile systemd-logind abomination! http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/10/libinput-integ...
Comment linking /blog/2014/10/libinput-integration-in-kwinwayland/
on “Systemd redux: The end of Linux”Submitted Gaming on Linux: Move to next generation? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was just looking at a similar topic yesterday - trying to find a Wayland-compatible replacement to tools such as xdotool or xcape (see e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/956640/equivalent-to-xdotool... ). People keep saying this was "decided" for security, but usually with no sources cited. I wasn't able to find a firm decision and discussion/roadmap. Instead it seems more like it was viewed as "handling this in…
Comment linking /blog/2018/01/kwinx11-is-feature-frozen/
on “Writing a Wayland Compositor, Part 1: Hello Wlroots”Submitted Some thoughts on the quality of KDE Plasma 5 as a story · 3 points
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