Liberated Screens 02 Archive

[callmetango]

Please add any new screenshots to Thread 03!

This series of threads is all about sharing your enjoyment of what XLibre is best at: displaying things on the screen.

Liberate and Share Your Screen

You made XLibre a „First one on ...!“, your average persons daily driver or center of ricing and tinkering? Excellent! Please capture it and share your screenshot here. As you are onto it, we kindly ask you to mention what OS and distribution you are on, the desktop environment or window manager, your GPU and type of usage, etc. You may also include the output of fastfetch or one of its siblings in your shot.

If you like someone else‘s work, hit the like button on it and write a reply with your appreciation.

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In case you are new to the Liberated Screens or have questions, please see the Welcome to the Liberated Screens! thread. For anyone to have a good time here, also please keep on-topic, only post screenshots related to XLibre and respect the rules.

Thank you and enjoy!

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Thread 01 · Thread 02 · Thread 03

[ionutcatana]

It appears to be working well on a Trixie VM. I hugely appreciate the packaging effort for Debian, Devuan and Ubuntu here: https://github.com/xlibre-deb

If 3D acceleration is enabled in Virtualbox, windows glitch massively when moved, but that's an Oracle issue. I'll try it out on hardware this weekend if I have the time (PC: Nvidia proprietary, Laptop: AMD integrated)

PS: You need the latest (>=2.51.1) fastfetch from Github to display "XLibre" as the display server.

UPDATE

I am running KDE Plasma 6.3 here on Debian 13.1

XLibre (xlibre 7.8+3, xserver-xlibre-core 25.0.0.11-2) is running great with the NVidia proprietary drivers. I would advise any Debian and Devuan users to create a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-ignore-abi.conf" file, just to keep track of any custom configuration better.

I've tried a few Linux native games and I haven't noticed any issues. I'll update this post if I encounter problems with Wine/Proton games.

UPDATE 2

I finally got to install XLibre on my laptop. Remember to always encrypt your drives with a strong password, kids!

As a sidenote, libinput does support 3 finger gestures in 2025, however on KDE only Wayland supports touchpad gestures. There is no reason they couldn't achieve this on X11, they just won't do it 🤷🤷

[xgui4]

this cow is BASED !!!

[smj-cc]

PS: You need the latest (>=2.51.1) fastfetch from Github to display "XLibre" as the display server.

I don't think we should gloss over this.

With all the controversy and backlash we have seen, I think the fastfetch team should be acknowledged for doing this: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/blob/c51cc8ce6bb553e3f6e47fcce769b599a7b2885a/CHANGELOG.md?plain=1#L129

[ionutcatana]

This comment was moved in the top post.

[callmetango]

@ionutcatana Thank you for sharing and your feedback! It is always appreciated when users report back, especially success. One question: Would you mind to make the above screenshot a top-level comment including your description? Then it could be recognized by more users.

[ionutcatana]

@callmetango yes, no problem.

[cepelinas9000]

Running Xlibre on DragonFlyBSD:

Mouse doesn't want work correctly out of the box (it appears there problem /usr/include/compat compat linux headers). The Xserver was not touched at all, the vesa driver needed some fixing.

More details in https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/350 topic.

[xgui4]

why do you are login as root ?

[cepelinas9000]

It was first light image. In discussion I did screenshot from xdm login as user.

[homeserverhq]

First Custom ISO(s) using only XLibre

XLibre 1.25 on Debian 12 Bookworm and Ubuntu 24.04
Usage: Production ISOs for self-hosting HomeServer
DEs: LightDM, Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, and XFCE

Pretty good story behind this

I spent the first 3-4 months of this year scripting out these custom ISOs. The objective is to make things easier for less experienced folks to set up a home-based server. Its probably the easiest Linux installation on planet Earth (5 simple questions). It's all Debian-based, currently only Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, Debian 12, and Mint 22 are supported.

(click for more)

I had to do a bit of frankensteining to put together the most stable and consistent builds, i.e. Debian 12 comes with ifupdown networking default, and Ubuntu server comes with systemd-networkd, so had to tear those out and put in NetworkManager with Netplan (NM works better with desktop applets). I customized a bunch of other things as well, such as numerous packages required for the HomeServer, wallpapers, color schemes, a plymouth boot animation, etc. I originally had separate ISOs for each DE, but after building an all-in-one "Oliver" build, which includes all 6 of the above listed DEs, I've decided to just stick with that, as its the easiest to maintain.

Anyhow, the best part of the story, when I got to the display managers part, I decided to use LightDM as the initial login screen with Slick Greeter. From there, you can select your favorite DE and login. By default, GNOME and KDE push their wayland option to the front, and they are the default choices in the LightDM menu (without customization). Prior to this experience, I could honestly care less about which display manager to use. The only thing I care about is which one works.

During testing, I was constantly having strange unrepeatable issues with GNOME's wayland. Half the time it would load, other times would just hang. KDE's wayland had a couple of hiccups, but wasn't as bad. Anyhow, I got tired of the bugginess, and I didn't want to ship something like this to an inexperienced user. Plus, most VNC server packages require Xorg. So I entirely removed the wayland entries from the LightDM menu, since they serve no purpose. I kid you not, this was just a matter of weeks before all of the XLibre news broke. Had no idea what was going on. I'm typically too busy to care about the politics and I probably wouldn't even have tuned into the news, had I not spent excessive time pulling my hair out with wayland, lol.

After reading through everything that has happened, all I can say, is that you already had me at hello. It's truly a shame how much radical political extremism has infiltrated open-source software. I'm so very thankful that you all are on the right side of this, and that you took a stand. One passionate developer is worth more than 100 paid shills. There's clearly a lot of passion and energy behind this project by a lot of people so far, so I know its going to do well! I personally just want something that is stable and works, and X has proven itself over decades, so no interest in changing.

For my part, I will only and always ship ISOs with XLibre as default. If a DE decides to bail, well, that will be a sad day, as I'll have to remove it from the list. If XFCE (my go-to) leaves, that will be an even sadder day.

If you want to access the ISOs, here is my project's Github: https://github.com/homeserverhq/hshq. It hasn't gained a lot of traction yet because I'm a lone-wolf one-man operation atm, and I've spent the past 3.5 years full-time, purely on development. Don't have any time for "marketing". It's light years ahead of competing projects - like comparing boxes of bicycle parts to a polished Cadillac. If you have the time, it would be great if you stopped by, could use testers and stars.

I'm looking forward to XLibre's future work. By the way, brilliant work on these two repos:

• https://github.com/xlibre-deb/debian
• https://github.com/xlibre-deb/ubuntu

They saved a TON of time on the custom builds. With Deb 13 "Trixie" just released, probably be looking into that at some point in the next few months. Not sure if the above repo applies to that or not, but not worried about it at the moment. With Ubuntu, I'm only focused on the LTS's, so quite a ways off. Since 26 is Plucky Puffin, it means that 28 will be Q or R? I just hope that its Quality Quahog rather than Retarded Reindeer, due to all of the radical religious extremism within Canonical.

Anyhow, keep up the great work! FWIW, you have my axe!

P.S. I spent like 4 hours on this darn updated gif. You guys just added this second page yesterday due to the loading issue, which means my post possibly exacerbates the issue. If it's a problem, then let me know and I'll change it out. But hopefully I can keep it up for at least a few days?

[homeserverhq]

@homeserverhq One question: Are you using the xf86-video-qxl driver with XLibre? Your screenshot implies this, doesn't it? And what virtualization software are you using?

Your guess is correct. In this particular instance, the installation was performed on a Proxmox hypervisor (v8.3.5) with SPICE selected as the graphics card, which allows for separate sizable windows as well as clipboard functions. As per Proxmox's documentation: "qxl, is the QXL paravirtualized graphics card. Selecting this also enables SPICE (a remote viewer protocol) for the VM."

FYI, I didn't do anything special other than what the standard docs require, i.e. installed spice-vdagent package onto the VM.

[callmetango]

Thank you!

[callmetango]

@homeserverhq I'm sorry, I think I missed this fact: You switched to XLibre as the default X11 display server and all the HomeServerHQ ISOs come with XLibre preinstalled, right?

[homeserverhq]

Yes @callmetango, that is indeed the case. And I intend to keep it that way from here on out. The builds required some minor modifications - a lot more effort on the networking aspect rather than the display in this particular case (it was a breeze with X11Libre). Hopefully its this easy in the future, but I'm here for the hack.

I originally had numerous ISO builds, i.e. one for GNOME, Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE, etc - spread between Debian and Ubuntu. However, for simplicity, I reduced it all down to just a desktop and a server build for both Debian and Ubuntu, i.e. a total of four options (2x2). The desktop builds come with all 6 of the top DEs, i.e. Budgie, Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, XFCE.

If you want to verify this, just download a desktop build and see for yourself :)

[callmetango]

I tried to boot into the live image of debian-12.9-oliver-2025.09.02-hshq.iso, but unfortunately the live-config.service never finished. I've created the bug report Booting the Debian live image hangs at live-config.service · Issue #3 · homeserverhq/hshq to keep this section on focus.

[zazlux]

XLibre running on Deepin 25

[xgui4]

What do you use Deeping for ? Gaming, web browsing, Coding, or others ? And why did you choose deepin? The ui, the tools or the distro it came with ? And isn't Deeping chinese spyware ?

[xgui4]

is this the last version of xlibre ???

[ionutcatana]

@xgui4 Run xdpyinfo | grep vendor. It should say "XLibre." If it says "The X.org Foundation", then it's xorg.

[xgui4]

@xgui4 Run xdpyinfo | grep vendor. It should say "XLibre." If it says "The X.org Foundation", then it's xorg.

i knnow but i am talking about the version number

[ionutcatana]

Oh I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't think the version number is somehow reported by the X server. I think it's best you query the version number using pacman. The command might be pacman -Q, but I am not sure.

[xgui4]

First on Nyarch Linux

which is a custom "skin" of GNOME and Arch Linux, it is a meme disro, but this image show that GNOME do work well with XLibre, it does app some pre-app themes with weeb like show in this image,

NOTE : I am not a weeb and i am not the creator of this distro

[xgui4]

I am still very sad that GNOME will remove x11 competely in GNOME 50, i may not use it , but i know that some use it and like it, and it will a big shame if they are forced to use Wayland only cause even for me Wayland is not 100% ready for my use case so i use both xlibre with i3wm and i also use hyprland for the wayland session.

[99kaits]

check out my liberated debian 13 with tde with matching theming in modern qt apps via gtk2
first time using tde at all and its very interesting, first time using debian in a while but im using it now because it is the distro for lesbians and due to being one of those i was forced to use it

[99kaits]

the third party ppa

[99kaits]

its a bit slow right now (happened right after i did my install)

[callmetango]

its a bit slow right now (happened right after i did my install)

If you like, you can create a new discussion at X11Libre Xlibre On Debian · Discussions · GitHub about the performance issues. There is almost always someone who has an idea.

[99kaits]

oh im talking about the ppa not tde itself
tde has been running great and xlibre basically identical to xorg

[Iennefalsh]

Choccy Doom spotted. Much gumbus, very cool.

[i-lost-my-bagel]

I have liberated openbox. The box has been opened.

[nelk114]

What game is the one in the middle of the screen?

Looks like the Bridges puzzle from the Simon Tatham collection

[smj-cc]

git://git.tartarus.org/simon/puzzles.git

[NevilleCentipede]

AINT NO WAY YOU USED TRANS THEME

[callmetango]

@NevilleCentipede

AINT NO WAY YOU USED TRANS THEME

What do you mean?

[xgui4]

@callmetango nevill mean "they" (OP) used a trans pride color theme i think

[Donieck]

My AnduinOS with XLibre

[xgui4]

first on arduinos !

[laczfy001]

Debian 13

[laczfy001]

now on a real hardware, everything is working fine

[Onlykievv]

For now, everything is working fine, I had some weird problems with Wine but I was able to make everything work well with Xlibre, I'm running it on real hardware btw.

[siort4]

A memory optimized gentoo 32-bit install on the zero 2w with the magic of -Oz, -mthumb and musl libc.
The window manager is emacs with exwm and the font is uw-ttyp0.

[ionutcatana]

What GPU are you using?

[ghost]

The only Mint Screen here!!!

[xgui4]

hopefully cinnamon won't make x11 obselete else you will want to make a fork or change de ... but it will sadly probably happen since mint is a community distro not one made by org ... but even then most org hate x11 for some odd reason

[callmetango]

@kqizr Thank you for reposting your screen here.

[tseli0s]

XLibre running on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma (Also verified to work with XFCE). No configuration or workarounds were needed, just installing the AUR packages did it.

[xgui4]

the aur packages worked for you ???? me i couldnt get the aur package to work ... so i use the one from here : https://github.com/X11Libre/binpkg-arch-based

[laczfy001]

you have to do only theese steps:

Build and install xlibre-xserver-bootstrap
Build and install xlibre-input-libinput
Build and install xlibre-xserver and confirm pacman's request to remove xlibre-xserver-bootstap
Build and install the xlibre-input/video packages that correspond to the removed xf86-input/video ones

I installed it with aur yesterday for my arch

[xgui4]

it is easier with the bin package ... installing and compiling manually is way harder and kinda hard compared with that repo who do a part already for you ... plus it is a laptop and compiling sometime cause my linux system to freeze... i think it is cause i lack ram ... but i have 16 go of ram...

[tseli0s]

I only did what the AUR page told me to do, installing a bootstrap package and then compiling the rest as needed. I didn't touch anything else, didn't even do an upgrade.

[xgui4]

I only did what the AUR page told me to do, installing a bootstrap package and then compiling the rest as needed. I didn't touch anything else, didn't even do an upgrade.

for me it didn't work so i use the bin pkg arch - package and this is easy and the official repo

[b-aaz]

XLibre ports running on DragonFlyBSD.

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The XLibre ports now support DragonFlyBSD!
This is not the first image of XLibre running on DragonFlyBSD the credit for that goes to @cepelinas9000
But is is the first time the ports are running on it and they are running on real hardware too!
The next step is going to be setting up a CI system that outputs a pkg repo like what we have on FreeBSD.

[callmetango]

Thank you for sharing and I'm very sure this is a "First one on DragonFly BSD dports!" 😉

[Iennefalsh]

Testing out this XLibre thing, see if it works as intended. So far, only got an issue with the touchpad being jumpy and less responsive, but I had that issue even on the Xorg xserver. Sometimes it fixes or breaks itself for some reason. Don't know what's wrong with it.

[xgui4]

awesome wallapaper !!!

[callmetango]

@Iennefalsh Thank you for sharing! What touchpad and what driver are you using?

[Iennefalsh]

I'm using SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad with libinput as the xinput driver.

[callmetango]

@Iennefalsh Would you mind creating an issue regarding the SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad with libinput problems at Issues · X11Libre/xf86-input-libinput? I can't promise that the issue will be solved, but at least we should take a look at it together.

[AmerXz]

Base Arch and cachyos kernel with xlibre on hybrid nvidia 470 + intel gpu laptop

[Iennefalsh]

More Xfce goodness.

[callmetango]

Thank you for sharing and nice to see more working hybrid Nvidia v470 and Intel cards setups in the wild!

[xgui4]

do the NVIDIA drivers cause you any trouble?

[AmerXz]

I used xlibre @ONykyf 's fork with branch on/ignore_abi_next

It works very well right now , games and proton games are working , render offload is working

The only noticable bug I have is that lightdm doesn't start so I need to launch xlibre with xfce manually

[AmerXz]

Sorry for misunderstanding/misinformation

I found that Xlibre wasn't working instead I was using Xorg , But for some reason when typing X -version the output was XLibre X Server 1.25.0 But I was in fact using xorg not xlibre
anyway when I tried xlibre it worked but using steam or using render offload caused the screen to freeze

[siameseartist]

i don't know maybe it's was first xlibre on microsoft surface or maybe on tablet device my experience on my surface go 3 before i install xlibre tui mode was so lack (i don't know why but i tried to install new linux on tui mode for 2 to 3 month ago that very lack) but now it smooth again so that project was very amazing

[siameseartist]

um i don't know about this because i only install tde at my main desktop environment and i didn't install other desktop environment or window manager to test about that but i only know that is default icons from kde 3.5 but you can downloads from trinity desktop collections the file name kdeclassic and try it

[xgui4]

what is that distrobution ??

[ionutcatana]

@xgui4 It looks like CachyOS, an Arch based distribution that tweaks some stuff for gaming performance.

[siameseartist]

Yes i use cachy os (but I didn't used there kernel i used surface kernel on my machine instead)

[xgui4]

a true lol, i didnt saw , the white theme make it hard to read lol 🤣

[NexusSfan]

XLibre on Debian trixie using IceWM.

[stringsplit]

Liberated Void with DWM

[NoirVulture]

I love i3, can't live without it. Thanks for XLibre, it's so good to have choice and i choose to use what i love, i3 with XLibre!

[cristiancmoises]

GNU Guix with a custom linux kernel.
All my gnu guix configuration here.

• LF : File viewer
  With ueberzug++, ffmpegthumbnailer, pandoc, i can preview a lot of files like: doc, pdf, videos and images.
• Image viewer: Feh (custom configuration)
  I can view all images on a folder just using the arrow keys.
• Qemu VM: SculptOS
  One of the most security operating systems ever made.
• Steam: Read Dead Redemption 2 (With custom Launch Options)
• Xlibre: Running with custom configurations.

image-viewer.webm

[l0wigh]

Artix Linux on Macbook Air 2012
WM: Fluorite

[l0wigh]

@l0wigh i heard macbook air 2012 use boardcom wifi driver right ?

yep it does

[siameseartist]

maybe broadcom wifi is proprietary wifi adapter drivers like on my old laptop that use qualcomm most distro maybe some distro on linux or BSD that doesn't work so well i recommend to upgrade wifi adapter card to compatibility to most distro or maybe you should use usb wifi temporary and install boardcom device on arch linux from arch linux wiki website (if you want to install arch linux or other fork that use arch)

[l0wigh]

I'll try broadcom-wl when I have time. It should work

[xgui4]

@l0wigh wait , you are the creator of the fluorite WM ? If so congrat !!!!

[l0wigh]

@l0wigh wait , you are the creator of the fluorite WM ? If so congrat !!!!

Yes I am. Thank you very much. The screenshot is from the next stable version that is currently in development. Should be merged in master soon

[siameseartist]

now it's first time on katana desktop environment or kde4 fork

Distro : Omarchy
Desktop Environment : Katana

[siameseartist]

maybe pkgbuild version because i install xlibre on youtube tutorial same like on my cachy os

[xgui4]

do you watch anime ???

[siameseartist]

why did you used Omarchy ? and not a other distro ? for the screenshot right ? Or a other reason ?

i just a distro hopping i still didn't find my best os right now and yes i actually install omarchy os

[siameseartist]

do you watch anime ???

yes i like anime some japanese culture still influence om my countries

[xgui4]

do you watch anime ???

yes i like anime some japanese culture still influence om my countries

anime is not just a japenese thing , it is global , but it originate from japon.

[bigriverguy]

XLibre on Lilidog Linux (openbox, Debian Trixie based) Installed using extrepo.

[xgui4]

Do you have a DE?

[callmetango]

@bigriverguy Thank you for sharing and I think this is a "First one on Lilidog Linux!" 👏

[BecketTocci]

Perhaps a Linux Mint first? Cinnamon, NVIDIA 550 driver. Installed using the Linux Mint tutorial mentioned on the "Are We XLibre yet?" wiki page. Dual 1080P screens.

[callmetango]

This is the second Liberated Screen from Linux Mint in this thread and the third overall. Nevertheless, thank you for sharing and for describing how you installed XLibre! 👍

[progman-dt]

I just love XLibre!

[callmetango]

Please Add Any New Liberated Screens to Thread 03!

We are absolutely thrilled with the large number and variety of Liberated Screens submitted! This is a huge success and clearly shows the potential of FOSS and our vibrant community. Thank you very, very much!

Due to the number of screenshots, the loading speed of this page has unfortunately dropped. That's why we have to somewhat close this thread for new additions and start a new one.

Please add any new screenshots to Thread 03.