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• @techokami@woof.tech 2026-09-18 09:49

  There's a handful of things I still need to address, some of which might be out of my control: 1) Volume controls. I used the guide on the CDE wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/How%20to%20control%20the%20sound%20using%20pulse/ But I don't think it works with the knob on my 8bitdo keyboard? Unless newer tech like pipewire makes this obsolete, in which case we need a newer version of this guide. Or Oracle can donate the volume control app they made for CDE, HINT HINT 2) Screenshotting. xwd, ehh, works? But it's very clumsy and is polluting my home directory. Would be nice to have something that Just Works using well-known hotkeys, like the PrintScreen key. Even if it doesn't use the clipboard and just saves the image with a timestamped filename to a configurable directory would be fine. 3) File manager. Dtfile is a bit too basic for my needs. Looking for something with per-directory view settings, the ability to show items in groups, and ideally shortcut lists and tabs. I THINK there is a Motif-based file manager like this...? Otherwise I can try to just keep using Dolphin. 4) Discord's client. Uhm, it does not seem to like CDE very much? Stability issues and weird errors. Worst case scenario I switch to the web client in Waterfox, but having the actual client would be better. Also, Dtwm does not like it using Client Side Decorations very much... 5) Screen tearing. Yeah I've been noticing this a lot now. Maybe using compton for compositing could fix this? https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Eye%20candy%20-%20CDE%20with%20the%20compton%20compositor/ Also in b4 "use Wayback", check the bug tracker

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