I fully agree with bisbyx above, nothing prevents a compositor from implementing this today, or even a separate app, like KDE devs did for X11 screen capture compatibility. Obviously better if the apps register shortcuts themselves, though.

Quoting: syylkviewport/video memory sharing

Now I don't understand this. We already have dma-buf.

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Back to the article: an interesting tidbit is that, last time I checked, the Steam Deck was still using the X11 session. I wonder if they are going to change this?

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Now I wonder if Valve will participate in the VR event?

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I was not impressed by the waffle truck. Tasted like the batter mix you buy at a discount shop

Maybe you picked the wrong truck, maybe it was a different kind of waffle, or maybe we have different tastes. Who knows? I have fond memories of Liège waffles with their sugar starting to caramelize inside and outside, sweet, warm, soft, and a bit chewy & crunchy from the caramel. Or maybe I was freezing and starving at that moment and it was just what I needed. It's true that food trucks are not known to offer the best food ever.

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FOSDEM itself is for free, so it's just plane tickets and accommodation. Yeah, I would chip in.

Don't forget our favorite reporter's fees :grin:

Besides the compensation, Liège Waffles from the food trucks probably need a dedicated budget line. Club Maté drinks also deserve a special mention, they are everywhere at FOSDEM.

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Two years ago, there were a few extremely interesting BoF events on VR, I got to learn about some interesting projects, involving OpenXR, inside-out tracking, the Microsoft mixed reality platform, and some vrchat-like games. Unfortunately, I cannot be more specific than that as I cannot find it on the archived schedule.

Anyway, this event is always so interesting, it was about time a devroom was dedicated to this kind of content. In my experience, devrooms and BoF are much more interesting than the big talks at FOSDEM (which you can watch online later, though you don't get the QA+hallway discussions, but most speakers are available at their stand).

I won't be able to join this year, but I would be interested in joining a fundraiser to help GoL cover the event ;)

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I got the feeling that fits quite well the fact that they're dying some day...?

I guess "life support games" would be more accurate then :grin:

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Fixed controller support not working with the Server Manager

Finally. It was really annoying to disable controller support to click "join", then re-enable controller support, to the point where I preferred leaving controller support off.

I would prefer mouse+keyboard input to be enabled at the sane time, but this finally makes the controller support usable.

Just a few of the reports that I found a few months ago (their interface is hard to search, no labels or moderation):

• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67f6c6f26b7c57319636596c


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67f4c4a96b7c57319636529a


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/68489e056b7c573196383713


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67ed9af96b7c573196362e97


• https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/67eee3276b7c5731963634db

And there were more. Mind you, this is was just after the beta dropped, I imagine that they received many more reports on the topic.

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I thought Humble Bundle stopped their referral program? In any case, seems like that link is not working for me, it may require third party cookies in the browser?

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Regarding mouse movement, I had a similar issue in Splitgate 2 & Satisfactory 1.1, but fixed it by using Proton 10, as hinted on protondb. That may not be the issue you are facing, but it does sound similar.

Edit: these three games are built using UE5, so no wonder they have similar issues.

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It's a shame they don't allow simultaneous mouse+keyboard and gamepad input. There is a ton of other seemingly-simple and often-requested features on their tracker, plus a few annoying bugs, but it looks like the devs don't have much time to spare (understandable since they manage multiple games at once) and prefer to focus on more marketable features.

Oh well, that's life, I am glad that they still update it at all, though it does make me itch to build an open source equivalent.

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