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Huge shootout to the Distrobox devs, you saved my day :)

I brew beer as a hobby. I've been using Joliebulle 3 for close to 10 years because it's FOSS and super simple to use, and I'm too lazy to switch to another brewing app. It's been unmaintained for almost 5 years, but it wonderfully does exactly what I want from a brewing software. I was missing this crucial "piece of equipment" since I migrated to Fedora.

Brew day is tomorrow. I forgot to look into it until it was almost too late.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can you run Wayland GUI apps in distrobox?

[–] Kekin 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes. I run VS Code in an Ubuntu distrobox, with the electron wayland flags. Works real nice. KDE Wayland btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

VSCode is an electron application, right? Electron apps use xwindow (or xwayland) unless you launched them with certain flags. I'm interested to know if native Wayland app actually works. Or is it possible that distrobox is actually use xwindow and pass everything to the host's xwayland process? Can't seem to find anything about it in the docs.

[–] rainier 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, VSCode is an electron app, and I use flags to launch it with Wayland. I export VSCode to the host system with the flags attached, so that VSCode automatically launches in Wayland. The command I used: distrobox-export --app code --extra-flags "--enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations --ozone-platform-hint=auto"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I'll have to try this when I got the time. Thanks!

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