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Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager

([Wayland] 44 Minutes Ago Miracle-WM 0.5)


Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager. With this release comes a number of new features and other enhancements.

Miracle-WM 0.5 introduces support for drag-and-drop containers, re-introduced the ability to move floating containers with the mouse pointer, implemented i3/Sway command criteria, window closing animations are added, and the ability to fade in/out windows is now the default behavior. There are also a number of bug fixes, enhanced animation smoothness, fixing of X11 app flickering issues, and other issues resolved.

Here's the video the project put together for showing off the Miracle-WM 0.5 release:

Downloads and more details on the Miracle-WM 0.5 release via the project's [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/miracle-wm-org/miracle-wm/releases/tag/v0.5.0


phoronix

Brief History Of Linux (#22)

RMS had a horrible, terrible dream set in 2020 in which all of society was
held captive by copyright law. In particular, everyone's brain waves were
monitored by the US Dept. of Copyrights. If your thoughts referenced a
copyrighted idea, you had to pay a royalty. To make it worse, a handful of
corporations held fully 99.9% of all intellectual property rights.

Coincidentally, Bill Gates experienced a similar dream that same night. To
him, however, it was not a horrible, terrible nightmare, but a wonderful
utopian vision. The thought of lemmings... er, customers paying a royalty
everytime they hummed a copyrighted song in their head or remembered a
passage in a book was simply too marvelous for the budding monopolist.

RMS, waking up from his nightmare, vowed to fight the oncoming Copyright
Nightmare. The GNU Project was born. His plan called for a kernel,
compiler, editor, and other tools. Unfortunately, RMS became bogged down
with Emacs that the kernel, HURD, was shoved on the back burner. Built
with LISP (Lots of Incomprehensible Statements with Parentheses), Emacs
became bloated in a way no non-Microsoft program ever has. Indeed, for a
short while RMS pretended that Emacs really was the GNU OS kernel.