latte dock 0.8.x – absolutely beautiful

KDE Plasma 5.13.3 Latte Dock 0.8.x

latest mesa breaks wayland – workaround

HI/2 all… The latest mesa code reverted to using the wayland libwayland-egl, instead of using their own, so if you are having this error: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory install the following package: apt install libwayland-egl1 this should fix things for now, mesa is […]

padoka stable ppa now on bionic (18.04)

Since 18.04 is also an LTS, i’m dropping support for all previous releases, from now on is bionic and the next non-lts release when available. https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa enjoy.

padoka ppa now on bionic (18.04)

Since 18.04 is also an LTS, i’m dropping support for all previous releases, from now on is bionic and the next non-lts release when available.   enjoy.

padoka stable ppa suggested by feral as the best way to play rise of the tomb raider

As the title indicates, Feral (linux game port developers), now recommends the padoka stable ppa when needed in the official steam game requirements page. its always nice to have ones work recognized. stable padoka: https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa unstable (git) padoka: https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa enjoy!

transparency is broken with mesa 18.0.0 and above – testing the fix in padoka ppa

I just find out there is a bug in xorg-core (nothing to do with mesa directly), that breaks the “transparency” because compositors do not know how to handle blending on sRGB visuals. The patch will be in xorg 1.19.7 (and thus in bionic), but not in artful or xenial (AFAIK). I just sent a patched […]

padoka stable and padoka git updated today

Hi/2 all… Padoka stable was updated to latest mesa 18.0.0, built with llvm 6.0.1 and drm 2.4.91. https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa/ Padoka git should have today git as soon as llvm today git finishes compiling (mesa has some new includes that requires the latest llvm git). https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa Enjoy!

Entrevista do padoka pelo Sir Rob

O Sir Rob do canal Sir Rob Linux Brasil do youtube entrou em contato com o padoka, e eu concedi uma entrevista por escrito. Como ele é um youtuber, aqui está o resultado. Ficou engraçado no mínimo. Enjoy!

Padoca is back and a little KDE 3D treat

So, after a long hiatus, Padoca is back to life. Like in the past, i pretend writing about all open source and free software, and talk about what’s going on in the software world in general and the free/libre one in particular. Kicking the tires of the new, improved padoca (nah, its the same old one) […]

KMix, Veromix, QML and other stories…

I’m very happy as of late, you know? Why? Well, one of my favorite pet disgruntles with KDE KMix (kde default audio mixer) was that it felt that the poor thing was abandoned. Is felt old and misplaced compared to Mac or Windows 7 Mixer, or even gnome audio sound applet, with all the fancy […]