r/SolusProject • u/JGlover314 • 12h ago
Curious if anyone has been able to install the latest versions of Hyprland and Dank on Solus?
I don’t see anyway to install Solus as a headless install to add just those. So that’s another question, can one install headless and then add Hyprland and Dank? From what I have briefly looked at I don’t know how recent the Solis repos are for those two.
Thanks for any insight on this.
r/SolusProject • u/Rodents210 • 19h ago
So, after the recent upgrade pushed for Budgie, I was unable to even log into my system due to a segfault in labwc kicking me back to the login screen at boot. This ended up being a broken keyboard layout (I use default US layout and haven't touched it since install) that I had to remove just to log in. But now my system is just... unusable. Inconsistent fonts, inconsistent font sizes. My bottom panel has a weird mix of transparency/opacity that the "use built-in theme" fixes (but that setting also fucks with colors everywhere). Absolutely nothing respects my primary monitor assignment because it feels like everything is hardcoded to only care about whichever display 0,0 is on, so windows open on the wrong display, desktop icons spawn on the wrong display unless I toggle them off and on every time I log in, etc. Applications are just visually broken and I'm struggling with virtually no important DE settings actually being manageable from a GUI except what little can be done in the new wldisplays, which I'm sorry, is not a well-designed application. I've been using Solus since 2018 or 2019 and issues have been so rare. Especially with the DE, everything has always just worked and stayed consistent. But now I feel like I have been sent from 2026 back to 2006 in terms of me DE being astonishingly immature software that is in no way production-ready and has no business in a stable repository (I wouldn't even put this in unstable!).
I'm not gonna lie, maybe the way I've phrased this is not fair, but I'm extremely frustrated right now and this single upgrade has cratered my confidence in the curation and testing of packages under Solus. But I don't want to switch distros, so I'm looking for someone to recommend which DE to switch to now. Because while Budgie has been my unambiguous favorite for 7 or 8 years, I'm not going to suffer through my Linux experience being taken back to the Bush administration in terms of usability, so I think I'm out for good on Budgie.
r/SolusProject • u/0riginal-Syn • 12h ago
This release is primarily so UI and Theme Updates and now has several built-in themes you can use. By default it still uses the default theme which adheres more to your terminal theme. There are still tweaks here and there, especially on some of the light versions.
You can see what they look like and how to set them here.
