softworkz 3729 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 (edited) Hello, as recently mentioned, there's a successor in the works to Emby Theater for Linux. The new video integration is quite challenging on Linux, because - opposed to Windows and Mac - there's a multitude of implementations for desktop UI, specifically window managers, compositors and configurations.across distros and individual user choices. That's why we are conducting a small prototype test for which we are looking for a few testers. It's not about something like an unfinished version with lots of bugs - it's a quite simplistic test application and once installed it takes just a few minutes to test - if at all. Requirements You must have an overlapping window manager, i.e. where one window can be on top of another window You must have a compositor running A GitHub account The goal is to cover a broad range of different setups, but no more than two testers for each kind of case. Same setup but with different rendering (software vs. hw) counts as a separate case. If you are wiling to help, please just respond to the post below and fill in your information. If you have multiple setups - even better! Just quote multiople times and fill in your specs. It's not yet decided whether the beta later will be public or not, but all those who are joining now will get access for sure. Thank you! Edited September 28 by softworkz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3729 Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 (edited) Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics SW/HW Edited September 28 by softworkz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3729 Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 Here's an example: 1 minute ago, softworkz said: Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome Mutter Mutter HW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3729 Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 If you don't know your compositor or window manager, it means that you didn't change it and you just have the default of your distro. In that case, you can just leave those fields blank. You can also send me a PM if you prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcau 6 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 18 hours ago, softworkz said: Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics Nobara (Fedora) 40 Plasma Kwin Wayland HW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMCsw 137 Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 Pi4b(4gb) Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome Wayland I7-8550u (Kaby Lake) Proxmox bare metal /w KDE Plasma: Pi4b(4gb) can install anything you want to test... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMCsw 137 Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 Ok, sorry TMI Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome Mutter Mutter HW Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics Proxmox 8.2.7 KDE KWin KWin HW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3729 Posted September 29 Author Share Posted September 29 VMs with Linux are also welcome! I forgot to mention this. In that case, please enter SW (VM) for Graphics. (except Ubuntu default installations, got enough of those already ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchammer 1 Posted Monday at 12:40 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:40 AM Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics NixOS 24.05 KDE Wayland Wayland HW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richt 78 Posted Wednesday at 01:39 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 01:39 AM Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics Linux Mint (Cinnamon) 21.3 Cinnamon Mutter (Muffin) Muffin HW :~$ sudo wmctrl -m Name: Mutter (Muffin) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nogglet 2 Posted Wednesday at 02:12 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:12 AM (edited) On 9/28/2024 at 12:17 PM, softworkz said: Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics MX Linux 23.4 Plasma x11 kwin x11 HW if you still need testers love emby and the linux app is the only missing piece for me - keen to help I have another identical set up using Xfce Edited Wednesday at 02:14 AM by nogglet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3729 Posted Wednesday at 02:34 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 02:34 AM 20 minutes ago, nogglet said: if you still need testers Yes, please keep it going, there are at least 5 or 7 days before we start and having like 10 or 15 would be great! (currently 5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nogglet 2 Posted Wednesday at 12:59 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:59 PM ok - I'm in btw - I also have an MX partition which uses fluxbox as its DE,/WM if that is any use - dunno how many people still use it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3729 Posted Wednesday at 09:39 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 09:39 PM @nogglet- Great, but could you please fill in the data? Regarding Fluxbox - do you have a compositor installed for Fluxbox? I have Fluxbox on Ubuntu but no compositor. Haven't tried installing one yet because I have a bunch of DE's installed and was afraid to screw things up. If you have Fluxbox with a compositor, please fill out the data twice. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldursil 3 Posted Thursday at 03:56 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:56 PM Operating System Version Desktop Environment Window Manager Compositor Graphics Ubuntu 24.04 Mate Metacity (Marco) HW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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