Buddies of Budgie

Budgie 10.10.2 Released Budgie 10.10.2 is our second minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This release adds further improvements to our labwc bridge, improves application matching in Icon Tasklist, general stability fixes, and more!

#Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 is here! We have significantly improved the labwc bridge, introduced better app matching in Icon Tasklist, scaling fixes, and a whole lot more.

Check it out at buddiesofbudgie.org/...

#OpenSource #Linux #BudgieDesktop

Releasing Budgie 10.10.2: Behind The Curtain - YouTube In this stream, I'll be fixing some last minute items, preparing Budgie 10.10.2, writing the post, and getting it shipped!Buddies of #Budgie: https://buddies...

Gonna go live tomorrow at 1300 UTC for some last minute fixes (IconTasklist PR), release prep, and the actual release of Budgie 10.10.2! Tune in for a peak behind the curtain at

Chirp #7: Dialog Fixes, Crystal Dock Support, and App Matching Improvements Dialog focus fixes, Crystal Dock background support, Icon Tasklist app matching rework, and a wave of under-the-hood polish ahead of Budgie Desktop 10.10.2.

#Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 releases this Saturday! Chirp #7 covers the latest: dialog fixes, Crystal Dock support, Icon Tasklist app matching improvements, and more. buddiesofbudgie.org/...

#OpenSource #Linux #BudgieDesktop

Chirp #6: Clear Skies Ahead for Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 Fixes for Icon Task List, HiDPI scaling, and Show Desktop land ahead of our planned Budgie Desktop 10.10.2. Meanwhile, budgie-session v1.0.1 ships to resolve session crashes.

Chirp #6 is out! Show Desktop functionality rework, HiDPI fixes, session crash squashed, IconTasklist fixes, and still more improvements to come! Clear skies ahead for an upcoming Budgie 10.10.2.

Read more at buddiesofbudgie.org/...

#Budgie #BudgieDesktop #OpenSource #Linux

Chirp #5: Budgie 11 Priorities, Panel Config, and 10.10 Polish We map out Budgie 11 priorities and begin building panel configuration, while Budgie 10.10 picks up OSD fixes, Icon Task List improvements, and labwc bridge refinements.

Chirp #5 is out! We sat down to plan the road ahead for Budgie 11, got live panel configuration working, and polished up 10.10.

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Take care :)

Building Budgie 11 #4: A Panel Never Forgets YouTube video by Joshua Strobl

I will be live Wednesday (today for me :P) at 1530 UTC for more Budgie 11 work! I will be implementing configuration in our panel for budgie-shell, particularly: screen edge, per-region extension lists, and per-output (more to come there later).

youtube.com/live/Pjk7sMz...

Chirp #4: Panels, Policies, and Progress Theme configuration improvements land in Budgie 10, the Budgie 11 panel gains a QML loader, and Magpie picks up focus method support.

New Chirp is out. Budgie 10 gets independent compositor theming, Budgie 11's panel evolves with a new QML loader, and Magpie gains focus methods. Oh, and we redesigned the website.

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Happy coding :)

Building Budgie 11 #3: Getting Qt with Key Sequences & Mir API Exploration - YouTube Today's work will be centered around some much needed code cleanup and refactoring, taking a look at #Qt6 QKeySequence and potentially leveraging that for ou...

Tomorrow (Wed. Feb 4th) at 1530 UTC I will be live again for more Magpie development for #Budgie 11. I will be doing some (necessary) code cleanup / re-organization, taking a look at #Qt6 QKeySequence, and Mir / Miral API exploration!

Chirp #3: A New Release, Magpie Configuration Strikes Back This week we released Budgie 10.10.1 and implemented keybinds into our Magpie compositor.

Bit of a lighter one for this week, but still solid updates across Budgie 10 and Budgie 11 regardless!

Read about it at buddiesofbudgie.org/... and have a great week :)

Building Budgie 11: Adding Configuration to our Wayland Compositor (Day 2) - YouTube Day 2 of integrating KConfig support into Magpie, the Mir-based compositor for the next generation of the Budgie desktop environment. Today's work will focus...

Going to be live again tomorrow (Sunday, February 1st) at 1100 UTC for more #Budgie 11 Magpie development. Working on getting VOD from today uploaded separately (some audio tweaks and trimming), so keep an eye on my channel for that.

Budgie 10.10.1 Released Budgie 10.10.1 is our first minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This release improves stability, fixes bugs, expands on our labwc support, and more!

Our first minor release of #Budgie 10.10 series is out with Budgie 10.10.1! This release improves stability, fixes bugs, expands on our labwc support, and more!

Read more at buddiesofbudgie.org/...

#OpenSource #Linux

Building Budgie 11: Adding Configuration to our Wayland Compositor - YouTube In this stream, the primary objective is to integrate KConfig support into Magpie, the Mir-based compositor for the next generation of the Budgie desktop env...

Live tomorrow (Saturday, Jan 31st) at 1100 UTC. The goal is simple: Integrating KConfig for configuration into our Mir-based Wayland compositor.

Chirp #2: Getting "Sloppy" with Window Focus and Experimental with Mir This week we released Budgie Control Center 2.1.0, added sloppy focus support for the upcoming Budgie 10.10.1, and refreshed our website. Meanwhile, we've begun early exploration with Mir for Budgie 11 and started refinements to the shell's panel logic.

Chirp 2 is live! 🐦

This week, we have released Budgie Control Center 2.1.0, added "sloppy" focus support for Budgie 10.10.1, refreshed our website, continued our work on Budgie 11, and more!

Read more at buddiesofbudgie.org/... #OpenSource #Linux #Budgie

Buddies of Budgie - Open Collective Developers of the Budgie Desktop, a feature rich and modern desktop environment for Linux.

Did you know we’re on OpenCollective? Developing Budgie 11 will mean capitalizing on your support for CI/CD and hardware in ways we didn't during 10.x. Donations are appreciated and thank you to all that have donated thus far! ❤️

Been going through the Mir docs, building out the next iteration of the @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Magpie compositor.

Just in a matter of a few hours we went from no compositor to one that is able to run budgie-panel. Looking forward to continuing to iterate on it! #Linux #OpenSource

Chirp #1: Bootstrapping Budgie 11 This Chirp details new Budgie Control Center settings and 10-series maintenance, alongside Budgie 11 progress regarding our approach to configuration, architectural foundations, and early bootstrappin...

Time for the first Chirp article! This one details new Budgie Control Center settings and 10-series maintenance, alongside Budgie 11 progress regarding our approach to configuration, architectural foundations, and early bootstrapping.

buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/chirp-1

#BudgieDesktop #OpenSource

Small beginnings: #Budgie 11 panel in Qt6 and QML, leveraging LayerShellQt.

The code will looking nothing like this probably in a matter of days, but fun to iterate nonetheless!

State of the Budgie: 2025 In Review and Cranking Budgie Up To 11 2025 was a year of significant progress for Budgie Desktop, as we finalized much of our efforts in our Wayland migration, to bring Budgie 10 to a close and enable us to focus our efforts on Budgie 11....

Right, the one you really have been waiting for. Let's talk #Budgie 11 and how we plan on improving communication going forwards.

buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-o...

Massive thanks to all that contributed to make this release possible! 🙌

Budgie 10.10 Released Budgie 10.10 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, marking our first release to migrate Budgie from X11 to Wayland. This release series brings to a close just over a decade of Budgie 10 de...

Budgie 10.10 is here! 🚀

This release marks our official migration from X11 to Wayland. It’s a landmark moment that rounds out over a decade of the Budgie 10 series, allowing us to now put our focus towards Budgie 11.

buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-... #BudgieDesktop #Wayland #Linux

Screenshot of Zen Browser with two webpages opened side-by-side in split view. Left panel shows the CI/CD with a successful build of budgie-desktop-services (shows cmake / ninja output), right panel shows the repo on the Forgejo with a green check mark next to latest commit.

Took some work and testing, but I have CI/CD validated using the forge that all the @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Budgie 11 bits will be on (as well as something else I'm cookin up) 🚀

🧵 More to share in a blog post in a couple weeks! Looking forward to churning out development update posts as we FINALLY focus on 11. Budgie 10.10 has been quite the journey to say the least.

- Joshua

🧵 Got a #Budgie 11 Kickoff meeting scheduled for the team for this Sunday 🎉

2026 is gonna be a great year for Buddies of Budgie, just as soon as we put this pesky 10.10 (truly the last major B10 release) in the rear-view mirror! (It's shipping in next Fedora and Ubuntu Budgie after all.)

Release Budgie 10.10-preview.2 · BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop This release of Budgie Desktop is a preview (non-final) release of Budgie 10.10, supporting only Wayland. This should NOT be packaged for stable repositories, rather it should strictly be shipped i...

Just tagged a new preview build of Budgie 10.10 (10.10-preview.2) with various bug and crash fixes, some missed adaptations for renamed desktop files, improvements for running Electron apps, and improvements for running in virtualized environments. #OpenSource

github.com/BuddiesOfBud...

- Joshua

In anticipation of #Budgie 10.10's release and shipping in #Fedora 44, I have submitted a Change Proposal for its inclusion! I will be packaging up the components this week for rawhide 🚀

fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes...

BIg thanks to @conan-kudo.bsky.social for the help with the proposal 👏

Budgie 10.10-preview.1 is (as the name implies) a preview release and features unfinished components, but still excited to ship this!

Also don't think about checking what Budgie Display Services / Configurator are written in. 😉

Release Budgie 10.10-preview.1 · BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop This release of Budgie Desktop is a preview (non-final) release of Budgie 10.10, supporting only Wayland. Packager Notes: This should NOT be packaged for stable repositories, rather it should stric...

The end to the saga of #Budgie 10.10 development is near! We just put out Budgie 10.10-preview.1, intended for packagers (e.g. Fedora and Ubuntu) to start shipping in preparation for their releases next year. 🎉

github.com/BuddiesOfBud...

While we are hard at work wrapping up features & functionality for Budgie 10.10 (so we can FINALLY move on to 11), we have just put out a Budgie 10.9.3 release to align with changes in GNOME 49.x.

Release notes available at github.com/BuddiesOfBud...

Coming to a distro near you!

Screenshot of Budgie Desktop on Fedora Budgie 42 Beta showing Discover software center's home view.

ICYMI: Fedora Budgie 42 and Fedora Budgie Atomic 42 will ship with Discover. It is very speedy and plays well with the atomic image (in that it doesn't have silverblue hardcoded as the rpm-ostree rebase image and result in users being surprised by a GNOME desktop after they upgrade!) 😁