Re: PiSiN Desktop First Release - 0.8.2

Hello Joseph,

On 2025-09-27 19:44:33 +0200 Joseph Maloney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Very cool!  Do you by chance know if this will work on the 5 series?  
> I 
> ordered a Raspberry Pi 500+ the other day to play around with.

My Pi 500 will come home in Santa's sack. ;-)
But I think you could already test it hacking RESOURCES/PISIN.conf:
Add " 5 500" at the end of the list:
REQUIRED_MODEL="3 4 400"
like this:
REQUIRED_MODEL="3 4 400 5 500"
And I think 'enjoy.sh' insall script should run.

> Since WindowMaker was brought up.  At first I looked at gs-wmaker.  
> It's 
> great but it doesn't really follow GNUstep themes the way I wanted.  
> So I 
> have been slowly working on fixing up XCBkit to support multiple 
> themes among 
> other things like fixing window previews, window focus.  I have 
> already fixed 
> building, stacking windows, keyboard input, and other issues in my 
> fork.  I 
> might have a new WM option for you soon based on the great work 
> started by 
> uroswm.  :)

Great! Do not hesitate to submit a PR. You are welcome.

> 
> Joseph Maloney
> 
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> On Friday, September 26th, 2025 at 12:51 PM, Patrick Cardona 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
> 
>> I am happy to announce the achievement of the first stable release of
>> the Pi Step Initiative desktop.
>> If you have a Raspberry Pi 3B, 4 or 400, please give it a try...


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Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux (Debian 12 aarch64: RPI OS Lite)
Xorg (1:1.7.1-1.2) - libcairo2 (1.16.0-7+rpt1 arm64)
Window Maker (0.95.9) - GNU Runtime - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - 
Theme: PISIN - MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)