Xeda:
I hate the flickering of the menus but overall it works ok.
Flickering in Firefox ESR is nearly non-existent on Crimson.
I recently installed Crimson on my Librem 5 USA, and I have noticed many changes. Here is a list of them, along with photos:
WPA3 works.
The Settings app is nearly fully adaptive (excluding Displays, File History and Trash, Time Zone, and potentially others).
Sometimes the adaptation is not triggered, so a workaround is to drag Quick Settings slightly down to redraw the screen.
In Appearance, there is now a Dark style/theme.
In Power, there are now Power Modes (Balanced and Power Saver).
In A…
Xeda:
requires calling Terminal keyboard for ctrl commands because right clicking is not working.
If you use the Terminal layout (en-us) a lot like me and want a more accessible layout, you can follow the instructions in this thread:
I commissioned @dcz to create an accessible Squeekboard terminal layout. The height of us.yaml’s top bar was increased by 8 pixels to make it easier to press the keys within it accurately, while carefully reducing each row’s height below it by 2 pixels each to maintain usability. In addition, both us.yaml and us_wide.yaml cherry-pick various features from Squeekboard versions 1.22.0 to 1.38.0:
Keeps PgUp/PgDn, Return symbol, symmetrical corner keys, and accessible light grey colour scheme.
Rem…
Xeda:
I prefer the interface to Firefox but it scrolls very slowly - I can’t stand it.
Crimson provides a much more snappier and usable experience for Firefox ESR, but if you are feeling experimental, you can try out nightly Flatpaks from GNOME:
Here are instructions for installing the nightly version of GNOME Web (Epiphany):
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gnome.Epiphany.Devel
1 Like