Fedora 38 : Sway on VirtualBox.

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3's features, plus a few extras.

You can find this desktop at this GitHub project.

The official webpage comes with a video tutorial on how to use it.

Installation is simple with these commands using the dnf tool:

# dnf group install sway-desktop-environment
# dnf install sway-config-fedora

It is possible to ask you for additional arguments for installation like this: --allowerasing or --skip-broken.

After installation, reboot and select sway from the desktop switcher

NOTE: The display for virtual video card from VirtualBox need to be set to Enable 3D Acceleration.

Let's see the result of this desktop environment ...

Fedora 38 : Openbox from GitHub.

I tried to use the OpenBox desktop environment in Fedora 38 and it seems to be incomplete, see also this thread.

I try to build the Openbox desktop from the source code, see the GitHub project.

$ git clone https://github.com/danakj/openbox.git
$ cd openbox

I need to install these: gettext-devel, glib2-devel, libtool, and pango-devel.X86_64 all devel libraries with dnf tool ...

Use the next commands, you will see some errors about some deprecated libraries and source code when you use the make command.

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make 

The go-to openbox folder to see the result:

$ cd openbox
$ ls -lFGC

The last step is to run the Openbox after you solve these:

Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.

Openbox-Message: A window manager is already running on screen 0.

Because you are into environment area you need to close it.

After several attempts, I managed to pass these issues and ran the command:

$ ./xinit

This is the result is this:

I don't really have skills in this field of changes in Linux distributions and I wouldn't want to give wrong indications.

Fedora 38 : Deepin on VirtualBox.

Today, I tested the Deepin environment on Virtual Box where I installed Fedora 38.

I do not recommend using this desktop environment on Virtual Box because it requires graphics resources.

Installation is simple as with any desktop environment installation, see this official webpage.

Here is the final result:

Fedora 38 : LibreOffice with new features.

LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity... see the official website.

I install easy with DNF tool on Fedora 38:

[root@fedora mythcat]# dnf install libreoffice.x86_64
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Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package                         Arch     Version               Repo       Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 libreoffice                     x86_64   1:7.5.0.2-2.fc38      rawhide    15 k
Installing dependencies:
 apache-commons-collections      noarch   3.2.2-29.fc38         rawhide   531 k
 apache-commons-lang3            noarch   3.12.0-7.fc38         rawhide   559 k
 firebird                        x86_64   4.0.2.2816-4.fc38     rawhide   5.1 M
 firebird-utils                  x86_64   4.0.2.2816-4.fc38     rawhide   2.1 M
 flute                           noarch   1.3.0-31.OOo31.fc38   rawhide    64 k
 javapackages-tools              noarch   6.1.0-7.fc38          rawhide    37 k
 libbase                         noarch   1.1.3-36.fc38         rawhide   130 k
 libfbclient2                    x86_64   4.0.2.2816-4.fc38     rawhide   860 k
 libfonts                        noarch   1.1.3-40.fc38         rawhide   177 k
 libformula                      noarch   1.1.3-37.fc38         rawhide   340 k
 libib-util                      x86_64   4.0.2.2816-4.fc38     rawhide    12 k
 liblayout                       noarch   0.2.10-30.fc38        rawhide   654 k
 libloader                       noarch   1.1.3-38.fc38         rawhide   130 k
 libreoffice-base                x86_64   1:7.5.0.2-2.fc38      rawhide   2.3 M
 libreoffice-draw                x86_64   1:7.5.0.2-2.fc38      rawhide    23 k
 libreoffice-math                x86_64   1:7.5.0.2-2.fc38      rawhide    20 k
 librepository                   noarch   1.1.3-37.fc38         rawhide    68 k
 libserializer                   noarch   1.1.2-36.fc38         rawhide    36 k
 ongres-scram                    noarch   2.1-8.fc38            rawhide    65 k
 ongres-scram-client             noarch   2.1-8.fc38            rawhide    24 k
 ongres-stringprep               noarch   1.1-6.fc38            rawhide    74 k
 pentaho-libxml                  noarch   1.1.3-36.fc38         rawhide   101 k
 pentaho-reporting-flow-engine   noarch   1:0.9.4-29.fc38       rawhide   285 k
 postgresql-jdbc                 noarch   42.5.1-2.fc38         rawhide   836 k
 sac                             noarch   1.3-41.fc38           rawhide    19 k
 velocity                        noarch   1.7-40.fc38           rawhide   386 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  27 Packages

Total download size: 15 M
Installed size: 46 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y  
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This software works good on my old laptop:

You can see a video from the official youtube channel with the new features: