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Gnome 50: mach’s gut, X-Server!
Das Jubiläumsrelease des Linux-Desktops Gnome befreit sich endgültig von uraltem X-Server-Code, bietet sonst aber vor allem graduelle Verbesserungen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Gnom…

Learned about GNOME OS from @… and also the concept of “distroless” https://os.gnome.org
Anyone have opinions, pointers, blog posts about GNOME OS and/or distroless?

A few months ago, I setup Pika Backup and Nextcloud online account on my mini PC running bazzite-deck-gnome. Both applications store their secrets in a gnome-keyring which didn't get unlocked because there was no password prompt on "Switch to desktop", so I was pestered every time with two different prompts for unlocking the same keyring, none of which I could just dismiss in favor of the other.
Today, I finally looked into if and how I could rebase to proper GNOME GDM lo…

what a mess lol
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3987

glib/gthread-posix: Block futex_time64 usage on Android API level < 30 (!3987) · Merge requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab
Hi all, This PR is to fix the usage of futex_time64 causing an instant Seccomp crash on Android < 11. This syscall is...

@… for convenience, and anchored:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/blob/main/CONT…

Something on my #NixOS is starting `ssh-agent -s` (PID1) and it drives me mad because I can't find what it is. I use programs.ssh.startAgent=true, which sets the SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent, which I want. In the dumb tty (CTRL ALT F2) I get that value. Interactively in XFCE I get SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/agent/*bla*, which I don't want. Gnome keyring is disabled, that gcr ssh thing…

I don't really care about memory tbh. But these funky quickshells use around up to 1.4Gb on clean startup. That's Gnome territory. No one complaining?

RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/116416513215621289
Not a foot guy, huh?

RE: #GNOME test run after a couple of months and switched to KDE.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 19.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 17./18. Atombombe "Chinchilla I" & "Codsaw". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Does KDE or GNOME have hardware requirements?
Like minimum amount of ram or CPU architecture? GPU as well, might need a minimum of something.
I mean technically they do, I wonder if they have been formalized.

🎋 So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
#software #linux

So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
Cet article est aussi disponible en français. This article contains quite a few technical terms, which I will explain these in the following paragraphs, those that are already familiar with these terms may skip to the next section. A basic understanding of linux and it’s desktop environments is assumed. Server side decorations (SSD) is the term for when when the application’s titlebar is drawn by the system and client side decorations (CSD) is the term for when the applications draws it’…

from my link log —
Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/12/17/understanding-systemd-resolved-split-dns-and-vpn-configuration/
saved 2020-1…

GNOME 50 bricht endgültig mit der Vergangenheit und schließt die Umstellung von GNOME auf eine reine Wayland-Desktopumgebung ab. Die Entwickler entfernten den verbliebenen Code des bereits mit GNOME 49 deaktivierten X11. Mit der Entfernung der X11‑Backends in Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME Control Center und der GNOME‑Session geht eine signifikante Verschlankung der Codebasis einher.
#linux

GNOME 50 »Tokyo« ganz ohne X11
Mit GNOME 50 entfernen die Entwickler den Code von X11 und sind damit erstmals Wayland only. Das führt zur Verschlankung der Codebasis und damit zu besserer…

I feel like desktop GNU/Linux nowadays (especially around #GNOME) is a lot like: "Do you recall this thing #Android does that you really hate? Good news, everyone, we just copied it to our application, and you can't switch back!"
#FreeSoftware

TIL: this is pretty nice feature of Gnome Files
#gnome #ux

Why the hell do I constantly have problems with KDE Plasma and that piece of crap Akonadi???? Constant error messages, crashes, etc. whenever I try to connect to a calendar! It doesn't matter at all whether I try the Nextcloud Calendar, iCloud Calendar, or Google Calendar. And when I remove an online calendar, everything freezes—the entire KDE desktop. I’ve had this problem for years, no matter which version of KDE I use. I never have these kinds of problems with GNOME or GNOME Calendar.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Pink Floyd:
🎵 The Gnome
#PinkFloyd
https://zyrjiim.bandcamp.com/track/the-gnome-pink-floyd
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GqRmuG89ILDLcuAdcli6r

Practically just waiting for #Gnome 50 to release to give it another shot. Stabilization of VRR and fractional scaling, plus so many improvements to the Gnome Mutter compositor make me curious.
Weirdly this is a controversial opinion, but I absolutely love the #Adwaita design language and …

mich nervt es wenn programme eine plugin schnittstelle haben aber keine möglichkeit damit alle funktionalitäten des programms zu erweitern
zb kann man wohl in gimp keine zusätzlichen tools zur toolbox hinzufügen sodass man sich immer durch menüs klicken muss
es lohnt also nicht wirklich für wiederkehrende tasks ein plugin zu entwickeln
<…

Instead of firing up the sloggy web browser to roll some dice and look up a translation I just launched Poliedros and Dialect. They totally did what I needed and nothing else. Nice.
#gnome #flatpak

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 15.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 16. Atombombe "Hardhat". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Welp, while I await surgery, I decided to dust off my XFCE ClassicLooks theme I forked like 5 years ago, tweaking it for Gnome/GTK4 as well (and Qt5 and Qt6 - probably overkill though).
Shot of the Solaris ClassicLooks theme on the Gnome Desktop.
#linux #solairs

Repository is now public. Right now this is just called Swb, or Simple Web Browser. Open to naming suggestions.
Swb is being written in Vala using WebKitGtk. I've been daily driving Gnome Web since Mozilla's new CEO decided that Mozilla should be an AI company, but I'm cheap (actually quite poor) and have a crappy laptop with a small, low-resolution screen and I hate that there's no way to reduce the size of the interface. That was the original motivation, anyway.

I've been a GNOME user primarily for... probably over a decade at this point, occasionally trying #KDEPlasma. Nothing particularly bad about GNOME but recently been having some issues with scaling and theming so decided to try Plasma 6 and I think it might stick this time!

openSUSE Release Engineering meeting 01.04.2026
> GNOME 50.0 (In progress of debugging the openQA issue: KDE 'upgrades' to GNOME)
😁
#opensuse

Easter test weekend, initial findings. 😎
:fedora: On Fedora 44 Beta GNOME Edition, the file manager crashes every time I try to access my NAS. There are also frequent freezes with apps that weren’t included by default and were installed later.
:ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also comes with GNOME 50, and unlike Fedora, it already includes kernel 7.0, which is great—especially for the latest hardware. This beta also seems to run more smoothly and stably than Fedora’s beta.
Howev…

#IT #AI #kek

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

@… I'll make this point:
― if a person likes GNOME without systemd, then the person does not really like GNOME.
Need to be realistic about the paths chosen by developers; about consensus.
When Apple took paths that I could not tolerate, I stopped using Mac OS X. And so on.
@…

Zumindest vom USB-Stick startet Ubuntu (ich sollte erstmal aufgrund des Touchscreens ein Linux mit Gnome verwenden und ich gehe erstmal keine Frickel-Risiken ein…). Nun erstmal Frühstück, später dann Installation.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 14.04.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 30. Atombombe "Platte". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

There currently are two recent #Phoronix articles that are shared widely, comparing #KDE KWin 6.6 vs #Gnome Mutter 50 in terms of game performance (one for AMD, one for Nvidia). What it lacks to me …

My desktop is KDE Plasma, but I also like to use GNOME apps.
I find funny how this weird mix of Qt GTK4 happens to be exactly like the weird mix of Win32 UWP on Windows.
#Linux #Desktop #Windows

@… I've since found if I VNC into my RasPi5 and run Remmina there, it can RDP into Gnome on Pop. The same login credentials fail in every iPad app.

I de-ubuntified Ubuntu and have it on Vanilla GNOME. It's working much better now. The 2015 MacBook pro will work great. #linux

Things I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…

Whoever runs their account does more harm than good to their brand.

I mentioned a little while back that I was considering starting a new browser project using WebKitGtk. The result, written in Vala, is nearing minimum viability. Right now it's nothing special, just a simple tabbed browser that's missing a lot of features, but the skeleton is good and you already get some goodies that Gnome Web doesn't give you:
- Ability to hide the tab bar
- Ability to hide the address bar and other controls
- When the tab bar is hidden, am overv…

:-( #gnome #fedora

Gnome is a ___ desktop environment

Yep, like this I'm getting nowhere. Another splendid rabbithole. I need to focus!
Did you know PostmarketOS has a desktop image as well? Not just for a phone, but a full-fledged DE? Neither did I. It's based on Alpine, and one image lets you choose between the likes of Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Cosmic. And that KDE is very sleek and up to date!
Gonna give that a longer go. Thanks @…

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 12.04.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 29. Atombombe "Hudson". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
mr. Gnome:
🎵 Psychonaut
#mrGnome
https://mrgnome.bandcamp.com/track/psychonaut
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qZMZ8cOZYGNCpzfIe8xtt

Just did a basic lookup. Alpine had Gnome 50 available in the community repo from the 17th of March. Howzat?! Hidden giant!
#alpinelinux

@… interop is great. Other factors are great.
The 'What’s changing?' section of Adrian Vovk's June 2025 blog post also touched upon why change was appropriate. This was eyebrow-raising:
＂… code was initially implemented for GNOME 2.24, and is starting to show its age. It has received very minimal attention in the 17 years since it was first …

Gvc:ERROR:../gvc-mixer-stream.c:535:gvc_mixer_stream_get_port: code should not be reached
David attenborough's voice: and unsurprisingly the bug appeared in its natural environment and the code was actually reached.
#gnome #bug

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 09.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 15. Atombombe "Armadillo". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Ok, something other than politics for a minute. Browsers.
I started daily driving Gnome Web around the time the new Mozilla CEO announced the AI-heavy focus for the company going forward. I'm not having any problems with WebKit as a rendering engine, but I think the interface leaves a bit to be desired for my uses. Here's my complaints.
- The interface takes up too much screen real estate on small laptop screens
- Bookmarks are currently not even working for me
…

@… I wish there was. System76 support moved me to Gnome and still can't get me connected - at least from my iPad...

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 08.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 14. Atombombe "Stillwater". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

No progress at all on this #Ubuntu #GDM login failure issue; I can now only use the machine with a PTS console login, then run gnome-session --wayland, and that gives me only basic function, no access to things like User Accounts.
journalctl only gives these two clues, neither of which yields any meaningful Search results (in 2026)
gdm-autologin][]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user
gdm-autologin][]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user guest(uid=1005) by guest(uid=0)
gdm-autologin][]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
gdm3[841002]: Gdm: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
but console login proves the user has a perfectly good password! GDM3 fails on the auto-login acct, presents the list of users, clicking one lets you enter pw, then bounces back to the acct list screen and any subsequent attempts are shown a non-functional box to enter their pw and a 'back' button that does nothing. 😩

If you had to choose between these desktop environments on #Linux, which one would you use?
#KDE #Plasma #GNOME

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 06.04.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 28. Atombombe "Passaic". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 06.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 22. Atombombe "Ermine". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 05.04.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 27. Atombombe "Dormouse Prime". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 05.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 21. Atombombe "Danny Boy". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

something I didn't need for a Sunday morning: my #Ubuntu 25.10 media machine will no longer login via gdm3 since the last upgrade, I can use a console to run gnome-shell -wayland without issue, but the gdm3 (even re-installed) just returns to the list of users and after the first attempt will no longer offer to enter passwords and hangs.
I did inadvertently leave my keyboard unlocked and two cats in the house left unattended, but it was logged into the guest account, so I doubt they did this 😅
Curiously their snap-edition "firefox -kiosk <url>" now also hangs.
I don't want to spend too much on this: as soon as no.4 son drops by to unlock the broken Win10 and fetch his stuff, I will wipe the thing to install Debian 13 anyway.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 31.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 26. Atombombe "Chinchilla II". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 28.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 25. Atombombe "Hoosic". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in

this is exceedingly strange and the only obvious symptom is gtk-keystores failing to open, and a search on those can only suggest creating fresh accounts and copying over from all previous, which is far more work than blowing away #Ubuntu and starting over with #Debian13, but this SHOULDN"T be so mysterious and require such drastic measures! All that happened was perhaps an auto-update, but gdm3 rejects the first login then accepts none further, and gnome-shell --wayland will run, but highly crippled, hotkeys disabled, and many programs will not run.
Today's tech puzzle I did not ask for 😞

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 23.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 19. Atombombe "Cimarron". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in