@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-27 12:18:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-27 12:18:00
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-11-28 00:08:26
Protip: if you decide to fuck around with COSMIC on openSUSE, it will swap out kwallet for gnome-keychain, and you'll thereafter get moaning on Plasma session start about your login keyring not being unlocked. Nuke COSMIC gnome-keychain and reinstall the kwallet PAM stack to get things back to normal.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-27 19:15:51
@… @…
SDDM, GNOME, X.Org.
Initially: a black screen on the display to the left.
For the screen to appear on the primary display: it was necessary to use settings on the secondary display, to temporarily make the sec…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-27 21:58:15
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
mr. Gnome:
🎵 Psychonaut
#mrGnome
https://mrgnome.bandcamp.com/track/psychonaut
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qZMZ8cOZYGNCpzfIe8xtt
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-11-27 00:41:02
I'd be great if KDE changes to a twice a year update schedule, more like Gnome.
My N150 is churning away for over 2 hours each and every time there's a version bump 😆
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-12-19 13:32:04
'xmllint' is a general XML utility; I mostly use it for pretty-printing huge machine generated, single line XML files into an indented hierarchy that's almost readable so I can figure out what's wrong with them.
It can also do schema validation etc.
It's part of Gnome's libxml2.
https://
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-14 07:57:51
I just donated to the GNOME foundation as a thanks for giving me a nice desktop. I usually give once a year to show appreciation for their work and to contribute to the continuing work on the DE. I think KDE did the right thing asking for donations, so if you are on GNOME and have the means - make a donation
https://donate.gnome.org/
@eichkat3r@hessen.social2026-01-22 09:38:44
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
<…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-12-17 06:05:24
»Open Source — Linux-Desktop GNOME verbietet mit KI entwickelte Erweiterungen:
Immer mehr Vibe gecodete Extensions erhöhen die Last für die Projektverantwortlichen durch schlechte Codequalität«
Wenn das die Vertraulichkeit so wie deren tech Sicherheit von @… vertraulich verstärkt? Ich pers bin kein GNOME Fan aber das ist somit ein Zeichen von der Vertraulichk…
@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-12-09 12:20:44
"This project is unmaintained and has known security issues. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data“,
says the README of libxml2, a library that many other Open Source projects depend on.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-11-03 11:57:27
@cdamian@rls.social2025-12-25 09:20:00
@…
The difference with Linux is that you can choose between hundreds of desktop environments to hate.
I'm kidding. I'm back on Gnome after a long time on Cinnamon.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-05 16:35:00
X11 in Gnome ist Geschichte - Backend entfernt
Angedeutet hatte es sich schon, nun haben die Entwickler durchgezogen: Sie haben den X11-Backend-Code aus Gnome entfernt.
https://www.heise.de/news/X…
@vyskocilm@witter.cz2026-01-21 19:45:36
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-08 15:06:45
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-01 18:11:21
Content warning: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
so
very
frustrating
#Gnome #Evolution how is this even possible? Fresh #Debian13 install, launched, added my google workspace, read and answered email, browsed calendar, really nice, but the VERY NEXT MORNING suddenly tossed into OAuth2-is-missing, step through the 'wizard' and it always ends with the same heartache, are you trying sign in? and then…
Mail authentication (shown) gives a URL to a page, Make sure you trust Gnome (4 perms already granted, Google console agrees) but in Firefox that URL asks to confirm and then reverts to google.com. In the minibrowser, it gets to "Requesting access token, please wait"
And wait you do.
How is this even POSSIBLE? What could cause it to (a) drop an OAuth2 overnight that had been in use for a day and (b) subsequently give a URL that does not result in an access token. I removed permissions on the Google side, but same results. Reinstalled Evolution, no change
yes, I checked gitlab.gnome.org
@usul@piaille.fr2026-01-23 13:57:57
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de2025-11-08 22:00:19
Ok, Gnome removed the X11 backend and only supports Wayland. I'd be fine with that when they finally had separated the window manager from the full session. It's just annoying¹ to get logged out because the window manager crashes again – and that happens way to often!
__
¹to use a mild term
#gnome
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-01-09 23:51:54
Troubling signs that the Linux demographic at the Register is now made up of people yelling at the clouds.
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/115867723149851024
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-11-06 21:23:01
Reading along to https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/ and this quote really resonated:
“Is it any surprise that such a person later would find the most minuscule kind of opposition as an all-out attack on his self-…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-11-06 08:20:05
"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun."
(Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/…
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2025-12-22 14:31:12
Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 22.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 10. Atombombe "Feather". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 12:50:33
I use middle-click-to-paste in #Gnome a lot.
I nevertheless think it's wise that developers want to turn it off by default.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-25 18:24:22
@chrysn@chaos.social2026-01-01 20:49:31
Starting the year with a drive-by contribution to the hamster time tracker.
I find that noteworthy because I'm going back to the time tracker I enjoyed using until 2018, when due to the project announcing EoL (IIRC) I switched to charmtimetracker.
Now that too is EoL since 2023, but hamster development did continue after 2018, so hey, could have saved myself a lot of annoyance by sticking with the software I like and patching it up where needed.
@vyskocilm@witter.cz2025-11-23 10:22:24
I recently debugged sound staying mute. Yet the speakers, bluetooth, pipewire, gnome all claimed everything is fine and connected.
That day I learned you can mute a tab group in a Sideberry.
via @…
https…
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2025-12-28 16:02:52
Content warning: tech, linux
It seems like GNOME Shell on Wayland doesn't like it if a GPU gets removed during runtime. At least on Bazzite, it threw me back into Gaming Mode and I had to switch to the desktop again, losing all my open windows.
Well, I expected worse, so I had saved my work before. 😄
But that does set some limits on what I can do using some scripts I found on GitHub. In case a Mutter or GNOME dev reads this here: Are there any plans to gracefully switch between GPUs during runtime?
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-01 19:15:30
Content warning: re: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
Found an obscure hint that perhaps instead of authenticating through #Evolution I should instead authenticate through the #Gnome settings for attached accounts, so I tried that approach, this time it asks for far more permissions (8 in all) but, you guessed it, a classic Sam Beckett "No Answer" and the terse response, "timed out".
So the app doesn't matter. The browser doesn't matter. The account or any legacy cruft doesn't matter.
Does this leave as the only explanation that perhaps Google no longer provides OAuth2 tokens? Surely that would be all over the news if true, but I'm running out of local culprits. Also Emacs inability to authenticate Mastodon suggests its neither google nor Debian per se? Maybe I should spend my time more productively slamming a car door on my fingers?
I have a dread feeling wiping the laptop and carefully reinstalling from scratch will not work.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-14 17:45:21
RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115719147481715249
Good decision by the GNOME project
Edit: It's not fully true. You can use AI but you will get your extension rejected if it does the usual AI generated code shenanigans.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-11-28 15:42:01
from my link log —
Debian running on Rust coreutils.
https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils
saved 2021-03-09
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-06 07:58:44
Is it important to know that FreeBSD 15 does not include GNOME Web?
Yes and no.
Epiphany doesn't work with YouTube.
Oops!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnLRVb8xdT0>
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE is release engineered. The ports collection, which includes GNOME We…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 23:31:59
Obvious inflammatory rhetoric.
Also, "because X11 did it that way" is the single stupidest reason possible for deleting a feature that has been standard on *nix platforms since the 1980s.
@unixviking@social.linux.pizza2025-11-07 05:49:42
In my search for the perfect Linux desktop distribution, I came across Zorin OS 18 about three weeks ago, after the entire Linux YouTube community responded with rave reviews to the latest release.
And while I was only moderately enthusiastic about earlier versions, if not at all, in the case of version 18, I have to join the applauding crowd!
Firstly, everything works out of the box, and secondly, the graphical implementation of the GNOME desktop is a perfect blend of the old Wi…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-14 11:03:26
📌 Pinned Post
I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza2025-11-30 06:18:23
Trying to daily drive Epiphany (Gnome Web) as my browser for a while. It's handling all of the sites that I need it to, including everything school-related, but for whatever reason I can't create or edit any bookmarks.
I'm trying to resist the temptation to start something WebkitGTK based. Epiphany's interface is, well, ok. But I'd really love something more flexible. In particular, I'm missing the vertical tabs from recent Firefox releases - it's a real sp…
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2026-01-07 18:13:44
Content warning: tech, GNOME Shell
Nobody asked for my opinion but here it is: I used middle-click when I was still using Windows to scroll in browsers. When I switched to Ubuntu I was surprised to learn that middle-click did something completely different but totally useful nonetheless. For almost twenty years I now use middle-click pasting across several Linux distributions. I love having kind of a second clipboard.
That being said, I completely agree that this behaviour is unexpected for new or inexperienced users, a…
@luana@wetdry.world2026-01-08 18:50:43
Content warning: yet another gnome design rant
Tuba is one of the few gtk/gnome design app that manages to make a mostly good desktop app, having a sidebar and stuff, but then you'll see them doing stuff like you need to click on the pfp in order to see a profile preview instead of just hover, and in order to actually open the profile you need to click the preview's pfp???? Who tf thought this was a good idea??? And not adding cross-account actions bc the dumb gnome awful design guidelines say "right click bad"???????
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-12-13 07:57:59
The hidden gem. Another one.
Did you know Alpine Linux has a vibrant community, delivering the latest desktop environments?
KDE Plasma 6.5.4, of course. But also Gnome 49.2.2? And, since y'day afternoon already, Cosmic 1.0?
That's the one I'm gonna go for.
Unexpected, but really amazing. Don't tell too many people 😂
#alpine
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-09 00:43:59
RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@garrett/115862350560186190
Exactly.
I use "focus follows mouse pointer" with Gnome which is kind of an uncommon setup but it's not "removed" but just requires tweaking one setting. Middle Click Paste co…
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2025-12-13 07:52:16
Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 13.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 8. Atombombe "Mad". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-11-30 17:23:05
and it was going so well too: spent yesterday enjoying a not-gmail #Evolution access to my workspace, but now, as of this morning, with no changes other than sleep, Evolution is locked out:
“Failed to authenticate: Cannot create an item in a locked collection”.
ok #Debian13 #gnome wtf is a "locked collection" and by who's authority was it created with a lock on my own machine?
More to the point: will my Evolution email always be this fragile? ie is it pointless to even try?
More to the gripe: do software developers EVER post messages using terms that are actually DEFINED somewhere?
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-31 08:26:17
@… I carelessly think of MATE as maintained, in the sense that it looks better than GNOME 🙂
I am horribly prejudiced. I cringe at the possibility of people wrongly assuming that I use GNOME when the truth is, Ubuntu was nothing more than my passport to KDE Plasma – Kubuntu.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-11-13 05:24:10
A new puzzle: normally in #XOrg I can blank the screen with "xset dpms force off" and with KDE/Plasma I could bind this to a hot key, but in Gnome #Ubuntu 25.10 using #XFCE4 it will work from inside a terminal, but as a hotkey it blanks, pauses, then refreshes the screens. Why would this be? Or perhaps, is there a prefered method to instantly blank all screens in XFCE-4? Not to lock, just to turn them off.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-04 19:02:52
I literally booted Debian for the first time in weeks, to only have two updates waiting, Brave and Signal Desktop.
#DebianTrixie #Debian13 #Debian
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-11 20:45:23
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Ronnie Hilton:
🎵 The Laughing Gnome
#RonnieHilton
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2025-12-10 06:18:16
Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 10.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation #Nougat die 7. #Atombombe "Gnome" in New Mexico. Ziel war die Erforschung der Nutzung nuklearer Explosionen für Energi…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-04 16:53:05
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2025-11-04 19:03:16
@… I use Tabliss in firefox, the tabs dont take more space than the menu in gnome. It's acctually nice and that works for me. The small icon on each tab makes switching with keys much easier when I can see that I want tab 5 for example
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2025-11-30 09:50:57
Ich gebe AI ja immer mal wieder eine Chance. Vor zwei, drei Jahren experimentierte ich mit verschiedenen Bildgeneratoren und fand sie höchst enttäuschend. Um denen meine Vorstellungen zu entlocken, müsste ich so viel Aufwand betreiben, dass ich besser selbst zeichnen und malen lerne. Einfacher ist es, eine*n Künstler*in zu bezahlen, wo mir der Stil gefällt.
Vor ein paar Monaten habe ich es mit Coding probiert. Ich wollte eine GNOME Shell Extension schreiben. Die Ansätze der AI … griffe…
@luana@wetdry.world2026-01-08 18:15:40
Content warning: yet another gnome design rant
Gnome was a fucking disaster for design
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-01 18:41:46
Content warning: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
Created a fresh account, logged in, immediately launched #Evolution and entered the Google account, and I get the exact same behaviour?!
Is it possible Google changed the rules midnight Nov 29th? Or is the #FUBAR thing deep deep in the bowels of #debian13?
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-02 06:23:00
Content warning: re: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
I have a theory: in my travels through various docs on various components I came across a strategy some apps use where they salt the encryption with the hash your current password. If any of these apps did that, moving .local files to the new machine would fail unlocking things because the passwords are different.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-11-01 11:57:53
@… weird, I had no trouble with GNOME Disks.
What exactly were the symptoms, following the write to the stick?
What's the filename?
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social2025-12-03 11:32:32
Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 03.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 6. Atombombe "Fisher". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada
@Davey@social.linux.pizza2026-01-03 17:48:32
LFS101
A kind soul on mindly.social pointed me to the Linux Foundation's free Intro to Linux course. I'm slogging through it, learning bits. I'm in the fifth module, and have just learned a bit that I can use I loaded gnome-tweaks, and it may have allowed me to ease a nuisance. I'm patient enough to work my way through this intro, and hopeful.
One nice feature for me is that the presenters are more fluent in English than some of the W3 creators whose modules I'…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-02 04:35:18
Content warning: re: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
and so, once again, the 'solution' isn't in the distro or legacy, it is in the wiki on the internals of Evolution where I just incidentally learn it can be a flatpak or not, and thus there are TWO .local/share folders to wipe. So I delete all accts in Evo, empty trash just in case, exit, wipe those folders, go into Settings, delete the Google connection which shows as two identical so delete them both, reboot.
On boot, go straight to settings which shows none, add Google and I'm in, quick as a wink. I start #Evolution, and lo, there it is, my account fetching emails!
Now to figure that #mastodonel thing and why mastodon.plstore is so problematic.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-01 20:36:28
Content warning: re: intense Gnome frustrations no one should be forced to read
it just keeps getting better and better:
helm-M-x-execute-command: Error: Too many requests
and yet EWW opens mstdn.ca without issue.
I have another theory: I actually passed away, likely a heart attack, overnight on the 28th and now exist in my own personal hell. If I step outside to find I now live next to a golf course and country club, I'll know for sure.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-30 16:30:04
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-10-31 00:11:23
They say a change is as good as being arrested, or something like that, and being reckless (and retired) I upgraded my vintage laptop to #Ubuntu 25.10 because why not, it was already broken from a few upgrades ago, and it was already clear #plasma on #x11 with my Radeon 570 was, well, not fun.
So down the list I go. Those of you on Mac or that other O/S ("little&soft"?) won't understand, but I went through each of the various desktops, just to see, not expecting a lot given my hardware.
Well, Ubuntu on Wayland works now, but, egad, it is ugly. Gnome and its Classic look, well, almost the same. One of the others is just a blank screen, but remember, my machine was already broken.
I ended up in #xfce which I hadn't used in, omg, never mind, only I'm thinking, hey old man, learn some new tricks! Need to add panel and some widgets and…
why is my panel's outline slowly blinking red? (left it in Add mode and buried the dialog box)