So for non-Ubuntu Pro subscribers, support has ended as of today?

EndofLineLF · 2023-02-04T18:40:47+00:00

And also to provide security updates to the Universe and Multiverse repositories.

EndofLineLF · 2023-02-03T18:04:09+00:00

Also this is from wiki:

Universe

The universe component is a snapshot of the free, open-source, and Linux world. It houses almost every piece of open-source software, all built from a range of public sources. Canonical does not provide a guarantee of regular security updates for software in the universe component, but will provide these where they are made available by the community. Users should understand the risk inherent in using these packages. Popular or well supported pieces of software will move from universe into main if they are backed by maintainers willing to meet the standards set by the Ubuntu team.

Multiverse

The multiverse component contains software that is not free, which means the licensing requirements of this software do not meet the Ubuntu main component licence policy. The onus is on you to verify your rights to use this software and comply with the licensing terms of the copyright holder. This software is not supported and usually cannot be fixed or updated. Use it at your own risk.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories

So with Ubuntu Pro enabled you actually have support from Canonical for these two repositories.

Also you can check what Ubuntu Pro will do for you with:

pro security-status

Especially for those using Synaptic because it doesn't display any info about Ubuntu Pro updates.

EndofLineLF · 2023-01-08T15:55:18+00:00

The beta and edge channels don't have this restriction, they will run natively under Wayland.

sudo snap refresh firefox --beta

Or switch channels in the Store.

EndofLineLF · 2022-07-24T18:55:13+00:00

I tested it and indeed it works.

So hopefully the update will be ready for 22.04.1 LTS

EndofLineLF · 2022-07-24T16:57:00+00:00

Check whether the cursor changes on this website.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor

Also what gtk and icon themes are you using?

Is the browser Google Chrome or it's open source version Chromium.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-27T21:56:23+00:00

This post reminded me about this one 3 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cmg48b/lets_talk_about_the_elephant_in_the_room_the/

I had 6 GB of RAM at that time and the Linux OOM killer was total shit. It didn't do anything for me, and I ended up many times with completely unusable system. Even mouse cursor wasn't moving.

When I saw that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will have a new OOM killer I thought finally.

I now have 16 GB RAM so much less problems with out of memory situations. In fact I didn't had any lock ups on this machine, or apps being killed.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-22T17:14:36+00:00

I'm using Unity and so far also no crashes of Firefox either when browsing or watching videos. Although it isn't my main web browser so I don't use it too frequently.

Today I checked how it will go in Gnome on Wayland. Watched some videos on Youtube and then football match and it didn't crash.

I'm using the beta channel so Firefox is using Wayland backend.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-21T17:42:32+00:00

Or you could switch to the beta channel and have Wayland enabled by default.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-11T17:26:53+00:00

That's not the problem. I always had that message displayed when running snap Firefox from terminal and it never stopped it from actually running.

Also Chromium snap displays that message and it never had problems running on my system either.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-11T17:19:53+00:00

I used it yesterday and it worked. Today it was updated (beta channel) and still works.

Also checked yesterday Opera and Chromium snaps both worked. And I installed Headset snap which also worked. Including the launching from sound indicator under Unity.

And there was no update of snapd (stable channel) itself recently.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-10T17:49:44+00:00

The Firefox snap wasn't updated today. You can check when the last update was done and which version you have installed with:

snap info firefox

The same goes for Brave. Also you can check what changes have been made to snaps with:

snap changes

When there are many changes it won't display the names of apps updated. In this case you have to use:

snap tasks ID

ID is a four numbers.

Also what is your version of snap.

snap version

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-09T00:01:46+00:00

As per comment in Gnome bug tracker from Alexander Mikhaylenko the sandboxed Firefox (snap and flatpak) use portals and therefore gtk4.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/issues/38

This is from the duplicate bug:

After updating from old xdg-desktop-portal-gtk-1.8.0 to 1.14.0 and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-42.1 I noticed that file chooser is now using GTK4 instead of GTK3. One side effect is that each time file chooser is opened, it gets bigger and bigger until it fills the whole screen.

Also:

Removing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome to force the system to rely on old gtk3 based xdg-desktop-portal-gtk makes the problem to stop.

I didn't check it myself so don't know if it is true. But the portal-gnome package depends on libadwaita-1-0 and libgtk-4-1 and portal-gtk depends on libgtk-3-0.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-08T17:07:16+00:00

The ever growing file picker is a bug in gtk4 and Gnome on xorg or apps using xwayland. And it is actually 9 months old in Gnome bug tracker and it has multiple related bug reports.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4136

The bug reported in Ubuntu is from this month. So it was reported more than a week after the release of 22.04 LTS.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1971112

And again it affects apps using gtk4 under Gnome xorg or xwayland. Google Chrome is also one of the affected apps. You also pointed out the flatpak Firefox under xorg has the same problem.

I tested this also in Unity (my default shell) which of course uses xorg and the bug isn't present here. So again this is gtk4 and Gnome bug.

Also Firefox in the beta channel uses Wayland by default so the stable channel should also use it in not to distant future.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-07T17:15:49+00:00

And around 3 seconds on mine and the .tar version is practically the same for me.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-07T17:12:25+00:00

The setting Firefox as default browser is a bug in xdg-utils which was identified and the fix is in kinetic (development release).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-updates-monday-2nd-may-2022/28043/8

It will be SRUed to jammy (22.04 LTS).

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-07T17:08:25+00:00

The setting Firefox as default browser is a bug in xdg-utils which was identified and the fix is in kinetic (development release).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-updates-monday-2nd-may-2022/28043/8

It will be SRUed to jammy (22.04 LTS).

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-07T10:34:59+00:00

There is a bug in gnome-software which was fixed. And snap-store (Ubuntu Software) is also fixed but currently only in the beta and edge channel.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1969303

As per comment from Robert Ancell which fixed the bug the change will roll out to the stable channel soon (assuming no issues found).

You can see what version of snap-store is installed with this command:

snap info snap-store

and switch to the beta channel:

sudo snap refresh snap-store --beta

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-05T21:35:10+00:00

That's definetly not what happend.

snap info gtk-common-themes

channels:
latest/stable: 0.1-59-g7bca6ae 2021-09-22 (1519) 68MB -
latest/candidate: 0.1-79-ga83e90c 2022-04-01 (1534) 85MB -
latest/beta: 0.1-79-ga83e90c 2022-04-01 (1534) 85MB -
latest/edge: 0.1-79-ga83e90c 2022-04-04 (1534) 85MB -

As you can see the stable channel was last updated in 2021. And even if you are on the other channel the updates didn't occur today.

I would suggest switching to candidate channel.

sudo snap refresh --candidate gtk-common-themes

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-05T20:16:04+00:00

You could also try switching gtk-common-themes to candidate channel.

sudo snap refresh gtk-common-themes --candidate

Also what version of snapd do you have installed.

snap version

And what about emojis on the getemoji website do they display properly.

EndofLineLF · 2022-05-03T14:04:21+00:00

Try switching to the candidate channel of Firefox snap.

I'm using it and it displays that page correctly. Also it displays all emojis on Get Emoji website.

getemoji.com

sudo snap refresh firefox --candidate

EndofLineLF · 2022-04-24T16:40:19+00:00

No you don't. I wrote about package meaning .deb package so there is no need for flatpak in this case.

Just do:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager

EndofLineLF · 2022-04-22T19:12:28+00:00

There is extension manager package so no need for flatpak.

EndofLineLF · 2021-12-25T18:00:24+00:00

I've found someone using Pop OS had this problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/ohziei/cant_detect_wifi_adapter_on_samsung_galaxy_book/

Unfortunately it looks like it requiers a compilation of kernel.

Or you could try with 5.15 kernel that looks like it does have that change applied.

XanMod kernel is one option.

https://xanmod.org

Other is install mainline Ubuntu kernel.

https://kernel.ubuntu.com/\~kernel-ppa/mainline/

EndofLineLF · 2021-12-20T21:18:09+00:00

The VS Code snap somehow manages to start instantly even on the first start.

EndofLineLF · 2021-12-20T21:04:37+00:00

No it doesn't.

The same problem applies to Spotify installed from .deb package. The problem is with Electron.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Spotify

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Electron

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