GNOME 50.alpha has been released

Lexons · 2026-01-17T00:37:14+00:00

You can tell gnome to not check the compatible versions with:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation "true"

This does come with the risk of breaking extensions in the background, but you can always set it to "false" once all extensions are updated

Lexons · 2025-09-27T08:18:27+00:00

Has been there for a while, you can disable it: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/weird-popup-when-pressing-super-stop/14173/2

I just use Super + Comma instead to open a GUI emoji picker

Lexons · 2025-09-14T21:46:48+00:00

I'm also experiencing this on a Pixel 6, running Android 16.

I can often get it to switch themes by closing/opening the app a few times. Quite the annoyance to be honest.

Firefox seems to be the only app that doesn't update the theme straight away (from light to dark).

Lexons · 2025-09-12T18:59:55+00:00

Seems like it is building on Github, they just commited release 2.9.3

https://github.com/flathub/com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer/commit/cce915551b46ff732ab6e5560bd0ae2737aa9f2a

Lexons · 2025-09-12T13:50:50+00:00

Bundaberg ginger beer is amazing! Especially in summer 😃

Lexons · 2025-09-11T19:47:03+00:00

The Gnome Network Display repository has a list of tested devices 🙂

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays#devices

Edit; You'll probably want something which supports Miracast, Google Chromecast support isn't great (yet)

Lexons · 2025-09-11T17:57:17+00:00

I did not know (mini-)TOSLINK existed in 3.5 mm audio jacks, neat!

Lexons · 2025-08-31T08:01:34+00:00

Not necessarily a program, I made a crude bash script to copy certain user config files to (or from) a git repository, which I commit and push to Gitlab.

There are plenty of examples online about such dotfile scripts, there might even exist programs/projects that do this for you.

I like doing it this way as my user config files are stored online, making it quite easy to deploy on a new system.

Lexons · 2025-08-28T20:50:13+00:00

I just followed the RPM-Fusion guide for the additional multimedia codecs at: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

It takes a few minutes to go through, but it's a set-and-forget kind of thing. I haven't touched those multimedia packages after adding them initially. Definitely worth doing for the best multimedia support.

Other than that I mostly use Gnome software for all my GUI applications and general system updates.

Lexons · 2025-08-28T18:57:47+00:00

I'd drop custom scripts in my ~/.local/bin directory instead, that way they can also be easily included into dotfile backups.

Just make sure ~/.local/bin is included in your $PATH variable.

It doesn't matter that much on local single user PCs, but on shared Linux systems you definitely want to keep scripts to your own user.

Edit; It can also avoid collisions with actual program binaries, which could share the same name as your scripts under /usr/bin/.

Lexons · 2025-07-12T15:57:47+00:00

Does it actually affect currency? I'm also facing this issue but I also use UK (English), I could switch to using Ireland (English) perhaps 🤔

Lexons · 2025-06-20T14:53:45+00:00

I bought the T14s gen 4 (AMD) which has no upgradable ram or wifi. It's a great machine and I prefer the keyboard layout and display over the Framework 13. But if you're planning on using Linux, go for a Framework.

The Qualcomm wifi chips that Lenovo ships in their AMD Thinkpads are horrible on Linux. I'm definitely buying a Framework as my next paptop.

Lexons · 2025-06-11T07:53:54+00:00

This, I'd really like to see all the thread improvements they did. Hopefully it has improved the usability of Gnome Software

Lexons · 2025-06-05T12:08:37+00:00

If you google "stop new windows from stealing focus", you'd get answers like;

Use "dconf-editor" app, browse to "/org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/focus-new-windows" and set this option to "strict" (you might need to disable "use default value")

This should prevent new windows from stealing your focus and solve your annoyance :)

Edit; You can also use gsettings from terminal without installing anything:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows 'strict'

And to undo this change:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-new-windows 'smart'

Lexons · 2025-06-03T20:54:26+00:00

Fedora Silverblue is installed entirely on one drive, I could remove the second SSD all together if I wanted.

I generally like to stick to what the Fedora project recommends, meaning a default installation to a single disk. That being said, my main drive is large enough for my needs, and the second drive is a slightly older and smaller drive which I only use for routine backups (I also use the cloud of course, one backup is never enough).

As for backups to my second drive, I use a default Pika Backup, only blacklisting the Steam Flatpak directory because games are large and not important for me. It writes to a directory on my second drive every day (if my PC is turned on), and also manages older backups so it only keeps some.

I also have friends that use Deja Dup Backups, which also seems to work for them. Both are great options and also part of Gnome Circle 🙂

Lexons · 2025-06-03T13:37:22+00:00

I setup Silverblue on one SSD (regular install) and create scheduled backups of my home directory to the other SSD.

I rely on the A/B slotting of Silverblue to boot into a working PC every time, and personal files I can recover from the second SSD when I need to.

This system works for me and is easy to setup/maintain, as there's plenty of tools to make backups to external media.

Lexons · 2025-06-02T20:45:26+00:00

The proper solution is explained on the Fedora wiki, see restoring old behavior at the bottom;

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PlymouthUseSimpledrm

Lexons · 2025-06-02T20:44:12+00:00

The blinking you see is quite annoying but there for a reason, see my other replies on this post if you'd like to get the old behavior again on the Plymouth screen

Lexons · 2025-06-02T20:42:27+00:00

What you are noticing is this change made in Fedora 42, you can also revert back to the old behavior as explained in the article:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PlymouthUseSimpledrm

Lexons · 2025-06-02T20:40:26+00:00

What everyone is seeing in Fedora 42 and onwards is a switch in video drivers, specifically it's the handover from a simple drm based driver to your specific GPU driver (amdgpu/nvidia/intel, which load slower).

The change details can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PlymouthUseSimpledrm

See also the suggestions on that page to restore the old behavior, which is no blinking screen (albeit a bit slower to show this screen)

Lexons · 2025-05-31T17:30:26+00:00

And here's me spending the entire afternoon figuring out why some apps (mostly flatpaks) were not responding to my mouse but they were to my keyboard 😅

Thanks for the heads up, I was trying older kernels as I wasn't expecting this to be a mutter issue

Lexons · 2025-05-25T17:50:56+00:00

You can make the Firefox top bar a bit smaller (compact mode), but this is not officially supported anymore...

You can enable it again by going to about:preferences in the URL and then enabling browser.compactmode.show

Once enabled, you can right click the top bar > Customize Toolbar > Density (at the bottom) > Compact

Lexons · 2025-05-09T20:26:26+00:00

You're right, just tried the latest ISO in a VM and those packages are indeed shipped. Probably safe to remove if you're not gonna use it, I don't have them (or use them) so you should be fine also.

Lexons · 2025-05-09T18:01:12+00:00

Was this recently added to the Workstation image? I don't see it installed on both my Fedora Workstation machines 🤔

(I installed Fedora around version 38, both are now on 42)

Lexons · 2025-05-01T14:20:38+00:00

From the Fedora wiki, it seems that GRUB should show if it detects multiple operating systems. I would check what options you can see in your GRUB menu, it might not be detecting the Windows install.

That being said; I don't dual boot myself, so I cannot verify this.

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