Budgie 10.5.2 Released

JoshStrobl

Solarmass no, its not about theme, the cursor shouldn't change.

I have it change so it's more obvious that it is clickable. The default icon theme is Papirus so that is what it's tested against, where the hand doesn't look like it is "grabbing" but rather pointing. No different to how links on a page typically change to a pointer cursor.

Solarmass

JoshStrobl I guess my cursor theme increases the effect 🤔

NickJ2911

@JoshStrobl I recently did a software update last week and again today and ever since I have lost my desktop icon view. Is there a way to get it back? I have the Desktop Icons toggled in the Budgie Desktop Settings but no luck/response. I am new to Linux/Solus and have loved it for the past year. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

JoshStrobl

NickJ2911 I recently did a software update last week and again today and ever since I have lost my desktop icon view. Is there a way to get it back?

It changed from using Nautilus to Budgie Desktop View so you need to re-enable it by flipping the switch again.

NickJ2911

JoshStrobl I flipped multiple times and restarted with it switched on and off. Still no change or response.

nurunet

JoshStrobl

I have installed Solus on my wife's old notebook, giving it a new lease of life. I was a bit worried as she only ever used Windows before but she really likes Solus.

She told me about the disappeared desktop icons today, which were an easy fix. What we did not manage to fix was the right-click behavior on the desktop. In empty parts of the desktop, the context menu only offers budgie and screen settings (IIRC). This means my wife cannot e.g. create a new folder directly from the desktop.

When clicking right on a file icon, the context menu only seems to offer "Open" and "Open in Terminal". Most of the context menu items available in the file manager are not offered.

Is this related to the switch to Budgie Desktop View? Are there plans to re-populate the context menus or workarounds?

JoshStrobl

NickJ2911 Still no change or response.

I would turn it on then check via ps -aux | grep 'budgie-desktop-view' to see if the process is running. Additionally check that you have budgie-desktop-view installed (you should, it's a rundep).

If the us.getsol.budgie-desktop-view binary isn't running for some reason, I'd double check to see if you have broken packages, we have a command at the top of our General Troubleshooting Help Center article for that, and run it from the Terminal to see if you happen to have any items that may not be playing nice with the implementation. I know there is an issue currently filed regarding it.

NickJ2911

JoshStrobl budgie-desktop-view 1.0 is installed. when I ran ps -aux | grep 'budgie-desktop-view' this is what I got back: 2344 0.0 0.0 216576 2280 pts/0 S+ 18:41 0:00 grep budgie-desktop-view

Is this the right command to run to see if I have broken packages?
sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall

Also what can I do to fix the broken packages? I'm new to linux and not very savvy with all this. If there is an issue filed regarding this will I just have to wait for a new update? Thanks!

Saijin_Naib

JoshStrobl less fine motor controls wanted to easily (and gradually) change their volume.

They are very nice for that, indeed.

solus_me

Is it possible to revert back to the previous program that controls the desktop icons' behaviour?

JoshStrobl

solus_me No. That was the previous version of Nautilus, as explained in both our roundup blog post and this Budgie one. Budgie Desktop View is the way forward.

EbonJaeger

JoshStrobl That was the previous version of Nautilus, as explained in both our roundup blog post and this Budgie one. Budgie Desktop View is the way forward.

Since they, you know, removed the feature from Nautilus ages ago. Holding back Nautilus indefinitely just isn't feasible.

solus_me

JoshStrobl Yes, of course.
I love the Solus project, and I'm not migrating to any other distro for nothing in the world.
Thank You for everything that you do.

I just hate to look all the icons at the left side of the screen, without a possibility to rearrange them in their own places. Like hysterics, i'm scratching the desktop. hahaha - lol

I suppose, I'll have to hide the icons for now. 😄

JoshStrobl

solus_me I suppose, I'll have to hide the icons for now.

Or you could get used to it? I know change can be hard sometimes 😉

brent

solus_me I personally, ummm, strongly dislike, having that personal control of the destkop disappeared from me. But you can make some moves in the Nautilus desktop folder in the interim. What is the interim you ask? They are bringing drag and drop back...in 1.1...no ETA of course...I wish I had a time machine🙂👽

Solarmass

Should the left click on the desktop closes the Raven? 🤔

JoshStrobl

Solarmass It only did that when Desktop Icons was disabled previously, so that's not something I thought of. But that's a good point actually and would be fairly trivial to implement since we can call it asynchronously over DBus. Mind filing a feature request at https://github.com/getsolus/budgie-desktop-view please? 👍️

Solarmass

JoshStrobl sure

JoshStrobl

NickJ2911 when I ran ps -aux | grep 'budgie-desktop-view' this is what I got back: 2344 0.0 0.0 216576 2280 pts/0 S+ 18:41 0:00 grep budgie-desktop-view

Sounds like Budgie Desktop View isn't running, so sounds like it probably segfaulted during startup since it should be starting with your system automatically (we pre-install it as an autostarting application). Run us.getsol.budgie-desktop-view in Terminal and see what happens maybe? If it segfaults, would be nice to follow up with you on GitHub (I linked the issue tracker in my previous response to you) to determine the root cause. If it doesn't segfault and you see icons, then for whatever reason it isn't being added to your autostarting applications like it should.

NickJ2911

JoshStrobl I just ran: us.getsol.budgie-desktop-view
And I got back: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Would running: sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
fix the issue?

JoshStrobl

NickJ2911 No, that isn't something that can be fixed through a reinstall. The issue was already reported, I linked it to you earlier, I'd appreciate if you could comment on the issue I linked with some details (you can redact any personal info) on what files you have in ~/Desktop

Thanks!

NickJ2911

JoshStrobl I set up a new issue on github under that link. Sorry about that. New to all this. How do I get you the info you need in ~/Desktop. Do I run something terminal?

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