Screenlock & keyboard layout
Hello,
So, is there any chance keyboard-layout switcher will be added to the Budgie's lock-screen?
workaround
open an tty (Ctrl+Alt+F2) and kill the budgie-screensaver process
valst I tried Ultramarine, but I like Solus better and it does a great job for me.
Agree. Solus is on 7 computers here. I like to expllore other distros by installing them on virttual machines, and I've done that with Ultramarine. Its UI is Budgie, which was developed by the Solus team, so it's very familiar and easy to work with.
WetGeek Hate to burst the Ultramarine bubble, but the lead maintainer recently stepped down and they seem to be in the process of shutting down. Really sad since I was a Korora Project (Fedora + sane defaults) user for years before I found Solus. Ultramarine seemed like a spiritual successor but they have gone the same way .
Source: link
I am currently trying out The Nobara Project on my gaming drive and it works pretty good so far. Much closer to vanilla Fedora aesthetically but the changes under the hood and preinstalled software are nice. It's also done by Glorious Eggroll, who works for Redhat and has done a ton of work on wine/proton. Still waiting for the Buddies of Budgie to get Budgie into the Fedora repo though...
hdansin Hate to burst the Ultramarine bubble, but the lead maintainer recently stepped down and they seem to be in the process of shutting down.
You seem to know more about the state of Ultramarine than I do, but for something being shut down, it seems to be fighting back. Maybe others are stepping in to help?
I just fired up my Ultramarine VM and did an update - 59 packages upgraded this week. Perhaps there's some reason to hope that it will be around for a while longer?
WetGeek I am just going from what the maintainer said in the link I posted. In the Discord, he said that 22.04/36 would be the last release. With that said it shouldn't be too much of a step for it's users to just keep using Fedora, one possibility he mentioned was having it continue as a repository. I do hope the project continues in some fashion as it looks really great, and I daily drove Korora all through undergrad so I have a bit of sentiment for it.
The #dev channel in the discord does seem active, so hopefully that means other maintainers are stepping up.
hdansin The #dev channel in the discord does seem active, so hopefully that means other maintainers are stepping up.
I hope so, as well. I took the next step today. I wanted to try Ultramarine on hardware, so I installed it on a spare laptop. It's nearly configured for daily use already. Still have Solus on the other computers here, but I wanted to try Ultramarine outside of a virtual machine.
I came to the following decision: I installed Solus Budgie in English without specifying another language. After installation, I added a second keyboard language (Bulgarian) and changed the system language. Then I restarted, of course, and after logging in I changed the keyboard language to Bulgarian and locked it. And I was very happy to see an opportunity to change the language, I changed it to English and entered. Well that's it.