Sync Updates for Week 30, 2023

EbonJaeger got the new ibus and psutils just now. I am rebooting. drum roll please

brent ️

Alright, just did another sync to include reverting ibus to the previous version. I was able to reproduce the Budgie issue in a VM and this fixed it for me so hopefully this fixes it for everyone else.

Robotmike This should be fixed as of the latest mini-sync

EbonJaeger This does not work: "error: D-Bus can't be started automatically without X11 $DISPLAY" (roughly translated from German).
But good to know you are working on it.

ReillyBrogan Yes, can confirm it's fixed. Thank you very much.

ReillyBrogan

updated and rebooted. no change so far, still no Unicode. On manual input it does not even show the u

no more.

synth-ruiner Saw this ibus regression on their dev tracker, so yeah, probably also related to the 1.5.28 update (now reverted)

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2480

dassuan eopkg info ibus. Just want to make sure you have the most recent one.

ReillyBrogan gnome-mahjongg should be working now

I can confirm that it is, and my wife sends her regards. She's playing it now, and didn't really expect to be able to do that until next weekend. Thanks from me, as well. When Mamma's happy, everybody's happy.

ReillyBrogan Sorry I wasn't around to answer questions today - I've just updated, restarted and played the game for a bit and all seems well. Thanks so much for diagnosing and fixing this quickly!

ReillyBrogan
Like @WetGeek , I thank you for being so reactive in restoring gnome-mahjongg, we will be able to spend new moments of relaxation ... while working our brains !

Y'all can thank @EbonJaeger for gnome-mahjongg. I just synced his changes.

ReillyBrogan I just synced his changes.

Thanks due to both of you, then. Without @EbonJaeger , you wouldn't have had anything to sync. And without you, it wouldn't have mattered what @EbonJaeger did. You're both part of the best team in FOSS, I'm pretty sure.

DE: Gnome
I see issues with starting applications like gnome-calculator or even nautilus. It has few seconds delay. Anyone got the same? P.S. I disabled extensions before update but now the gui app doesn't even start.

I seem to have a problem with NVIDIA drivers... but of rather strange sort - nvidia-settings drops with a segfault, so do games using proton emulation, but linux-native apps seem to work. Also steam itself refuses to start

Solus Mate geen probleem na update

DE: GNOME, xorg

#delay starting apps
Can't say that this is true for nautilus, but calculator does start with some seconds delay indeed (all extensions disabled).

#cursor bold X
Furthermore, after I hit enter after password-entry in GDM to login, screen turns black to start the Gnome session and then before the Desktop is loaded so to say my mouse curser appears as a bold X, and then turns back to be my normal mouse cursor after Gnome session has fully loaded. Don't think that this has been the case before the update, can't verify though: rollback impossible due to deprecation of gnome-session-shell-experimental.
No I have to admit that I tried to by-pass this by manually installing gnome-session-shell-experimental-43.0-34-1-x86_64.eopkg which conflicted with gnome-session-shell. Then once my entire Gnome Session hang up directly after login. Gnome Session got terminated automatically.
I fixed that with sudo eopkg install --reinstall gnome-session-shell.
Just saying don't know if the X curor thing might be related to this or if it is a general issue.
(Sidenote: we really need ability to do rollback in any cases. I hope the Serpent rebase will offer this)

Thanks for Gnome 44 by the way and pipewire. Now we can finally use screen capture (video) feature of Gnomes own screenshot tool. (Though it does not seem to have capability to record audio)

#Gnome Sound settings - pipewire
So, now this gets complicated to explain. I think enabling pipewire somehow regressed Gnome Sound settings.
Before, I could choose the audio source to be recorded in the Gnome Sound Settings. And it displayed the programs playing audio at the moment including volume meter. Like pavucontrol does.
Now, it does not list the apps playing audio currently any more, and for record source selection, it only lets me choose between "Line in - internal audio" ans "Internal Mic - internal audio".
But for recording sound played by other apps, I need to choose "Monitor of internal audio analog".
Which means I was not able to record this source with audacity for example unless I installed pavucontrol and chose source "Monitor of internal audio analog" there.
Thas does not feel right to me. I should be able to make this settings/selection in the Gnome Sound Settings. No additional app should be needed for this. And I only realized that pavucontrol might help me after someone else mentioned it in this thread before.
By the way, starting audacity does lead to some strange behavior, some kind of icon battle(flickering) in top bar quick-settings-area. Icons flicker, appear, disappear (mic icon amongst others).
Tried to make a video of it. This icon battle does not happen when starting audacity while recording screen-video with simplescreenrecorder if screen-video does also capture audio (pulse-audio), but when recording screen without audio.

#yad
difficult to explain:
I havea script using yad for selecting pass passwords to be copied to clipboars (pass -c). First I enter search term, then i get a yad window showing buttons with all passwords matching, then I can click on the buttons to run pass. If I dont enter search term, i get a yad window with all my pass passwords. Used to work fine. Though, when entering no search term and yad created a window with many buttons (more than 50 certainly), there used to be a delay of several seconds for yas window to appear.
Now, if there is a yad window with many buttons eg passwords, I can see in the gnome top bar that yad has started, but no yad window does appear on screen. If I then perform left mouse click in area where yad window should be, it appears and has also kind of received the mouse click and opens dialog to enter gpg password for the password/button I have chosen(without even seeing the yad window).
Yad works as intended if there are only few buttons.

ReillyBrogan
EbonJaeger

So I'd like to join @WetGeek in thanking you both for your remarkable efficiency (and the Solus team in general).