For those using Gnome - don't update - a lot of extensions don't work like GSConnect
Sync Update for Weeks 42 and 43, 2023
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Graphics libraries got a bunch of updates this week. Mesa got updated to 23.2, this brings a bunch of improvements, most notably ray-tracing is now enabled for AMD users with recent enough GPU hardware!
are there any upcoming news, updates or timeline for implementation of ray-tracing for 30xx Nvidia cards?
Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam Proton, there is no option in Graphical Settings to enable Ray-Tracing or DLSS.
snowee does Nvidia ray-tracing not work? I was under the impression that it should work with the drivers we have.
1,9 GB updated in 469 Packages, all went smooth.
Special thanks for GNOME 45 !!!
So, I am new to matrix and was following you guys a bit this week on the packaging and development channel.
I don't understand much of what you are talking about, but DANG! Am I impressed by all your energy, effort, time!, dedication, knowledge and your relentless determination to hunt down issues and make things working and improving.
You are all sooo awesome. Thank you so much !!
I also had filed an issue on the bug tracker that cozy audio book player wasn't starting. It is now. Thank you for that, too.
From an end-user perspective(with old hardware) the only really annoying issue we have with GNOME right now is nautilus search, but I am confident that this will be fixed soon, too.
WhiteWolf Yeah, probably many extensions won't work. GNOME wasn't GNOME if they didn't find again and again new ways to annoy their userbase. Can't explain the technical side myself, but they changed something fundamental with the extensions, and now all the extension developers have to catch up.
As soon as I started to use GNOME, I came to the understanding that extensions are a source of trouble, hence I use as few as possible. The only extension I can't live without is hotedge. Though gsconnect is nice to have from time to time.
font-ubuntu-ttf
cherry-picked.
Updated my desktop and laptop both running Budgie - no problems with either machine
for me, sound stopped working after updating, and the icons disappeared from the shutdown menu, but after a reboot things are all fine.
My screen went black after the sync, which is not planned right? (Solus Budgie, nVdida 1070) After a reboot everything looks like normal and runs nicely.
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Update installation seems to have gone OK, but the Software Center is now hanging at "Updating Solus repository" at the end of the update (no spinning thingy, just "Please check back later, updates are now applying...").
Update: I closed the Software Center, rebooted and all seems fine now.
I have a Budgie. The screen went blank during the update. After the reboot, the cursor blinks and then nothing. I can't log into the console.
EbonJaeger Lastly, two keybindings have changed:
Alt+Tab now switches individual windows and shows window previews
Super+Tab now switches between application groups
Hmmm, I switced back to old one. I already got used to it, the new one keeps throwing me off
It was really worth waiting for a week more, the harvest was abundant today: 334 packages (1.42 GIB).
On Budgie Desktop, the update (on the Software Center graphic application) remained blocked at the end on the message "Updating Solus Restitory". So I left the application, then I relaunched it, it replied "Software is update". As a precaution, I rebooted my computer and everything has been fine so far.
Thank you for the hard work of the Solus developer team to give us a quality Linux distribution that we could hardly do without today.
Cheers!
sergo_s Hardware? Does using the previous kernel help?
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Hey Folks, I just ran into a GNOME X11 issue: sometimes, and that for basically as long as I can remember, GNOME app switching shortcut (super+tab) behaves strange. This time it was super+tab didn't switch the app, but only brought the app switching dialog/window, I then had to keep pressing super and repress tab to actually switch the app. Behaviours like that I normally resolve by restarting the GNOME shell with Alt+F2, r, Enter.
Doing so, the shell apparently crashes: I get a white screen with error message: An error occured that could't be resolved by the system. User has to log out. (roughly translated from the german error message). I then can only click log user out and get logged out to gdm login screen, from where I can log in back, but all running windows then are closed, of course.
I reproduced this now 3 times in a row. As long as there are open windows (in my case nheko and GNOME calendar) and you perform the GNOME shell restart with Alt+F2, r, Enter, the crash occurs.
Small hiccup with the audio, fixed by checking pipewire status through the terminal. All good besides that
Hey, thanks for reporting this to us and providing details to reproduce the problem. I've added this issue to our Gnome 45 testing task so we can address it.
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I've had no problem with any of the Solus installation on hardware of virtual machines, but I'm seeing some curious behavior from flarum today.
The panel on the left side of the screen that ordinarily displays and hides automatically isn't doing that anymore. For me, it displays all the time, and I can't find a way to regain the expected behavior.
It's not a serious problem, but I much prefer the way it's worked for the last six years or so. Has anyone else noticed this change?
I did not notice that after this update on Budgie Desktop.
Have you checked if the menu is pinned:
or not: