Sync Updates for Week 45, 2023

WetGeek

brent excited to see xfce moving forward

Indeed. With 68 packages upgraded, it was the biggest update for me this week. And after a reboot, it ran noticeably faster than before. I used to make allowances for it, being a work in progress and all, but now it seems to perform at least as well as MATE does. That's subjective, of course -- it could actually be performing better.

There are still minor issues with the UI, of course, and I haven't tried everything in the menu yet, but so far I've seen nothing that would keep me from using it as a daily driver. Kudos to its maintainer!

Miko

WetGeek yeah, "GNOME" means Wayland session, it's been default for some time now if I recall correctly

WetGeek

Miko it's been default for some time now

Thanks for your response. This is the first time I actually set out to make sure I was using Wayland, so it's the first time I noticed it. It's certainly working well, as I expected.

plutuplutu

Thanks, Team, the update went well!
However, I still have no WIFI with the broadcom driver, even with sudo depmod -a.
Also, I have an app I compiled from source that stopped working since Week 44 sync and complains that QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread. Same with the develop branch. Makes me wish I properly packaged it and made a flatpak when it did work...

ReillyBrogan

plutuplutu You probably just need to rebuild it.

Solarmass

ReillyBrogan it worked! GPUCache was in ~/.config

plutuplutu

ReillyBrogan
Turns out I had to make space again on the device to boot on the last kernels. Broadcom's WIFI is back, good job! Thanks 🙂

ReillyBrogan

You probably just need to rebuild it.

That was my first thought. It didn't work, hence the devel build to check. Also, with mixxx from the repo I get
$ mixxx QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread Warning [Main]: Failed to load "qt" translations for locale "fr_FR" from "/usr/share/mixxx/translations/" Trappe pour point d'arrêt et de trace (core dumped)

ReillyBrogan

What happens if you do sudo modprobe wl?

penny-farthing

Solus update completed today (31 packages, 1.21 GiB), nothing to report so far, thanks to you.

joebonrichie

plutuplutu mixxx fixed in unstable

alfisya

virtualbox-guest-additions-iso also now available on repo. No need to download it from website anymore.

WetGeek

alfisya virtualbox-guest-additions-iso also now available on repo

That's the best news I've read in a very long time. Thanks to the maintainer! I'm glad that proprietary software doesn't keep us from distributing it.

alfisya

WetGeek the iso is actually GPLv2.0 and so is virtualbox. So no problem at all distributing it.

WetGeek

alfisya So no problem at all distributing it.

There's something I'm curious about, and you might know the answer. With Solus VMs, I've never loaded the guest additions, because they handle screen resizing without them. But does it do anything to install the guest additions anyway? Are they needed to access the host's USB ports, for example, or any other of its other resources? Or do Solus VMs have everything they need without the guest additions?

alfisya

My biggest reason to install it to have synchronized clipboard between host and guest. AFAIK, usb redirect works fine without iso installed. Honestly, I don't much experience using virtualbox in linux. I usually use virtualbox on windows pc (easier to use than Hyper-V) and prefer virt-manager on linux. For me packaging the iso is actually easier than using it 😅 .

WetGeek

alfisya My biggest reason to install it to have synchronized clipboard between host and guest.

Thanks again for your response. I always enable clipboard sharing for Solus VMs in the VBox settings, but I can't remember actually needing to use that feature in a very long time. Still, there's no reason to enable it without making sure that it's supported otherwise, so I believe I'll add that step to the creation of new Solus VMs when the 4.5 ISO files are released, and thereafter.

That way, if the occasion ever arises that I want or need to share the VM's clipboard with its host, it'll work as expected. By the way, I agree with your appraisal of Hyper-V. I used it with Server 2008 and onward for testing my client/server applications using VMs.

kizilyildiz

WetGeek I always install iso to my guest which is my windows work machine and enable clipboard. And also enable drive sharing between guest and host. It is very helpful.

ReillyBrogan

Discord cherry-picked, again.

ReillyBrogan

qt5-script cherry-picked to stable. This should fix the issues with mixxx and some other qt5 apps. Thanks @joebonrichie for the fix!

plutuplutu

ReillyBrogan
Fixed indeed! I haven't been this enthusiastic about a Linux distribution since Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Solus provides the best desktop experience I ever had, I love how snappy gnome is and how responsive the team is. Thank you all!

WetGeek

plutuplutu I love how snappy gnome is

If you like how snappy our GNOME is, you really owe it to yourself to try our Budgie or especially our Plasma. Same great forum and team, but somewhat more exciting DEs, IMHO.