In Fedora 40 (Workstation) gnome-todo opens to a blank gray screen for me. I went on the Red Hat bugzilla page and found that someone filed the same bug, but for Fedora 39 (Sway spin). This was files about four months ago and describes my exact issue. Should I file another bug for 40? Apologies if this is a silly question, but I've never filed a bug before. Thanks in advance.

Dear Fedora community. I've experienced such an inconvenience for the first time. Having once installed the version 32 first and then upgrading regularly up to the version 40 I never had such things on my Ideapad 15 machine with i3 11th gen and 20Gb of RAM... The DE is Gnome.
So... I upgraded to version 40 then tried to launch my Thunderbird and it took about 10 minutes to launch it (before it was opening immediately), then I had the same thing with Firefox... I guess this thing happens with Mozilla's software or similar things... Has anybody experienced this??? And how to fix that??? Any ideas...

I've just upgraded to Fedora 40, and my built-in laptop audio has turned to rubbish in Google Meet, Slack, and so on. People on the other end of the call say that I sound like a robot/the terminator and struggle to understand what I'm saying. I can see the pity in their eyes.

From googling, I see that there others with similar problems, and some get relief by plugging in an external HDMI monitor, changing the audio source to that and then back, then rebooting. Others say to do `rm -rf ~/.local/state/{pipewire,wireplumber}` and reboot.

There's so many sound systems, it feels like https://xkcd.com/927/ come to life. People get fed up with what exists that they go and create a new sound system that "just works for everybody all the time", but inevitably there will be teething problems.

Is there not a "failsafe mode" for audio? Or perhaps some super utility that can understand every setting of every sound system and fix things to work?

As it is, I'm forced to use my work-provided Mac laptop if I want my video calls to work reliably.

Anyhoo, that's my mental state right now. Here's some of my hardware state, hopefully the important stuff.

From `lshw`:

• LENOVO_MT_20SQ_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad P17 Gen 1
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
• *-multimedia
  • description: Audio device
  • product: NVIDIA Corporation
  • vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
  • configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
• Bluetooth headset: Sennheiser LE-HD 350BT

Output of `pactl info` (darn if I know if this is the right tool to run):

```

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native

Library Protocol Version: 35

Server Protocol Version: 35

Is Local: yes

Client Index: 375

Tile Size: 65472

Host Name: thinkpad.localdomain

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.0.5)

Server Version: 15.0.0

Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz

Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right

Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo

Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo

Cookie: 9160:d670

```

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In the screenshot above of the Gnome Settings application just opened, I move the mouse up and down the menu and see the highlight as shown for the Network item.

Anyone else see this, or know how to fix it to display as something more like the Sound item in the screenshot? Happens with a number of apps including Settings, Files, Tweaks, Extensions... Seems ugly and is starting to annoy me a bit!

I've been upgrading Fedora for a few versions now - keeping my existing home directory and all that entails. I did use user themes like Nephrite, Orchis, Jasper, but in attempting to address this - I have disabled the User Themes extension & restarted, and saw no change in this regard.

AMD iGPU, Xorg, and Appearance set to Dark style.

Ran into problem connecting to Cisco ASA VPN. The solution is to include useragent set to AnyConnect.

The 1.14 version works very nice on my integrated Radeon 780M (Legion Slim 5 16" 7840HS Gen 8). No flickering or major artifacting. No black screen after log in. Blender ui loads up correctly. EnvyControl works, battery life is ~10h in idle. I made separate data backup partition (encrypted xfs) and KDE Elisa had no issues playing music (Flac, Wav up to 384 kHz 32bit) from encrypted partition. It seems that power profiles have little changed, it clocks faster if needed, in silent + battery save mode, fans turn on sometimes and ui is smoother, but it clocks down fast. Bootup is only very little slower than CachyOS, but shutdown is 1 sec. Didn't test Nvidia driver in Fedora because today hybrid mode flickered so hard in CachyOS (780M + 4060).

I installed Fedora 40 on a Dell Vostro, I7 with Intel / Nvidia graphics. Installation was done quite easy and fast, Gnome was running OK, but it took quite long to boot and sign me in. And after the machine went into sleep, i had to restart it every time because the screen went black and didn´t come back. Steam did run OK but i wasn´t satisfied at all. Even the WLAN was relly slow. It felt quite instable and, uhm, buggy.
I switched to Manjaro with KDE and everything runs good. The Laptop feels way faster and more snappy. I read lots of good things about Fedora, but i'm a little disappointed. Now i stay with Manjaro and look what the future brings.
Sorry for my bad English, itś not my native language :-)

I upgraded my home automation server and suddenly node-red (running through podman) stopped being able to communicate with the Mosquitto MQTT server (not podman) running on the same computer. This was working fine with F39 and now it's borked and I cannot seem to find a reference to what might have changed.

Hi.

Can somebody help me figure out the position of the .Thunderbird folder in F44)

Tnx

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Hello, I started sometimes ago with a clean installation of Fedora 37. With updating at one point Wayland was installed (in Fedora 39?). I learned that Wayland caused display problems with ImageJ and I used Gnome as my standard interface (There were options to select Wayland, Gnome, Gnome with Xorg). With updating to Fedora 40 Wayland is now completely missing... ​My system is AMD processor with Radeon graphics. ​How can I get Wayland, at least as an option?

So the other day I was trying to get an old game running on Wine. I initially installed with Flatpak but in an effort to see if my issue was related to the Flatpak I ended up installing via dnf. Afterwards I concluded that wasn't the issue so I just did a dnf undo on that transaction.

Somehow winedump is still in my path and rpm can't find a package that owns it. I removed the Flatpak too even though I wouldn't expect that to be in my path regardless, still there. Might be some other stuff but that's the one I remember.

Any ideas what's going on? Did I break rpm? Is this a packaging bug where something is placed by script and not removed correctly?

I would like to install postgresql and pgadmin4. I installed the former successfully with very easy steps. But I tried to install pgAdmin4 on Fedora40 and was stuck with nothing installed. After some reading and understanding, I figured out that pgAdmin4 is not available for Fedora40 explicitly.

Is there a way to install it using Fedora39 repository? I also tried installing Fedora-qt but it couldn't open and asked to open in the terminal so that the logs can be sent to developer.

I've recently installed Fedora 40 on my system to do my Uni work on it!! Hope there is a way out of this!!

Hey, I was trying to download Java to unzip the TLauncher zip but I had an issue with the java download process, I watched this video from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVrIDJ--GOA that explains that there are two dependencies needed in order to download java (at 3:48). So I tried to fix it up using this command: sudo apt install -y libc6-i386 libc6-x32 but im told that the apt command isn't found.

So, searching about these two subjects in Fedora 40, I got multiple responses.

I'm now creating my post from a Fedora 38 KDE Spin. Docker looks good, and my RTX 3050 seems fine too.

What's the current status of these two in Fedora 40? I think there might be some issues with Docker, and maybe NVIDIA isn't 100% either.

Should I wait a couple of months? By the way, I never update in place... I always start fresh, if that's relevant.

Im currently on Fedora Workstation Gnome, i would like to try sway as my main de. What would be better for me: install Fedora seay spin version or just install sway on my current workstation version?

My usecase is a "docked" laptop that I always use with BT mouse/keyboard/earphones.

When the device goes idle and subsequently locked, I need to use that same keyboard and mouse to wake it up and unlock it, but the devices get disconnected so I can't...

I know that's not a bug, because it is a configuration that I've made in the past to get the behavior I need (that is, all BT devices should remain connected when idle/locked), I just cannot for the life of me locate where that setting is in a fresh install.

I'd appreciate any help in locating the specific config I need to apply.

Hi

Just freshly installed Fedora 40 and now I have an irritating bug.

When My Laptop have been on for some time... like maybe 5 hours or maybe less (I have not found the minimum hours) and I am trying to restart, for different reasons it wont do it.

It will make all the preparations. It will close everything. It will even turn the screen black... BUT THEN... nothing happens.

I can see that the laptop is ON, Because of the little light on my power button.

So it makes every preparation needed and stalls just riiight before the actual restart.

After that I cannot do anything other than holding down the power button to turn of the laptop manually and forcefully.

This has been my go to method when I need to update the laptop since Fedora 40.

I have also tried a freshly install of the KDE spin before returning to gnome and same thing happens there.

So it must be something in Fedora 40 because I have not had any problems in like this ever in 38 or 39

Have anybody experienced this and can help me ?

Hardware Information:

• **Hardware Model:** Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 14APH8

• **Memory:** 32.0 GiB

• **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840HS with Radeon™ 780M Graphics × 16

• **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Graphics

Software Information:

• **Firmware Version:** MKCN25WW

• **OS Name:** Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)

• **OS Build:** (null)

• **OS Type:** 64-bit

• **GNOME Version:** 46

• **Windowing System:** Wayland

• **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.8.7-300.fc40.x86_64

I installed fedora 40 yesterday and i have noticed that my wifi is slower than on windows. what can help fix this? My motherboard is the asus rog b550-i.

solution: I hate to say this, but i forgot to plug inn the antenna. so not a Linux issue at all.

Hey there!
I just experienced that my 1660 ti doesn't like Wayland but it always reactivates itself so with that the monitor resets to 30Hz too. So I want to uninstall it completely but literally the nearest threads to uninstalling wayland are all about just CHOOSING X11 at login instead of uninstalling it.

Best regards

I recently installed Fedora with kde plasma flavour. I created /, /boot/efi, swap, and /home. But from the kde partitions application, I am unable to see the /home. Instead I see unallocated partition. I have an SSD and HDD. The SSD holds /, /boot/efi and swap. In the HDD, I created my /home partition. Before the installation, I could see that the partition was set to be created but now I see that it is not present!!

This is the first time I am installing Fedora and is really worrying as I am facing this issue for the first time amongst many other Linux DE installations. I usually create the same partitions and have never faced an issue. Please help me out by checking the image and see if the /home is created or not. Also can you please tell me then am I working without a /home partition then? Is everything stored on my SSD?

Image: https://imgur.com/a/scOoxff

This first image is for another issue I am facing. Please check the 2nd and 3rd images.

I recently installed Fedora Workstation with KDE plasma flavour. I created a root partition, swap, /boot/efi, and home. After the installation, I noticed that after the bios company logo, there is an error message showing up for a split second. After this, the the login page loads up fine and all the applications are working fine. The error states as follows:

error: ../../grub-core/commands/loadenv.c:216:sparse file not allowed.

From the name, I assume it is something related to the grub. Are there any suggestions or solutions on how to fix this issue? This is my first time installing Fedora. Previously I've flawlessly installed Ubuntu, KDENeon, OpenSuSe TW with the same partitions as above. What went wrong with the partitions? Can someone please help?

Image URL: https://imgur.com/a/nHVnIGZ

The imgur link contains the error photo along with the partitions.

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I recently switched from Linux Mint as I wanted to experience a very new Linux on my gaming PC. I love the philosophy and the design of KDE and like what I read about fedora.

But since I installed it a few days ago, I'm basically just tinkering around in order to get everything working properly.

I had a weird glitch in blender so I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers. But since I did that, everything but blender is flickering, sometimes the cursor doesn't even trigger what it is hovering over. Gaming is not possible since I installed the drivers.

Also discord doesn't work (discords fault, because it won't cooperate with Wayland) so I had to switch to webcord.

Is fedora just not meant for any proprietary software? I hate to admit, but I seem to depend on some.

Should I switch back to mint where everything just worked out of the box or should I spend more time tinkering? Any advise appreciated!

Hello.

Installed Fedora 40 a few days ago and i really like it.

Hey everyone,

I recently installed Fedora 40 Workstation on two machines: one with an AMD GPU, one with an Nvidia GPU. Everything was updated and Nvidia proprietary drivers were installed from RPM Fusion. The Nvidia machine works like I expected it to, but I'm having odd issues with my AMD machine, and I don't know why.

I've tried playing three games on the machine: Baldur's Gate 3, Rocket League, and Persona 5 (all using the Proton Experimental version). Here's what I found for each game:

• Persona 5 works as expected, although it defaulted to 1080p even though I am using the machine on a 4k TV. It's been a while since I've played this game, so it's possible this is a default setting.

• Rocket League initially had flickering black boxes at the bottom of the screen when I launched the game and also defaulted to 1080p. It would run fine, but the boxes were obviously distracting. Thought it might have been an issue with the really old SSD I had it installed on, so I migrated it to a newer SSD. This appeared to fix the issue.

• Baldur's Gate 3 is a mess. It launches without issue for both DX11 and Vulkan, but once I get to the "Click Any Key to Continue" screen, the FPS crashes to ~20. The interface is super slow until the menu loads at which point the FPS suddenly jumps up to the levels that I expect. When I load a campaign, the FPS is all over the place but never going above 50, even if I lower the resolution and graphics settings. It is always around 50 at its peak. It doesn't help that the characters are blurry messes. I've tried switching the install to different drives, but this hasn't fixed the issue.

I tried looking at radeontop to see if I could find anything, and for Persona 5 and Rocket League, the GPU is being fully hit as I'd expect. But when I play Baldur's Gate 3, the game barely pushes the GPU past 70% load. I'd think this was a BG3 issue, but the fact that I can play the game without any issues on my Nvidia machine has me scratching my head.

Any thoughts?

I have been using Fedora for a couple days, I'm use to Debian based distros and Arch, and among these 3 Fedora seems the most unstable looks like it can break at anytime, Nvidia drivers are buggy, once I installed and reboot I got stuck at Fedora loading screen and had to turn it off once again by the button. Why when installing and package it shows TWO versions of the same package? Like 1.0 and 1.1, why not show only the latest one? Fedora 40 in idle uses 2GB while Ubuntu 24.04 uses 1.3GB only (got 8gb). All this makes me think of Fedora as an unrealiable distro, little mistakes that you dont see in other distros, I rely much more on Arch for a daily driver. But I recognize its the best distro with Wayland that I could use with my Nvidia GPU, really smooth (others didnt even entered into gnome).

So after an update to F40, I noticed all of my Google accounts suddenly had no credentials on the keyring. So I tried to open Online Accounts from the menu, and huh, it's missing...

I then noticed gnome-control-center was suddenly missing. Okay, so reinstall that. Nope, can't run it, it wants GNOME or Unity. Alright, got it:

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME gnome-control-center

Okay, so all of my tokens didn't survive the update and everything is logged out. But now it's not trying to auth through its own browser, it's able to use Chrome/Firefox, so at least I can use security keys now.

Anyway, that's a fix, but has anyone got any idea if this will be corrected? Losing access to Online Accounts is a pretty big deal for me, and will certainly stop me from updating other desktops anytime soon.

I have an Asus Zenbook with amd 3700U. Fedora is the second system. If I boot Linux and the laptop is powered from the network, there is no sound. If I boot Linux from the battery, then there are no problems with sound. I changed everything I could on Windows and Linux, but the problem was not solved. I tried to change alsa/piperwire, I also used different versions of drivers. I think that this problem can be solved simply, but my eyes don’t see such solution. Could you help me?

With Fedora 40 I've decided to give Plasma a go, haven't used since 3-point-something, but some things I want to work like I have in Gnome setup. For example, the Application Launcher is useless for me and binding Meta to it is just a waste of a perfectly good shortcut.

What I want is like in Gnome, for Meta to bring me to Overview mode. I went to Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> KWin and the default shortcut for Overwiew is Meta + W. I disabled the default and changed it to just Meta, but the problem is that I can't disable the shortcut for App Launcher so it still takes priority and pressing Meta opens it instead.

The setting for default App Launcher shortcut also doesn't seem to be in the settings.

How can I unbind the default shortcut for App Launcher?