Hello, I am running Linux, the computer is Honor. My question is that the keyboard light turns off after 15 seconds. It makes difficult writing in the dark. Has anyone encountered this and know of a solution?

Hello people, as the title says I can't log in. I'm able to write my password and when I press enter the loading icon appears for a moment but then nothing happens, it gets stuck there. It's not frozen I can still do stuff tho. There's no error message (like incorrect passwd) or anything. It's not like I lost my credentials because I managed to log in in the virtual console.

Some days before i logged in and did a system upgrade after many months without touching the system but nothing more.

Has anybody encountered this problem before? I tried using systemctl restart gdm but it didn't help.

Heres the output of journalctl -xe and dmesg. I'm a newbie so any help is appreciated.

journal:

https://gist.github.com/sillao/7c8a225ab1507d9a03d67b511388910d

dmesg:

https://gist.github.com/sillao/bec59355a5dc3e6bd9619a7c6de32236

I use double boot (arch + win11, 1 ssd for each system) with ryzen 7 + amd graphics card.

Hello!

I have my laptop connected to two 4k monitors at home. Font scaling via Tweaks or display scaling isn't that great (can cause blurry text or messes up games). To make things more manageable, I toggle the Large Text and Medium Cursor accessibility setting, and slightly zoom in the browser. It's perfect for 99% of cases this way!

HOWEVER: To make things more conveient - Is there a way to create a script, that toggles those two settings? Ideally I'd launch it when I dock/undock my laptop from the 4k monitors.

Morning all.

One minor gripe I have with gnome (and most other desktops) is the inability to create a launcher for a downloaded portable program.

For example, I use archives of blender instead of using the distribution repository version due to needing a specific version.

Now, in order to launch it, I need to manually create a .desktop file.

My question is. Is there any way of doing this with a gui?

Perhaps the ability to select an icon, type a description and so on?

If one doesn't exist for gnome I am thinking of potentially creating one as a learning exercise.

Thanks in advance all.

hi guys! i'm making a quick post to see where to report this issue, as I don't know what the problem is:
when using any chromium-based browser on gnome/wayland, i'm not able to interact with it using a stylus. this is not the case on kde 6/wayland. i don't know what steps to take to report this to get fixed. any ideas?

I came here to say i really dislike that, if you want to save a file and nautilus opens and if you are trying to rename the file, it searches in the current directory instead of renaming the file?? Why would i want to search anything when i want to actually save a file and rename it? Why is this behavior somehow the default? How can i turn off searching while saving?

Thanks a lot for your attention

If I manage to get alternatives, I move at once.

OCR: I use it every day and is a must for me. I get this feature using the Snipping Tool, Power Toys or ShareX. It’s easy to use and don’t need to do screenshot before hand to get the text (power toys and shares). If it can read a QR, better.

Firewall (App level): I use Windows Firewall to block all apps from using internet except some from a whitelist. It’s easy and I just needed to select the executable.

I was researching about the other features I use and I already have them solved to a certain extent (such as the clipboard or the color picker)

i want to apply a shell, however, theres no option to change the shell in the gnome tweaks tool (i have user themes installed)

im running opensuse tumbleweed

cannot turn alacritty to full screen. I want to get rid of top bar and go true full screen like on firefox when I press f11

https://preview.redd.it/6si63ponkftc1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=250eaa653fe28a8b68a6b1a9d7d6d74273a2c9dd

How to turn it fullscreen??

I really like the ArcMenu and DashToDock extensions. But the thing is, I don’t want the ArcMenu launcher button to be at the Top Panel. Rather it really suits to be at the bottom inside the DashToDock extension. It's just my personal preference.

Is there any technique to do it?

P.S. I am a noob.

Hello,

I am missing fonts in Gnome-46, I ran KDE-Plasma as a second desktop manager and decided that I didn't like it, so I uninstalled it. This has caused some issues, such as missing icons and a changed cursor. Is there anyway to fix this? I have looked over google and have tried every recommendation, yet non seem to fix this issue.

Thanks in advance.

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Wrong / missing icons

I had in my mind an idea of making a specialized stylized hexagonal map editor built with GTK / Libadwaita for a Godot game on Steam. (Windows & Linux) I was wondering if using GTK / Libadwaita is in fact possible for an application on Steam? What are there major pitfalls to worry about? Is this something someone has done before? If not, what would be a reason why aside from the hefty submission fee? I also want to include it as a flatpak available through flathub. Would I have to manage multiple code bases for this?

https://preview.redd.it/01vf849uactc1.png?width=830&format=png&auto=webp&s=449ca3d289ecbef64612da23901086a4bac9aa1d

So im using fedora SB 39 with a 16gb ram and nvidia with nouveau, and basically all apps are flatpak. Idk if is coincidence but usually the crash/freeze happens while using firefox flatpak.

When the freeze happens, everything becomes uneresponsive, the mouse cursor dont move, and gnome commands like , ctrl+alt+f1, alt+f2 , tried all, dont work (using a wireless usb dongle keyboard)

So the only thing that left me to do is force shutdown, using the power button of the notebook, losing stuffs that i was doing before the problem and also losing some amount of time.

Any tips, how to overcome when this situation happens ?

obs: The only gnome extensions that i use is: gsconnect, vitals, windows list, task widget

Hi, I'm developing a simple GNOME extension for myself that adds to the power off dialog a button to hibernate the computer and one to turn off the screen.

The problem is that after lock, suspension or hibernation the extension is disabled in the GNOME Extensions application and I need to turn it on manually every time. It does not happen to other extensions and when I power off, reboot or log out.

I installed the extension by putting a directory in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Do I need to do something else? Or do I need to do something in the extension's source code? Someone knows why or how can I solve this?

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here... Right and Left super just don't do the same thing?

How long to update GSConnect for GNOME Shell 46? https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect

Probably a stupid question, but I was just wondering if it's possible to calibrate the colors of a specific app, rather than the global colors of your monitors, like you would if you calibrated your monitor's hue/saturation or used the ColorTint extension.

Each time I open up anything in Software app, it takes a minute or two (literally) to load anything. It doesn't matter if I open .deb file or a link to an app. In some cases I'm stuck forever on that screen.

\"Loading application details\" screen in Software app

System info:

https://preview.redd.it/106bwh96q8tc1.png?width=593&format=png&auto=webp&s=7384144b6d8423fa6c5e2b29d44a6cef273032f2

Discover from KDE work totally fine, both on KDE and Gnome, so I suppose it's app-related issue.

I'm out of solutions for that, please help :)

I just wanna know if it will run decently enough. I don't want it to fly just enough so that i can use 1 or 2 Android apps. I am on arch linux with gnome 46 wayland.

Or, well, at least I'm trying to, with little success.

Thing seemed simple to do, just make a systemd service waits for gdm to load, then uses one of the many programs in /usr/bin that plays a sound file, right? Well, no.

[Unit]
Requires=sound.target
After=sound.target graphical.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=(/path/to/script)

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

And for the shell script, I tried using aplay, pw-cat, speaker-test; anything that would make sound come out from my speakers. The result:

aplay: main:850: audio open error: Host is down <- aplay
error: pw_context_connect() failed: Host is down <- pw-cat
Apr 08 11:08:52 fedora bash[3476]: Playback open error: -112,Host is down <-speaker-test

This script runs after gdm loads(graphical.target). And I know gdm is able to play audio since it makes sounds when I control the volume. So what gives? What is this 'host down'? I also tried chown root:root for the script file but no dice. Who knew playing an audio file could be so difficult?

Using Fedora 39, GNOME 45, Wayland.

After my laptop wakes up, I have an issue with very slow scrolling. It's the same in any program. Logging out and back in doesn't fix it, but rebooting does. This just started yesterday.

I'm using Fedora 39 with GNOME 45 on a ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1 and a Logitech MX Master 3 mouse.

hi everyone. recently, my brother pulled out my ssd from my pc while i was working on it (it was a nvme ssd that didnt require screws and my tempered glass was shattered). after i checked it, the /home was corrupted. then i reinstalled arch 6 times for ONE issue in g46. when it boots the first time, nothing happened majorly but the second boot, gnome didnt want to boot at all. when i tried to reinstall gnome, it pulled the plug on the network (even wired connection was not working). i am planning to use kde or xfce until this issue is fixed. please help me guys

So there's been a discussion regarding whether GNOME users would prefer a flatpak to bundle Qt in the flatpak or pull KDE runtime as a dependency.

Kindly run

flatpak list | grep "KDE Application Platform" | grep "5.15-23.08"

in your favourite terminal and check whether the recent Qt5 org.kde.Platform is installed.

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I've recently started messing around with GNOME Accessibility settings and find that I really enjoy some of the [visual] features included, but feel like there are some things missing, like color adjustments and high contrast light mode. Is there a spot where GNOME has a wishlist of Accessibility features they're working towards or want to in the future? I know a lot of work is being done in relation to the Sovereign Tech Fund.

Hello, I'm new to Gnome Builder so I might be missing something, but I'm kinda confused by how env variables work inside the application.

In a regular terminal emulator, using env prints the expected environment variables. Inside Gnome Builder, env prints different environment variables, for example, the XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland var, supposedly set by Hyprland, is nowhere to be seen, however other similar variables like XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland are present. Now, shouldn't Builder use the same environment of my terminal emulator? Why are some env variables not appearing?

Another (maybe unrelated) issue is that if I install the Rust toolchain using rustup in a custom directory (inside ~/.local/share for example), both my terminal and Builder's terminal can use cargo run properly, but trying to run it through Builder's GUI spits out an error message saying that there's no default Rustc configured and that I should run rustup default stable, why is that? I've also tried manually passing the CARGO_HOME=$HOME/.cache/cargo and RUSTUP_HOME=$HOME/.local/share/rustup through Flatpak overrides but Builder doesn't seem to care.

I should also specify that the application I'm building doesn't use the Flatpak runtime, it's using my host operating system.

Thank you in advance.

Ever since the new version dropped I've had crashes when first logging in, then it works fine are reloggin and nautilus has been super slow upon opening