Post AdTcRZPXHdrVm7MEme by istvan@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #AdT65TTxRsAUU2qWgK by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-01-03T11:10:01Z
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On #GNOME, you have this really useful app called Settings where you can, well, set your system Settings. So far, so good.So then one day, it stops launching. Oops! So you go into terminal to try and launch it to see if there is any debug output…settingsUnknown command.Oh, why? Because Settings app’s binary isn’t called settings, it’s called gnome-control-center.But of course you already knew that because you can read minds.(Raised similar issues before, they don’t get the problem.)
(DIR) Post #AdT65VRY9nQkZ9jdCq by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-01-03T11:23:28Z
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In case anyone at #GNOME/Red Hat/Fedora/IBM wants to take a look:https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2813#gnome #bug #settings
(DIR) Post #AdT65XQul86ujlS9Ue by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-01-03T11:26:36Z
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PS. My hunch: Most likely has something to do with the app attempting to launch after external monitor configuration changes.Said external monitor configuration changes happen if you accidentally hit Super + P to toggle between Single monitor and Joined monitor modes and then hit it again to go back to Joined monitor upon with #GNOME summarily forgets the configuration you had before and concocts a different one on the spot (eat that, AI), forcing you to manually set up your monitors again.
(DIR) Post #AdT65ZOVT3NAosLG1A by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-01-03T11:49:55Z
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Right, so, if you’re using Sublime Merge on Linux (Wayland, e.g., Fedora Silverblue like me) and, after an external monitor configuration change it starts hanging your entire system (crashing and taking #GNOME with it, requiring a full restart), the workaround is to delete its session file which stores the (now illegal) last-known location of its window.i.e., Run:rm ~/.config/sublime-merge/Local/Session.sublime_sessionhttps://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues/1857 #SublimeMerge #wayland #gnome #crash
(DIR) Post #AdT65bKKHZDWoUOwmO by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-01-03T11:50:19Z
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Well that was a bloody good use of a morning that I should have spent coding.*smh*
(DIR) Post #AdTA2T6mmVGUGwpVSq by reidrac@social.sdf.org
2024-01-03T12:12:52Z
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@aral I believe it could be like that for historical reasons. It was called Gnome Control Center, but at some point UX people at Red Hat (via Fedora) started to call things with generic names; so that's how you end with "Settings" -- but they didn't change the binary names (I may guess it could be a bad idea in some really generic names). All copying Mac OS because...So there you go. I gave up on Gnome long time ago. I feel your pain.
(DIR) Post #AdTA2U1VNcdR6rMns8 by istvan@poa.st
2024-01-03T12:53:50.274237Z
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@reidrac @aral Around 2010 noticed all the Linux desktops were moving in a design that only made sense for tablets.No development in it, but I still prefer Xfce since it’s light and works like a desktop OS.
(DIR) Post #AdTcJX7vtJsWNJI9Cq by reidrac@social.sdf.org
2024-01-03T12:56:41Z
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@istvan @aral you may be right. Very mobile first, perhaps. In the case of Gnome I suspect it was just copying Mac OS.After a while I accepted that Gnome was no longer for me and I moved to XFCE. Now I'm a i3 WM happy user though.
(DIR) Post #AdTcRZPXHdrVm7MEme by istvan@poa.st
2024-01-03T18:12:07.245745Z
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@reidrac @aral Nice! I used to like AwesomeWM on my small laptops.Lately daily drive Haiku though, so I just make my Xfce look like it when I need to use Linux :)