Pages Tagged “GNOME”
Reviews
- Boxes (GNOME) ★★★☆☆ A simple GUI wrapper around Linux’s built-in virtualization support. It makes simple things easy, but to adjust advanced settings you either need to edit config files manually or use another GUI.
- Geary ★★★★☆ Really lightweight but still modern, so it’s a good choice on lower-end hardware. Basic IMAP features, good for most day-to-day email use. Needs GNOME for setup.
- GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) ★★★☆☆ A rare WebKit browser for Linux. Handles the basics, but it’s specifically designed for GNOME, and it’s limited in what it can do around websites. Well-suited for PWAs, though!
- NewsFlash ★★★★★ Clean, stable, fast, free, no-clutter and no-nonsense RSS/Atom newsfeed reader for Linux that optionally syncs with multiple services.
Tech Tips
- Add a Gemini filetype to Gnome You might need to create a gemini.xml file and/or a .desktop file for your favorite Gemini clients. Here’s how and where to put them.
- Double Lock Screen (Obsolete) Usually multiple desktops on Linux will stay out of each others’ way when they aren’t running. Not always.
- Fixing a Blank Article Pane in NewsFlash There’s a bug in WebKit that can prevent articles from displaying in NewsFlash, but there’s a workaround.
- Fixing Twhirl (Obsolete) Just delete the entire ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS/ folder and start from the ground up.
- Geary With Gmail, (Mostly) Without GNOME Install GNOME, add Gmail to your online accounts, then uninstall the rest of GNOME. But keep gnome-online-accounts!
- GNOME/Wayland Fails to Log In After Installing XFCE (Solved) The most ridiculous Linux bug I’ve encountered in ages: Installing XFCE changed a mouse cursor setting for GNOME that caused the login screen to crash when trying to log into GNOME/Wayland.
- Nextcloud Needs Me To Sign In Every Time (Desktop Linux) Make sure your keyring manager is starting before the Nextcloud client.
- Nextcloud Tasks: Mobile, Recurring, and Compatibility Gotchas Which desktop, web and mobile applications have and haven’t worked well for me since switching my personal to-do lists to Nextcloud Tasks.
- Using Plasma Discover on GNOME in Fedora Fedora’s packages for Discover are missing dependencies, so you have to install kf6-purpose and kf6-kitemmodels on the command line to use it.
- What do GNOME Online Accounts Do? It’s not obvious which services GNOME will use from each provider. Here’s where to find it.
- When digiKam Failed to Connect (Obsolete) File permissions. Always check the file permissions.
Blog Posts
- Something Went Wrong
I really wish GNOME’s “Oh No! Something went wrong!” screen would let me restart just the crashed components instead of forcing me to log out completely. Or let me decide if I’m willing to continue without whatever crashed. If the audio broke, and I’m not doing anything that needs sound right now, it shouldn’t block […]
- Waking Up is Hard to Do (PC Edition)
Always nice to be greeted by this unlock screen: Ever since upgrading to the latest NVIDIA driver, my Linux system has had a weird quirk with resuming from suspend/hibernate. All the applications and services that were running pick up right where I left them, but anything drawn by Gnome shell — including the unlock screen, […]
- That Annoying Typing Bug
From the Gnome 2.10 release notes: In the past, while typing something into one application when suddenly your instant messenger offered a chat request from your friend, your words would be typed into the chat window. Imagine if you were typing your password at the time. This should no longer happen in GNOME 2.10. In […]