#gnome linux

[giphit]

sorry GNOME i was judging you based on my experience over 5 years ago, you are a good desktop environment now and i will swallow the adwaita pill

[never-obsolete]

Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" (2010)

[netscapenavigator-official]

Zorin OS's auto-brightness feature has this bug that I like to call "Brightness Runaway," where, if it's semi-dark in the room you're in, loading a webpage with a Light Mode UI will throw enough light onto you (and the things around you) that Zorin OS will think it suddenly got brighter in the room.

That causes the auto-brightness to raise itself, which causes more light to be thrown into the room. That causes the auto-brightness to think it got even brighter, which causes it to raise the brightness even more.

The brighter it gets, the more auto-brightness tries to raise the brightness, and the more auto-brightness tries to the raise the brightness, the brighter it gets, so eventually you end up sitting there like:

[dracula-theme-official]

I'm setting up an old Linx 1010B windows tablet to run Linux for taking notes in class, and was wondering what WM or DE people recommended for touchscreens, preferably lightweight ones, 2gb of ram isn't a lot

[onyacat]

What people think linux users do

[desktoparchive]

[q4os-tde-official]

thought i might was well see how GNOME Fedora looks, so im setting it up in a VM rn

[irradiate-space]

So the actual reason half my Ubuntu desktop environment no longer worked as I expected is because Ubuntu updated to a new version of GNOME Shell, and that custom functionality was all done by GNOME Shell Extensions, and one quarter of the extensions haven't been updated to work with GNOME Shell 46, and the other quarter were disabled somehow.

Also the version of KDE that is bundled in Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't have support for per-monitor scaling, which is unfortunate.

Maybe I should switch back to something stable, like XFCE.

[nixcraft]

26 years ago GNOME 1.0 was released. Do you remember this classic desktop?

[warsublime]

I can only interpret the desire to use the terminal for everything as a sort of trauma-induced atavism caused by excessive exposure to electron, convergent UI design, and GNOME.

[cyncrovee]

I used to not understand GNOME, Libadwaita, and the design decisions behind it- but now I love it. I use GNOME, a bunch of GNOME core and circle apps, and am even making a libadwaita app of my own!

Also today I tried Kdenlive on GNOME (via flathub) and it looks pretty good? Usually Qt apps have some trouble on GNOME but Kden handles it really well:

[nimbergarden]

FTU linux stamps by me

[never-obsolete]

screenshot from the VLC website - 2001

[netscapenavigator-official]

I'm thinking about doing something extremely feral:

Basically, unlike macOS, dynamic wallpapers on Linux work on timers. So, the dynamic Mojave Wallpaper I have set up isn't aware of when the daylight is changing, like on macOS. As a result, 16 photos across 24 hours simply is not enough.

The wallpaper that I initially downloaded, had each of the 16 images evenly spaced out. However, one quick look at the images, and you can tell they are NOT lined up for the changes in day time. Therefore, I went into the XML file and edited the times, myself. I set them up to better reflect what the sun is actually doing, outside.

However.

The sun does not behave the same throughout the entire year. Fortunately, Apple weather has this fun feature that lets you look at how the daylight behaves across the year, on a per-month basis. As a result, what I can do is make a unique XML file, for each month, and then swap them out at the 1st to make sure my dynamic wallpaper stays accurate.

But that's a lot of work for a wallpaper, and having to manually swap them out isn't ideal. I wonder if there's a way to use functions to make a single XML file repeat the daily pattern only a certain amount of days before switching to a new daily pattern for a new month, and then repeating.

Idk. And there's only one way to find out!

[systemdeez]

i just read "gnawing" as guh-nawing is this gnome's fault is it over for me

I mean I blame Linux for making me autistic so this isn't that weird to me.