#gnome-desktop — Public Fediverse posts

Atlantis KD3116 keyboard

Full post here. https://rene.seindal.dk/2026/05/05/atlantis-kd3116-keyboard/

Looking for a compact keyboard with an integrated touchpad, I found the Atlantis KD3616 keyboard.

It is an Italian brand, and I'm not sure if this keyboard is available outside Italy.

What sold it to me, was the promise of three finger gestures on the touchpad, which I use a lot in Gnome, to switch between desktops and open and close the overview.

It does, kind of, but it also doesn't.

#GnomeDesktop #Keyboards #Linux

GNOME 50 Tokyo arrives for Linux

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/gnome-50-tokyo-arrives-for-linux/

@HeliaXyana when people ask me what Linux to try, I always recommend #LinuxMint or #Fedora. They are my top choices because they are community-run not corporate owned, and they are both extremely well designed, they both have lots of software in their package repositories, they come with everything a new user could ever need in an operating system already built-in, and (most of all) are both ridiculously stable and predictable, to a degree that you wouldn’t have thought possible of a computer operating system.

By the way, to make LinuxMint look and feel like as “pretty” as Fedora, it’s just one command: sudo apt-get install task-gnome-desktop, then logout and login again. Done.

To make Fedora look and feel as “ugly” LinuxMint, it’s just one command: sudo dnf install @cinnamon-desktop, then logout and login again. Done.

But personally, I find #CinnamonDE to be beautiful, it is my daily driver.

@tiefling

#tech #software #Linux #DesktopEnvironment #Gnome #GnomeDesktop

Nextcloud markdown editor ­— CLI

Full post here. https://rene.seindal.dk/2025/12/29/nextcloud-markdown-editor-cli/

I use the rich text editor in Nextcloud a lot, and it can be opened through a sub-menu of the context menu in the GNOME file manager.

You can only open one file at a time, and requires a few clicks and moving the mouse around.

Now, if we could have a simple command to open the Nextcloud editor, for one or more file?

Having a look at the GNOME Files extension, it wasn't that complicated.

This script will open a file in the Nextcloud editor, if the file is managed:

#GnomeDesktop #Nextcloud

External disk with ext4 doesn’t auto-mount

Full post here. https://rene.seindal.dk/2025/12/08/external-disk-with-ext4-doesnt-auto-mount/

I have an external SSD in a NVME USB enclosure, with an EXT4 file-system. When I plug it in, it doesn't auto-mount, and haven't done so for a while.

Most other external disks do auto-mount.

I finally figured out why, and how to fix it.

#Ext4 #ExternalDisks #GnomeDesktop #Linux #udevRules

It's Gnome desktop with extensions. its less stable then Gnome mobile, but i like the looks.

Extensions used:
V-Shell - [email protected]
Just Perfection - just-perfection-desktop@just-perfection
Hide Activities Button - [email protected]
Screen Rotate - [email protected]
TouchUp - touchup@mityax
#linuxmobile #Gnome #gnomedesktop #gnomemobile #desktop #linux #os #mobile

Is there a way of setting a #boot process of a laptop running #gnomedesktop to make display settings at boot of a fresh #nixos #iso #usb installation such that the #hdmi output is set to #mirror the output so that a #kvm #jetkvm device shows the laptop main display at boot and not the useless empty extended part of the display ?

GNOME 49 finally fixes the mouse cursor refresh rate when VRR is enabled!

#GNOME #GNOMEDesktop #Linux #TechNews #TechUpdates #Computers #Laptops

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/gnome-49-fixes-the-low-refresh-rate-for-cursor-with-vrr/

GNOME 49 Beta is now live!

#GNOME #GNOMEDesktop #Linux #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/gnome-49-beta-released-2/

GNOME 49 Beta 1 allows you to control your music right from your lockscreen!

#GNOME #GNOME49 #GNOMEDesktop #Music #MusicPlayer #TechNews #TechUpdates #Linux

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/gnome-49-beta-1-brings-music-player-to-your-lock-screen/

GNOME 49 Beta is now live!

#GNOME #GNOMEDesktop #Linux #LinuxDesktop #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/gnome-49-beta-released/

Tuba: a desktop #fediverse client for #GNU #Linux Here's a nice review. https://news.itsfoss.com/tuba/ If you install #Debian (ver. 13), with #GNOMEDesktop it is already installed. Can be installed, with #APT commands, from the terminal. I like it, so far, but am looking for #GUI customizations. Glad to learn there's an #accessibility preferences panel.

Giving the Tuba fediverse client another go. It's been a while, and I did this in #MateDesktop last time. Let's see how it behaves in #GNOMEDesktop and #OrcaScreenReader V. 4i8.

Still playing with GNOME 48, and notice that orca doesn't realize the items on the top bar, including time and battery state, Are not refreshed, in the screen reader, until orca is cycled off and on. I don't think this issue is particular to #debian but, maybe, someone running a different distro can confirm. #gnu #linux #accessibility #screenreaders #gnomedesktop

GNOME 49 Alpha is now live!

#GNOME #GNOMEDesktop #Linux #LinuxDesktop #Desktop #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/gnome-49-alpha-released/

What the fuck is this "unsupported desktop enviroment" debacle with Dropbox app indicator, Gnome desktop and Gnome shell extensions? No useful remedy anywhere. 🤦‍♂️ #Linux #popos #Dropbox #Gnomedesktop

GNOME fixes the Trash bug from 2009!

GNOME Desktop had a bug in the Trash function where the leftover files from the user-wide expunged trash directory, found in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged, were not being deleted properly, and that the Nautilus file manager, which GNOME uses, inaccurately reported that the trash was empty. This bug was originally reported in Ubuntu’s Launchpad under the title of “Emptying the trash can lead to have files still on disk in expunged.”

This caused problems with the free disk space, since the bug reporter had stated that they had about 70 GB of files in the expunged directory, which were handled incorrectly when emptying the trash. Furthermore, said directory was found in the hidden .local folder underneath your home directory, which was not obvious to the average user. This was said to be due to wrong permissions being applied to the offending files, and a reproducer was found:

mkdir -p test/roottouch test/root/filesudo chown root:root test/root

This followed the two chained rules, first for trashing and second for emptying, where, ipsis verbis:

• when a directory A is in a directory owned by you and it’s owned by you, you can obviously move it.
• when a directory B is in a directory A owned by you but you don’t own it, and it’s not empty, you can’t delete it.

So, essentially, this boils down to:

• The test directory is made by the current user (assume that the current user is aptivi)
• The root directory inside the user-owned test directory is made by aptivi
• A file, file, which aptivi owned, was created inside the root directory
• The root directory’s owner had changed to the root user
• The test directory can be moved to aptivi‘s trash, since the first chained rule has been followed
  • Explanation: test was owned by aptivi and had a parent directory that was also owned by aptivi
• The root directory can’t be deleted from aptivi‘s trash, since the second chained rule has been followed
  • Explanation: root, a non-empty directory owned by root, was inside test, owned by aptivi, and the root directory can’t be removed
• The root directory can now be found underneath the expunged folder under aptivi‘s .local folder

The appropriate GNOME bug tracker ticket was brought to the upstream developers six years ago from writing who confirmed that the issue was happening. According to this blog post, the merge request was submitted to the GNOME project, which was approved. The fix is now at the upstream GLib code.

An internal function was added to the I/O part of the GLib library, called check_removing_recursively(), that checked whether “subsequently deleting the original file from the trash (in the gvfsd-trash process) will succeed.” It also checked the ownership of the files before deletion and automatically assigned the file mode (chmod) to allow deletion.

That filled one of the TODO tasks in the I/O code that handled emptying the trash in the internal function, g_local_file_trash(). It said “Maybe we should verify that you can delete the file from the trash before moving it? OTOH, that is hard, as it needs a recursive scan.”

Now, you can empty the trash without worrying about the free disk space, but only if your Linux distribution uses a version of GNOME that contains this fix. We expect that this fix will land to several distributions in the coming days or weeks.

Pro tip: to eliminate the remaining expunged files after installing the fixed version of GNOME, use this trick to free up disk space.

#GNOME #GNOMEDesktop #Linux #LinuxDesktop #news #Tech #Technology #Trash #TrashBin #update

between space time I worked on my folder icon thumbnailer for nemo and nautilus file roller (and I think thunar can read it too) #GnomeDesktop #XFCE #MATEDesktop

( I have yet to submit it. Old version is till here: https://github.com/Sythelux/thumbnailers/ )