Thoughts on shipping Whisker Menu by default?
by Or Schiro
Dear all,
For the past days, I have been testing the Whisker Menu [1] on Fedora Xfce and am impressed by the user experience.
To me, it has several advantages over the currently default menu.
1. It can be triggered and opened using Super key which is a fairly common design standard
2. It allows you to search for applications
3. It integrates the user details into the menu and thus makes having an additional profile section with your name in the panel (usually top right corner) obsolete
What are your thoughts on the Whisker Menu? Could this become the new default menu on Fedora Xfce?
Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback.
Yours
[1] https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/
5 years, 6 months
install gnome-keyring-pam by default?
by Dan Horák
Hi,
I'm using XFCE for a long time on an updated system and was struggling
to make the user experience smooth on new XFCE installations. They were
always asking for passwords to unlock my ssh keys even when the "GNOME
services" were enabled. The reason was missing the "gnome-keyring-pam"
package that is used in /etc/pam.d/lightdm. With the PAM module
installed the keyring gets unlocked at login automatically. If my
observation is right, then gnome-keyring-daemon is already installed by
default and it's only "gnome-keyring-pam" what's missing.
Dan
5 years, 6 months
Xfce Default Application Autostart
by Or Schiro
Dear community,
I have messed up my Fedora 28 installation, having started with GNOME, installed Plasma over it, and now finally running Xfce (which I very much like!).
If possible, I would not want to reinstall everything and start from scratch using the Fedora Xfce spin.
Could someone please be so kind and share with me the default application autostart settings?
I would like to restore mine getting to close to the default one from Xfce and avoiding loading any GNOME or Plasma legacy.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely
5 years, 7 months
Fedora 29 Beta status: RC4 incoming
by Adam Williamson
Hi, folks! Just a quick mail to let everyone know where we are with F29
Beta.
We managed to throw together fixes for all the currently-accepted
blockers (thanks to the dnf team for help there), so an RC4 (aka Beta-
1.4) is currently composing. Compared to RC3 it contains a newer libdnf
with a fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629340 . It
also includes a newer gnome-shell with fixes for FE bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1628263 and also
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/140 (which kinda
snuck in there), new builds of dnfdragora and dnfdaemon that fix two
significant bugs for users of those -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1624652 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629378 - and an updatedgnome-documents which actually works (that was
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1628244 ).
The second Go/No-Go meeting will be on Thursday, so it would be awesome
if folks could pitch in and help get as much testing done as possible
on Beta-1.4 when it arrives. There will be an announcement mail sent to
test-announce@, so look out for that. It will have links to the
validation pages, which have the download links at the top. General
exploratory testing would also be great to find any significant issues
not specifically covered in the validation tests. It should arrive in
around 8-9 hours, assuming the compose takes about as long as the
previous one. Some of the media will actually be available from Koji a
little sooner than that, for anyone who wants to get a head start on
testing; to find the live images, for instance, go to this URL:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=closed&view=flat&method=c...
and look for tasks with the string 'Fedora-29-20180919.0' in them (*not*
'Fedora-29-20180919.n.0', those would be nightlies, which don't have
the extra fixed packages).
Thanks a lot, everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
5 years, 7 months
singing hard drive
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Fedora 28 x64
I have a server at a customer site whose hard drive
(mechanical) is constantly singing/rattling.
How would you chase down the offender?
Many thanks,
-T
5 years, 7 months
