desktop February 2013

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Alt+Tab on screen display not disappearing
by Ryan Lerch 30 May '13

30 May '13

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced in F18 (GNOME3.6) a weird bug where the alt+tab switcher does not disappear? When it happens, i can press press alt+tab again and other switcher is displayed under (z-index wise) the one already on the screen. If i keep pressing alt+tab, these layer up also. The annoying part is that when you go to restart the shell, (with alt+f2), that overlay does not get keyboard focus, so you can't restart it from there. The only way to restart the shell is to switch to another tty, and kill the gnome-shell process with kill -9 anyone else experiencing this issue? cheers, ryanlerch

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obsoletes in gnome-shell
by Bill Nottingham 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

The gnome-shell package should probably obsolete the assorted fallback mode components that have been removed from F19 (and will likely cause dep problems on user's systems if they remain.) Bill

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Why do I sometimes get a gdm similar to gnome 2's?
by Marco Scannadinari 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Sometimes, usually when updates are installed, after booting, I get a gdm screen similar to this - http://lippolweblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gdm.png. It uses the same animations as the new black gdm, but it just has the plain white layout as of the old gdm 2.x. Has anyone experienced this? What is the cause? -- Marco Scannadinari <marco(a)scannadinari.co.uk>

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Gnome 3.6 default GTK2 theme
by Michael Cronenworth 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

... is a major step down from Gnome 3.4 and previous. Problems: - GtkFrame widgets have no color. They do not show up at all now. This was the default in GTK3 for a while but I filed a bug and had it changed. - A 1px black line on all widget box borders. Very visually unappealing. Thunderbird shows this most visibly. - When you click on a application menu bar item the text changes to white. The menu bar is already white so the text essentially disappears. - The scroll bar used to be a close match to the GTK3 bar but now it looks like something from 1997. - The mouse-over color for GtkCheckBoxes is black. The whole widget and surrounding area turns black. - Buttons in Firefox are black (with black text!) until you mouse over. Just go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org and look at the buttons. You'll just see a black boxes. QT apps use the GTK2 theme so QT apps are affected as well. I would hope a bug for these issues was already opened, but if no one can point me to one I will open one. Thanks, Michael

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Create a Fedora LiveUSB from gnome-disks
by Ryan Lerch 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

When answering a question[1] today about copying ISOs to USB drives using dd, i discovered that GNOME Disks has the ability to do this graphically, using the "Restore from Image" feature. It got me to thinking, is there the ability in GNOME Disks to be able to write extensions so we can allow users to create a Fedora LiveUSB using gnome-disks? Would this be something that would be desirable? cheers, ryanlerch [1] - https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/78/can-i-use-a-usb-stick-to-install-…

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PySide for python3
by Marco Scannadinari 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Any plans to add pyside for python3 in the fedora repositories? It is already up for python2.*, but not for 3... package name for python2 is python-pyside. -- Marco Scannadinari <marco(a)scannadinari.co.uk>

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New GNOME lock screen shows desktop icons
by Ryan Lerch 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Just stumbled on this interesting issue in ask fedora: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/3996/lock-screen-shows-desktop-icons Basically, when you turn on the Desktop icons using the tweak tool, they are also shown on the lock screen. Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to work around this issue? cheers, ryanlerch

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Gnome3 and auto-mounting MTP devices
by Ankur Sinha 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi folks, Of late, on my up to date F18 system, my galaxy S3 (jellybean 4.1.2) doesn't automount as an MTP device on Gnome3. It doesn't show up in nautilus even after I use simple-mtpfs (the orphaned mtpfs package doesn't work). IIRC, it used to, but I'm not really sure when it stopped. Would anyone know how I could debug this and file a bug report? Does Gnome3 use mtpfs as a backend? It sucks that Andriod's using MTP, but I'd still like to see if work out of the box in Fedora :) I filed a bug against mtpfs, but since it's orphaned, I don't expect it fixed any time soon. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910207 -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. Looking to contribute to Fedora? Look here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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Remove Gnome desktop on F18 ?
by jzigmund＠redhat.com 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi, I'm curious, if it's a possibility to remove entirely GNOME 3 from F18. I've tried via '# yum groupremove GNOME\ Desktop' but it looked like it wants to wipe out whole system, because it ended with: ... --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Running transaction check --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Trying to remove "systemd", which is protected Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected So the question is, how can I remove Gnome-shell (with all dependencies) ? Regards, --- Jozef

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centre cursor after boot
by Marco Scannadinari 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

Shouldn't the cursor be centred after boot, ubuntu seems to be the only distro that does this. Why can't Fedora? This is especially annoying when logging into gnome using only the keyboard, and the cursor (placed on the top left) triggers the Activities menu.

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