Tagged with #elementaryos

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• Sander October 8 at 6:45 pm

  Working a little bit recently on restoring Pantheon desktop on top of OpenSUSE Leap instead of Ubuntu 24.04. Out of date version for both, but it was the most stable fix. Ultimately I hope to get the desktop environment of elementaryOS running on top of the rolling Tumbleweed, and have a rolling system that works and looks the part.

  Some photos:

  At the start, the pantheon pattern couldn't be installed on Leap 16, and after a manual install the login screen crashed, so you could never reach a desktop.

  #elementaryOS #linux

• Sander June 26 at 4:02 pm

  Claude fixed another bug in elementaryOS, with notify-send notifications not showing up in the notification center after a sleep:

  Root cause was a GDK bug, not the carousel at all. After sleep/resume, Gala's compositor isn't ready to supply a frame clock for new GTK4 surfaces. realize() silently creates a broken surface and the daemon has been dropping every notification since. The fix retries with unrealize() + 200ms delay until the compositor is ready — typically succeeds on the first or second retry.

  All my fixes are available for upstreaming. #linux #elementaryOS

• Vertical dock on elementaryOS 8

  Sander January 27 at 9:26 am

  I prefer my dock on the left side of the screen and the new elementaryOS 8 Wayland compatible dock's design is to explicitly not support that. This is because the dock is visible in the workspace switcher and allows the user to drag windows to other workspaces using the dock.

  If you're happy to lose that functionality and are using the Classic login session then you can reinstate Plank as follows:

  Disable the Elementary Dock (Correct Way)

  Create a user override:

  cp /etc/xdg/io.elementary.desktop.wm.shell ~/.config/
  

  Edit the file:

  nano ~/.config/io.elementary.desktop.wm.shell
  

  Remove or comment out the dock block:

  [io.elementary.dock]
  launch-on-x=true
  args=io.elementary.dock
  

  Log out and log back in.

  Result: the elementary dock is never started and does not respawn.

  Start Plank

  Use standard XDG autostart. File: ~/.config/autostart/plank.desktop

  [Desktop Entry]
  Type=Application
  Name=Plank
  Exec=plank
  OnlyShowIn=Pantheon;
  X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
  

  (Optional) Add a small delay if you ever see geometry issues:

  Exec=sh -c "sleep 2 && plank"
  

  Verification

  pgrep -a io.elementary.dock   # should produce no output
  pgrep -a plank               # should be running
  

  #linux #elementaryOS

• Workaround for when poetry cannot find pyenv managed python

  Sander June 16, 2023 at 11:23 am

  I use pyenv to manage python versions for my projects, and use poetry to manage project dependencies. Poetry was unable to find the latest python version, and insisted on creating virtual envs with system python.

  Setting poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python true did not work for me, and neither did poetry env use whatever-version:

  $ poetry env use 3.11
  Could not find the python executable python3.11

  However pyenv can list the the full path to the currently active python, which can be used as a parameter to poetry, so the following worked:

  $ poetry env use $(pyenv which python)
  $ poetry install; poetry run python --version
  

  Update: double check that pyenv is configuring the shell correctly -- $HOME/.pyenv/shims should be in your PATH variable, and your shell runtime configuration file (such as .bashrc / .zshrc) should contain eval "$(pyenv init -)"

  Hope this helps!

  ‎ #poetry #python #pyenv #ubuntu #elementaryos #linux

• Map Eject to Multitasking View

  Sander April 4, 2023 at 1:55 pm

  So I use ElementaryOS and in version 7 you are no longer able to map just the Eject key. I like to map this to the Multitasking View (something like the macOS Expose).

  The solution is to use the DConf Editor application and search for show-desktop. ElementaryOS repurposes the show desktop to the multitasking view. Simply set the value to ['Eject']

  Alternatively you can set the left-super key (windows/command) to the Multitasking View. This seems better supported.

  ‎ #elementaryos #linux

• elementaryOS 6 refresh

  Sander November 12, 2021 at 4:50 am

  I refreshed the olde Thinkpad to elementaryOS 6, and thought it would be useful to me and others to document the process.

  As they don't support an upgrade from elementaryOS 5, I backed up my repositories using repoman and paved the rest, as I use this laptop for side-projects and have a sync solution in place.

  The first install resulted in a black screen (perhaps it went into standby and did not respond to mouse or keyboard presses), but a restart continued the installation successfully. Further OS setup was straightforward and simple. I thought about creating a /home partition but as I was happy with my migration process I decided to go with the convenient default.

  The first app to install I had to get from FlatHub, which is nicely integrated. This first flatpakref loaded on the second try and installed using the integration included in the OS.

  Syncthing's introducer feature allows a device to introduce shares to connected devices and this helps setting up the shared folder containing my new-device scripts. It's important to untick "Receive only" so that it's a two way sync.

  This post will be updated as more thoughts become available.

  #elementaryos #linux #technology