Maybe this could be the title of the topic, Rick and the Gnome?
I can confirm this seriously, not just jokingly. I haven’t encountered any major errors in Gnome 43 so far, although I only recently started using Gnome again. I used to prefer Gnome over KDE, although Xfce wasn’t that common then either.
Some of my apps, when maximized extend off-screen to the right (so the [x] to close is not visible), and the whole app become unresponsive until I un-maximize it. So far this only happens with zim and librewolf, that I’ve noticed, but I assume there are others too.
I can’t seem to reproduce this with any Gtk2/3/4 app that I have installed, but it could possibly be a mutter bug. There was a mutter bug release just the other day, so make sure your mirrors are up to date and see if perhaps that might fix anything, unless you’re already fully up to date of course.
Things to check:
Does it happen on Xorg and/or Wayland
Does it happen on other kernels (e.g. linux, linux-lts, linux-zen, etc)
Does it happen if you change resolutions
Does it happen on a single monitor or multiple monitor setup
Just some things to look into when trying to troubleshoot. I couldn’t find this exact issue in a brief search, but if nothing mentioned above seems to change anything, you may need to file a bug over on the mutter GitLab here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues
It was also happening in Wayland. And Wayland was laggy and glitchy. However, the above UI problem did not happen in cinnamon DE.
I had been using mesa-amber (instead of mesa) because it had been suggested as a way to enable fractional scaling. That ultimately failed, plus I was getting some glitches which may or may not be related. This morning I reinstalled mesa (which uninstalls mesa-amber because of conflicts). Now I’m not getting the glitches and the UI problem I mentioned has also disappeared.
I don’t actually know if these were related to mesa-amber. And it’s too early to tell if the problems were totally resolved. But it seems like I should be using mesa instead of mesa-amber.
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I am close to giving up on Megasync. It stopped working since Gnome 43, and still does not have right context menu to upload files/folders to the Megasync account?
One more issue, can anyone tell me if I can change it somehow?
In the quick menu at the vpn switches, it only shows 8 entries, I have have 10+ vpn networks, in 42 I could see all of them in the menu.
Not sure if Gnome 43 related, but never had this problem on Gnome 42.
Nautilus won’t open frequently. It shows loading cursos, and never opens. I have to kill the process via htop for example in order to be able to start it again.
Also when I try to use the “filter” function (wanted to filter for .torrent files in my case) in Nautilus, it locks up, and tells me to force quit it (as soon as I wrote . it locked up):
If you’d like to gnome the fbody way (note this is on Fedora - so sound switcher isn’t relevant as this is still 42.6, and background logo is a fedora extention - but my Arch GNOME is pretty much the same way)
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On the EOS installed on my laptop, in the power management settings, the screen is set to dim after a certain period of inactivity, and after 5 minutes of inactivity, the screen goes dark. The dimming of the screen also works, but the darkening never happens. I also tested it on a desktop computer. I turned off the dimming, but left it on so that the screen goes dark when idle, but it didn’t work either. I noticed this because last time during package updates, the machine was suspended after a twenty minute delay, which is also in the settings. What I don’t understand is that if screen dimming and suspend work when idle, why can’t the screen go dark? Is this a bug with Gnome or a feature?
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I am using Gnome on Wayland, I cannot figure out how to let the screen dim.
I would be happy if it dims, rather than go completely blank, but cannot find a way.
Going blank works but for me, since I am connected to a smat TV, it is a problem since I would loose the audio (which I want to keep).
option in setting > Power > Power Saving Options (Dim Screen) that no work?
I see. I am connected to a smart tv via HDMI. Do you think that could be reason?
Tomorrow I will try connecting it to a monitor and see if the option appears.
My computer has an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, it could also be a driver issue.
I confirm that also on an external monitor the option is missing.
Will try using another distribution on a Virtual Machine.
I believe my laptop screen does it, but not externally connected monitors.
I’m using my laptop off the monitors currently and I can confirm 100% that on my laptop - external screens do not dim, but my built in laptop display does dim down when I’m not using it for a while.
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Thank you @fbodymechanic
I have checked on a laptop with intel CPU and confirm that the dim option is available.
Just curious, does you laptop have Intel CPU?
The one I’m currently on is AMD. My thinkpad is an i5 with 620hd graphics. Both do it.
I see, so it is probably a problem with my system?
I am using a Minisforum HX90 with Ryzen 9 5900HX.