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Ya lo tengo en #opensuse tumbleweed la mejor distro con el mejor escritorio #Gnome

Gracias !!

#gnome #opensuse

Today #Bustle was accepted into #GNOMECircle. Bustle lets you visualize and analyze D-Bus activity with detailed sequence diagrams. Congratulations!

Learn more on the Apps for GNOME website: apps.gnome.org/Bustle

#GNOME

Screenshot of Bustle displaying a sequence diagram of D-bus activity

Bustle – Apps for GNOME

Visualize D-Bus activity – Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the du...
apps.gnome.org
#gnome #GNOMECircle #bustle

New in GNOME 48 is the necessary support for keyboard handling by the Orca screen reader in Wayland sessions. As I reported on the Orca mailing list recently, I have updated my system, and this support is so far working as intended. You need Mutter 48 and the latest AT-SPI installed.

Thanks are owed to the software developers responsible for this work.
#gnome #accessibility #Linux #Wayland

#Accessibility #linux #gnome #Wayland

This week we released GNOME 48! 🎉

A new major release with exciting changes including notification stacking, performance improvements, an improved image viewer, a new interface font, new digital wellbeing settings, a new audio player, HDR support and much more!

To find out more, and to see what else happened this week, check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!

👉 thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #ThisWeekInGNOME

GNOME 48 banner

#192 Forty-eight!

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 14 to March 21.
thisweek.gnome.org
#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME

#gnome #typescript #audio #decibels

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#gnome @GNOME

I have a question about the work space switching and I’m sure if it’s a #gnome thing a #fedora 42 thing or a #boxes thing. I have fedora 42 installed in boxes and the behaviour of the work space switches immediately with out animation . This to me is actually shocking/jarring . Can anyone tell me if this is the new default behaviour for work space switching in gnome or should I be looking at another culprit?
#gnome #fedora #boxes

#gnome

Interesting behaviour: When downloading and opening a .flatpakref file in GNOME Software, it offers to install the flatpak from the remote fedora instead of the one referenced in the .flatpakref file. I could just observe it with the org.gimp.GIMP which is 3.0.0 in flathub but 3.0.0RC3 in fedora.

If someone reads this and can tell me where to report this I'd report it as a bug as it's unexpected behaviour.

#gnome #flatpak #fedora

#gnome #Flatpak #fedora

Last week Exercise Timer by Lőrinc Serfőző was accepted into Circle! It's a cute little app to create timers for high-intensity interval training 🏋️⏲️

apps.gnome.org/Hiit

#gnome #circle #libadwaita

Sharepic with the Exercise Timer app icon on green background and the GNOME Circle logo in the bottom right. The app icon consists of a round metal weight from the side, with a timer in the center.

Exercise Timer – Apps for GNOME

Train and rest with high intensity – Exercise Timer is a simple utility to conduct high intensity interval training. Following a short preparation period, a prescribed number of exercise sets are played. In between each exercise, the...
apps.gnome.org
#gnome #libadwaita #circle

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

GTK 4.18.1 is out! This is the first stable release of the 4.18 cycle, and includes a few last minute additions:

- fractional scaling support on macOS works again
- the Android backend uses GL rendering for top level surfaces

Plus, as usual, lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, and documentation updates.

You can download the release archive from the usual place: download.gnome.org/sources/gtk…

Or you can wait until your distribution of choice is updated to ship GNOME 48.

#gtk #gtk4 #gnome

Index of /sources/gtk/4.18/

download.gnome.org
#gnome #gtk #GTK4

#gnome

#gnome #linuxmobile

Anyone familiar with hacking on GNOME Shell or writing Shell extensions interested in helping with a design experiment? 👀

The GNOME design team is interested in exploring some improvements to window/app switching, but we want to make sure we actually *use* the concepts before making too many assumptions. I may write up a longer blog post or something going into more of the thinking behind the design we’re exploring—but in the meantime: anyone interested in helping out? 😊

#GNOME #GNOMEdesign

#gnome #gnomedesign

#gnome #mapstodon #transitous #gnomemaps

Last week, I improved Papers' code around link previews. You'll get in Papers upcoming release. Want me to tease what to get in 49?
We were meeting, as we regularly do:
So, at the same time, @FineFindus, sitting across from me … completely rewrote the thumbnailer … of course in Rust.
All that, while @pabloyoyoista worked on improvements for the context menu for annotations. (Based on @tbernard's¹ great mock-ups for it.)

¹ for clarity: not present

#GNOME #GNOMEHH

Notebook showing an open merge request titled "thumbnailer: port to Rust" with another notebook in the background, a Framework featuring a GNOME and a KDE sticker
#gnome #gnomehh @Tobias Bernard @FineFindus @pabloyoyoista

Are you doing something cool with GTK or the GNOME application development platform? Do you want to talk about it in front of the GNOME community? Then you have until March 16 to submit a talk proposal for GUADEC 2025!

events.gnome.org/event/259/

#gnome #GUADEC #GUADEC2025


GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
GNOME Events (Indico)
#gnome #GUADEC #guadec2025

#gnome #performance #gnomecalendar #sysprof

Did some app icon design work for the first time in a while today. Haven't gotten feedback on either of these yet, but regardless of whether they'll actually end up being used, I'm happy with how they turned out 😁

#GNOME #AppIconDesign #Inkscape

Picture of two app icons. The first one is for an app called "Stereotype", and resembles a stack of papers with a typial Groucho Marx glasses and moustache mask overlaid on top. The second icon is for an app called "Cauldron", and resembles a cauldron with a green, bubbly liquid inside.
#gnome #inkscape #appicondesign

so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)

the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)

#furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile

#linuxonmobile #gnome #phosh #linuxmobile #flx1 #furilabs #furiphoneflx1

Media playback tablet running GNOME and postmarketOS


A couple of years ago I set up a simple and independent media streaming server for my Bandcamp music collection using a Raspberry Pi 4, Fedora IoT and Jellyfin. It works nicely and I don’t have to play any cloud rent to Spotify to listen to music at home.

But it’s annoying having the music playback controls buried in my phone or laptop. How many times do you go to play a song and get distracted by a WhatsApp message instead?

So I started thinking about a tablet that would just control media playback. A tablet running a non-corporate operating system, because music is too important to allow Google to stick AI and adverts in the middle of it. Last month Pablo told me that postmarketOS had pretty decent support for a specific mainstream tablet and so I couldn’t reset buying one second-hand and trying to set up GNOME there for media playback.

Read on and I will tell you how the setup procedure went, what is working nicely and what we could still improve.

What is the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro tablet like?


I’ve never owned a tablet so all I can tell you is this: it looks like a shiny black mirror. I couldn’t find the power button at first, but it turns out to be on the top.

The device specs claim that it has an analog headphone output, which is not true. It does come with a USB-C to headphone adapter in the box, though.

It comes with an antagonistic Android-based OS that seems to constantly prompt you to sign in to things and accept various terms and conditions. I guess they really want to get to know you.

I paid 240€ for it second hand. The seller didn’t do a factory reset before posting it to me, but I’m a good citizen so I wiped it for them, before anyone could try to commit online fraud using their digital identity.

How easy is it to install postmarketOS + GNOME on the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro?


I work on systems software but I prefer to stay away from the hardware side of things. Give me a computer that at least can boot to a shell, please. I am not an expert in this stuff. So how did I do at installing a custom OS on an Android tablet?

Figuring out the display model


The hardest part of the process was actually the first step: getting root access on the device so that I could see what type of display panel it has.

Xiaomi tablets have some sort of “bootloader lock”, but thankfully this device was already unlocked. If you ever look at purchasing a Xiaomi device, be very wary that Xiaomi might have locked the bootloader such that you can’t run custom software on your device. Unlocking a locked bootloader seems to require their permission. This kind of thing is a big red flag when buying computers.

One popular tool to root an Android device is Team Win’s TWRP. However it didn’t have support for the Pad 5 Pro, so instead I used Magisk.

I found rooting process with Magisck complicated. The only instructions I could find were in this video named “Xiaomi Pad 5 Rooting without the Use of TWRP | Magisk Manager” from Simply Tech-Key (Cris Apolinar). This gives you a two step process, which requires a PC with the Android debugging tools ‘adb’ and ‘fastboot’ installed and set up.

Step 1: Download and patch the boot.img file


  1. On the PC, download the boot.img file from the stock firmware. (See below).
  2. Copy it onto the tablet.
  3. On the tablet, download and install the Magisk Manager app from the Magisck Github Releases page.
  4. Open the Magisk app and select “Install” to patch the boot.img file.
  5. Copy the patched boot.img off the tablet back to your PC and rename it to patched_boot.img.

The boot.img linked from the video didn’t work for me. Instead I searched online for “xiaomi pad 5 pro stock firmware rom” and found one that worked that way.

It’s important to remember that downloading and running random binaries off the internet is very dangerous. It’s possible that someone pretends the file is one thing, when it’s actually malware that will help them steal your digital identity. The best defence is to factory reset the tablet before you start, so that there’s nothing on there to steal in the first place.

Step 2: Boot the patched boot.img on the tablet


  1. Ensure developer mode is enabled on the tablet: go to “About this Device” and tap the box that shows the OS version 7 times.
  2. Ensure USB debugging is enabled: find the “Developer settings” dialog in the settings window and enable if needed.
  3. On the PC, run adb reboot fastboot to reboot the tablet and reach the bootloader menu.
  4. Run fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img to boot the patched boot image.

At this point, if the boot.img file was good, you should see the device boot back to Android and it’ll now be “rooted”. So you can follow the instructions in the postmarketOS wiki page to figure out if your device has the BOE or the CSOT display. What a ride!

Install postmarketOS


If we can find a way to figure out the display without needing root access, it’ll make the process substantially easier, because the remaining steps worked like a charm.

Following the wiki page, you first install pmbootstrap and run pmbootstrap init to configure the OS image.
Laptop running pmbootstrap
A note for Fedora Silverblue users: the bootstrap process doesn’t work inside a Toolbx container. At some point it tries to create /dev in the rootfs using mknod and fails. You’ll have to install pmbootstrap on the host and run it there.

Next you use pmbootstrap flasher to install the OS image to the correct partition.

I wanted to install to the system_b partition but I seemed to get an ‘out of disk space’ error. The partition is 3.14 GiB in size. So I flashed the OS to the userdata partition.

The build and flashing process worked really well and I was surprised to see the postmarketOS boot screen so quickly.

Tablet showing postmarketOS boot screen

How well does GNOME work as a tablet interface?


The design side of GNOME have thought carefully about making GNOME work well on touch-screen devices. This doesn’t mean specifically optimising it for touch-screen use, it’s more about avoiding a hard requirement on you having a two-button mouse available.

To my knowledge, nobody is paying to optimise the “GNOME on tablets” experience right now. So it’s certainly lacking in polish. In case it wasn’t clear, this one is for the real headz.

Login to the machine was tricky because there’s no on-screen keyboard on the GDM screen. You can work around that by SSH’ing to the machine directly and creating a GDM config file to automatically log in:
$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage[daemon]AutomaticLogin=mediaAutomaticLoginEnable=True
It wasn’t possible to push the “Skip” button in initial setup, for whatever reason. But I just rebooted the system to get round that.
Tablet showing GNOME Shell with "welcome to postmarketOS edge" popup
Enough things work that I can already use the tablet for my purposes of playing back music from Jellyfin, from Bandcamp and from elsewhere on the web.

The built-in speakers audio output doesn’t work, and connecting a USB-to-headphone adapter doesn’t work either. What does work is Bluetooth audio, so I can play music that way already. [Update: as of 2025-03-07, built-in audio also works. I haven’t investigated what changed]

I disabled the automatic screen lock, as this device is never leaving my house anyway. The screen seems to stay on and burn power quickly, which isn’t great. I set the screen blank interval to 1 minute, which should save power, but I haven’t found a nice way to “un-blank” the screen again. Touch events don’t seem to do anything. At present I work around by pressing the power button (which suspends the device and stops audio), then pressing it again to resume, at which point the display comes back. [Update: see the comments; it’s possible to reconfigure the power button so that it doesn’t suspend the device].

Apart from this, everything works surprisingly great. Wi-fi and Bluetooth are reliable. The display sometimes glitches when resuming from suspend but mostly works fine. Multitouch gestures work perfectly — this is first time I’ve ever used GNOME with a touch screen and it’s clear that there’s a lot of polish. The system is fast. The Alpine + postmarketOS teams have done a great job packaging GNOME, which is commendable given that they had to literally port systemd.

What’s next?


I’d like to figure out how un-blank the screen without suspending and resuming the device.

It might be nice to fix audio output via the USB-C port. But more likely I might set up a DIY “smart speaker” network around the house, using single-board computers with decent DAC chips connected to real amplifiers. Then the tablet would become more of a remote control.

I already donate to postmarketOS on Opencollective.com, and I might increase the amount as I am really impressed by how well all of this has come together.

Maenwhile I’m finally able to hang out with my cat listening to my favourite Vladimir Chicken songs.

Updates:

  • See the comments for a way to reconfigure the power button so that it unblanks the screen instead of suspending the device.
  • After updating to latest (2025-03-07) postmarketOS edge, the built-in speakers now work and they sound pretty OK. Not sure what changed but that’s very nice to have.

#gnome #postmarketos

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Bandcamp
#gnome #postmarketos

#gnome #outreachy @GNOME @Outreachy Internships

My dad, who is constantly bored, is a talented home improvement hobbyist craftsman. Can fix up pretty much anything. He has #ADHD, keeps asking me to remind him to do stuff, he keeps not doing it, months pass.

I've now set up a cron job that calls a homemade Python script (that I'd update over SFTP) to put one task in front of him at all times on his #GNOME computer, using this #GNOMEShell extension:
extensions.gnome.org/extension…

I don't know whether that makes me a chaotic good or lawful evil son.

Screenshot of GNOME Shell's panel with a text label next to the clock, saying: "To do: replace insulation below the garage's backdoor!"

One Thing - GNOME Shell Extensions

extensions.gnome.org
#gnome #adhd #GNOMEShell

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

#Accessibility #gnome

Spotted a trademark violation here in Puerto de la Cruz

#gnome

A shoe shop using GNOME logo as its own
#gnome

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

GNOME is participating in Google Summer of Code 2025!

The Google Summer of Code 2025 mentoring organizations have just been announced and we are happy that GNOME’s participation has been accepted!

If you are interested in having a internship with GNOME, check gsoc.gnome.org for our project ideas and getting started information.

feborg.es/gnome-is-participati…


GNOME GSoC

Participate in Google Summer of Code with GNOME
gsoc.gnome.org
#gnome #gsoc

#gnome

#gnome #web #gnomeos

#OpenSource Desktops, for example #GNOME, need to do #innovation (again?)! What was the last thing from GNOME that was truly innovative and had a significant impact (also outside open source)?

We are just running behind the big corporations and their ideas. Having new ideas is not hard. It doesn't need to cost a lot of money to implement them. It mostly just needs the will to experiment and try out new things.

But also for that we need quick processes to get such ideas finished and released.

#opensource #gnome #innovation

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

wtf is up with Flathub calling X11 "legacy windowing system" and marking apps with X11 support as "unsafe".

I know GNOME likes role-playing as the sole owners of the Linux ecosystem, but it's not a good look to push their opinions on an otherwise neutral marketplace.

#Linux #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #X11 #Xorg

#linux #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #x11 #xorg

#linux #privacy #offline #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #grammar

@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/….
Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.

#GNOME


Is It Time For a Change In GNOME Leadership? - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers.
tech.slashdot.org
#gnome @Jeff Fortin T.

#linux #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #grammar

After years of hard work, countless reviews, and tons of community testing, we're happy to share that dynamic buffering has landed in Mutter for GNOME 48!

This improves the smoothness of GNOME across a wide range of hardware and software setups.

Thanks to everyone involved in this collaboration! Special thanks to author Daniel van Vugt from Canonical and reviewers Jonas Ådahl and Michel Dänzer from Red Hat.

Read more in This Week in GNOME: thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux


#187 Triple Buffered Notifications

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14.
thisweek.gnome.org
#linux #opensource #gnome

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

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