September 2018 - xfce - Fedora Mailing-Lists

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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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2018-09-04 (TUESDAY) @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 29 Blocker Review Meeting

by Adam Williamson

# F29 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2018-09-04 (NOTE: TUESDAY)! # Time: 16:00 UTC # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net Hi folks! We have 7 proposed Beta blockers and 15 proposed Beta freeze exception to review, so let's have a review meeting on Tuesday. Note that Monday is a public holiday in North America, so I expect a lot of folks wouldn't be available; I'm proposing the meeting for Tuesday instead. If you have time this weekend, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ . We'll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they're not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F29 can be found on the wiki [0]. For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it's supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting Have a good weekend and see you Tuesday! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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