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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:10:20 JST Aral Balkan

   On #GNOME, you have this really useful app called Settings where you can, well, set your system Settings. So far, so good.

   So then one day, it stops launching. Oops! So you go into terminal to try and launch it to see if there is any debug output…

   settings

   Unknown command.

   Oh, why? Because Settings app’s binary isn’t called settings, it’s called gnome-control-center.

   But of course you already knew that because you can read minds.

   (Raised similar issues before, they don’t get the problem.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:23:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     In case anyone at #GNOME/Red Hat/Fedora/IBM wants to take a look:

     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2813

     #gnome #bug #settings

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:26:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     PS. My hunch: Most likely has something to do with the app attempting to launch after external monitor configuration changes.

     Said external monitor configuration changes happen if you accidentally hit Super + P to toggle between Single monitor and Joined monitor modes and then hit it again to go back to Joined monitor upon with #GNOME summarily forgets the configuration you had before and concocts a different one on the spot (eat that, AI), forcing you to manually set up your monitors again.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:48:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Acesabe

     @acesabe Wayland.

   • Acesabe (acesabe@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:48:03 JST Acesabe

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     @aral #Wayland or #Xorg? Wayland would be my prime suspect if you are using that?
     I often have quirky screen resolution issues when swapping between monitors although not directly Gnome Settings crapping out, also I'm not on Fedora... Swapped back to X recently (after trying to run some old game) and things a tad more stable..

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:50:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     Right, so, if you’re using Sublime Merge on Linux (Wayland, e.g., Fedora Silverblue like me) and, after an external monitor configuration change it starts hanging your entire system (crashing and taking #GNOME with it, requiring a full restart), the workaround is to delete its session file which stores the (now illegal) last-known location of its window.

     i.e., Run:

     rm ~/.config/sublime-merge/Local/Session.sublime_session

     https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge/issues/1857

     #SublimeMerge #wayland #gnome #crash

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:50:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     Well that was a bloody good use of a morning that I should have spent coding.

     *smh*

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 16:48:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Desikner
     • Brage Fuglseth

     @desikn @bragefuglseth Hint: if you need a key, it’s probably not great design. (Inconsistency is never a property of good design.)

   • Brage Fuglseth (bragefuglseth@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 16:48:21 JST Brage Fuglseth

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     @aral Isn’t the package name controlled by distributions? They could name it gnome-settings if they wanted to? 🙂

   • Desikner (desikn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 16:48:21 JST Desikner

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     • Brage Fuglseth

     @bragefuglseth @aral It's the executable name.

     I have these memorised:
     Files = nautilus
     Web = epiphany
     Document viewer = evince
     Image viewer = eog / loupe
     Video = totem
     Console = kgx
     Disk Usage = baobab
     Notes = bijiben
     Passwords = seahorse
     Archive Manager = file-roller

     Did I forget a few?