The recently released xorg server 1.20.4 hit the repos today: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Server-1.20.4
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Not the Ubuntu repos, but Red Hat ones. Do we follow Red Hat?
Ubuntu disco has 1.20.3-1 still.
its in the proposed repo for disco https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server
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Is it just for me, or is the ugly ImageMagick icon back in Disco?
@jbicha had succeeded in removing it in Artful and now it is back in my âshow applicationsâ list.
EDIT: Filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-settings/+bug/1819503
EDIT2: It turns out in this bug report, that CUPS doesnât depend on ImageMagick anymore and can be safely removed now for good.
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Today is GNOME 3.32. release day 
And today I got Linux kernel 5:
Linux amano-desktop 5.0.0-7-generic #8-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 4 16:27:25 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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EDIT: I installed the Yaru debs manually and the Desktop is a fucking beauty.
I donât even miss the transparent top bar. It is perfect as it is!!
Gongratz to @c-lobrano, @frederik-f, @jaggers, @madsrh, @eaglers and to all the others involved.
EDIT2:
Whoever missed @jbichaâs post:
Restored a minimal Sundry menu for upgraders (itâs at least better than X-GNOME-Sundry). To get rid of it, after upgrading, run gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.desktop.app-folders (assuming you havenât made any customizations to the app folders).
EDIT3: This command removed the Folders just temporarily. They always come back.
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Thanks for the nice and unemotional thread. Was a good source of information!
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The last big feature in the next days will the switch from Mesa 18.3 to 19.0.
Then Disco is more or less ready. Just bugfixes.
EDIT:
Can somebody start up the deb version of GIMP?
I get just that error:
gimp: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: gegl_buffer_iterator2_new
The snap works though.
For later reference:
That little script lets you open Synaptic in the Wayland session just like in the old X times by just clicking on it:
Just create a new script for Synaptic by typing
gedit admin:///usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec
(Donât worry, you might have to enter your superuser password twice. That still seems to be a bug with the new and shiny gvfs admin backend)
Within the script file make sure that you add the xhost commands properly. The text should look like this:
#!/bin/sh
xhost +si:localuser:root
pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic â$@â
xhost -si:localuser:rootNow press âsaveâ and from now on you can open Synaptic just by clicking the icon like in the old âXâ times. It looks scary but it isnât.
When Ubuntu switches to Wayland again such scripts should probably be installed by default then.
EDIT 20.3.: I updated the script above:
before I had set pkexec â/usr/sbin/synapticâ â$@â and it worked. Now I had to change it to pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic â$@â.
I donât know why though.
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Firefox 66 and Mesa 19.0 ended up in the release pocket. So we are now more or less feature complete.
You can test the state of the Firefox Wayland support by following those steps:
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Start the Ubuntu-Wayland session instead of the âubuntuâ one.
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Open the terminal (gnome-terminal or whatever)
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type
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
- type
firefox
- After testing just close the terminal. The env variable in step 3 was just set temporarily, so the next time you start up Firefox it will use X(wayland) again.
EDIT:
IT WORKS!
Initially I saw just invisible windows. It turned out, that I had Webrender still enabled in about:config accidentally after an unsuccessful Webrender tryout.
Hooray
(= about:support)
EDIT 2 Just as an information: It seems that GDK_BACKEND isnât supposed to be set globally. It is designed to be set per application. So donât try to set it up globally, it will probably just not work or even prevent to start the desktop session. If you want Firefox to start up automatically, you will probably have to edit the firefox.desktop file (instead of Exec=firefox %u use Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=wayland /usr/bin/firefox %u. That will pass the per application env just to Firefox.
It turns out in this bug report, that CUPS in Disco doesnât depend on ImageMagick anymore and thus can be safely purged for good now.
That was an excellent change for most users.
Those that want to bury their windows in the same position can likely find a setting somewhere, someplaceâŠ
There is a new separate thread to discuss this topic: https://community.ubuntu.com/t/center-windows-by-default/10262/4
It is not too important to me because it is easy to change that back in GNOME-tweaks (âwindowsâ section). I think that this is what you are hinting at.
Well, that is true-sometimes, the dock can get stuck on the fact that there is a window when there isnât.
But with the dock, all you need is pretty much a major Gnome Shell update, and your dead, but Ubuntu Dock is an extension, and so is Dash to Panel.
Itâs a good thing to consider using dash-to-panel.
Edit: The recent updates fixed my WLAN connectivity. It was broken after one package update today.
EDIT2: I finally figured out the culprit of the broken Firefox Wayland support. Of course it was my fault, I have left Webrender turned on although my graphics chip was still blocked for Webrender and didnât work. Just having this setting toggled prevented Wayland to work properly.
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I have a broken user interface in 19.04 release someone help
Packet Tracer still uses libpng12, which isnât available on Bionic and later. It wonât run without it. The one in Xenialâs repos is outdated (1.2.54), while the latest version in Sourceforge is 1.2.59.
One thing I miss in Ubuntu is that login/lockscreen powered by #lightdm please create a better one or bring it back as default⊠I have no issues with gnome Its dope⊠but lets recreate a better ubuntu gnome lockscreen⊠we created the software store they followed suite lets do it for the lock screen⊠Am just an Ubuntu user
I believe we came to linux because it was unique dash2panel is windows style I say we retain ubuntu as it is