Unlike previous testing calls - we are now looking for experienced testers who want to help the both the UB and BuddiesOfBudgie teams with early testing of our Wayland offering. This should NOT be used who want a stable system. You can test via a 26.04 install with a test PPA and with the latest 2…

All kidding aside, after installing Qt5 and Qt6 and still nothing, I ran sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop alongside Budgie, and it works. Josh is running mostly KDE in his .rpm version that he updates elsewhere, so I said, why not install KDE alongside Budgie? Not the right answer, but a workaround …

Whats the app you are investigating?

From upstream issues - all nvidia users. Be aware that reaching for nvidia-settings isn’t appropriate moving into the wayland world. To set monitor positions etc, use wdisplays which is available from the menu.

Back testing again! I’m seeing some flicker and freezing of just about all applications. I’m testing in boxes with plenty of memory and space along with the Ubuntu flagship gnome release. The longer I use Budgie the better it seems to run. I couldn’t get past TTY last week. If I can identify a centr…

ok - with todays ISO we basically have our release for 26.04. Obviously bug fixes galore. The key things to note for those how have been installed prior to last week: Crystal-dock out of the box configured Change from lightdm/slick-greeter to SDDM/our own greeter Top-Bar reworked Menu now has fa…

Is there a known permission problem with gufw firewall configuration and synaptic ? Last attempt with gufw from the terminal: dbox-2604b@dbox-2604b:~$ gufw Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Authorizatio…

Those would normally need pkexec to elevate their rights to connect to xwayland? Or maybe tell xwayland extra permissions are needed? xhost +si:localuser:root

Thanks, I’ll try later and report back.

I put in some special handling in the menu (ours and upstreams menu implementation) for any GUI that uses Exec=pkexec … in their .desktop file. pkexec under wayland needs some special handling with environment variables to work. If synaptic and gufw doesn’t use pkexec in their Exec= file then end-…

xhost +si:localuser:root command didn’t work for synaptic. The aplication “Firewall” opens fine as a work-around but requires more knowledge to use. GUFW is a recommended app in budgie welcome.

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