synaptic needs
xhost + local:
synaptic-pkexec
Thanks for confirming gufw. We’ll probably just drop it out of welcome for resolute and later.
I jumped over to Ubuntu and both apps are fully functional on Wayland. Must be a gnome thing ?
dbox-2604@dbox-2604:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
ubuntu:GNOME
dbox-2604@dbox-2604:~$ echo “$XDG_SESSION_TYPE”
wayland
The issue is at the compositor level. Labwc takes standards pretty seriously and is less forgiving than mutter.
I’ve uploaded a git main release of budgie-desktop directly from upstream sources - its in the PPA - NOT in the universe repo. This should approximate the 10.10.2 release due soon.
As always, happy to receive feedback as early as possible given that 10.10.2 is probably the actual release for the LTS.
Look out for 10.10.2 release in the next day or so.
There is now a new applet called budgie-screencast-applet
This needs lots of testing. Have fun!
The main applications menu has had more work on it. The favourites sidebar right click menu is now an overlay that allows the menu to work against wayfire and future labwc versions. The power button similarly is now more friendly with other compositors.
Lastly the default theme now displays per user wallpapers aka slick-greeter style. Tweaks have been made to ensure the password field is focused after pressing any key. The session dropdown now correctly closes when choosing a session.
I’m new to Budgie, but have been an ubuntu user for 20 years or more. I like the plank dock and have used it on Ubuntu Mate for the last 4 years. But I can’t figure this out …
Having just installed Budgie 26, I saw a floating menu (visually, floating on a sheet of glass) at the bottom of the screen. Items were added to it as I launched them, but I couldn’t interact with the dock at all: clicking the mouse had no effect.
I searched the forums and found a post explaining that I needed to add the dock through Desktop Settings, and I managed to convert the empty bottom menu bar into a dock. But now I have two docks. One which is entirely useless, and one which I can now click on existing items to launch, but cannot add any new items with right-click (or left click). See screenshot.
I’m a little confused. How to get rid of the useless upper dock, and allow myself to add apps to the lower one.
More strangeness. The screen blanked when I walked away from the computer. There was no way to log back in and resume the session, so I had to ssh in from another computer and reboot it from there.
Pressing any keys, just produced a green circle in the center of the screen, saying Eng, and random quadrants highlighted around it. No idea what that was. There was no way to get to a password entry screen to log back in.
Don’t worry @plutocrat — you’re not the only one who has made these discoveries!
It’s hard to believe that all of this will be up and running, not to mention fully translated, in barely a month and a half.
Personally, I hate having to press a key and then use the mouse to authenticate when opening the connection.
I haven’t been able to wake it from sleep mode either — I’ve never had any luck with the wheel of fortune…
As for Plank, which unfortunately isn’t compatible with Wayland, it has remained faithful to the KISS principle.
But hey, we have to have faith.
And if you don’t need bleeding-edge software, Ubuntu Pro lets you stay on UB 24.04 (or even revert to UB 22.04) while you wait for things to settle down. 
OK, thanks for the reassurance. I understand I jumped the gun a bit by going for the daily image, but I needed to reinstall a desktop machine, and didn’t want to go with Mint again, so thought I’d try this one, and try to avoid the 24→ 26 dist-upgrade in a month.
I don’t mind fiddling with settings a bit, having been doing that for a long time. But if there’s no immediate cure, I can live with it.
I did an apt upgrade earlier today, and I can now add apps to the bottom (real) dock, so that’s OK for now. Lets see what happens.
Aha. This gets rid of the weird non-functional dock.
killall crystal-dock
Oh, and re-launching it means it actually works. Its like there was an invisible layer in between my mouse and it before, and when you re-launch it, it launches over the top of that layer. If that makes any sense.
Please tell me more about your setup. Is it a virtual install or or real hardware?
Laptop? Monitor, multimonitor? Graphics type?
You mentioned relaunching crystal dock works. I wonder if there is a race condition here … if adding a 5 second delay before crystal dock starts? Try that … the autostart file is in /etc/xdg/autostart
Change the exec= to something like
Exec=sleep 5; crystal-dock
Real hardware. Desktop. Single Monitor. Graphics type .. erm not sure what you want here.
inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series
/ Radeon Mobile Series] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Display: wayland server: ``X.org`` v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: LabWC driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,radeonsi,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.0.1-2ubuntu1
renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 3 Graphics (radeonsi raven ACO DRM 3.64
6.19.0-9-generic)
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo wl: wdisplays,wlr-randr x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
5 second delay in /etc/xdg/autostart/crystal-dock-autostart.desktop didn’t help. In fact after that crystal dock didn’t launch at all. Tried also with command in quotes, in case it didn’t like the semicolon.
Logs say this, so it didn’t like something about new Exec command.
WARNING: Desktop file /etc/xdg/autostart/crystal-dock-autostart.desktop for application crystal-dock-autostart.desktop could not be parsed or references a missing TryExec binary
This worked
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=crystal-dock
Exec=/usr/bin/crystal-dock
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=5
OnlyShowIn=Budgie
Superb!
We’ll get that into a package update tonight.
Summary of changes this week
- Budgie-Desktop 10.10.2 with updates to budgie-control-center, budgie-desktop-view and budgie-desktop-services are now in the archive and on the daily
- Tweaks to the slickSDDM theme - now displays per user wallpapers and defaults to the standard codename background image for private (local) wallpapers
- slickSDDM theme now focusses the password field rather than having to click into the field.
- Installer slideshow now contains all the translations supplied by the wonderful transifex community - approx half a dozen or so languages in various states of completion
- budgie-extras applets and widgets translations are now in the archive
- applications menu favourites sidebar popups and powerbutton have been reworked to work against wayfire, sway etc
- slickSDDM can now be customised via a guided text type interface - look for the customize option in budgie-control-center - introduction or the slickSDDM customize option in the applications menu (or search for it)
Future fixes that we are aware of:
- Crystal-dock - delay on start to prevent the dock appearing not to accept mouse click events
- raven usage-monitor widget - fix crash for any other architectures (e.g. raspberry pi)
Anything else that we need to be aware of?
Type your password and press return. That’s it.
If you want the more traditional password field type lock screen then install the gtklock package
Cool! It works! 
That too! Thanks !
I take back everything I said earlier. 
But why do you still have to press a key to display the connection box?
Ah - design choice. Should be able to customise this via the slicksddm-customize option or directly here slickSDDM/sddm-theme/theme.conf at 10f1353024f0e8abe47c2d579e5a787bd47faf01 · UbuntuBudgie/slickSDDM · GitHub
(change to false - /usr/share/sddm/themes/ubuntu-budgie-login/theme.conf)
There are some translation gaps here and there, for example in the Crystal dock configuration, the Budgie Control Centre and the ShowTime login screen — seen: it’s in line 43 in /usr/share/sddm/themes/ubuntu-budgie-login/theme.conf
Another shortcoming: the desktop context menu no longer allows you to create new folders and files.