On the topic of aliases, I noticed another oddity: putting aliases in a ~/.bash_aliases file doesn’t work; the aliases have to be added to the end of the ~/.bashrc file.
However, the code in ~/.bashrc seems correct:
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases; fi
Hi, not sure if this is related to me using the 26.04 beta version, or just general unfamiliarity with budgie (have been on mate/cinnamon for the last ten years or more).
I can’t seem to find a clipboard app (modest requirement to store the last 10-20 clips, and then forget them on logout/reboot). It looks like it used to exist, but isn’t available any more. Ideally crystal dock, but also OK in the top menu.
Ditto network speed app. I just want something in my top dock which shows up/down Mbit per sec. Seems it was available before, but not any more.
Possibly a bug with 26.04. I uncheck the Auto Arrange icons on the desktop (right click), but they still get aggressively arranged.
I see the time on the desktop. What app / part of budgie controls that? Is it possible to change that, or include other info?
I can’t seem to find a clipboard app (modest requirement to store the last 10-20 clips, and then forget them on logout/reboot). It looks like it used to exist, but isn’t available any more. Ideally crystal dock, but also OK in the top menu.
That would be the budgie-clipboard-applet which is in our backports PPA. It needs more work to make it fully wayland compliant - at the moment it only works on XWayland based apps. Another mini-project if anyone wants to volunteer
Alternatively try cliphist or clipman which are wayland compatible clipboard managers. copyq is more heavyweight.
Ditto network speed app. I just want something in my top dock which shows up/down Mbit per sec. Seems it was available before, but not any more.
the package indicator-sysmonitor package in backports - or it should be - would serve that purpose. It seems to have disappeared - so thanks for the reminder, will be updated there before the final release
Possibly a bug with 26.04. I uncheck the Auto Arrange icons on the desktop (right click), but they still get aggressively arranged.
The desktop icons implementation under 26.04 does not allow you to arbitarily move icons around the desktop. The autoarrange option stops the icons being ordered only by name - it can be moved around within the other icons.
I see the time on the desktop. What app / part of budgie controls that? Is it possible to change that, or include other info?
Thats the showtime widget that you can find under budgie-desktop-settings - raven.
No - it just shows the date & time at the position you choose.
If you want a conky style option then a project like GitHub - nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper: Wrapper to display a script output or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors · GitHub would work.
Oops… I think I spoke too soon: I had tested screen capture on a fresh install of the March 23 UB 26.04 daily build, but I hadn’t updated it.
Before the update, the capture was perfectly positioned; after the update, it’s still misaligned: instead of the raccoon, it shows ShowTime again… 
I tested on the beta iso. Installed, changed the displays scaling. Logged out and logged in. Screenshot. All was OK.
It actually works on the 26.04 beta! 
Observed on 26.04 beta: you must press the “Shift” key for the Lock Keys Indicator applet to display the active key(s).
Can confirm Quick Start is a translatable string on buddiesofbudgie transifex. Quite a lot of languages have still to update with these strings done over the last few months.
Displays aka “wdisplays” is a third-party app. It will be dropped in favour with a future “budgie-configurator” app that is being written.
Likewise “slickSDDM Customize” which was a last second capability for 26.04 will become a GUI app in a future release - and we’ll absolutely ensure it is available for translation as well.
now thats a weird observation!
Off the top of my head I can’t think why that is needed. Will put that on the list of “things to look at”
cheers.
The good news is that the pCloud AppImage works on 26.04, which isn’t the case for a number of other apps in this format.
libfuse2t64 is already installed.
what issues are you aware of? Any workarounds to document here?
It depends on the applications. I’ll run some thorough tests and let you know.
I’ve run several tests. Some apps work great, others don’t.
Basically, the issues are the same ones that came up with 24.04: permission problems with the temporary directory and the need to use the “–no-sandbox” option with AppImages that use Electron or chrome-sandbox — which is a little silly.
But anyway, it seems the AppImage format is somewhat letf behind — maybe that’s why Balena Etcher dropped it for 64-bit architectures. 
Thanks for the info. Not sure if thats good or bad news. But does sound like there isn’t a quick win here we could implement to help appimage users.
No, especially since many of them were designed for a KDE environment and lack the Qt6 components necessary to run elsewhere.
AppImage is no longer as portable as it was claimed to be.
Last chance this week folks for 26.04 before we have to use SRUs. Over the weekend various things was uploaded.
I haven’t managed to convince upstream that a patch for multimonitor support is ok - so can’t ship that I’m afraid.
ok - the 5 year old clipboard-manager now has been reworked -
so it now copes with both XWayland and Wayland based apps.
More tweaks needed - but more useful now.
Direct copy to clipboard, click on any entry and then right-click and paste.
I’ve bumped version to 2.0.0 to indicate a major release. GitHub - UbuntuBudgie/budgie-clipboard-applet: Budgie Clipboard Manager written using Vala · GitHub
I might rework it to be a non-fork project given that original author hasn’t updated for 5 years. “budgie-cliphist-applet” or something that sounds snappy.
Ideas for the future -
