From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?4oCYc3RhZ2luZ+KAmQ==?= and GNOME updates Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:31:22 +0200 Message-ID: <875zre2t5h.fsf@elephly.net> References: <871s3a4xd4.fsf@gnu.org> <87wokjyuw4.fsf@fastmail.com> <87muld8xuo.fsf@gnu.org> <87y34xzez8.fsf@elephly.net> <87zhpaydem.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87imvler9u.fsf@elephly.net> <87bm1d8sxv.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef68ibfy.fsf@elephly.net> <87r2a3o39s.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgujgchr.fsf@gnu.org> <878swa3nm9.fsf@elephly.net> <87h8ayfstx.fsf@ngyro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGKRU-0004u9-JK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:31:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGKRT-0007Ic-JD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:31:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h8ayfstx.fsf@ngyro.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Timothy Sample Cc: Guix-devel Timothy Sample writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: [=E2=80=A6] >> Do you have ~/.local? In my earlier tests this contained binary >> notification data that when loaded would lead to a crash. > > I=E2=80=99m testing GNOME on =E2=80=98staging=E2=80=99 now, and had the s= ame problem (GDM worked > okay, but I could not login). I fixed it by deleting > =E2=80=9C~/.local/share/gnome-shell/notifications=E2=80=9D. Yes, that=E2=80=99s the file that caused me trouble in the past. I cannot = be 100% certain, though, that other files also needed removing. (At least for the GDM user it worked fine to delete the whole directory.) > The newer GNOME seems much nicer, so this is pretty cool. The only > problems I see so far are that I lost my background picture, This appears to expected when using =E2=80=9Cguix gc=E2=80=9D. I get this = also without a major upgrade to GNOME. The background picture then reverts to white. > there=E2=80=99s no > icons or text for NetworkManager on the status bar Oh, hadn=E2=80=99t seen this one before. > and icons aren=E2=80=99t > working for applications in my user profile. Are these icons refered to by absolute file name? Might they have been garbage collected? > Thanks Ricardo for doing the update! Thanks for testing it! We still have the other GNOME upgrade that=E2=80=99s waiting for a rebase, which would also require some testing. -- Ricardo