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Cake day: September 8th, 2020

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  • If you used GNOME mainly, the transition probably won’t be too bad. GNOME is the Linux DE most like MacOS. I used GNOME for years before buying my first MacBook and I wouldn’t say I felt right at home, but I was home-adjacent lol. Still mainly use Linux on my desktop, but don’t mind switching to my MacBook when I’m on the go. It helps that MacOS is Unix-based, so it’s way more compatible with my workflow than windows, and a lot of CLI tools I used in Linux just transfer right over.

    Let me know if you have any specific questions about anything.


  • The software for linux phones is pretty much there. Gnome and KDE mobile are surprisingly capable. There’s built in apps for every basic thing you’d need on a phone like a dialer, SMS app, camera, etc. plus all the normal apps adapted to work with mobile like the calculator and maps apps.

    The only real limitation is with the hardware. I have no idea why all new linux phones launch with specs from a decade ago. You can get a better experience by flashing ported Postmarket OS to an Android phone like the Nothing phone or a OnePlus 6t.

    It shouldn’t be like that, no idea why it’s impossible to just have a linux phone with decent specs and a good camera on par with modern flagships.













  • Very well said. Thank you very much for your help. I wouldn’t have known to check the ownership issues or if GDM were properly running Wayland were it not for your help. I’ll reach out to the GNOME devs on the relevant repositories and see if they might be able to point me in the right direction. Thank you for your time and expertise.


  • Yes. Here’s the contents I currently have in /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml:

    <monitors version="2">
      <configuration>
        <layoutmode>physical</layoutmode>
        <logicalmonitor>
          <x>0</x>
          <y>0</y>
          <scale>1</scale>
          <primary>yes</primary>
          <monitor>
            <monitorspec>
              <connector>DP-1</connector>
              <vendor>SAM</vendor>
              <product>Odyssey G93SC</product>
              <serial>HNTW700164</serial>
            </monitorspec>
            <mode>
              <width>5120</width>
              <height>1440</height>
              <rate>239.997</rate>
            </mode>
            <colormode>bt2100</colormode>
          </monitor>
        </logicalmonitor>
        <disabled>
          <monitorspec>
            <connector>HDMI-1</connector>
            <vendor>FUN</vendor>
            <product>Evanlak8K V2</product>
            <serial>0x00006410</serial>
          </monitorspec>
        </disabled>
      </configuration>
    </monitors>
    

    The disabled dummy plug is the “Evanlak8K V2” device while my functional monitor is my Samsung Odyssey OLED G9. This config is the same as the one currently running on my GNOME desktop config, but in GDM still defaults to the enabled dummy plug, even with the fixed ownership.

    At this point, do you think I should issue a report on GDM’s repository? Maybe the devs there would have more insight


  • Just checked the ownership of the monitor config, it was gdm:root, so I changed the ownership to gdm:gdm and rebooted. Still facing the same issue.

    Didn’t see any error messages in the logs about not being able to load wayland, but just to confirm, I ran loginctl show-session {gdm session id} -p Type which returns Type=wayland, so it’s definitely running under wayland. I have an AMD GPU though so I wouldn’t expect there to be any problems there.

    Not seeing anything else weird in the logs that are jumping out as strange to me either, so a bit at a loss here. Any other suggestions?