Aral Balkan
On #GNOME, you have this really useful app called Settings where you can, well, set your system Settings. So far, so good.
So then one day, it stops launching. Oops! So you go into terminal to try and launch it to see if there is any debug output…
settings
Unknown command.
Oh, why? Because Settings app’s binary isn’t called settings, it’s called gnome-control-center.
But of course you already knew that because you can read minds.
(Raised similar issues before, they don’t get the problem.)
Aral Balkan
In case anyone at #GNOME/Red Hat/Fedora/IBM wants to take a look:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2813
Aral Balkan
PS. My hunch: Most likely has something to do with the app attempting to launch after external monitor configuration changes.
Said external monitor configuration changes happen if you accidentally hit Super + P to toggle between Single monitor and Joined monitor modes and then hit it again to go back to Joined monitor upon with #GNOME summarily forgets the configuration you had before and concocts a different one on the spot (eat that, AI), forcing you to manually set up your monitors again.
Aral Balkan
@acesabe Wayland.
Acesabe
@aral #Wayland or #Xorg? Wayland would be my prime suspect if you are using that?
I often have quirky screen resolution issues when swapping between monitors although not directly Gnome Settings crapping out, also I'm not on Fedora... Swapped back to X recently (after trying to run some old game) and things a tad more stable..
Aral Balkan
Right, so, if you’re using Sublime Merge on Linux (Wayland, e.g., Fedora Silverblue like me) and, after an external monitor configuration change it starts hanging your entire system (crashing and taking #GNOME with it, requiring a full restart), the workaround is to delete its session file which stores the (now illegal) last-known location of its window.
i.e., Run:
rm ~/.config/sublime-merge/Local/Session.sublime_session
Aral Balkan
Well that was a bloody good use of a morning that I should have spent coding.
*smh*
Aral Balkan
@desikn @bragefuglseth Hint: if you need a key, it’s probably not great design. (Inconsistency is never a property of good design.)
Desikner
@bragefuglseth @aral It's the executable name.
I have these memorised:
Files = nautilus
Web = epiphany
Document viewer = evince
Image viewer = eog / loupe
Video = totem
Console = kgx
Disk Usage = baobab
Notes = bijiben
Passwords = seahorse
Archive Manager = file-roller
Did I forget a few?
Brage Fuglseth
@aral Isn’t the package name controlled by distributions? They could name it gnome-settings if they wanted to? 🙂
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