I upgraded my laptop from F24 to F25 and ran into some issues.
The first issue is when I booted after the install the system came up
into maintenance mode. I looked at the log and the only failure I saw
was it complained of timing out accessing a disk drive. Normally this
would be of some concern, however, at the time I booted the system the
drive it was complaining about WASN'T EVEN PLUGGED IN (sorry for yelling
:-). As soon as I plugged the drive in and rebooted the system came up
fine.
Second issue has to do with the Mate desktop. I wanted to setup a
program to change the desktop background every 5 minutes. I googled and
discovered that there is a program wallpapoz does this. So I downloaded
it and ran it and nothing happens. So I tried it with the Gnome Classic
desktop and it works just great there. I did a little investigating and
I discovered that this was a problem back in 2013. I did a little more
investigating and discovered that a patch went in to wallpapoz to
support the Mate desktop which was basically the following:
gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename <image file>
So I tried running this command with an image, and again nothing
happens, the desktop background remains the same as before. I tried doing
gsettings reset org.mate.background picture-filename
and this works. I did verify that the set is getting done by doing:
gsettings get org.mate.background picture-filename
so the image name is getting set, but it does not appear. This problem
has existed since at least F22.
The only way to change the desktop background under Mate is by right
clicking the mouse on the desktop and selecting "Change Desktop
Background".
The third issue has to do with selecting the "Gnome Classic" desktop.
When I select it and login I get the Gnome classic layout with the top
and bottom panels, however, I can't place any application into the
panel. Also if I move the mouse to the upper left corner, I get the
Gnome Shell with the 4 default screens displayed vertically on the right
and the application bar on the left. WTF? Another issue regarding the
Gnome Classic desktop, which has been reported, is that the desktop
icons are huge. I can only place 5 icons vertically under the Gnome
Classic desktop, but at least a dozen under the Mate desktop.
I looked in bugzilla for bugs regarding these issues, but other than the
icons one I didn't find anything. Has anybody else experienced these
issues?
Paolo
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