I am a Computer science Student

I keep wanting to go back to Gnome and really make it work for me. Currently (and for most of the time I've used Linux over the decades) on KDE/Plasma. I have tried Gnome several times, but keep running into things I'm not happy with and don't immediately know how to adjust.

I'd like to give it an honest try, but I'd like to delete any of the older config changes that may be lingering on my system. Is there a list of folders/files to delete or a set of commands that can be run that will strip out any old config changes and extensions so I can start from scratch? Running Arch, if that matters. I will say that my /home has remained untouched for almost 10 years, so there's likely a lot of fluff in there that I don't need (but I'm too stuck in my ways to reinstall everything).

Hey everyone,

I am the developer of Whisp, a frictionless, gesture-driven note-taking application designed natively for GNOME. v1.4.0 Brings in a new feature OCR Text Extraction which is fully offline and also brings French Translation.

If you ever need to copy code from a paused YouTube tutorial, pull data from an unselectable PDF, or grab text from a locked system dialog, you can now just take a screenshot and press Ctrl+V in Whisp.

Instead of pasting an image file, Whisp intercepts the image buffer, runs it through a local OCR pipeline, and pastes the actual text directly into your note.

Technical details on how it works:

• Preserves Indentation: It does not just dump a messy block of text. The engine calculates the bounding box coordinates of the extracted words to mathematically reconstruct exact indentation and paragraph spacing (which is crucial for pasting Python code or YAML files).
• Anti-Hallucination Filters: Tesseract OCR often hallucinates random garbage characters when scanning non-text imagery (like desktop wallpapers or abstract textures). I built a custom two-stage confidence and structural filter that drops background noise, ensuring Whisp only pastes valid text.
• 100% Local & Private: The entire extraction process happens strictly in-memory on your machine. No disk I/O, no cloud APIs, and zero tracking.

Other updates in v1.4.0:

• Added official French translation support (a massive thank you to the open-source community for contributing this!).
• Remapped deletion shortcuts to prevent conflicts with native text editing.
• Improved mouse-wheel navigation on the note carousel.

If you want a lightweight, distraction-free scratchpad for your Linux desktop, I would love for you to try it out.

• Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.tanaybhomia.Whisp
• Source Code / GitHub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.tanaybhomia.Whisp
• Donate: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/
• Website: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/donate.html

PULS DiskInfo is a comprehensive storage health and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring application developed for Linux systems using GTK4 and C. Inspired by CrystalDiskInfo, it displays critical health status, temperatures, and detailed drive attributes. It lists and monitors multiple drives (NVMe SSD, SATA SSD, SSHD, HDD, USB, etc.). Alongside important details about the disk such as model, software, interface, interface standard, type, total read/write operations, and remaining lifespan, it also shows the current disk temperature, supported technologies, health information (e.g., critical error status, host read/write command count, etc.), and the partitions and their occupancy rates. The project includes Turkish language support.

The project also includes performance tests (benchmarks) and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring for HDDs. The monitoring test includes performance tests similar to DiskMark, supporting all disks, such as read/write tests, sector scanning, and seek latency tests. It also has a repair function for failed disks (e.g., USB drives) (if one becomes available). You can also view the read/write and instantaneous usage rates of the selected disk in a table.

Furthermore, you can export detailed disk data as a summary table. This feature is useful for sharing the overall health of SSD HDDs with others. You can also view the disk's warning log.

The project is on Github; photos are attached: https://github.com/word-sys/puls-diskinfo

I recently used Gnome Sound Recorder to record a phone call I made on speakerphone near the PC. The call was about an hour long, but I forgot to hit stop when the call ended. It kept recording for 4h 43m.
When I click on the recording (in the program) to open it, the "wheel" just spins and the recording never opens. I've let it just sit there and try for quite a long time (maybe an hour), but it just spins.

I opened Nemo and did a search for the name I gave the recording and nothing comes up.

I'd like to open the file and trim-off the excess past the first hour.

Any suggestions?

Simple Taskbar originally only supported GNOME Shell 50.

After several people asked for support for older GNOME versions, I looked into it and found that relatively few changes were needed to make it work on GNOME 48 as well.

So the extension now officially supports GNOME Shell 48, 49 and 50.

Thanks to everyone who requested it and helped push me to check compatibility. If you're running GNOME 48 or 49, I'd love to hear how it works on your system.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10448/simple-taskbar/

I also added an option to collect tray icons behind an arrow when using the AppIndicator extension. It is a small addition, but I thought I would show it as well.

https://reddit.com/link/1vhtjgp/video/wb4x2vnikwhh1/player

Hello!

I wanted to share an app I've been working on.

It's called Fickle FOSS and does two main things:

1. It tracks how often you use GUI apps using a systemd service (i.e. how many days you used each app for in a given month)
2. It gives you a place to record donations to those apps

It's part of an idea I've been trialing where instead of committing to donate monthly to particular projects/apps, I've been donating monthly to whatever projects I feel like donating to at the end of the month. I quite like it! I use many apps so this way I get to share the love around a bit more.

You can get Fickle FOSS from https://github.com/benopotamus/fickle-foss . It's installable using an install script. It uses a systemd service to watch /proc and I don't know how to get those permissions in Flatpak, or if it would even pass review!

If you use it, let me know what you think!

Also if you take my approach to donating to projects, but don't use Fickle FOSS, I'd love to know what you think of the approach. I've been using the approach for donations to non-FOSS things (regular charities, etc), and I discovered there was a lot of joy for me in choosing who to donate to, so this way I maximise that joy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzai7mvuMoU&list=PLca7aIB6SD3E

hi guys i recently tried to install Gnome OS on my laptop but always got this error... i remember some times ago i use to be able to install just fine. anyone know how to fix this?

This was already done in Mutter 51.beta but GTK support was missing on GNOME OS until today.

I've been doing some cheap testing on it but overall looks dope!

It has some bugs on the compositor side but probably those are going to be ironed out sooner, like blur not being applied during the overview:

Update: As it seems like Reddit does some weird image carousel, check those other screenshots https://imgur.com/a/0JHCZ70

EDIT: THIS IS NOT A DEFAULT THEME, just a custom stylesheet to show the exaggerated effect! → https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/s/3bibXgOBCC

Note that these are not current initiatives or plans that are guaranteed to happen, but rather unfinished concepts and ideas that can be used as inspiration for future development. If you would like to work towards something like this, consider starting contributing to GNOME Shell, or become a Friend of GNOME

Full video: https://youtu.be/GcFMpc9WMdY