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Running Silverblue here and only one minor issue due to the wifi mac address changes and locking myself out of my network.
I also realised, that the upgrade didn't like it when Ihade packages removed from the base which resulted in broken dependencies.
After resetting it upgrading went without any glitch.
I decided to upgrade, and so far everything is working fine. I had some hiccups after the installation, but a reboot fixed all of them. Thanks for your input :)
I upgraded from 39 to 40 and I think the only issues I had were:
I think that was it!
I have had some strange behaviour from Firefox saying it's become unresponsive a few times and at the same time Thunderbird but that seems to have fixed itself now
- Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway
I had that happen a few times. This time I downloaded those backgrounds again (from gnome-backgrounds repository). Still, it's pretty annoying to have this happen.
I upgraded just before the beta. Discovered a mutter crash, reported it, it was fixed in a day or so.
No issues jumping straight from 37 server edition to 40.
I use fedora on my thinkbook with Gnome/PaperWM and my upgrade experience was ezpz.
Had a sound issue: output device options only listed "Dummy Output" and nothing was listed for input devices. I eventually got my headset to be recognized again, but sadly couldn't tell you what did it, since I tried so many things and I lack proper understanding of the Linux sound scene.
Just in case it's useful to someone, here's a collection of ideas I found while working through the issue:
$XDG_STATE_HOME/wireplumber and rebootNote, however, that I really don't understand what some of these do. You should be very wary of taking suggestions from people who don't know what they're talking about... unless you're desperate enough and want your sound back, perhaps.
...Also, here's a gentle reminder to test your sound device with other equipment and try different ports/adapters, if available. Wasn't my case, but sometimes stuff simply breaks at inopportune times.
Audio was a little flaky one time and creating virtual machines with TPM is broken unless you disable selinux
My upgrade went very smoothly. No issues.
Plasma 5 to 6 with a long used setup went perfectly.
Fedora Atomic Plasma Workstation? I am in!
It's a solid release. The only thing that broke were some plasma widgets not yet available for KDE 6.
Screen sharing with Discord no longer works, but I think that's from an update to Flatpak because it was also happening at the end of 39's lifecycle.
Doesn't work for me on GNOME Wayland on Arch either. I'm also using the flatpak.
You can mask flatpaks to not update. Likely also rollback
I'm fairly confident that it's a change in Flatpak itself rather than any one specific Flatpak, since all of my apps now use the same new screen sharing interface. Difference is that it actually works in those apps.
Flatpak doesnt handle that, this is an xdg-desktop-portal by your Desktop that is also used for other apps.
Were you using X11 before, by chance? IIRC Fedora 40 dropped X11, and only ships with Wayland by default. The fact that all of your apps are using the same screen sharing interface sounds like they're using the screen share portal due to running under a Wayland session, which Discord doesn't currently support currently.
For a while there was a workaround using a tool called XWaylandVideoBridge but even that stopped working for me.
I've heard that Vesktop supports screensharing under Wayland (and supposedly with sound support too), and it is available on Flathub - might be worth a try.
I cant update because of sunshine
You can install sunshine on Fedora 40 with their COPR repo. Their GitHub releases lag behind on OS releases, but the COPR is automatically configured for new versions of Fedora since it doesn't rely on compiling in a Docker container. Haven't tried it myself, but it was recommended on their issues page.
I updated and now kde connect wont run without kde. Any alternative to open urls from android
There's a GNOME extension GSConnect that uses the KDE Connect backend if you're on GNOME. I haven't used it in awhile since switching to KDE, but it worked well when I used it.
As far as KDE's documentation says though, you should be able to use it on any DE. What exactly is the problem you're experiencing? Will it not start, will it not connect (if so try re-pairing), or is there functionality that is missing?
It says it requires kde desktop but the cli works so i set it to autostart on hyprland. One thing tho is i cant type from the app but i got sunshine for that
The remote input issue is related to Wayland, and currently all wlroots based compositors (including Hyperland) have issues with this. KDE Plasma has merged support for remote input to work with KDE Connect, however many other DEs do not have the support merged, and will have to rely on xdg-desktop-portal-wlr to implement it. Here are the related bug reports and issues:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448604
https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/2
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1775
Also, it seems the other issue is unrelated, are you seeing an error on the command line, or is there a dialog popup, and can you quote what is said? I'm having trouble finding any related issues anywhere on GitHub, even the Hyperland issues around remote desktop did not seem to have this particular error (or didn't mention it at least).
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No f40 version? Is there a spec file? Should be possible on COPR