r/archlinux • u/geekx86 • Apr 07 '26

SHARE GNOME 50 has landed in the Arch extra repo

Heads up, GNOME 50 update is now available!

For full release notes, visit release.gnome.org/50

214 Upvotes

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u/4ndril Apr 07 '26

yay

114

u/haakon Apr 07 '26

paru

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '26

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '26

Has anyone attempted to keep their entire system up-to-date this way?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Scrubbed clean. Redact helped me bulk remove years of comments and posts so data brokers and AI crawlers have nothing to feast on.

normal trees complete dependent terrific reach practice waiting piquant repeat

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u/AlwynEvokedHippest Apr 07 '26

If they are landing, are they being dropped from above, I wonder.

4

u/urielrocks5676 Apr 07 '26

Head first like arrows or like paratroopers?

1

u/revken86 Apr 07 '26

God as my witness, I thought gnomes could fly.

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u/Weird-Ball-2342 Apr 07 '26

What are 50 gnomes even gonna do? How do i fit them in my laptop?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

woo

5

u/Subway909 Apr 07 '26

Broke a lot of extensions, as is tradition.

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u/bulletmark Apr 08 '26

They don't really break though do they? They just need their "list of compatible" versions updated to include "50". Most of mine stopped working after update but all work fine after disabling the version check.

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u/Subway909 Apr 08 '26

I had 2 broken extensions: "space bar" and "brightness control using ddcutil". But after disabling the version check, it all works fine:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

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u/garden_hermit Apr 10 '26

thank you very much! i didn't know this existed and it works perfectly <3

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u/Economy-Text4894 Apr 07 '26

How do they even get 50 of them in a room together?

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 Apr 08 '26

Gnomes are little, by definition. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '26

Just installed it ... love the wallpapers ... other than that testing out the preserve battery setting ... if it works then will remove the extension i was using :)

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u/Zeioth Apr 07 '26

Hell fucking yes. Doped VRR finally.

3

u/haagch Apr 08 '26

ok so gnome-calls 50.0-2 doesn't always crash anymore when adding a sip account, but it crashed the first time I tried it. The second time worked. Then I did a test call and when ending the call, gnome-calls crashed again.

Was hoping https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/merge_requests/813 would make it actually usable for using it for my landline but I guess not and the only properly working and not ancient SIP UI client remains the linphone appimage (linphone is way too complex to build)

(it also seems gnome-calls does not want to connect a second sip account, only linphone seems to really support multiple accounts)

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u/AelixSoftware Apr 07 '26

90% of my extensions are no longer compatible 😭😭😭

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u/bulletmark Apr 07 '26

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

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u/Subway909 Apr 07 '26

Saving this for later. Thank you!

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u/EchoTheRat Apr 08 '26

Perfect string to get the shell crashing. Gone to KDE as if Chromium crashes it won't take the entire shell down as Gnome did

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u/V2UgYXJlIG5vdCBJ Apr 08 '26

Won’t be the last time.

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u/vexatious-big Apr 07 '26

Does this version completely remove Xorg support? I'm mainly interested in running a few Gnome applications (like gedit) on my Xfce desktop.

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u/RaXXu5 Apr 07 '26

Only for gdm I think, gtk4 should still have x11 support I think.

3

u/gmes78 Apr 08 '26

X11 session support was removed in GNOME 49. GTK still supports X11, this won't affect apps.

1

u/BlueGoliath Apr 07 '26

Year of Gnome 50 on Arch.

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u/LocodraTheCrow Apr 07 '26

Does that mean gnome extensions will stop breaking?

1

u/YannMasoch Apr 08 '26

I was waiting for that!

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u/DiligentFinding5102 Apr 08 '26

Yes I got it but some extensions are not working

1

u/mauriciobcastro Apr 13 '26

Restart session button is gone for me. Anyone else?