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The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experienceThe Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experiencePosted Jan 15, 2013 17:04 UTC (Tue) by mordae (subscriber, #54701)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience
For me it's very frequent i915-related gnome-shell crashes, silly offline updates I work around by using yum directly, same change to alt/super-keys as you did and most annoyingly (is that a word?) the gnome keyboard layout switching does not work anymore, unless you ctrl+space to a different input method, which messes up with focus and works only 50% of time.
But it's mostly better, so as long as regressions are fixed eventually...
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The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 16, 2013 0:17 UTC (Wed) by grunch (subscriber, #16603) [Link]
I *just* took the plunge. This was the cleanest, quickest, dare I say *easiest* Fedora upgrade I've yet experienced (having left it after FC4 and returned at F13). I installed FedUp and off I went. Now running F18. I tried F18-beta on a VM and was pretty unimpressed with the new installer at the time. Time to try it again.
I also noticed the setting for the Alt/Super change under the "Windows" tab in the GNOME Tweak Tool ("Modifier to use for modified window click actions"). So no need to invoke the scary dconf-editor to change it.
No complaints so far! Nice work!
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 16, 2013 9:54 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
I use Fedora on a laptop. Upgraded to Fedora 18 yesterday. Really easy, though I think there is still enough room to make it easier.
e.g. slightly more info during the upgrade (you can press escape, but that is way too much info), integrated notification, a GUI instead of a command line application, and no manual steps like "run grub"
IMO the only info I'd want during the upgrade is an ETA, a reminder that it is upgrading and something to know that it isn't stuck.
Still, very easy and was impressed.
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 16, 2013 23:31 UTC (Wed) by mordae (subscriber, #54701) [Link]
It came out a lot more whiny than I intended. :-D
The i915 issues have disappeared as soon as I've upgraded to rawhide kernel (the regression that bit me have been fixed in git) and the gnome-shell have been stable ever since.
Layout switching still sucks, although I have found both-shifts-toggle in the tweak tool, switching takes about 1 second to complete, which breaks my work flow when editing technical text.
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 17, 2013 19:15 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] For some reason, the keyboard switching with Alt-Shift survived on one of the three systems I upgraded. No idea why. I'm even thinking of making copies of two systems and "converging" them, making sure the same packages are installed, comparing the /etc directories etc.Why doesn't GNOME allow layout switching with a combination of modifiers? I'm using Alt-Shift-Space now and it's extremely unreliable. I have to be very careful and check that the layout switching has taken effect before I start typing.
The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Posted Jan 18, 2013 4:33 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Sorry for replying to myself! The fix is
LXDE users can simply disable GNOME settings daemon in Preferences->Desktop Session Settings. X needs to be restarted by init 3/init 5 or by reboot. Logout is not enough. Once again, GNOME comes with a new shiny feature and ships it before it's good enough to replace the existing solution. The developers are aware of it and promise to implement Alt-Shift some day.
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