Troubles
I had to disable starting gnome services to get rid of gnome volume and power manager icons. As a result, probably, my ssh keys passwords aren't remembered anymore, even though gnome-keyring-daemon with SSH agent capability is running. I really hate to type 12+ char. long password zillion times during one package update :(I also had troubles setting up iBUS. I prefer it to keyboard selection as I use it not only to use Czech keyboard layout but also to type Japanese (via anthy). Nothing seemed to work. But after finding im-chooser and selecting ibus there it started to work. However, im-chooser does not seem to be anywhere in menus—its desktop file contains
NotShowIn=XFCE;. WTF?!Also ibus keyboard shortcuts seem to misbehave. Switching to next input method does not seem to work (but just a second ago I managed with it to turn it off and make toggle on/off shortcut not work!?) at all—well, to be fair, I just tried to play with it and it seems to do something: cycle through English - Default Layout, nothing, nothing and nothing?! I'll probably have to fill bug later…
Other than that, I'm fairly satisfied, I even discovered some nifty features in xfce that I hadn't noticed before ;-)
Oh and I forgot to mention—everything GTK3 looks awful. The adwaita theme is awesome at times (check boxes, for example) and so plain/unfinished looking it hurts at others (dark version, buttons, scrollbars, for example). In general it looks like inconsistent half-finished work thrown together just to have a new theme, with some of its components already finished (the parts that look kicking-ass). Luckily XFCE stays at GTK2 still.
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Martin, regarding using ssh-agent, my guess would be that the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable is not set in your XFCE desktop session.
If you have gnome-keyring-daemon running:
netstat -l | grep ssh
should show something like:
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 26772 /tmp/keyring-4gVTjR/ssh
and manually doing:
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-4gVTjR/ssh
should work.
I read on LWN that this is a common problem with XFCE:
http://lwn.net/Articles/466414/rss
The Fedora XFCE users should really get together and make ssh agent work out of the box.
I think the ibus-1.4.0-10.fc16 bugfix update which is just pushed to stable should improve your ibus experience. I agree im-chooser should appear in the XFCE menu.
@Scott Tsai: I suppose that would fix the issue, but it seems I have more agents running and one of them is set, but apparently not doing anything:
$ netstat -l | grep ssh
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 55761 /tmp/keyring-hBwukZ/ssh
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 22951 /tmp/ssh-oyBybcqm1339/agent.1339
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 23415 /tmp/keyring-4bSIZt/ssh
$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/ssh-oyBybcqm1339/agent.1339
@Jens Petersen: Awesome, that works exactly as expected (alt-shift cycles through all input methods *and* system keyboard layout) and as a bonus gets rid of the fugly symbolic icon. Nice. Thanks.
i am still waiting for your nodoka gtk3 theme ;-)
I have seen the same behavior of GDM this weekend, so I filed
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664053
Hi there , someone can tell how i can install Gnome 3
And how to make GDM start Gnome , and not XFCE , plz ???
@Inukaze:
This command will install GNOME on Fedora:
su -c 'yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"'
(Why not using the default Fedora Desktop Edition / Live Media which includes GNOME?)
At GDM, click on your account name, then on Gnome to log in to Gnome instead of Xfce.
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