Gnome 44 is in the Gentoo repository, not stable yet. The transition was not as painful as my early transition to Gnome 43. The only issue so far has been gnome-clocks, but that is very minor. Most extensions worked, had a like replacement, or after tweaking the metadata.json file version.
Edited 3-27: After update to vala-0.56.4, gnome-clocks-44.0 compiled and installed.
A quick one, I wanted to use gnome console with the current Nautilus. Anyway, I started with the example in nautilus-python and python (which I do not like using) and fixed things the way I wanted them to be.
It can be downloaded here. Once installed and Nautilus restarted, it will provide a menu item when a directory is right clicked called “Open in terminal”. If this menu is selected, a submenu is available to select either Gnome Terminal or Gnome Console.
Edited 5 Dec 22. Sorry for the poor pictures but added for clarity. Selecting a directory in the right panel displays Open in terminal selection.
Clicking the Open in terminal will pop up a selection between Gnome Terminal and Gnome Console.
I thought I would never reach a stable Gnome 42 install! The big issue was the mouse movement. Everything was fine under xorg, but mouse movement and overall screen image sucked under Wayland. Anyway, the mouse is sync’d to display resolution and my refresh rate was set to something like 24hz, I do not know how that happened. Either way, all fixed now.
Traditionally, GNOME Shell has been compressing pointer motion events so its handling is synchronized to the monitor refresh rate, this means applications would typically see approximately 60 events per second (or 144 if you follow the trends).
Well, the NUC is done and everything to working. It is definitely not a speed demon, Geekbench scores prove it with a 158 Single-Core Score and 570 Multi-Core Score.
I did try Wayland, and it worked well except for my extensions, so I settled on X11.
I have placed the system configuration on Gitlab including: kernel config, hardware info, files installed, and all that good stuff that should make installation easier. The entire Gentoo install is about 14 Gig and that includes Libreoffice and Firefox binary packages.
As of 24 December I was getting an error with dev-util/gnome-builder-3.38.1 and dev-util/sysprof-3.38.1 with the sysprof flag active. My compile config:
Sysprof has a /usr/include/sysprof-3 with duplicate headers that get picked up first and give redefine error when the same headers are included from sysprof-4. My quick and dirty fix:
17 July update – the r2 version is in portage, but still requires this fix.
Simply, the overview functionality of Workspaces to Dock is broke with gnome-shell 3.36.4, it just does not work. It seems that this time it is a gnome-shell issue which can be corrected by: workspacesView: Revert commits of !1119.
The r1 version is current as of today, the next version may fix this issue. Insert the changes into workspacesView.js. Then the followup commands that I do individually: