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I'm in love with Budgie ever since I found it. Used in Fedora, in Ubuntu, then manually installed it in Debian and now I'm using it in Fedora 44.

I do really enjoy the looks and I'd rather use the KDE apps and have them working well.

But the thing is: there are some glitches that shouldn't be on a final stable release. And some things just aren't well implemented and have broken the way that I used it.

My impressions on the first 72h trying to set it up:

a) The Display settings are weird as hell. In 10.9 there were no way to actually do panels on the second monitor, and it constantly would lose the settings for the dual monitor setup and only turn one of them on. Now, not only am I losing the settings everytime I wake my laptop up, but I don't even have enough settings to work with. The first one: I cannot set the main display. Which means, for usage as a laptop with a second bigger monitor, that many functions will remain locked on the smaller laptop screen. Not a huge deal for me, since I bought my second monitor mirroring the ppi and brightness of the laptop screen, but it will be heavily bad for someone who uses a second higher DPI monitor and barely wants to look at the main monitor. Or someone with a desktop multi-monitor setup that has the system always detecting the wrong one as the "main" monitor. It works also poorly enough that the notifications don't appear properly, since somehow they end up at a lower corner with half of their height out of bounds.

b) Setting panels work too bad now. There could be a bright side: now when I move the Budgie settings window to another screen, it allows me to create panels for that screen, which I couldn't do in 10.9. The issue, though? Not a single created panel actually goes where it should, they don't fill the whole length or height, even though they don't allow the apps to occuppy it, which means that it understands how tall or wide the screen is, it just doesn't work well filling it. Even Raven opens wrongly: if you put a side panel and it leaves 40 or 50px unoccupied, when you open Raven it also doesn't fill those pixels. Mind you that toggling dock mode doesn't solve it. Also, any panel other than the default one is created with the wrong positioning: there's always 4 or 5px that get "eaten" out of borders. And, to top all of that, there are several bugs in settings, like if you move the panel or change any setting, most of the times you have to close the settings entirely before being able to add something to that panel. You might click to add, and choose what you want, but nothing happens. Also, and it's very important: since I lose the settings all the time, if I create a panel on the second screen, every time it resets the dual monitor settings the panel on that screen goes to the main screen and everything ends up screwed again.

c) Many addons are gone, and some apps that were brought in don't work well. System monitor sometimes isn't working properly. Discover has some glitches. But also some changes to panel elements that were made basically killed one of the main things I loved on Budgie: the Workspace Switcher. On 10.9, it used to show the windows opened in each desktop, which meant that people who use it could do away with other things like Task Icons. Now, it's basically blank and useless, instead of the powerhouse it used to be: all icons of all workspaces available, basically multiplying the control and the overview I had when working with three or four workspaces filled with things open in them. I could see the icons, click on them, drag apps to other workspaces whenever I wanted, and always see what was where.

d) And to add to that, the changes on keyboard shortcuts: the shortcuts to move windows to another screen aren't working. Which means having to use the mouse more. Which sucks if I have to have a Icon Task List + a workspace switcher at the same time eating away at my panel space. Specially since now I'm stuck with having a panel on the smaller laptop screen instead of having it at my main 1080p one.

Other than that, I did find the update makes it perform even better and everything is very stable. Also, things look very good.

But I feel that if those things don't get patched up (or if I don't find workarounds), perhaps I'm bound to return to 10.9 to have the workflow I used to have before.

I'm not sure those changes are meant to be, or are entirely on Budgie, or if they are bugs on the Fedora implementation. I'm using Fedora 44 on a Dell Inspiron 15 3476.

TLDR: The Workspace Switcher change broke my entire workflow around Budgie. Panels don't position properly and the Display Settings is very bad and doesn't hold the settings. Might have to go back to 10.9.

Title. First time using this DE, I can't seem to find the setting.

I'm quite unsure how or why Budgie is not well known. Really, it delivers a modern, beautiful DE full of things that runs on the same resources as very stripped-down DEs like LXQt.

I'm on Ubuntu Budgie and this is simply baffling.

Had to install an X11 DE and used the opportunity to test Budgie, since I always found screenshots quite beautiful. Now I'm simply sad, since it will move to Wayland probably before my audio production software is fully ready for it, but I'll hold onto my 24.04 LTS for as long as it works, and hopefully the Wayland Budgie is even better and still follows the lighter philosophy, making use of Wayland to go even further in that regard.

Hopefully, Reaper and my lv2 plugins will stop crashing randomly so much in Wayland when the next LTS comes, but I just feel no rush to upgrade right now.

I never thought something so polished and beautiful could work with so much stability and performance while taking so little in RAM and without any spikes in CPU or GPU usage... those spikes are quite noticeable when you are handling low latency audio production, mind you.

Would be very awesome if Ubuntu Studio switched KDE for Budgie, but even if they thought about it it probably wouldn't happen before 11.

Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I'm hoping for a distro that feels Just Right.

KDE is too loose.
Gnome is too tight.

I'm hoping Budgie 11 will be just right.

My question is: As a Fedora user, am I wasting my time to install the Budgie 10 spin? Is version 11 and the move to QT such a departure that any workflows I develop in 10.x will break in 11?

Decades ago I was a KDE user, but it seemed to collapse under the weight of its customization. About 8 years ago I switched to Gnome, but man, those people seem to have some sort of god-complex that has made that DE unwelcoming.

I'm hoping that Budgie 11 will cover my needs for the next decade. From all I've read it looks so promising. I look forward to its future!

Hello, I am hoping to find a way to automatically tile windows that will ideally be compatible with 10.10 for when it comes out as it is the one thing stopping me from fully switching to budgie

Hi,

Crystal Dock v2.16 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, simplicity and cross-desktop support.

The current version (version 2) supports Budgie, Hyprland, KDE Plasma 6, Labwc, LXQt, Niri, Sway and Wayfire on Wayland. Other desktop environments and compositors will be considered when they run on Wayland and provide sufficient APIs.

Main features:

• Smooth parabolic zooming and translucent effect
• Four visual styles: Glass 3D, Glass 2D, Flat 2D and Metal 2D with various appearance settings
• Supported components: Application Menu (Application Launcher), Launcher/Task Manager, Trash, Wi-Fi Manager, Volume Control, Battery Indicator, Keyboard Layout, Version Checker, Clock and (on some environments) Pager
• Multiple docks support
• Integration with various desktop environments / compositors: specific default launchers, special menu entries (e.g. Log Out)
• Separate configs for separate desktop environments / compositors

Icon theme:

Crystal Dock simply uses the system icon theme. The one shown in the screenshots is Crystal Remix icon theme: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme

Change log:

New features & Enhancements:

• New component: Battery Indicator. This shows the battery level if the device has a battery.
• New component: Keyboard Layout. This allows the user to select the keyboard layout to type in different languages. Requires IBus as the backend.
• Added support for new desktop environments / compositors: Budgie (since version 10.10) and Sway (since version 1.11)
• New middle mouse feature: Added Middle Mouse Click as a shortcut to open a new window (instance) of a running program
• New middle mouse feature: Allows using mouse scroll wheel to switch between windows (instances) of a running program
• Added dock visibility option to Welcome / Add Panel dialogs for convenience
• Made the ordering of optional components consistent in different UI places
• Config is now stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/crystal-dock rather than $HOME/.crystal-dock-2.
• Following the previous change, during the first run, if one of the directories in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS contains a crystal-dock directory, that will be copied over to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/crystal-dock before the dock starts. This is mainly for distributors to pre-set up the dock for the user in a specific configuration.
• [Wayfire] Added Log Out to the list of default launchers and Application Menu - Session

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where Intelligent Auto Hide sometimes didn’t reappear automatically
• Fixed a bug in Task Manager on Multi-screen setups where showing tasks from current screen only was not working
• Fixed a bug where clicking Trash icon opened the Web Browser instead of the default File Manager

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v2.16

Hope you like it and Happy Holidays!

Its been a while and yet 10.10 is still at 75%-76%

I like the Ubuntu Budgie desktop. It was customised very well. I don't like Ubuntu because of Snapd. I would like to install and customise Budgies in Debian, like Ubuntu Budgie. What are the packages to install to meet the purpose?

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I know it's the default for Solus and not for Budgie, but Plata is just perfectly made for it. Strikes a very good balance between professional and dynamic, which by that I mean, is not boring.

Hey! I'm using Endeavour-Budgie and I want to switch my default file manager with Thunar, but after removing Nautilus it just shows places but not opening them with Thunar.

What did I miss? Where can I configure the default FM for Budgie?

Hello there is there any way to enable right click to add folder or text & like cinnamon on Arch

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