For some reason I am not allowed to create threads in MicroOS, so I put this here.
For some reason KDE cannot remember sessions on reboot. And in the Application Menu it can’t remember any Recent Applications.
Firefox has lost my 20-something windows with 15-something tabs each. This is a catastrophe.
In Thunderbird when I set up an account and try to set the Local Directory to /home/user/mail/DE-me… it instead sets the directory to /run/flatpak/doc/47964583/DE-me… which directory doesn’t actually exist. And Thunderbird’s Import/ExportNG plugin can not export anything to html. This is new with MicroOS and is also a catastrophe.
No Flatpak IRC clients are able to connect to Libera.chat . I can’t even connect to the server, much less log in with my nick. So I am unable to ask these questions there.
@Quantumn Hi, for the directory issue, install Flatseal flatpak --user install com.github.tchx84.Flatseal and configure the permissions to use the directory your wanting.
When I run flatseal, the only thing flatpak-related is flatseal. KDE Discover isn’t even there, and that’s what I (am trying to) use to install flatpaks.
Yes I modified Networking, although could not find a way to set gateway and DNS, so that didn’t work. I can’t remember what else there is in the final install opportunity to change, but I didn’t change anything wrt the software.
I’ve managed to get all aspects of Thunderbird working except selecting the mail dir, as noted above.
I thought maybe the reason KDE isn’t remembering sessions is that I was rebooting rather than logging out (as opposed to CentOS Stream9 where it does remember sessions on reboot), but that didn’t work either. And nothing in StartMenu|RecentApplications or |Recent Files. Both are grayed-out. systemsettings5 should not need to be run as root to make it save user sessions, but still DesktopSession|SessionRestore is set to ‘on last logout’.
I do notice though, that when running systemsettings as root, in Startup/Shutdown|BackgroundServices it says in red: “The background services manager (kde5) is currently not running. Make sure it is installed correctly.”
I notice also that on several windows like Thunderbird and Firefox, I get the cheap X11 cursor rather than the Oxygen Green I’d set. On most windows I have the correct green.
# getenforce
Enforcing
# sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log
100% done
found 0 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log
I don’t know what you could have touched in the Network Sections of the installer, that would cause issues with permissions in $HOME, but it’s part of the reason that Aeon and Kalpa don’t support customization in the installer.
I suspect, that if you did a reinstall, without touching anything, and did your network changes after firstboot, you’d find that the permissions problems don’t exist.
Not a guarantee, just a suspicion. I’ve done probably a couple hundred Kalpa installs since I started working on the project, in both VM and on bare iron, and I’ve never seen this behavior before.
Not saying you necessarily did anything wrong, but we recommend against touching the defaults, and are moving away from the YaST installer for a reason.
Never used the Yast installer. Gotta fix networking if the install is to update properly, but this can be done after boot.
My god, I have a complex setup which has taken all weekend to do for this. I have a million other things to do, and can not understand how a second install should make a difference? I’m more suspicious of the saveset. (Snapshot20240229)
If you used the image openSUSE-MicroOS-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20240229-Media.iso you used the YaST installer, as it’s the only one on that image.
Kalpa is based on and tracks Tumbleweed, as far as updates are concerned, so doing the update “during” installation doesn’t really gain you anything, unless you’re using a really old installation image.
Ok, Idk what installer the installer uses. Not something over which I have control.
Understand about updates during install. But after setup I still get the Updates notification in System Tray. This may be all about additional packages I install, but as I’d installed them contemporaneously, I don’t understand why I wouldn’t have gotten the current version?
Now Thunderbird has allowed me to select the mail directories. It’s a Festivus Miracle!
Still no Recent Apps or remembering sessions. Maybe that will ‘heal’ too?
You know, I honestly can’t remember if the recent apps thing worked for me on first boot or not, I want to say I recall it works fine on subsequent boots, I know it works now and I didn’t have to do anything special to enable it.
As far as the update icon, that’s only flatpaks and firmware, and I never have quite sorted out why it does it on some installations, and not on others, I suspect because of fwupd.
