GNOME 44 on Arch Linux (first steps)

GNOME 44

It’s already been a few months and GNOME 44 is already upon us. Official roadmap plans a first beta version in about twenty days. I decided to test the first alpha and beta versions on my historic Dell 7548 Touch screen UHD notebook (insane quality monitor not supported by a decent graphics card).

After upgrading Arch Linux over 2GB to the current version and fixing missing or outdated keys I applied Fabian Bornschein’s FGCU repositories.

First time I got to experience Wayland/Mutter, in the past I’ve always had trouble activating it on this Dell but now everything works without making any changes.

For GNOME 44 first news you have to wait a few weeks, GNOME 44 FGCU updated packages are not many for now but cool:

• Eye of GNOME (eog) 44.alpha
• Epiphany master(2023-01-20)
• GNOME Calls v44_alpha.1
• GNOME Control Center 44.alpha
• GNOME Disks Utility 44.alpha
• GNOME Maps v44.alpha
• GNOME Remote Desktop 44.alpha
• GNOME Software 44.alpha
• GNOME Text Editor 44.alpha
• Nautilus 44.alpha (GNOME files)
• Webkitgtk-6.0
  • GNOME Backgrounds 44 (not FGCU for now)

Fabian Bornschein’s FGCU repositories (Arch)

• Install and trust the signing-key first:

# pacman-key --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 6E58E886A8E07538A2485FAED6A4F386B4881229 # pacman-key --lsign-key 6E58E886A8E07538A2485FAED6A4F386B4881229

• Official page mirror doesn’t work at the moment and I had to use this:

# pacman -U https://mirror.inetol.net/$repo/fcgu/fcgu-mirrorlist-2-4-any.pkg.tar.zst

• add below the [core] repo, and above every other one in /etc/pacman.conf

[fcgu]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/fcgu-mirrorlist

• Update all with

# pacman -Syu

• Revert changes removing pacman.conf added code and # pacman -Syuu command.

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