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What is the easiest/best way to downgrade GNOME from 49 to 48?
I was hoping for something like a `gnome48` meta-package that I can install.
Version 49 works for me, but the extensions that my workflow depends on don't support 49 yet. So I'd like to downgrade and stay on 48 until all my extensions support 49.
P.S. Not fond of being forced to Wayland either, but guess it's time to tackle that migration
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From an extensions perspective, there is not much difference between GNOME 48 and 49 so your extensions likely get disabled simply because they fail version validation. So just disable that check with `gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true`, at least for a while until they all get updated.
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Also interested in this. I have a lot of issues with Wayland+Wine, works great in X11. I'd really like to stick with Gnome because I'm familiar with the shortcuts and workflows.
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I posted a fix here to get X11 working again: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/s/iXa1iScxvL
Last edited by weaseal (2025-09-28 17:37:05)
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I have the same issue, so i would like downgrade from gnome 49 to 48. Anyone achieve to downgrade with sudo downgrade....?
I have tried but i got issue with gnome-session because i couldnt downgrade due to gnome-mimeapps.
Any idea how could i do that?
Thx.
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After decades of using GNOME (yes, since the 1.x days), and because there doesn't appear to be a feasible path to sticking with 48, I've now switched to XFCE.
GNOME 49 is just unusably slow with my multi-monitor (3 x 1440p) setup with NVidia GPU. Search around and you'll find NVidia issues on Wayland that have been open for years. Not sure how the GNOME devs decided to just go ahead and force people onto Wayland regardless, but it's hardly the first questionable decision they made in recent years. Oh well, upward and onward.
XFCE isn't remotely as pretty, but by Stallman's beanbag does it ever "just work", and work well! I could replicate all essential parts of my GNOME workflow with (mostly) only built-in XFCE functionality. And without all the rendering issues.
So long, GNOME, and thanks for all the fish.
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After decades of using GNOME (yes, since the 1.x days)
Gnome was my first graphical environment as well.
After 3 yrs developing on my gui-less slackware mid-90s, I briefly checked out Red Hat 6.0 with Gnome before switching to XFCE on Debian Potato.
I didn't get around to Arch until 2006. Late to the party. Never left the party since tho.
multi-monitor (3 x 1440p) setup with NVidia GPU. Search around and you'll find NVidia issues on Wayland that have been open for years.
Indeed there are many reported issues. Often they come down to user mis-configuration. But, plenty of real bugs too. And non-driver hardware issues. File reports.
I can only speak for myself, but my nVidia Wayland multi-monitor experience is without a single issue now as the 580 series driver has evolved.
nVidia devs have done a bang-up job over the past year addressing and squashing every issue I'd reported or advocated for.
XFCE isn't remotely as pretty, but by Stallman's beanbag does it ever "just work", and work well!
My system is triple-boot with an old Wheezy install I keep updated and pristine with XFCE since the beginning.
After the recent Trixie upgrade, I for sure popped into XFCE for a couple days to say hi. More of a museum piece for me now, but it's nostalgic and issue-free.
Debian has finally evolved to a state where I can have native-Wayland Sway with the latest nVidia driver, so I went that route immediately after the upgrade.
On Arch... 3 years now of exclusively using native Wayland (no Xwayland) environments for me. It's been mostly painless, and now flawless with Hyprland.
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Does anybody else remember when gnome was but a desktop shell for what's now https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/enlightenment16 ?
Whether or not, but if you're looking for "pretty", have you looked at https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … ghtenment/ ?
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Enlightenment! Talk about a blast from the past! It must've been around 2000 when I played around with it. Its water ripple root window effect was amazing to me, and a huge draw to Linux. Also played around with Fluxbox, BlackBox, NextStep, KDE 2, and every other damn DE I could get my hands on. Eventually settled on Ubuntu with GNOME, and Unity... until that got canned. To this day I think I'm one of the few who actually liked Unity. Then, when Ubuntu went snap, I went in search of a different distro where I could use GNOME in peace. But alas, that wasn't to last either. :'(
Indeed there are many reported issues. Often they come down to user mis-configuration. But, plenty of real bugs too. And non-driver hardware issues.
You may be right, but I tried all I could think of. The problems may very well stem from Mutter and not the NVidia driver, but these kinds of issues feel like the instabilities of years past, and these days I just need to get on and get stuff done. I can't be spending weeks debugging closed source drivers and DE internals just to figure out why everything is slow on my super fast hardware.
Maybe I'll give GNOME 49.2 another shot. Or 50. I guess we'll see.
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Whether or not, but if you're looking for "pretty", have you looked at [Enlightenment16]
Another shot would IMHO be Mate: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MATE
Myself use this for the benefits of a DesktopEnvironment, but i replaced the marco windowmanager with i3 (tiling).
@tekstryder, underpantsgnome
I also use nvidia cards for decades and never had bigger troubles on Archlinux. Dual-Monitor Setup.
Even testing with wayland i have not noticed any problem on different compositors, esp. Multi-Monitor.
Current testing river (good), hyprland(no opinion) and - to give a try - cosmic(too "new gnomish" for me, is for new kids on the block. //Edit: and real BETA. Only Benefit IMHO: Switchable between Tilling/Floating per workspace)
Last edited by GerBra (2025-10-10 06:08:42)
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have you looked at [Enlightenment16]
E25 s a different beast w/ way more bling.
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Another shot would IMHO be Mate: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MATE
Myself use this for the benefits of a DesktopEnvironment, but i replaced the marco windowmanager with i3 (tiling).
Exactly what I do. 100% functional, no complaints.
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