Saturday, 3 November 2018

Two-for-one

I'm currently using ElementaryOS Freya. If I right-click an image in Firefox and select 'Save as', I should get a popup with the folder to save in, and a 'Save' button. Problem: no 'Save' button. There's a sort of fix to the bug in this discussion on Stackexchange, which requires you to paste on Terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides \
 "{'Gtk/DialogsUseHeader': <0>, 'Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu': <0>, \
'Gtk/DecorationLayout': <'close:menu,maximize'>}"
When trying this, a second issue occurred with this message: "GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications."

Turns out this is because Anaconda has usurped GSettings:

beli@Hex:~$ which gsettings 
/home/beli/src/anaconda3/bin/gsettings
This is a bug, as is discussed in multiple Stackexchange post but this one had the best (cross-application) solution - simply execute the original gsettings executable: usr/bin/gsettings.


And a third: Despite being in Blogger's Compose interface, I had to manually insert the <0> s because Blogger wasn't auto-substituting < and > around 0 with &lt and &gt as it's successfully doing elsewhere in the same line.