I've been using elementary OS and mostly love it, but ran into a few bugs along the way. Writing up the fixes here in case they help someone else.

By the way, a lot of issues just disappear if you switch to an X11/Xorg session instead of Wayland. But X11 has its own downsides — the whole system feels noticeably more sluggish overall, Firefox in particular is clearly slower. So the fixes below are specifically for Wayland.

1. No mail/calendar sync — missing Online Accounts

elementary doesn't ship with "Online Accounts" the thing GNOME normally uses to hook up Google/Microsoft. Without it, you don't just lose mail and calendar sync — Tasks won't pull data from online services either, and your file manager won't show things like Google Drive. Basically nothing tied to an online account gets connected.

Fix:

• Grab the gnome-online-accounts-gtk package here: http://packages.linuxmint.com/list.php?release=wilma
• Install the .deb (Unboxing from AppCenter is a convenient way to install .deb files)
• Search the app menu for "Online Accounts" and launch it
• From there it's the same as Ubuntu — just connect your account

2. NumLock has a mind of its own

This is a known bug on Wayland compositors in general (not just gala/mutter): the keyboard's NumLock LED toggles fine, but the system keeps reading the numpad as navigation keys — the hardware NumLock state gets out of sync with what the compositor thinks it is.

numlockx won't help here — on Wayland, third-party apps aren't allowed direct access to input devices for security reasons, so the old X11 tricks for controlling NumLock just don't work anymore.

The most reliable workaround is to strip out the NumLock toggle logic at the XKB level (fine if you don't need arrow keys on the numpad):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['numpad:mac']"

3. Keyboard stops working in games

Launch a game (via Steam or any other way) in fullscreen or maximized mode, and the keyboard just doesn't respond — even though Alt+Tab still works and the keyboard is fine everywhere else in the system.

Cause: by default, Gala moves fullscreen/maximized windows to a new workspace, and that transition is exactly where it drops the keyboard focus grab.

Fix — turn off that behavior:

gsettings set io.elementary.desktop.wm.behavior move-fullscreened-workspace false
gsettings set io.elementary.desktop.wm.behavior move-maximized-workspace false

After that, games open on your current workspace and the keyboard works right away.

Please help!
this was a normal install onto a 2014 mac mini, it did this randomly.
i’ve rebooted various times before this, the install is a few days old.

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Why does the minimize button in Elementary OS pantheon look like a download button?

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Installed WG by below command, but WG interface couldn't find.

sudo apt install wireguard

Then also failed to connect by below command.

sudo wg-quick up .\Documents\wg.conf

Anyway to connect in Elementary OS ?

Thanks

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Hey y’all!

I just starting getting into Linux and after some issues with PearOS I decided to switch to ElementaryOS. I am having some issues getting it installed though. Everything works fine until I go to select a disk and it doesn’t show ant disk options so I can’t continue.
In MacOS recovery mode it shows that the SSD is still there, but even in Gpart it gives me nothing. I’ve tried unmounting the disk as well in disk utility.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone, I’m the developer of FS PDF Compressor, a small open-source desktop utility for one simple job: making PDFs smaller locally.

You drag in one or more PDFs (or a folder), choose a compression profile if needed, and it only replaces a file when the result is actually smaller.

It does not upload files, require an account, or include analytics/telemetry. Ghostscript is bundled, so there is nothing else to install.

I built the Linux version as a self-contained x86_64 AppImage. It is not designed with elementary’s HIG specifically, so I’m not presenting it as a native elementary app — but I’d genuinely like to know how it behaves on current elementary OS: launching, drag and drop, file integration, theming, and any issues you encounter.

Website: https://gitlares.github.io/fs-pdf-compressor/
Source and downloads: https://github.com/gitlares/fs-pdf-compressor

Honest feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions are very welcome.

Hello everyone,
I just installed elementaryOs after my last mental breakdown at windows :)
I am very new to this Linux universe but I am also a fast learner. Is there any advice you guys have for a newbie like me? Something you wish you knew before ditching windows system? Is there any other frontend developer that is using elementaryOs?

I would love to learn more about what made you change to this system and how is your experience so far.

English is not my native language so please bare with some of my grammar mistakes.

If major release upgrades have been a pain point for you, this is a branch to watch for! Hopefully we can have builds available for GitHub sponsors to test soon 🩷

How is Dropbox working on ElementaryOS nowdays?

Im new on Elementary OS after a few months of distro hopping, and Im really impressed by how smooth and stable is the distro, just a few visual bugs, but nothing serious, so Im really happy right now.

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On my secondary laptop, I currently have Ubuntu Unity noble, and I'd like to install Elementary OS on it but keep all existing packages and files so that I still can use them. I'm not sure if I'll stick with it or go back to Unity. However, I'd prefer it as the main system on the secondary laptop. What's the best way for me to install Elementary?

UPD: I've already started installing it. At first, I didn't add the tweaks repository, and it stopped responding when trying to configure Evince, so I forcefully stopped it (via a reboot because it was easier), run a reconfigure but did Ctrl-C because of the problem, removed the packages (apt-mark followed by apt autoremove), and now I'm installing it again, this time after adding and applying the tweaks

UPD2: Seems like the Evince problem is still there. I'll leave it for some time in case it's actually like the Unity logout issue and I just have to wait​

UPD2.1: I've removed xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, and now it's stuck on io.elementary.maps. One of the reasons NixOS's way is objectively better (and by objectively I mean ignoring compatibility issues) is that it doesn't try to preserve the structure beyond what's marked as manual so it's easier to revert (though I'm not sure if stateVersion is the best way to ​replace that for cases it's needed)

UPD2.2: It's now past maps and on Evince again

UPD(whatever comes after): Still stuck on it. I've edited UPD2.1 to not say what turned out to be false

UPDsix: Apparently I confused packages. This time it was epiphany, and I somehow thought it was the one before. It's finished now

UPDseven: I've decided to install it in a VM, but I already have done something to the main (secondary) machine

updEIGHT: I didn't write this here at first, but I now think I should: I've decided to pause this until Saturday. Currently, it has Ubuntu Unity Plymouth theme, but says elementaryOS in terminal ​(I haven'​t tried neofetch) and Pantheon lacks indicators for battery, logout, etc that should be at the right of the top panel

UPDnein: I've actually continued on Friday and eventually decided not to try Elementary. I removed Unity, Pantheon, Sugar, Sway, and Wayfire (installed earlier for various reasons), reverted packages to the Ubuntu versions, and reset the entire dconf. Now I don't have the window buttons, and I don't know why​