I’m just curious. If you use Silverblue or Kinoite, what packages do you prefer to layer?
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Hello @hyperreal ,
If you search you will find a few discussions here about this very topic, like https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/what-are-your-layered-packages/38743.
Right now, on my Silverblue powered laptop I have Vim, Vim-enhanced, and Vim-syntastic because I don’t like nano at all for my default editor. I have Kitty terminal, and Fish shell, because kitty likes her fish. And fzf, exa,bat,tldr, virt-manager/virtualization.
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clamtk* fail2ban tlp R rstudio btfs unrar stacer ffmpegthumbs waydroid
somehow most of them dont want to install, weird
I’ve got quite a few layered packages on my Kinoite install.
- Nvidia driver with cuda, alacritty, android-tools, bismuth, distrobox,
intel-media-driver, inxi, iotop, kdeconnectd, kernel-tools,
kffmpegthumbnailer, libavcodec-freeworld, libreoffice, libva-utils,
libva-vdpau-driver, lxc, mscore-fonts-all, neofetch, nmap,
pipenv, pmbootstrap, powertop, snapper,
python3-GitPython, python3-pip, python3-tqdm, qemu, qemu-user-static,
vdpauinfo, virt-manager, wl-copy, zsh
Libreoffice (unfortunately for me) uses only the GTK runtime in flatpak, which breaks consistency in a kde system. Android-tools, iotop, powertop and nmap need sudo to run properly, so yeah. I want max performance from my graphics hardware, so the drivers, codecs and stuff are needed. I’ll try to get rid of the python3 packages haha, maybe install them via pip instead.
imo, kdeconnectd should be part of the base image.
Only thing I layer is gnome boxes because the flatpak version doesn’t allow sharing of usb devices. Everything else is installed as a flatpak, haven’t found any need to layer anything yet.
Ayy, I see kdeconnectd is now part of the base Kinoite image. I’m elated 
Weird, for me the KDE Connect frontend app still crashes for me. I am
using the Flatpak app, while “kde-connect” as RPM is already installed.
Do you mean this flatpak? I can’t find any other kdeconnect-ish flatpak. It’s four years old, and probably abandoned.
I now have no kdeconnect packages layered, or installed as flatpak, but kdeconnect works fine on the system. So I think you’ll be fine if you do the same.
I uninstalled that Flatpak and updated my system. I will see, the Appstarter is still there. I see KDE connect is a submenu, disabled the firewall block and use a VPN on the same server with local sharing enabled, still not showing up…
Yea I have that issue on some networks as well. Depends on the router settings, I guess. Some routers, particularly on public networks, don’t let clients on the same network talk to eachother.
RIght now these are my layered and removed packages:
RemovedBasePackages: firefox firefox-langpacks 108.0.1-3.fc37
LayeredPackages: fedora-workstation-repositories fira-code-fonts gdb ksshaskpass podman-compose
simple-scan skanlite vim virt-manager
I use the firefox flatpak instead of the packaged version. ksshaskpass is useful when connecting to several machines via ssh. Virtualization and scanning tools just work better when layers; I did attempt to toolbox the latter but it didn’t work great.
GNOME simplescan now has a flatpak! skanlite has it too. Are they working?
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Neovim, Distrobox, Zsh.
(I use a custom image provided by u-blue for Nvidia)
EDIT: probably some more, but I can’t remember.
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Really want to try this one. It’s one of the missing pieces from Silverblue.
● fedora:fedora/38/x86_64/testing/silverblue
Version: 38.20230314.0 (2023-03-14T01:56:13Z)
BaseCommit: 768e4f7f68468e0101a03e6138e03e2d377090019f2013e23014ce9179c585fd
GPGSignature: Valid signature by 6A51BBABBA3D5467B6171221809A8D7CEB10B464
RemovedBasePackages: firefox firefox-langpacks 110.0-3.fc38
LayeredPackages: fcitx5 fcitx5-autostart fcitx5-chinese-addons fcitx5-configtool fcitx5-gtk fcitx5-qt zsh
I only layer some fcitx5 related packages and ZSH. All other applications will be installed from flatpak. Also switched to flathub version of firefox, in that way I don’t need to layer some media related packages to make hwdecode working.
Dev env is in toolbox with this script to work with vscode from flatpak.
RemovedBasePackages: firefox firefox-langpacks 110.0-3.fc37 kwrite 22.12.3-1.fc37
LayeredPackages: android-tools cheat distrobox fail2ban fish gdb gnome-boxes hardened_malloc kate lm_sensors nextcloud-client pandoc perf perl-Image-ExifTool pip powertop qemu qemu-kvm R R-CoprManager rstudio-desktop selinux-policy-doc selinux-policy-sandbox stacer tlp unrar virt-manager waydroid
LocalPackages: Elegant-KDE-Elarun-1.0.0-1.noarch Elegant-KDE-Galaxy-1.0.0-1.noarch Elegant-KDE-Neon1-1.0.0-1.noarch McSur-dark-1.0-1.noarch mullvad-vpn-2023.1-1.x86_64 opensnitch-1.5.2-1.x86_64 opensnitch-ui-1.5.2-1.noarch realvnc-vnc-server-6.11.0.47988-1.x86_64 sugar-candy-elarun-1.0.0-1.noarch sugar-candy-galaxy-1.0.0-1.noarch