Hello all, I am brand new to fedora, so Im still learning the ropes. I’ve been noticing this red number 1 next to the file manager in the dock. Being a debian/ubuntu guy at heart, I don’t quite know how to troubleshoot this. Hope you guys can shed some light; pic is below!

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Warning: No matter what anyone tells you, do not use any rm command with the -r option and/or any wildcard charachers like * and ?, unless you understand the command fully.

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      10 months ago

      Yup that did it. but when I report the errors, nothing freaking happens. it just loads and loads and loads and hangs.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah this is something I despise about Gnome right now. It’s just not intuitive and once I go into the app, the notification badge should go away, but doesn’t; requiring me to manually clear it anyway. They chose the absolute worst way to handle notifications in my opinion.

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        10 months ago

        Same shit Microsoft does. I try to use the notification center to keep track of Teams and Outlook at work, so I don’t have to have them visible or switch to them so much. But if you read an email or thread in the app, it doesn’t clear that notification in notification center. At least the badge clears, though.

        Does anyone actually do this right, in a desktop OS? I think Mac OS might, if I could stand it.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah MS notifications aren’t great either. macOS is easier to deal with in my opinion. However, I suspect there are other DEs on Linux that handle it better than Gnome has as of late. Perhaps KDE or Cinnamon or XFCE? I haven’t checked those out in a good while so I can’t speak to how well they’re done.

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              10 months ago

              I’ll definitely give KDE another go. Every time I try it, I end up back at Gnome. I probably just haven’t taken the time to properly configure it to my liking :)

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    10 months ago

    Right click on the 9 dots button -> Dash to dock Settings > Launcher > Scroll down > Show the number of unread notifications

    It’s a notification counter, kinda like phones have.

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    10 months ago

    That’s part of the Dash to Dock extension I think. Go to the Dash to Dock settings in the Extensions app. There should be settings in one of the tabs for notification icons/badges or something similar.

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    10 months ago

    I had this too, I think it’s a bug. It’s a notification counter from dash to dock, like the other user said. I disabled the counter completely to get rid of it

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      10 months ago

      I think the issue stemmed from my failed attempt to install deepin desktop. I removed the DE, but im sure there were lingering files or apps