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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!

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sound advice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely agree although I love rm -r since it's way better than cluttering up my trash folder 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Clicking delete while pressing shift should do the same thing in most file managers, just use it with caution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

but I heard rm -rf /* made my computer faster. (This is a joke never run this command. (outside of a vm that you are willing to kill))

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have 1 notification concerning Nautilus, be it a file copy was completed or the like. If you click the notification center (the Date/Time on the top bar) and clear out your notifications there the 1 should go away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which errors are we talking about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

sounds like crash report, because that's what their buttons say and they tend to hang forever not saying what's happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can vouch for KDE doing it better, and in my opinion KDE does everything better except look unique like Gnome. KDE looks almost identical to Windows by default but it gives you the tools to be laid out however you want, if you want to put in the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Depending on your liking it can take a while to get it all set. Gnome has the appeal of being set in a way that is unique to Linux and being simple to get going and start working. KDE is a rabbit hole of adjusting and tweaking. But I appreciate that KDE lets me have fractional scaling and wallpaper slideshows without extensions that break with every major Gnome updates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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