I know that this post might be met with skepticism on this list, but I use a standard Fedora (now 25) with Gnome Shell and rely on multiple KDE applications because there is no match in Gnome. Today's 'dnf update' has installed plasma-workspace 5.8.5-5
[root@cougar ~]# dnf history | head ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 76 | update | 2017-02-11 17:24 | Update | 11 ... [root@cougar ~]# dnf history info 76 ... Packages Altered: Upgraded libkworkspace5-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade libqalculate-0.9.10-3.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded libqalculate-0.9.7-18.fc25.x86_64 @fedora Upgraded libssh-0.7.3-1.fc24.x86_64 @fedora Upgrade 0.7.4-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded plasma-lookandfeel-fedora-5.8.5-1.fc25.noarch @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.noarch @updates Upgraded plasma-workspace-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded plasma-workspace-common-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded plasma-workspace-drkonqi-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded plasma-workspace-geolocation-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded plasma-workspace-geolocation-libs-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded plasma-workspace-libs-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.x86_64 @updates Upgraded sddm-breeze-5.8.5-1.fc25.noarch @updates Upgrade 5.8.5-5.fc25.noarch @updates And after reboot knotes no longer starts in Gnome Shell. It starts ok if I login to KDE. I tried to debug it, but my knowledge of underhood KDE application machinery is not enough. Starting knotes from command line produces this printout igorn@cougar:/home/igorn>knotes QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 435, resource id: 0, major code: 1 (CreateWindow), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 436, resource id: 119537672, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 437, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 438, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 439, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 441, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 442, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 443, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 447, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 451, resource id: 119537672, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0 QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 452, resource id: 119537672, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 .... strace knotes process shows this igorn@cougar:/home/igorn>strace -p 6286 strace: Process 6286 attached restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted poll ...>) = 0 recvmsg(7, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 4, 9998) = 0 (Timeout) recvmsg(7, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 4, 9989) = 0 (Timeout) recvmsg(7, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 4, -1) = 2 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=7, revents=POLLIN}]) read(5, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 recvmsg(7, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base="U\2\227\0\376\202-\0\3\4\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\4\4\4\4\0\0\3\37%\2\0\0", iov_len=4096}], msg_iovlen=1, msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 32 recvmsg(7, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) recvmsg(7, {msg_namelen=0}, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}], 4, -1^Cstrace: Process 6286 detached <detached ...> igorn@cougar:/home/igorn>lsof -p 6286 .... knotes 6286 igorn 6u a_inode 0,11 0 9490 [eventfd] knotes 6286 igorn 7u unix 0xffff9e83ba927000 0t0 140013 type=STREAM knotes 6286 igorn 8u unix 0xffff9e83b2ae7800 0t0 150258 type=STREAM .... Is there any way simple way to fix this? 'dnf downgrade' does not work because of some dependency issue. I feel very sad without my knotes. Igor