System and Network configuration • sound controls do not change speaker linearly
In distros with newer pipewire releases, which I think includes Trixie, installing pipewire-pulse forces removal of pulseaudio, so I don't know what point there is keeping it along with pipewire and...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • How to stop mate from unlocking...
Thanks for this feedback pbear, which got me to dig a bit more thoroughly into what might be automatically launched with mate, but that still reveals nothing to give me a y clue.I have essentially the...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] Cloning a startup disk to a bootable partition on...
You can use qemu-img from package qemu-utils.If you copy the whole disk the boot ability is preserved.From any temporary boot Debian system install the qemu-utils package, and image the entire disk of...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] LibreOffice 7.6 on Debian 12 stable...
We use LibreOffice as one of our primary desktop apps and we have been using its appimage extensively. One of the main advantages of using the appimage is to ensure that the entire company uses the...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Solved] XFCE4 Screensaver
The task selection in the debian installer installs one display manager per DE. So if you pick gnome it will install GDM, and if you pick XFCE then it will install lightdm. It sounds like you picked...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Backup from Ubuntu to Debian
One simple command (the syntax may vary):tar zcf /dev/destination/backup.tgz /home/directory use the parms: tar -zxvf to decompress the file.man tar for other bits.Nothing complex, nothing more...
View ArticleHardware • Sound not working in Debian 12
Pipewire and PulseAudio do not work well together in Bookworm. Inxi indicates both are present, even if Pipewire is off. Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: off Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status:...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • [Solved] How to stop mate from...
Turns out the culprit was setting up a gmail account. When setting one up, you need to uncheck the two "Google Features" "Add Calendar to this account" and "Add Contacts to this account" before adding...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • NAS hangs every now and then when booting
Some unexpected news:Out of curiosity I installed the previous version of Debian (V11).Guess what: 10 out of 10 boots were successful.Although I still want to make some more tests,it seems this...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • [Feedback] plain text...
Looking into it. Not sure why they are disallowed.In the meantime, archive files are allowed so just ask poster to put it in a zip or tar etc. file.There's also the board pastebin for text up to 150KB...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] backdoor in upstream xz affecting...
12.6 Postponed for security reasons. But no news here.Monitor the Debian News subforum: 2024-03-31Although no Debian stable versions are known to be affected by CVE-2024-3094 the next point release...
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Beginners Questions • [Solved] LibreOffice 7.6 on Debian 12 stable replacing...
Our situation may be quite unique. We are primarily running on Sid with occasional, if any, booting to Bkworm. AppImage ensures seamless transitions between Sid and Bkworm, especially for such an...
View ArticleForum information, requests, and feedback. • [Best-Of] Threads for the week.
[Off-Topic] Help wanted: Writing a beginner's book to Debian“I could do it alone, but a small team would be even better. That's why I'm reaching out to you for advice and/or help.”[HowTo] Get Wi-FI...
View ArticleGeneral Debian • [Discussion] Which application, now defunct in Debian, do...
Maybe xygrib? Yes, but not nearly as pretty. I remember I did track down a data source for aweather and it is working when it wants to. It is also 3d when it's in a good mood. My i686 bookworm version...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Flatpak version of Newsflash doesn't run...
That's not a Debian problem, you should ask the flatpak version author/s.Well, the app's maintainer says that is a system problem. Look here, a different user with the same problem.Why not clone the...
View ArticleGeneral Debian • [Discussion] Help me understand root and sudo
... not sure how vbox would do this.As an aside, VBox calls that function raw disk. There's a section about it in the manual and plenty of articles on the internet. Will say, the QEMU-KVM...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Unable to use Wayland after switching to nvidia...
Thanks @ttila. The output of Code: sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset. is Y, So I guess the kernel parameter is set correctly, It was using Wayland session before, but after trying to...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • [Solved] Download is performed unsandboxed...
Hello,Edit: Ok so apparently the issue is it doesn't like it when I do this as root. If I do it as a normal user there is no problem.I'm glad you sorted it out. :) Please, mark the discussion as...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • debugging exim(4)
Moved to "General Question" sub-forum.Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2024-04-08 19:12 — Replies 4 — Views 474
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • Lost System Timing...Is this NTP...
Looks like it is polling every 4 minutes...Code: root@augie:/home/augie# journalctl -r -t ntpdApr 08 16:07:30 augie ntpd[1112]: DNS: dns_take_status: time.nist.gov=>good, 8Apr 08 16:07:30 augie...
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