Beginners Questions • Keyboard issues (laptop) after updates
Debian user here, but by no means an expert. I can pretty much handle anything doable by "apt install" or sometimes flatpak or dpkg, but I get confused quickly beyond that. I use Debian 12 on my...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Strange rendering issue on...
Fresh install of Debian 12 today.I've tried different desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, and XFCE) but they all present the same issue. Heck, I even tried other distros for giggles and they all have...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • Night light broken on Testing with Wayland
Hey all, I've seen this posted several times around the internet but I still can't get the night light working. It engages for a few seconds then defeats itself while remaining enabled. The most...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] RAID1 BOOTING
hello all,I don't understand how mdadm raid1 boot install works..I went through the installation of debian 12 on 2 Sata ssds raid1 mirrored. this is for a server i'm building and i want the redundancy...
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General Questions • [Software] Synaptic Package Manager missing 'download...
I broke my Synaptic Package Manager [pacman] (Debian 12) trying to resolve an issue with repositories, when I deleted the download from: "http://deb.debian.org/debian" within the "Software and...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] Frequent and random freezing
Experience doesn't seem tied to any specific application. Cursor stops moving and then laptop reboots after ~30 seconds of being frozen. Happens multiple times a day. Tried reinstalling OS with no...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] GRUB menu does not show up
Some days ago, I was traveling, and I needed to turn off the computer, I was taking long, so I did a hard power off. Then, the system does not show the GRUB menu when starting. Instead, it showed a...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Backup before shutting down
I have very, very limited knowledge of the command prompt, and would like a command to back up certain folders in my home directory to my server when I shutdown. I am sure this is possible, but have...
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Beginners Questions • [软件] housini20.5Start the crash
The newly installed debian12 cannot start the houdini20.5 version and keeps crashing on the startup interface. Both houdini20.0 and houdini19.5 can start smoothly. I don't know why, can you help me?...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] xfce-terminal -- some files greyed out
I often "cp -a" a file before making changes and I usually assign a suffix of ".bak" to those files. But later, when I want to display files with "ls", the ones with the ".bak" suffix are greyed and...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] When zooming with the accesibility feature,...
I installed debian 12 with xfce as the de. I enabled the accessibility settings and super + mouse wheel now zooms in and out. However, when I want to zoom into a particular detail that I see on google...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • Do Wayland Programs Require a Wayland...
Hi, Main question: Do applications that use Wayland require a desktop environment that uses Wayland, in order to run?Sub-questions (i.e. related questions that may clarify) Do Linux applications use...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • Debian Bookworm, LXDM, Sway: Unable...
Hi I'm running Debian Bookworm 12 (amd64) with LXDM and Sway. I'm unable to switch users. I'm getting the following error:Code: Xsession: X session started for kripna at Sun Nov 17 11:49:08 AM -04...
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General Questions • [Software] NO_PUBKEY B7B3B788A8D3785CFailed to fetch...
Hello,Please help me to resolve the "NO_PUBKEY" issue which appears when I run the Synaptic Package Manager. I am using Debian 12, which was the result of 2 upgrades (11,10).A screen-print of the...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Missing items in System Settings?
I have a Linux Mint Debian Edition running dual-boot with Debian 12 Bookworm; both have Cinnamon DE; however the LMDE shows me 4 items under System Settings|Administration: firewallLogin WindowUsers...
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Off-Topic • [Discussion] US regulators seek to separate Chrome from Google,...
Late Breaking News from the Associated Press: Click the link and read please. U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Solved] Where is my usb drive?
Whenever a usb drive is plugged into the computer should it not show on the desktop? I want to copy files which were downloaded into the /Downloads folder to drag into the drive but cannot due to the...
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Off-Topic • [Off-Topic] Forgotten pass phrase after holidays
I need to vent my frustration: I used a device for months daily and therefore typed in the LUKS pass phrase often more than once a day, but after 3 weeks of holidays it totally vanished from my...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • [Solved] Kernel Panic 6.1.0-27
HiI have a newish install from an iso of Debian 12.7.0 on a VM on Proxmox. All was working well on kernel 6.1.0-26-amd64 until I ran an unattended apt-get upgrade. Kernel 6.1.0-27-amd64 was installed...
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Graphical Environments & Desktops • DPI/Scale issue with Nvidia + QT
In a KDE Plasma desktop environment, when the proprietary Nvidia driver is used, QT-based apps and DE elements are scaled about 50% larger than normal and don't respond to system_settings >...
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