Escaped from gnome. While working in gnome the visibility of my mouse
pointer became very erratic, often visible only at the margins of a
window. I would then have to move the mouse and guess where it pointed
in the window. The computer was all but unusable so I rebooted. Having
been schooled in working with an invisible mouse when I came to the
login window I tabbed to display the desktop options and moved the mouse
about randomly. Suddenly I found a spot where one of the desktop options
was faintly brighter than the others. Carefully I moved the mouse until
lxde was faintly highlighted. I clicked mouse, logged in and am back to
the lxde desktop. Sound still ok. Many files are back but the newest
work done while I was still using the gnome desktop are missing. I'll
recover and am good to go!
On 9/20/19 2:58 PM, Thomas George wrote:
No sound after upgrade to Buster
Switched from lxde to gnome to use gnome/sound speaker test - Still no
sound
Rebooted to old stretch on another hard drive - had sound, output
changed to line out.
Rebooted to Buster. No sound and trapped in gnome. selection of
desktops shows at sign in but cannot be changed from gnome
Rebooted to Stretch on the hard drive used to upgrade to Buster.
Output is line out and sound to external speakers.
Continued to work with Stretch for a week to enjoy sound but found
only python 2 available
Rebooted to Buster (only gnome desktop can be selected and no sound)
in order to work with python 3.7. Found the files created in my home
directory while working with Stretch are not there when working with
Buster.
More files are missing. While working with Stretch I exchanged several
debianuser emails and downloaded and installed an new book on Calibre.
None of this was present when I switched back to Buster.
Sound! One of the debianuser emails I read while working with Stretch
said the no sound problem on Buster was caused by timidity. I purged
timidity and sure enough line out was back and sound works fine.
Still no solution to trapped in gnome but I did a full backup of
/home/tom/ before the upgrade so next I will rsync it to /home/tom/ on
Buster. I have no idea of how to recover the files I wrote during the
week I worked on Stretch. Maybe go back to Stretch, rsync the files to
another computer and then from there rsync them to Buster.
If anyone knows how I can escape from gnome please let me know.
