On 29.06.21 15:28, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
First, let me assure the list that I am not trying to ignite a flame war.
I have a legitimate reason for installing Debian Buster on my Windows 10
laptop using Windows Subsystem Linux and X410. I have a very important
application for my Computational Chemistry research program that has
never been ported to Linux.
After much thrashing about and hair pulling (little enough to begin
with) I succeeded.
However, there are several problems, minor but annoying. I’m using the
xfe4 desktop.
The Application Manager Logout function will only allow Logout; Restart
and Shutdown are grayed out.
On the System level, clicking on the Synaptic Package Manager entry in
the pulldown manual does not open the app; sudo synaptic in the Xfce
Terminal opens the app and it is fully functional.
(...)
I will not be able to fully answer your question, I have only an idea
for you which might or might not help you to advance.
I suppose you are using the WSL2.
When I recently have had a look at it, the first mayor thing of
importance which I noticed was, correct me if I observed it wrong, that
it is using a Linux kernel from Microsoft and not the kernel from Debian
(or a kernel from Ubuntu, or openSUSE, or Red Hat etc.), although you
installed the "Debian app". Well, the Debian app is kind of a collection
of commands as typically found at the command line after a bare minimal
Debian install directly to the hardware, and a collection of Debian
alike configuration files to make the by MS provided kernel and the
commands pulled in by the Debian app to behave somewhat as you would
expect it from a Debian OS install. But this does not change that the
kernel from Microsoft does not use systemd. Maybe the grayed out Restart
and Shutdown buttons are a consequence of this?
Good Luck!
Marco.
