On 6/16/23 15:33, Felix Miata wrote:
gene heskett composed on 2023-06-16 14:32 (UTC-0400):
greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall.
Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown after
entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for selection is
compatible with wayland?
Switching to Wayland at 90 years old to run CRCs and other machinery, really? I
have yet to open a Wayland session. Hopefully I won't live long enough to be
forced to switch, and I'm younger than you by at least a decade.
It not my choice. I tried to fix a 6 month old udev bug debian refuses
to fix, even bokworm is said to have it yet, and the fix-it script
pulled in by way of an apt session 39 security fixes and recommended I
reboot, but when I did, my passwd had been nulled or something, so I
could not get past the login. 5 re-install attempts later because I had
to unplug everything, including the 6 drives I wanted to save.
I finally got a single disk install that was safe and I still had my
/home which is on a separate raid10 of 4 samsung 1T ssd's with 900G of
each drive as md0p1, 60G's remaining is swap, and a few remaining megs
is md2. Not in use but...
After this 3 day debacle I should compare the actual size of /etc, to
whats left and if there is enough room, make a backup of /etc on md2,
otherwise I'll just copy the important stuff like my hosts file so I
don't have to reinvent that wheel.
So all my cnc machines are still on buster, and will stay there until
wayland CAN replace X11. wayland is just barely able to run a simple
gui, and until it can transparently do everything X11 has done for
decades, its not open for discussion. Wayland is a cripple, and will
remain so until I can ssh -Y into one of my buster machines and
everything in its gui works just as if I was at that machines keyboard,
mouse and monitor. Until then wayland is still knocking on the door
begging to be let in. I don't actually carve metal from this machine, as
I cannot SEE the machine, but I do all the admin or gcode writing stuff
from this office chair.
But you give me credit for around 17 months I haven't yet lived.
Somebody on tv once made the remark about his age, George Burns IIRC,
claiming he didn't buy green banana's, which is about how I shop since
I'm alone now.
Take care & stay well Felix.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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