On 6/6/25 16:53, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 04:09:57PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
On 6/6/25 15:27, Dan Ritter wrote:
You may be running Wayland instead of X.
Afirmative according to synaptic which won't run on wayland w/o the magic in
the menu's.
Let's have some facts then. Please show us the output of:
$ env | grep XDG_
Particularly of interest will be the values of:
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME
Thanks,
Andy
gene@coyote:~$ env | grep XDG_
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/gene/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg:/usr/share/desktop-base/kf5-settings
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=plasma
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/home/gene/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Call me confused, Andy. plasma is kde but its install is far from complete.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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