Wayland is default on Gnome.
Benjamin
joined 2 years ago
Corroded... that's something I hadn't considered...
This is my "outside" laptop... been using it in places I wouldn't want to risk a more expensive machine... 🤔 think I'll disassemble it and check for corrosion...
Could be something in the process of breaking... could explain the erratic behaviors, I guess?
I haven't tried any other distro yet. I've been with Debian my whole Linux life. But I might try XFCE again... that was my preferred desktop for years, only the new update triggered me to try Gnome properly.
And... I totally broke my touchpad trying to disable the touch screen.
Couldn't figure it out, so another reinstall! I've done 5 now, and to hell with Wayland. All this time wasted trying to do something that apparently just ain't supported yet.
I had it working (well, disabled) on Wayland on my earlier frankenbian... ugh.
I've done that again, and now have a working Gnome install...
But I cannot get the touch screen disabled no matter what I try on it.
udevadm doesn't do it x11conf edit doesn't do it
Losing my mind with this 🤦♂️
Machine still complains ath10k is missing on bootup, too. I don't see how it isn't on this media when it was on the machine after the initial update to bookworm (many installs ago now, since I've been trying to get this installed the last 2 days)
I found a web site, biosbug.com, and was able to generate an unlock code.
Yeah, really looks like I ought to do a clean install I think.
The system takes forever to boot, but it's pretty responsive after...
I appreciate the help and info greatly. I'll eventually get it right! 🤦♂️
I've got an even older machine, Intel Atom, 2Gigs RAM, and I'm running 64bit XFCE4 there quite decently, but thank you for the info. How much longer do you think 32bit has? I thought web browsers already switched to only 64bit?
ZRam is good stuff
I've clearly broken something then, because after removing my media files... the install is over 200gigs.
I'm brand new to Gnome; I thought you could freely add Desktop Environments without conflict? I've since removed XFCE and am all in on Wayland... I think? Is Wayland the same as XWayland? 🤦♂️
If I install Gnome cleanly, will it still install and use Wayland?
And I discovered my BIOS is password protected 🫣 and I can't remember it 😢
I didn't think I had anything held... 🫣
Strange thing is all I've ever done is install:
XFCE
Gnome
Firefox was here ootb
And...
an XFCE plugin, docklike taskbar I compiled from source
Scrcpy, android screen mirror I compiled from source
Picom, compositor I compiled from source
Flatpack support, for openRCT
A few themes from internet
One thing I did notice is the Updater in Gnome always sees updates Synaptic doesn't see. Even now... weird...
On the updated system, running Gnome, it still happens. In addition, installing extensions from Synaptic results in them never appearing (but reported as installed). I have switched to using Extension Manager from Synaptic, and it is able to install extensions properly (they can be used)
I don't really know much about Linux, which is why I have it on this system... to hopefully gain enough knowledge to be completely comfortable with it. So it is very likely I have inadvertently created a Frankbian 😢
Guess I was looking for confirmation
Snaps definitely are slower to open. One they get going, they are fine.
But a little slow to load...