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FWIW Debian Test Calamares installer broke on me with both Mate & XFCE testing live usbs, yesterday.

In terminal, try:
sudo apt install <new DE>

Reboot and make certain your display manager lets you get into the <new DE>. Run the <new DE> for as long as it takes for you to determine you want it more than KDE. Once you are ready to kill KDE entirely you can uninstall it via terminal (but there is no urgency):

sudo apt remove <old DE>

FWIW I have 6 Window Managers installed and in use at different times (2 on Wayland and 4 on x11) all available/ accessible/ invocable from LightDM (Slick ...

If you are looking for an interesting and 'fun' tool to help you determine which monospaced 'terminal' font is best for your eyes... you might try:

https://www.codingfont.com/

Windows?!?!?! Pray tell, aside from looking out of a window at neighboring scenery what would one do with windows?

...Labwc is another great option!

I'd advise folks against installing labwc 0.8.1-1 from Experimental. IME it's been considerably less stable than Sid's 0.7.4-1 and I've temporarily gone back to openbox while waiting for a labwc upgrade to land in Unstable.

sway, labwc and wayfire are currently stuck waiting for a wlroots upgrade that I'm pretty sure will land in Unstable before Trixie's freeze begins.
the

I echo wizard10000 observation.... and offer a corollary: "understand and act in ...

I test wayland extensively (proof positive I'm just an old guy without any friends and not much to do). The big name DEs gnome, kde, cosmic work pretty well on Wayland Sid. As for Wayland compositors, the following work very well (with root access and conky inconsistencies) SwayWM, Labwc, cagebreak. Everything else I have tried gets quite sketchy on Debian (based on my tests).

@wizard10000 By way of an update, I think I can say the bug rests with Sway. I have installed your variant with my changes on labwc and it works just fine. The following proof of life image offers my 'proof'. Thank you, again.

None1975 wrote: 2024-12-05 12:29

manyroads wrote: 2024-12-04 23:37 Just curious, are there any folks around these parts who are actively using SwayFX? If so are you willing to share information on tricks and tips?

Hello.
This fork is full of bugs. I tested it on the Void Linux distribution in my time and my feedback is purely negative.
God forbid it should end up in the Debian repository. God forbid...

Thank you for saving me some time!

Just curious, are there any folks around these parts who are actively using SwayFX? If so are you willing to share information on tricks and tips? Pointers? and such...

Onsemeliot wrote: 2024-12-04 14:12

manyroads wrote: 2024-12-03 18:59 Why not use a live install?

Is there even a live system for testing? I didn't find one.

Here's the Live USB download material. (see the right hand side)

https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

wizard10000 None of my scripts use lua. My scripts do run on TileOS (a debian derivative) but not on debian (sid) proper. Would you be willing to share one of your working scripts (plain Jane type) for me to test???


EDIT: here's the message I get when running my conky:

╭─mark@debian ~
╰─➤ conky -c /home/mark/.conky/sway/.sway-2rc
conky: drawing to single buffer
conky: forked to background, pid is 22381
╭─mark@debian ~
╰─➤
conky: FOUND: console
conky: FOUND: ncurses
conky: FOUND: file ...

Thank you! That did the trick. Much appreciated.

I am attempting to run azote on Wayland Sway using sid. The following error is being thrown.

Any help is appreciated.


mark@debian ~
╰─➤ azote
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/azote", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('azote==1.13.1', 'gui_scripts', 'azote')())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/azote", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
return next(matches).load()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.12 ...

Why not use a live install?

I have discovered that conky running on wayland (sway) does not function. Based on my readings this appears to be because conky on Sid is not compiled with the out_to-wayland flag set.

Here's the error I am experiencing. Hopefully someone can help fix the issue.

https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1707

It only works on computers for me... my car, tractor, television are all poor locations for Debian to operate...

Internet search will provide you with dozens to choose from, including reviews to help you choose, Just search 'linux html graphic editor' or similar.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux+html+gr ... tor&ia=web

You should check with the plugin dev(s) ...

You can try using caffeine, also, to keep a machine 'awake'. As a newbie to Linux (user since 1994), I have not 'yet' found it necessary to use a tool like ClamAV (a peculiar quirk of mine).

Anyway FWIW Here are the ClamAV docs.
https://www.clamav.net/

Have you tried following any of the bazillion tutorials available?

https://linuxconfig.org/linux-cups-tuto ... -beginners

https://www.debianadmin.com/setup-cups- ... ebian.html

https://idroot.us/install-cups-print-server-debian-12/