Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Authentication dialog for root privileges broken in Debian Trixie XFCE
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Above is a screenshot of the dialog in action so you know what I mean. The dialog appears launching Synaptic package manager, unlocking pr...
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Power Manager in Debian Trixie XFCE and lock screen settings
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Depending on the time of reading this, you may be wondering why lock screen settings are not working in XFCE Power Manager in Debian Trixie,...
System sounds in Debian XFCE
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If you look under the Settings tab of the XFCE Appearance application, you will find two options under Event sounds, Enable event sounds and...
Thursday, March 6, 2025
13 year old bug in Tango icons fixed in Debian!
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The default icon theme in Debian XFCE has had an annoying bug for a very long time. I wrote about it in 2013, but the issue was reported as...
Friday, November 10, 2023
Installing a printer on the Eero router in Debian
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In a hurry? See the short version at the bottom. I recently switched to fibre internet and got a free eero router. Computers, phones and ta...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Does Debian Testing need a security repository?
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Debian Testing is for testing the upcoming new release of Debian as it develops. You may think the clue is in the name, but some people seem...
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Desktop icons and menu not showing
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Debian is working do smoothly these days I rarely have anything to post about (currently Trixie/Testing). But today I noticed that there wer...
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