Monday, September 29, 2025

A look at XFCE in Debian Trixie

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I haven't written about XFCE in Debian for a while. I've noticed that one of my old posts, A look at XFCE in Debian Wheezy , is gett...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

New Firefox ESR is late in Debian (again)

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Update: Firefox ESR 140 arrived as a security update in the afternoon of  the morning of this post. My apologies for misrepresenting the upd...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

No updates possible (sources list empty) after installing Debian Trixie

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There is an issue in Debian Trixie where some people who have installed it find that updates do not work. This is a serious problem for new ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Failed to mount NTFS volume in Thunar

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(Error mounting /dev/sdd1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.) I have an externa...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Authentication dialog for root privileges broken in Debian Trixie XFCE

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Update: this issue was fixed in XFCE 4.20.1:  xfce4 (4.20.1) unstable; urgency=medium   * d/control: update standards version to 4.7.2   * d...
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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,...
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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...