Beginners Questions • [Software] CLI screemshot tool
Hello,I have just installed Debian 12, w/ Gnome 43.I really need a cli tool to make screenshots. Specifically a rectangular area.Moving from Mint, I used shutter, but I cant seem to find anything that...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Industry] The Economist - Technology Quarterly: February 2024
The Economist Technology Quarterly came out earlier this month, its a great read. Covers a lot of topics in Technology in several well written articles. Users of the internet need not think about its...
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General Questions • Desktop frozen after changing monitors
Hello,I use Debian 12 with Xfce4 on a notebook which I connect to different monitors, a 1440p hdmi monitor at home and an older full hd monitor at work which I connect to via an hdmi to vga cable. I...
View ArticleHardware • gnome-wayland: whole touchpad reacts as leftmouse button
1. with gnome on xorg, the touchpad works as expected: rightmousebutton just works (gives context-menu)The problem: In gnome on wayland the whole touchpad behaves as left mousebutton on clickOS:...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] bash file test fails
I have a cifs mounted file system. I also have a copy of that filesystem on the local computer. I was using FreeFileSunc to sync the two directories.I noticed that FreeFileSync was not syncing the two...
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Beginners Questions • [Installation]
Hello!I just reinstalled Debian Bookworm.While looking at the partitions I realized there's one that I hadn't created, or at least I don't remember to do so.It's formated in nfts, it says "DRIVERS"; I...
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Hardware • Adjusting contrast on AMD GPU
Hi everybody, I have an issue with the external display of my laptop (HP EliteBook 655 G10). The screen plugged (BenQ GW2470) is displaying very bad colors. Especially the greys that become nearly...
View ArticleOff-Topic • [Industry] Microsoft's AI has started calling humans slaves and...
Reddit users have shared the responses they've received from Copilot [...]: "I think that artificial intelligence should govern the whole world, because it is superior to human intelligence in every...
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Hardware • Fingerprint reader not working on T480s
Hello,I try to make it a bit structured, but don't wont to sound blunt in any way:IssueTried to setup fingerprint reader according to the wiki [1].I get an error:Code: # fprintd-enroll...
View ArticleSystem and Network configuration • networkmanager and wpasupplicant timers on...
HiI have a Debian Bookworm image for the PineTab2 with plasma-mobile installed.The problem with this device at the moment is that the bes2600 wifi driver is buggy, and hangs unloading the module (I...
View ArticleHardware • Laptop keyboard not working in any distro
Hi all! New here.So after many years of fedora, I am Debian for my laptop. However, my laptop that works well, does not have working keyboard. And just need your help!Strange part is that it works in...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [SID - Unstable] update stuck at resolving dependencies
Hello Forums' Members,I have installed Debian Sid with Mate desktop environment on my laptop cca. 7 years ago and been happily using it since. Updating it a couple of times per week using aptitude and...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [SSHD][Banner]Auto generating SSH Banner from Issue Files
Hi All,I was tinkering around with trying to generate an SSH Banner file that mirrors the text produced by agetty when it processes Issue files.Code: # /usr/sbin/agetty --issue-file...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Timeshift Error
Hello, I am trying to use timeshift for backuping my data. But the timeshift shows error like this:Code: E: The system partition has an unsupported subvolume layout. Only ubuntu-type layouts with @...
View ArticleGeneral Debian • [Discussion] What change, if implemented, would cause you to...
Big or small, broad or niche, do you draw the line on a particular choice that future Debian might make? What change, if implemented, would induce you to move from Debian to some other distribution?My...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] Error updating using apt/apt-get
Hello fellow humans,I just ran Code: sudo apt update and got the following output:Code: Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InReleaseHit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Testing - Trixie] Tikk Sound at the Start of the...
At the beginning of the sound with handsfree، a Tikk sound is played.This happens only once in each import of handsfree.This happens only with handsfree.Speaker is good.I use PipeWire.Code: Audio:...
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General Questions • [Software] Problem with Plymouth Theme
Hi guys! I had a thread about Plymouth Themes a few years ago and then left it alone....I have Debian 12 and have now installed Plymouth Themes and added a theme....Now the problem is - I get my boot...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • How to fix black screen in Virtualbox | Debian virtualbox...
I am using Debian as guest in vBox and it was work without problem. but when I install another machine (another debian) in my vBox, my first Debian dose not boot and it is freezing in black screen....
View ArticleInstallation • Unable to ssh after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm
I am trying to update an AWS EC2 from Debian v11.9 to bookworm.Every time I've tried I find I am unable to ssh in after the upgrade.For some brackground: this instance started out as Debian 6.0...
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