On Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 11:24:34 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2021 11:53:20 am David Wright wrote: > > > > > Some of the things I'm dealing with are: > > > > > > > > > > 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar. > > > > > Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit", which I would > > > > > do, > > > > > and then within a few seconds it would come right back again! I > > > > > finally > > > > > tracked this down to being "KDEaccessible", which I've done nothing > > > > > to > > > > > invoke and don't know why the upgrade put that in there. I solved > > > > > the > > > > > problem by using synaptic to uninstall the package, since I have no > > > > > use > > > > > for it. > > > > > > > > This one is solved for the moment, then. > > > > > > Yeah, but why the heck did this get turned on in the first place? Or > > > even installed? > > > > One might hypothesise that > > . you run KDE, and KDE makes cvhanges that aren't always popular with > > every user. > > . KDE recommends kdeaccessibility depends on kaccessible. > > . KDE make changes to kaccessible for people who require and use it. > > Seems reasonable. > > Yeah, except that I don't run KDE. I do have it installed, to be able to > access certain programs that come with it, but my desktop environment of > choice is currently Xfce.
My understanding is that when you install a package like KDE, there's an assumption that you'll probably want to run it, and so it configures the system on that basis. I should point out that kdeaccessibility is only recommended by kde-full and task-kde-desktop. I see nothing that even recommends kde-full. The full live-task-kde obviously depends on task-kde-desktop, but I assume you didn't install that; only education-desktop-kde recommends task-kde-desktop. So I can't see why you would need to install anything that pulled in kdeaccessibility if you're just running KDE programs. > > > > > 2. My virtual (older) Slackware virtualbox install is seeing a few > > > > > issues. > > > > > Under Slackware it's a very old version of KDE, which I much prefer to > > > the newer stuff. > > > > Yes, that's what I meant above. I think there's a cohort who use TDE > > instead. > > I have looked into that, but haven't gone there (yet). Not sure if I'm > going to. > > (snip) > > There remains the sound issue in the virtualbox. Could it be that Debian > isn't running PulseAudio but something else? That would account for the > guest OS not being able to talk to it... No idea; you'd have to check this for yourself. ISTR there may be issues with pulseaudio if it's running as a system daemon rather than for the logged-in user, but I don't know the details. Cheers, David.
