On 04/11/26 at 07:43, Donald MacDougall wrote:
Thanks for doing that for me, I'd have to commandeer my wife's computer
to do it. I see that it probably wouldn't accomplish much.
Maybe I should uninstall XFCE and just go back to X11.
I doubt that will solve your problem, for reasons Greg just explained.
maybe at this point you could double check your /etc/apt/sources.list
that for Trixie it must have the lines:
~$ grep -v ^# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main contrib
non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-backports main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware
and nothing other uncommented (except for source "deb-src" if you need
it). If you apply changes to this file then run:
~$ sudo apt --update dist-upgrade
and see what happens.
Since XFCE doesn't work to be sure that there isn't an X11 driver issue
I'd install a lightweight alternative to XFCE: LXQt. You can easily do
that using the "tasksel" tool:
~$ sudo -i
~# tasksel
Tasksel also offers you the opportunity to install the SSH server, since
you planned to ssh-in to this PC via your wife's PC. So mark both "...
LXQt" and "SSH server" options. If also LXQt doesn't work you are
running trouble with the graphical server. Sadly I don't know how to run
LXQt from the command line, maybe a "startx" is enough.
Another thing that I'd like to check is the output of the "inxi"
command, that obviously makes sense when you can copy and paste the
output of commands and logs, into your emails. If you're able to do that
first install "inxi" and then paste the output of the command:
~$ sudo apt install -t trixie-backports inxi
~$ inxi -Fxpmzr
Kind regards,
--
Franco Martelli
