Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, May 28, 2022, 11:08 AM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/28/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Brian wrote: > >> > Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye > :). > > > > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > >> Bookworm? > >> SID? > > > > In any case: Not Testing ! >

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/28/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Brian wrote: >> > Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye :). > > Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> Bookworm? >> SID? > > In any case: Not Testing ! > > Currently a zillion of packages get marked for autoremovial from Testing >

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > > Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye :). Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Bookworm? > SID? In any case: Not Testing ! Currently a zillion of packages get marked for autoremovial from Testing because of

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 24/5/22 23:23, Brian wrote: Hi, After my surrender to Jessie I've thought of moving on with Stretch. Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye :). Bookworm? SID? -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-27 Thread 황병희
Hellow Махно , Махно writes: > Hello. Just use i3. It is a tiling window manager designed for X11, > inspired by wmii and written in C.[5] It supports tiling, stacking, > and tabbing layouts, which it handles dynamically. Configuration is > achieved via plain text file and extending i3 is

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-25 Thread Махно
Hello. Just use i3. It is a tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii and written in C.[5] It supports tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts, which it handles dynamically. Configuration is achieved via plain text file and extending i3 is possible using its Unix domain socket and

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-25 Thread 황병희
Hellow didier, didier gaumet writes: > (... thanks ...) > In fact you did not install Debian on your Chromebook but you enabled > Debian inside Chrome OS on your Chromebook(1), right? In this case > Debian runs in a Chrome OS container not on the hardware? Your > screenshot seems to show a

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 25 mai 2022 à 08:50:05 UTC+2, 황병희 a écrit : > Antonino Saetta writes: > > > (... thanks ...) > > I thought that Debian is GNOME by default... > > > > Also, what's the lightest desktop? Default, XFCE or LXDE...? > Hellow, i am beginner with Debian. I install Debian 11 Bullseye on

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-25 Thread 황병희
Antonino Saetta writes: > (... thanks ...) > I thought that Debian is GNOME by default... > > Also, what's the lightest desktop? Default, XFCE or LXDE...? Hellow, i am beginner with Debian. I install Debian 11 Bullseye on Chromebook. But there is no Gnome desktop. I just launch each Linux app

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
desktop > environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? To give you a choice of which desktop or desktops to install, or no GUI at all. With Linux you can install and run multiple desktops, if you want to. > I thought that Debian is GNOME by default... It is, but you don't have to

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 02:23:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: > apt install task-xfce-desktop > apt unstall take-gnome-desktop > apt unstall xfce4 > etc Freudian typos.

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Brian
l. > > So I was wondering, why am I asked to choose (or not) a GNOME desktop > environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? > > I thought that Debian is GNOME by default... It needn't be GNOME, but it has been for quite some time. > Also, what's the lightest desktop? Defau

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/24/22 05:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 01:27:29PM +0200, Antonino Saetta wrote: So I was wondering, why am I asked to choose (or not) a GNOME desktop environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? uncheck that box, select any other Desktop you want, or None

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/24/22 04:53, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 24/5/22 7:27 pm, Antonino Saetta wrote: Also, what's the lightest desktop? Default, XFCE or LXDE...? I use Mate.  It's closest to the old gnome so no fancy crap I am with you on that. BTW: the mate-desktop-environment-extras is a Great

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 01:27:29PM +0200, Antonino Saetta wrote: > So I was wondering, why am I asked to choose (or not) a GNOME desktop > environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? > > I thought that Debian is GNOME by default... *sigh* It's complicated. See, there's m

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 24/5/22 7:27 pm, Antonino Saetta wrote: Also, what's the lightest desktop? Default, XFCE or LXDE...? I use Mate.  It's closest to the old gnome so no fancy crap Jeremy OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread tomas
not) a GNOME desktop > environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? > > I thought that Debian is GNOME by default... > > Also, what's the lightest desktop? Default, XFCE or LXDE...? The lightest desktop is no desktop :-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Debian desktop environment

2022-05-24 Thread Antonino Saetta
Hi, After my surrender to Jessie I've thought of moving on with Stretch. Currently I've installed it through the net, no problems at all. So I was wondering, why am I asked to choose (or not) a GNOME desktop environment, other than *Debian desktop environment*? I thought that Debian is GNOME

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Linux-Fan
Brian writes: On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 17:02:01 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 04:04:17PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 13:43:29 +, Tixy wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 07:47 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Brian
, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon > > > > > > installation? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread David Wright
typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian > > desktop environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE > > installation. > > > > It does. > > > > a) > > | [ ]  Debian desktop environment > > | [*]    XFCE > > > > b

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 16:44:04 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 16:28:36 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 12:50:23PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) > > wrote: > > > hv3 > > > > This is a web browser written in TCL/tK. What I suspect is happening is

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 04:04:17PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 13:43:29 +, Tixy wrote: > > > On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 07:47 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > &

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 16:28:36 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 12:50:23PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > > hv3 > > This is a web browser written in TCL/tK. What I suspect is happening is > it's being pulled in to satisfy a dependency on "www-browser"

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 12:50:23PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: hv3 This is a web browser written in TCL/tK. What I suspect is happening is it's being pulled in to satisfy a dependency on "www-browser" virtual package by one of the desktop metapackages. libsqlite3-tcl

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 13:43:29 +, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 07:47 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon install

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 11/5/21 4:50 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: Hi, I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI turned on) with the same netinst image . I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop environment" marked would affect or n

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 07:47 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation? > > > > > > > > Right now, for the r

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 12:50:23 +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi, > > I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI turned > on) with the same netinst image . > > I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian deskto

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation? > > > > Right now, for the regular official installers (and also for the > unofficial installer with non-free firmware)

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
> Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation? Assuming you install with one of the REGULAR installers (not one that contains the word "Live" anywhere in its name): yes. Selecting "Debian desktop environment" in the inst

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE installation. It does. a) | [ ]  Debian desktop environment | [*]    XFCE b) | [*]  Debian desktop environment | [*]    XFCE Using (b), I end up with 12 more installed packages. 

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Hi, I did some test by installing 2 identical virtualbox instances (EFI turned on) with the same netinst image . I typically use XFCE, so I wanted to test if leaving "Debian desktop environment" marked would affect or not my XFCE installation. It does. a) | [ ] Debian desktop e

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2018-05-15 Thread dft
Thank you, Richard Hector and Richard Owlett.

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2018-05-14 Thread Richard Owlett
s, you can choose to install | one or more of the following predefined collections of software. | | [*]  Debian desktop environment | [ ]    GNOME | [ ]    Xfce | [ ]    KDE | [ ]    Cinnamon | [ ]    MATE | [ ]    LXDE | [ ]  web server | [*]  print server | [ ]  SSH server | [*]  standard system

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2018-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/05/18 23:42, dft wrote: > It seems that the following three combinations have exactly the same > effect, but I am not sure.  Please confirm whether the following three > combinations have exactly the same effect.  > > | [*]  Debian desktop environment > | [ ]    GNOME

Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2018-05-14 Thread dft
ne or more of the following predefined collections of software. | | [*]  Debian desktop environment | [ ]    GNOME | [ ]    Xfce | [ ]    KDE | [ ]    Cinnamon | [ ]    MATE | [ ]    LXDE | [ ]  web server | [*]  print server | [ ]  SSH server | [*]  standard system utilities After the installation was

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-11-17 Thread pjw
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 06:01 AM, Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > > Hi, Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most > security... Apropos: Debian Moves To Non-Root X.Org Server By Default[1] Links: 1. http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-driv

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-11-17 Thread Václav Ovsík
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:45:47AM -0700, pjw wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 06:01 AM, Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > > > > Hi, Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most > > security... > > Apropos: > > Debian Moves To Non-Root X.Org Serv

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:01:09 +0100, Mateusz Kozłowski <mateu...@hush.com> wrote: > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and > the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME > etc.)? They're all reasonably secure. Of

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > > Hi, > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most > security and the best privacy and which You recommned for debian > users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME etc.)? My opinion is that no one desktop environment is any m

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
e and feel really On 27 Oct 2015 1:51 pm, "Mateusz Kozłowski" <mateu...@hush.com> wrote: Hi, Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME etc.)?

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 14:01 +0100, Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > Hi, > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most > security and the best privacy and which You recommned for debian > users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME etc.)? Hand picking components and evaluating them

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Tim McDonough
I agree with several other comments with regards to security not being necessarily related to a specific desktop environment. In my opinion I think the best security comes from using both a Linux distribution and a desktop environment that you (or the admin) is very familiar with and

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 27 October 2015 13:01:09 Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > Hi, > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and > the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, > GNOME etc.)? Speaking personally, and we will all do that, and

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread jonas hedman
On 15-10-27 14:01:09, Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > > Hi, > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and > the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME > etc.)? > What is your threat model? -- Jonas Hedma

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Michael Jones
. So the only thing to pick off is preference and feel really On 27 Oct 2015 1:51 pm, "Mateusz Kozłowski" <mateu...@hush.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security > and the best privacy and which You recommned for debia

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Michael Jones
. So the only thing to pick off is preference and feel really On 27 Oct 2015 1:51 pm, "Mateusz Kozłowski" <mateu...@hush.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security > and the best privacy and which You recommned for debia

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I hope this discussion should continue, rather than conclude, as more views means more purity in idea. As far as security is concerned, it is the Debian OS which determines policies more than the DE. Also, I would like to categorize them as under: KDE : Heavy, high-end graphics, consumes

Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Mateusz Kozłowski
Hi, Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME etc.)?

Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-27 Thread Mateusz Kozłowski
Hi, Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME etc.)?