Hello everyone,

So I'm trying to install and setup sway from a clean, net install. I know I could just install the default DE and install sway alongside it, but I'm in my no-bloat phase.

Anyway, I'm starting from the Debian 13.6 iso, and choosing no DE when installing (so no GNOME nor "Debian Desktop Environment" when I got the choice).

When launching it all, I install sway, swayidle, swaylock and sway-backgrounds on the sway side. As for the DM, I went for greetd and wlgreet (it seems to me that this is where things don't work) or gtkgreet (I tried too but it doesn't work either). I also install a few other things, but those are uninportant here (unless stuff like git, brightnessctl, build-essential or make are known to conflict with something but then I'll be damned)

After that, I'm following the archwiki guide for greetd to set things up. So that include the systemctl enable greetd.service, configuring /etc/greetd/config.toml, sway-config, wlgreet.toml, and even the start-sway script for XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP. I've checked many times (due to me reinstalling Debian many times haha) and I haven't made mistakes reproducing the instructions.

Still, when I reboot, I get a XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP error, and some kind of failed to flush wayland socket: something something broken pipe piperoken pipeol error (cannot remember the exact wording for the second part of the message but you have the pipe-based keywords) which I don't understand.

So, I'm a bit lost here. I suppose there is a problem with greetd, but since the command in config.toml starts with sway, maybe it's a sway problem ? What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

guys have you ever wondered what ita possible to do before apt upddate && apt upgrade

Hi. I download today the latest iso (13.6) to doing some server installations and "Software Selection" is missing and install always X, am i missing something?

Hi.

So i succesfully got a working finherprint scanner on ubuntu with open fprintd, but with debian 13, i can't do it. Somebody please help me how to make it work.

Hello, yesterday I installed window maker on debian, my keyboard layout on tty is French but it's not the case on wmaker and I want it to be French but I don't know how.

Thanks.

Hello, excuse me, how to fix the internal microphone feeling like it's bouncing or repeating the words I say when I'm having a meeting with Google Meet? Well, I've read and searched the internet and it's recommended to use EasyEffect and use effect Deep Noise Remover, but it has a latency or delay of about 1 second or more . Is there a solution and suggestion? I use Pipewire.

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Achei o GNOME no Debian bem mais fluido que em outras distribuições. Também sentiram isso? Eu realmente estou surpreso com a fluidez e velocidade do Debian e GNOME. Programas abrem rápido, as animações não travam e o desempenho é muito bom. Achei funciona melhor que o Fedora e Ubuntu

I need to run a Debian computer with GUI and a fullscreen application, but without connected mouse and keyboard. The issue is that when the computer starts, the lower icon bar is visible and the desktop window is smaller - when I remotely run the fullscreen app, it still fits in that smaller window, with the icon bar visible. How can I start with the desktop maximized?

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Is there a config file for this?

-Last Update: Okay so I gave up, this issue has taken days off my life and I am just going to stop now. Was the HDD healthy? I have no idea powershell said it was, it showed up in the BIOS, but both windows and linux had trouble detecting it. Maybe it was the laptop but then again there is confusion. Thank you all for your help.

So straight to the point, I installed a 4tb sata hdd (2.5) into my Dell Inspiron n5110 and the BIOS says it is there and all. But when I booted into debian using a live installation on a usb drive and did lsblk in terminal it does not detect my hdd.

Also if this helps I have seen the message "revalidation failed errno=-2"and also I tried doing the "libata.force=noncq,1.5Gbps" thing and it still does not show up.

Please help I am new to linux.

(as the title says I did change from ATA to ACHI still does not work)

-Update: I am slowly going insane, I decided to go through the lengthy process of removing the HDD and using it as an external one with my actual PC, (sata to USB) powershell says the disk is healthy but now whenever I try to initialize the disk in diskmanager it says there is an i/o problem. Oh my god.

Hello all,

TL:DR - I want to install a specific version of the QGIS package but don't know how to proceed.

I had the latest QGIS installed on my system (Debian 13 Trixie) which was 4.2 but I cannot use it because it is not compatible with what we have at work. Since I don't need the latest, I wanted to install LTR(Long Term Release) which is version 3.44.12.(atm). Any pre 4.0 version is fine by me.

I found how to install QGIS here https://www.qgis.org/resources/installation-guide/#repositories I also found the right package here: https://qgis.org/ro/linux-packages/debian-ubuntu-ltr/#dists/trixie (not sure why is it in Romanian, but ok) but I don't know what to do with the latter. Since I'm fairly new to Linux, can someone explain this format or link a resource I can read myself?

I tried to be smart and use terminal by modifying

sudo apt install qgis qgis-plugin-grass

to:

sudo apt install qgis=1:3.44.1+18trixie-1 qgis-plugin-grass=1:3.44.1+18trixie-1

But that led me to dependency nightmare as each time I add a dependency another one would pop up. After 5, I just gave up. Besides, I wasn't sure which version I was installing.

Also, is there a value I can enter in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.sources to force the update to update only to LTR?

I have a feeling I was close to installing it, but honestly, I have no clue.

I appreciate any help provided. TIA.

P.S.: I was looking into keeping the latest version of QGIS and build a version that I need here: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL.md#310-building-debian-packages This way I can have compatibility and new features, but I don't have time for that atm.

Besides the stability, people often forget to mention the supportive and friendly community.

If you have a problem, you will be asked for more details. Run xyz command to get it. There is always someone that know the solution.

The Debian community is what I like the most. No BS; just dry facts :)

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Its not the error itself bothering me (backup NAS is not present at the moment and im guessing those error messages are telling me that).

Problem is that i can not use CLI cause those texts override everything including Nano and Midnight commander.

Any fix for that?

Hello, beginner here. I installed Debian stable with Gnome and today is saw this security checks failed. Is it malware or did i do something wrong?

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Did i broke the system with these drivers and should i have kept the default ones? Help needed because i am worried.

[SOLVED: sudo ln-s /usr/sbin/agetty /usr/bin/agetty fixed it] After going through the install process of ly, disabling getty on tty2 and enabling ly on tty2, it fails to start and hits its reset limit

`sudo journalctl -u ly@tty2` reveals that it fails because it cannot execute /usr/bin/agetty due to no such file or directory

Attempting `sudo ln -s /usr/bin/getty /usr/bin/agetty` and `sudo systemctl restart [email protected]` yields the same results

Has anyone gotten ly working on Debian 13? With the amount of time I've sank into ly I think I'm almost content to just use tty1 as my login manager atp. Don't get much more minimal than that

Hi peeps,

I'm getting more and more interested in IT coming from a non-IT related background, have a -very- humble homelab, and last year fell in love with GNU/Linux, it's philosophy and community, and everyday learning something new so very happy about it.

Right now my main PC is running Ubuntu LTS 24.04, and a MiniPC a Ubuntu server, and although I have no special gripe with any of those (I'm still too much of a newbie to understand), as far as I understand, Debian development is community driven and considered, for the most part, a more stable distribution, which being a first-year cybersecurity student find a topic of interest.

So, without extending any more about it, I was meaning to ask you fine, knowledgeable people, if you have any tips about making the switch, if it is worth it given my brief introduction, and any comment about it that you feel like making.

Much appreciated for your time and have a very nice day!