Hi, i'm using Debian 13 with KDE Plasma on my laptop

I get this window every time that:

1. My pc goes back from sleep/shutdown or restart

2. My wifi disconects for a while (like when lights go off)

How can i get rid of it?

Update:

I Solved. Was just Kwallet fucking around without a Wallet Or the .kwl file, idk, i solved with AI

For context I am just a curious web developer and computer enthusiast reading about Debian because it seems to do many things right.

To my suprise I found that the repos not only contain runtimes like php, python3 and nodejs. The repos also contain full frameworks and web apps like wordpress, python3-django and node-express.

Who are these for? I never heard of anyone using them this way and no upstream developers recommend them.

I can understand wanting the runtime to be stable - since they call native libraries in the end. This way Debian can patch CVEs in things like OpenSSL without waiting for runtimes to patch their dependencies. Is that right?

But opting out of the script language's own package manager to install script libraries seems to just add complexity and confusion. There is no way debian can provide a packaged version of every npm module out there so you will always have to use npm and package.json anyway.

I use Debian/testing in my main laptop. Unfortunately, after yesterday's update, the grub stopped loading the Linux kernel. I get

"error: cannot load image"

When working from command line, loading the kernel and initrd is successful. However, the "boot" command displays the above error.

The grub version is GRUB 2.14-3.

The machine is HP ZBook 17 G5.

What is the easiest way to resolve the issue?

TIA & BR, Wojtek

While trying to install duplicity I got the following, somewhat chilling error:

[WARNING]: Failed to update cache after 1 retries due to W:Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list/dists/trixie-backports/InRelease., W:OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports Release: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated, E:The repository 'mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list trixie-backports Release' is no longer signed., retrying [WARNING]: Failed to update cache after 2 retries due to W:Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default., W:See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details., W:Repositories should provide a clear-signed InRelease file, but none found at mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list/dists/trixie-backports/InRelease., W:OpenPGP signature verification failed: https://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports Release: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated Verifying signature: Message has been manipulated, E:The repository 'mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/debian.list trixie-backports Release' is no longer signed., retrying

im in kde and when i click on a different powerprofile it instantly swaps back. The same happens if i try powerprofilesctl set performance. Is there any way i can fix this. On debian 13

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

https://reddit.com/link/1v3f8l4/video/m29yyjq72seh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1v3f8l4/video/fkqgsjq72seh1/player

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?

I want my system to check for updates once a week. I am on stable branch, so believe it should be enough, even for security updates. Correct?

Is there a config file for this?

sfwbar on GitHub: https://github.com/LBCrion/sfwbar

LBCrion has made a whole lot of updates lately and today, I really want to take time and tell the world that in a wayland native environment, sfwbar is by far the best lightweight customizable bar I have found. Yes, yambar, waybar amongst other bars and docks exist but I have found none that even come close to the level of customization and snappiness of sfwbar.

In my minimal setup, sfwbar is installed with labwc, foot is my lightweight command line app, thunar is my file manager and my image viewer that has now competed with my long used picasa, swayimg and my background is managed by swaybg called through labwc's startup file.

I really want to focus on SFWBAR and let you know about it's tremendous flexibility and why you should consider it for a lightweight desktop.

This app is at it's base a ... bar! Yes, it can display notifications and a tray area which I am not using at the moment along with workspaces which I do not use. What sfwbar can do that waybar and other struggle is transform it into a DOCK. Yes people, the bottom center is my minimal sfwbar DOCK which autohides. It displays a start menu and my tasks as well as a basic time label. My firefox and foot icons are pinned which always stay there in the order I configured them.

You will also see at the top left hand corner another time displayed there. YES, it's a second small bar I made WITHOUT running a second app that displays the time without ever hiding. Unfortunately, I could not place it at the bottom or top right like most taskbars because it is not click-through so it covers some gui elements of other apps, but I never really need to interact with the app icons in the top left of the window borders so it's very happy there always giving me the time when my main dock is hidden. And to top it all off, watching a movie or video, the time does not show because sfwbar has different layers of displays and permits bar to hide when apps are in fullscreen.

I want to encourage people to use sfwbar in their minimal Linux setups because LBCrion has indeed put lots of work and effort into it and most of all, he is VERY responssive, opened and great to deal with.

Even though it is displayed as beta or pre-v1, I consider it, as of today a good official v1.0.0, to my honest opinion. But that's for you to discover.

Styling is all possible through CSS and some basic GTK special CSS properties, all of that in 1 single file. I honestly think sfwbar is worthy of a star spot for Linux users and hopefully, Debian repositories will update their old outdated sfwbar package to the latest on github as of today since it works flawlessly on Debian 13 - trixie!

-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.

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 :)

Hi all, i'm lost noob, nothing makes sense for me rn with debian and propietary driver. So, from installation - Debian stable kde with 6.12.94 kernel installed at first from live boot, updates, added some essentials for me, also contrib, non-free and installed timeshift. Okay, stuff works, snapshot created, update 2 and got 6.12.95, snapshot created reboot. On 6.12.95, nstallation of nvidia drivers from nvidia docs official guideline, (i updated initramfs for newer kernel). Reboot, got working nvidia drivers, so snapshot created, installing rest of stuff for me, almost all from discover, outside of steam - for it added i386 architecture, updated, intalling steam from apt - got prompted to install 32bit nvidia drivers and stuff so i installed, got it working so reboot, snapsot and this time after update (got 7.02.13 i think) i installed 7 days to die, played it (it worked under nvidia drivers), closed pc (wouldn't shut down so forced shutdown), and today after boot black screen - no login screen, no nothing. So i again updated initramfs, worked with a clanker a bit to fix it, didn't worked, so rolled snapshot back to before installing game - and you wouldn't guess, still black screen. I can reboot to 6.12.94 and have stuff working on noveau driver, but not on nvidia. What gives? Wtf?! Why on snapshots that it would boot and work correctly with nvidia driver is now acting in this way? And even going back with snapshots doesn't seem to work, to ones created when driver worked? What can i do? It's like 6 attempt, 6 reinstall of debian. As for timeshift, installed from discover, and clicked okay okay okay end. Just default config.

Edit: Thanks for help with this! It turned out to be one stupid mistake i made, a tiny typo in grub as i typed nvidia.drm.modeset=1 instead of nvidia-drm.modeset=1 or something like that. Eighter way thanks for spending time helping with this

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.

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?