On 6/6/25 16:53, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi, On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 04:09:57PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:On 6/6/25 15:27, Dan Ritter wrote:You may be running Wayland instead of X.Afirmative according to synaptic which won't run on wayland w/o the magic in the menu's.Let's have some facts then. Please show us the output of: $ env | grep XDG_ Particularly of interest will be the values of: XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME Thanks, Andy
gene@coyote:~$ env | grep XDG_ XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/gene/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg:/usr/share/desktop-base/kf5-settings XDG_SEAT=seat0 XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=plasma XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_VTNR=2 XDG_SESSION_ID=2 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/home/gene/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ Call me confused, Andy. plasma is kde but its install is far from complete. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis