Re: Where did my character selection tool go?
On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 07:02 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> OP here. I installed Debian 12 with XFCE on my desktop and my laptop
> something like a year ago. I moved from xubuntu which I had used for
> many years. These were clean, from scratch, installations but I had
> my 'list of added packages' from xubuntu (manually kept by me) which
> I added immediately after installation of Debian 12.
>
> As far as I can see I never explicitly added gucharmap (I've looked
> at my added files list back over 12 months or so). So I'm pretty
> sure it must have been installed by default or with something else,
> it certainly was installed and I'm sure I've used it in the last
> month or so.
The reason is that 'gucharmap' is not part of XFCE, but Xubuntu
installs it by default (it’s a dependency of the 'xubuntu-desktop'
metapackage in Ubuntu).
Debian currently doesn’t have a similar metapackage with an
"opinionated selection" of applications that an XFCE user might want.
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Jan Claeys
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