Re: Where did my character selection tool go?
Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> wrote:
> 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.
>
Just my memory playing up then, I felt sure I had used it since moving
from xubuntu to Debian. However the above explanation makes so much
sense I'm sure it's right! :-)
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Chris Green
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