Dear Mr Williams, on my Debian Trixie Desktop client, I ran into the same frustrating situation. A complete deinstall of the network-manager plus dhcpd-base rubbish in combination with the deactivation of old-style networking Service and then the switch to the next-gen systemd-networkd Service, gives you access to a completely new and fluent Debian Desktop and Networking experience. Wish you happy hacking and a sudden lift-off. I do not understand why Debian Linux still hold to the old style, cubersome networking Sevice stuff. Regards and Best Sebastian Kraus _______________________ Dipl.-Chem. Sebastian Kraus Technische Universität Berlin Fakultät II Institut für Chemie Sekretariat C3 Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Email: sebastian.kraus@tu-berlin.de On 10/23/25 20:40, Richmond wrote:
alain williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> writes:I am trying to track down & fix an issue that I have had for months. After I enter my password the screen just shows that desktop background/wallpaper. The mouse is there and it will move but no panels or icons. It remains like this for ~3 minutes and then panels, icons, ... all appear and I can do work. I can switch to a terminal (Ctrl-Shift-F1) & login but there is not something that is obviously waiting. Any clues or suggestions as to what to examine ? Not a huge impact since I tend to remain logged in for weeks at a time. But I would like to fix. I am running Debian 13 - Trixie using the Mate desktop. The same thing happened with Debian 12. ThanksMaybe look in .xsession-errors Or, start up another X from a console as root: xinit -- :1 and see the messages on the console. or startx -- :1
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