[ale] Weird window-manager shenanigans on debian 12...

[William Wylde]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> > William Wylde via Ale wrote on 2025-09-18 19:39:
> >
> >> Yeah, I think I've figured out what happened.  Something "updated"
> >> and set wayland as the default graphical UI system.
> Which is another reason to use Mint for GUI stuff and Debian only for
> servers.
>
> The Mint guys have avoided Wayland and some of the worst parts that
> Canonical decided to inflict on their users.
>
> I've never tried Mint, but I've heard good things about it.   But like I
said, I figure I need to learn wayland anyway- if there's anything to be
learned there.




> I chose years ago not to use any DE - too much junk in the way on the
> desktop and far too many dumb interruptions.  You can go with a pure
> WM-only setup too. ;)
> ___


Yeah, I know.  KDE is a bit heavy for my taste, but I'm gonna run with it
for the moment, anyway.   We'll see.


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