Questions tagged [devuan]
A Debian derivative without systemd.
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Key binds not work in Audacity - it loses window focus after appearance of modal on Devuan Xfce4
After upgrading Devuan to Excalibur, Audacity key binds works bad: window loses focus after appearance of any modal window: for example, when I click N, and modal window Noise Reduction appears, I ...
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xRDP: Can't connect to session in Devuan 6 (Debian 13 trixie)
I have been using xRDP in Devuan 5 (Debian 12 bookworm) with KDE 5.x without any problems. However, after upgrading a testing machine to Devuan 6 (Debian 13 trixie) with KDE 6.x, I can no longer ...
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Is there any way to trace how a keypress is processed from beginning to end in Linux?
I would like to find out why my power button press isn't handled correctly. I've set power manager in XFCE4 to 'ask' me, but all that happens is I'm getting logged out of my session. I have contacted ...
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How to prevent PcmanFM cut the bottom of line in file names?
After updating of Devuan to Excalibur it becomes buggie: fonts changed and looks bad, but also I cannot see underscores in file names. But if there is in folder another file with name of two lines, ...
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How do I shut down fwupd when it's not a service?
I'm running Devuan Excalibur (like Debian Trixie, but without systemd). I notice that fwupd is running; and I know that on some other systems, fwupd is actually service, which can be taken down using ...
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How can I tell whether Cinnamon is using software rendering? [duplicate]
I'm running Cinnamon on Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur. For the past several days - possibly after an apt-get dist-upgrade, my desktop has been very sluggish, and Cinnamon has been taking up a lot of the ...
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How to configure grub to boot from encrypted lvm partition
I try to install Grub manually after Devuan installation, but I guess there is an error in configuration. /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”cryptdevice=/dev/sda5:devuan-root:allow-discard” ...
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Running docker in an unprivileged devuan lxc container (on proxmox)
I am configuring a single-node proxmox server for use as a home server/homelab. I am looking to run many of my generic applications (like immich, jellyfin, etc) in docker containers, which could all ...
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How can I re-read the apt-listchanges content from my last apt command?
I just ran apt-get upgrade on my system, and as part of the installation (which includes many hundreds of packages), apt-listchanges brought up some text document. Unfortunately, I dismissed it before ...
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How can I alter apt-add-repository to support other Debian-based distributions?
I'm using a Debian-based OS distribution (Devuan, to be specific). I'm trying to use the apt-add-repository Python-based program, which is part of the software-properties-common package. Unfortunately,...
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How do I disable/swapout light locker on Devuan XFCE
Got a ~10 year old laptop that sometimes has problems with monitor coming back from sleep requiring battery to be pulled to fix. Forums mentioned Lightdm and lightlocker possibly being issues. I ...
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"_split_longopt: command not found" when trying tab-completion
For the past couple of weeks or so, I've noticed that, often, when I press the Tab key to try and complete a command in a bash shell in a terminal, I get an error message. It says: bash: ...
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Setting modifier using xmodmap
I am using GNU/Linux (Devuan) with the mate desktop and with i3wm. I would like to assign mod1 to Meta_L. If I show the current assignment with $ xmodmap I get mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd)...
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What do I do about "No video with supported format and MIME type found"?
I run Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur (i.e. Debian trixie without systemd), with Firefox v123. Recently, I've been getting errors trying to browse content involving videos (yes, from the accursed social ...
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How to get a daily report of the exit codes of cron jobs
I have a few dozen cron jobs, which run every day, for backups. I don't want to receive an email for only failed jobs, as I won't know when the email fails. I don't want to receive an email for every ...
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