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Any Debian folks here to help me figure out if it's just me or Debian 12 that is broken? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: As it turns out this is just how gnome is supposed to look and to get a permanently visible dock showing running apps and favorites I must install an extension like dash-to-dock

Thanks everyone to help me understand I was the problem here 🙂

After using Ubuntu for years I thought it would be a good idea to try out plain old Debian for the first time.

So I downloaded the live-Image setup a VirtualBox and started installing it... installation ran trough without any problems. But I don't see any panel/taskbar anywhere.

I tried to google this and best guess was that gonme-panel was not installed (how?) after installation I tried to run it by the terminal but it only trows an error "(gnome-panel:3427): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 20:24:58.712: invalid cast from 'GdkWaylandDisplay' to 'GdkX11Display'". So before I start digging into this I just wanted to confirm that I am on the right track and not just mixing stuff up. So does anyone have an idea what went wrong here?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Glad I left gnome, I use either AwesomeWM or XFCE or both 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly after using it for a while now it's not that bad at all :) And you can install a dock / taskbar so I have all I needed