right click the player window. context menu comes up. tools->preferences. big fat ‘reset preferences’ button on the bottom of that window.
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Maybe delete your config file and start over
this.
vlc literally has not changed appearance… like, ever
the same goes for any distribution not just debian. installers and upgrade processes cannot possibly account for the infinite number of unexpected things they could encounter. the more you go ‘off book’ with third-party repositories, backports, manual configuration changes, manual package installs and what-not, the greater the chance for having ‘issues’ with version upgrades.
debian has been my first choice since the 90s, but i use arch’s excellent wiki all the time.
maybe see if the providers can bump the ram up a bit to get through the trixie installer? 384mb was enough here (i didn’t try to install with less), perhaps 512mb in your hosts’ environments will be enough.
why I was hitting the memory deadlock on boot, but yours booted OK
i dunno. was your debian-installer running in lowmem mode? did it add extra stuff because of the detected vm environment (i did notice at least one extra thing here for qemu plus the network drivers needed).
this trixie-based dietpi here boots at 192mb allocated to the vm, but panics at 160mb.
the dietpi x64 ‘installer’ iso don’t use the debian-installer. they are clonezilla-based, preconfigured to use an included dietpi image, which does a first-run setup after it’s ‘restored’.
page through these… you should find a few different cursor themes that would work for you:
tui installer on netinst iso (13.4) says 320mb is required:
This system does not have enough memory to be supported by this program. At least 320 megabytes of memory are required. If you continue, unpredictable and broken behavior will likely result. You should reboot now and add memory or find some other program to use.
it does allow you to continue anyway, which switches to ‘low memory’ expert mode install. 320mb also gives this error. 384mb does not, but still enters the special install mode, where i was able to load enough installer components to set up networking to start an install. it did lose part of the display font partway through but it did finish and reboot ok (with ~104mb used). dropped the ram in virt-man to 256mb and it still booted.
edit: i just installed dietpi on this, which basically shreds debian down to the kernel and not much else, and rebuilds it as dietpi. went on without any issues, not even a complaint with 256mb. htop says 65mb used (this, before adding any server ‘apps’, mind you)… but i might just be able to upgrade a couple dietpi boxes i have that do only have 256mb ram.
using capitaine here, from store.kde.org, which does have archive downloads available.
32·20 days agoarco was shut down last year because…
The reasoning behind this move, as shared by Erik, is his advancing age and him realizing that he doesn’t have the same level of mental focus or stamina he used to have before. He has found himself making small mistakes, the kind that can negatively affect a major undertaking like this.
https://itsfoss.com/news/arcolinux-discontinued/
yeaaaaaa… no thank you.
not long ago i was installing and testing pretty much everything i could get my hands on, just to see what was ‘out there’ these days. which did find me putting deepin (via suse) on a system to see if it was worth anything.
it was not. horribly broken. and that system required a firmware recovery just to function after that.
from deepin? the DE that got yeeted from suse and fedora? nty.
none. 15 year old apu, slow laptop hdd, 2gb ram (some consumed by the graphics). cpu performance of the earliest s939 dual core athlons.
put a puppy or antix on it, i guess, and hope for the best. with the 8gb max and a small sata ssd it could run something more mainstream.
update to add: i just reinstalled the latest antix-full over the top of my old one that runs on an old athlon dual core (am2+ 4gb and hdd). creeps a bit over 1gb ram used once you load a page up in firefox. it’ll be ‘usable’, i guess, running one thing at a time and not going crazy with open tabs and windows. still gonna go back on the recycle pile though. i have too many of this era desktop, no takers for them, and not enough room to store 'em.
have you actually looked at a snap’s status?
root@cave:~# lsb_release -d Description: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) root@cave:~# uname -r 6.12.88+deb13-amd64 root@cave:~# snap debug sandbox-features|grep confinement confinement-options: classic devmode root@cave:~# snap debug confinement partial root@cave:~# aa-enabled Yes root@cave:~# snap info --verbose hello-world name: hello-world summary: The 'hello-world' of snaps health: status: unknown message: health has not been set publisher: Canonical✓ contact: snaps@canonical.com links: contact: - mailto:snaps@canonical.com license: unset description: | This is a simple hello world example. commands: - hello-world.env - hello-world.evil - hello-world - hello-world.sh notes: private: false confinement: strict devmode: false jailmode: false trymode: false enabled: true broken: false ignore-validation: false snap-id: buPKUD3TKqCOgLEjjHx5kSiCpIs5cMuQ tracking: latest/stable refresh-date: today at 07:43 CDT installed: 6.4 (29) 20.5kB - root@cave:~# snap run hello-world.evil Hello Evil World! This example demonstrates the app confinement You should see a permission denied error next /snap/hello-world/29/bin/evil: 9: /snap/hello-world/29/bin/evil: cannot create /var/tmp/myevil.txt: Permission denied root@cave:~#
i know that. i suggested the bug report because snaps themselves do report strict confinement even though snap debug doesn’t list that confinement option’s availability.
file a debian bug report against snapd.
i don’t see a lot of swap use on my systems, but i do have zswap backed by a swap partition on a couple of them; otherwise i generally i just use a basic swap partition on most everything.
basic systems (browser, email, light docs/media use) i set up for others that are using ext4 might use a swapfile instead if it was the default for whatever distribution i used for it.
high-usage vendors like hp (and dell, lenovo previously reported on) have to start paying-in to support the operating costs of the service.
they certainly aren’t doing it because they want to.
i’ve had to do that (disable ipv6) more than a few times on various systems.
in this case, the platform (i.e. vlc) has literally not changed. it’s essentially the same thing it’s been for going-on twenty years. there has been no updates or upgrades or changes that affect how it looks or runs. version 3.0 is like eight years old. version 2 was pretty much the same, as was version 1 before that. vlc is one of the most stable and consistent software applications on the planet.