On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/19/23 22:41, [email protected] wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:58:18 +0200 > > Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> I've been watching this thread from afar for a while and it still > >> puzzles me why people keep bringing up wayland. I've been running > >> wayland for years, and synaptic works with no issues as far as I can > >> tell. Is this just FUD from a user that never tried it or is something > >> broken on that user's system? > >> > > > > A couple of years ago, I switched to Wayland temporarily and was unable > > to run Synaptic (with an error message). The phenomenon is real. I > > don't know how you manage it. But I don't recall anyone on this thread > > besides you claiming it could be done. > > > > Paul > > > I'm with you Paul, if Anders know how to do it, please PUBLISH the how. > For a while on bullseye, a "sudo -E synaptic" worked, then even that > died mid-bullseye, somebody plugged a perceived hole and didn't bother > to mention it to the many thousands of users.
There's really nothing to publish. I started synaptic from my desktop environment using the default icon installed by the debian package. No weird "sudo" incantations. It asks my password and then starts up. Since I normally don't use Synaptic and have not started it in years as far as I can remember, I have not configured it to do anything special. As demonstrated by Didier Gaumet in this thread it works by default on a fresh install of debian stable. All the bugs I find online are from the time before bullseye.
