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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Feyter to c/linux

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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] 1 points 1 year ago

I love the minimalism of stock Gnome. You don't have to make those Ubuntu icons as small as possible or auto-hide the dock. You don't have to go to obscure settings windows to hide icons on your desktop. It's just minimal out of the box. Just you and your apps. You can have floaty windows if you want, but it's also really simple to run your apps fullscreen or half-screen with just a keystroke. I love it.