arsus5478

for debian 13.1 xfce

I liked hexchat due to its ample customization possibilities.

What do you use that's maintained and why?

[SOLUTION] all hail hexchat, hexchat is dead, remove unmaintained hexchat

this happens on debian 13.1 xfce

after installing io.github.Hexchat I get this message on the terminal:

Info: runtime org.freedesktop.Platform branch 23.08 is end-of-life, with reason: org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 is no longer receiving fixes and security updates. Please update to a supported runtime version. Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat

the message applies to the following runtimes as well:

org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel branch 23.08

org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default branch 23.08-extra

org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default

if I remove them manually and I update flatpak, it asks me to install them again

My computer uses both system and user remotes.

Because my .var directory is almost full, I installed hexchat as user, but the drivers are systemwide. I don't know if this is relevant.

SOLUTION: add Flathub as a user remote too:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

flatpak lets you install applications as user vs system. I want to install as user because my .var is full.

example: flatpak install --user org.fcitx.Fcitx5 returns error: No remote refs found for ‘org.fcitx.Fcitx5’

flatpak remotes returns flathub system

I'm logged in as user5. whoami returns user5

I don't know what remote I have to add or if I have to add user5 as a remote

I want to see the actual characters, hiragana, katakana... instead of squares and actually write traditional Chinese and Korean.

And easily change the input language / method

[SOLVED] too many unsuccessful flatpak updates lingered in this directory. It sorted itself out after rebooting the system.

var capacity 11.1 GiB, var usage 10.6 GiB

can I change it?

I find it tiresome: sometimes vlc is to the left, others to the right. This happens with other applications as well.

Can I sort them by application name instead of file name?

[SOLVED] I run sudo updatedb

locate is a command I've used in the past, but now, fresh installed with sudo apt get locate it doesn return anything.

locate --version returns locate (GNU findutils) 4.10.0, from 2024

or, have I forgotten something?

flatpak should be newer than apt, correct if wrong.

I first installed FFmpeg extension with extra codecs from flatpak, executed a ffmpeg command that returned: command not found.

I then thought the flatpak package, as the name states, is an extension that needs the apt version to be installed to work, so I executed sudo apt install ffmpeg and after downloading, the command worked.

Should I get rid of flatpak's ffmpeg? Am I gaining functions with this package?

ffmpeg -version returns ffmpeg version 7.1.1-1+b1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 14 (Debian 14.2.0-19)

when I used debian 12.7 xfce I somehow installed something that allowed me to access my android device as an external disk and copy data there simply plugin in the usb cable.

I don't know what I installed anymore.

What application do I need?

to read epub files I've always used calibre library. Just wondering if there's something better.

To ocr pictures and the like I've used ocrfeeder. Maybe you use something better?

I use a small notebook so it comes in handy to double the title bar to have space to increase the title font to 16 or 18

On debian 12.11 this was the case, but I don't remember how I configured it or what style I used. The style I now use on debian 13 is adwaita

debian 13.0, downloaded yt-dlp with wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp

the python script is in that directory, but if I execute yt-dlp on the terminal it returns bash: yt-dlp: command not found

what should I do?

SOLVED: add .local/bin to your $PATH