On Friday 17 December 2021 11:53:20 am David Wright wrote: > > > > Some of the things I'm dealing with are: > > > > > > > > 1. An annoying blue dot showed up in my taskbar. > > > > Right-clicking on this gave me an option to "quit", which I would do, > > > > and then within a few seconds it would come right back again! I > > > > finally > > > > tracked this down to being "KDEaccessible", which I've done nothing to > > > > invoke and don't know why the upgrade put that in there. I solved the > > > > problem by using synaptic to uninstall the package, since I have no > > > > use > > > > for it. > > > > > > This one is solved for the moment, then. > > > > Yeah, but why the heck did this get turned on in the first place? Or even > > installed? > > One might hypothesise that > . you run KDE, and KDE makes cvhanges that aren't always popular with > every user. > . KDE recommends kdeaccessibility depends on kaccessible. > . KDE make changes to kaccessible for people who require and use it. > Seems reasonable.
Yeah, except that I don't run KDE. I do have it installed, to be able to access certain programs that come with it, but my desktop environment of choice is currently Xfce. > > > > 2. My virtual (older) Slackware virtualbox install is seeing a few > > > > issues. > > > Under Slackware it's a very old version of KDE, which I much prefer to the > > newer stuff. > > Yes, that's what I meant above. I think there's a cohort who use TDE instead. I have looked into that, but haven't gone there (yet). Not sure if I'm going to. (snip) There remains the sound issue in the virtualbox. Could it be that Debian isn't running PulseAudio but something else? That would account for the guest OS not being able to talk to it... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
