On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 07:02 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > OP here. I installed Debian 12 with XFCE on my desktop and my laptop > something like a year ago. I moved from xubuntu which I had used for > many years. These were clean, from scratch, installations but I had > my 'list of added packages' from xubuntu (manually kept by me) which > I added immediately after installation of Debian 12. > > As far as I can see I never explicitly added gucharmap (I've looked > at my added files list back over 12 months or so). So I'm pretty > sure it must have been installed by default or with something else, > it certainly was installed and I'm sure I've used it in the last > month or so.
The reason is that 'gucharmap' is not part of XFCE, but Xubuntu installs it by default (it’s a dependency of the 'xubuntu-desktop' metapackage in Ubuntu). Debian currently doesn’t have a similar metapackage with an "opinionated selection" of applications that an XFCE user might want. -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)
