Jan Claeys <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Just my memory playing up then, I felt sure I had used it since moving from xubuntu to Debian. However the above explanation makes so much sense I'm sure it's right! :-)
-- Chris Green ·
