Thanks. I don't use lxqt as my DE though. I use a custom DE based on i3. I will look into it.
Thanks. I will try this method as well. For now, pmount seems to work fine.
Thanks for your response. But the Debian package is not maintained. Do you know of any other way?
Hi friends,
I have some external hard drives and SSDs, which I use with my Debian 11 machine. I normally use them through the GUI file manager(pcmanfm-qt). I tried to access them from the terminal using commands I found after searching the web, like, fdisk, mount etc. However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo. The only way to avoid using sudo, is to first go to the required folder in the GUI file manager and then opening the folder in terminal. Is there a way to forego using the GUI file manager completely and only using the terminal entirely to properly access my drives and make changes without using sudo?
EDIT: Someone suggested usbmount. I am sure that works, but it is not packaged for Debian. Instead, as suggested, by another person, I use pmount. It works perfectly for my needs on Debian. Thanks to all for taking the time to respond and help me with my problem.
"Installing a Flatpak for example is a very valid answer and would definitely solve the problem" That wasn't a useless comment. Although it would not have helped, it was still in the right direction. Useless comments are those claiming that I should stop using brave and just stick to firefox.
"You put the error in a screenshot which leaves it rather useless for searching the error in the web" I put the screenshot so that nothing is missed and I have seen this previously.
"In general, I’d say that you have very little error solving skills" I would say that you have very weak probabilty and statistics skill, if you can generalise the entire sample space with just a singleton event.
"and instead of thanking for “nothing” you should be thankful that people even bothered to answer." Again, not directed to people who gave technical help or asked questions but only to those suggesting I just stick to FF or give up Brave.
"apt uses dpkg to install the deb file" Apt is a frontend for dpkg which needs a .deb file to install stuff. Apt searches for deb files in repos listed in sources.list, downloads them and then uses dpkg for installation.
My friend, when you install something using the apt package manager you are using a .deb file. It's something getting downloaded in the background from a server (debian.org or the brave one in this case) without you realising it. Make sense?
As instructed in their webpage. Using the .deb file
Ungoogled Chromium, Chromium and Brave are not verified on flathub. I already have regular Chromium, so I can't install the ungoogled fork as they conflict with each other.
I don't like to leave problems unsolved. Secondly, brave comes with default adblocker. What better FOSS chromium alternatives are there?
Hi folks. I have installed Debian 12 bullseye with the lxqt desktop environment. I have run lxqt sessions on it using xfwm4, as well as i3wm, as the window manager. However, for some weird reason brave browser would not launch - neither in xfwm4 nor in i3-wm. So I tried to run the command in the shell to see what output it would produce. I have attached the image which shows the output of the command "brave-browser" in a terminal running the bash shell.
Please help to solve this problem. I love using Firefox but I also love having options and Brave happens to be one of my favourites. (In case, this is relevant, Chromium and Qutebrowser run without any issues. Only Brave is behaving in a weird manner).
EDIT: I have found the solution. One needs to add the flag --disable-features=AllowQt when running it from the command line. However, as I couldn't get hold of Brave's config file, I have just added an alias in my bashrc and made changes to brave's .dekstop file in /usr/share/applications and my i3 config file.
To the folks who posted useless comments instead of actually helping: Thanks for nothing.
Well the point is that he wouldn't have the need to know if he has used something like GPL.
Oh, thanks a lot for the efforts! You really are one of a kind to conduct an experiment to help out a stranger on the internet. Yeah, this actually works. I just added those lines to .xsessionrc and all problems were solved.
If you don't mind my asking. Do you work in IT as a sysadmin or a developer or a cybersecurity expert? Or something else? I am just curious as to how may have gained such knowledge.
Hi, Thanks for the response. Sorry for disturbing you. I have tried what you have suggested here. There are two files with matching timestamps but different PATHs. I am using i3wm in Debian 11. Please tell me how to deal with this issue.
Adding those lines to .bashrc, helped with the flatpak commands. I can run them without having to type "flatpak run". I did this for nix: export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.nix-profile/share:$HOME/.share:"${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}" However, I still cannot see the entries in rofi. The package is Chromium browser.
I have this line export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.nix-profile/share:$HOME/.share:"${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}" Do I need to add anything else? I do have the directory you have mentioned.
Thanks for the response. I will try to as you have advised. Adding those lines to .bashrc helped with flatpaks but not with nix.
Thanks for the response. Adding those lines to .bashrc helped with flatpaks but not with nix.
Thanks, I will check it out. Adding those lines to .bashrc helped with flatpaks but not with nix.
So, in order to avoid typing "flatpak run", every time I need to run a flatpak program from the terminal, to have gui programs installed using nix appear in my applications menu(rofi, in this case), and to avoid typing the entire path to my .local/bin, I had added the following lines to my .profile:
set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi
set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" fi
for desktop entries for packages installed using Nix
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/home/guest/.nix-profile/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin" ] ; then export PATH="/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:$PATH" fi
if [ -d "~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin" ] ; then export PATH="~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin:$PATH" fi
However, for some weird reason, I cannot take advantage of the above lines unless I am in a tmux session or I explicitly type the following command:
source .profile
Any ideas on how to fix this?
EDIT: Adding the following line to .xsessionrc fixed the issue (haven't checked for wayland sessions though).
. $HOME/.profile
#Debian #Debian11 #foss #floss #libre_software #applications #desktop #gui #nix #flatpak #flatpaks #gnu #linux #opensource #open_source #tmux #bash #profile #shell #terminal
When using the Nix Package Manager on Debian 11, I have seen that it doesn’t automatically create .desktop files for GUI programs. This would have been fine if I was using nix to install one or two programs, but I was looking forward to use it a regular package manager. Does anyone know how to automate the process?
Hi guys, Does anyone here know what could be a good libre equivalent to Amazon's Kindle reader?
