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OK, so this is spurious, but I said I'd share.

In her "~/Desktop/" there was a ".desktop" file for the Wastebasket. Its name is supposed to be "trash.desktop". Only, it is "trash:⁄.desktop".

What's really weird is that the character after the ":" is not "/" — it is actually "⁄", or U+2044 ...

Because she has accounts to do I got it working again without finding out why it happened, but as you'll see in the details below, the solution involved something very unexpected — to me, at least. There was one other piece of strangeness relating to a broken Trash link, but I'll put that in my next ...

I just checked my installation notes and nothing seems out of the ordinary, but I looked into it and it is because I ran from the command line in an SSH session via "quick-system-info-mx >QSI" (because I couldn't get into the GUI). Then it gives a "Console" line under "System" as opposed to a ...

This might suggest something to someone who knows Xfce well.

Since I can't do anything other than Ctrl+Alt+Backspace when I log in via Xfce as "tempuser", I logged in as my own user and then ran this:


$ sudo -u tempuser dbus-launch xfconf-query -l
Authorization required, but no authorization ...

Create a new user account on her machine, make sure it has sudo rights. Login into that account and open nothing but the MX User Manager. In the copy/Sync tab, select the new user ac you're logged into as the copy from location and set your Wifes login account as the copy to, then click the Apply ...

My next post has a summary, as there I reply to m_pav's suggestions.

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I have used XFCE a lot (with SysV) and I have never had any problems. In the past the "session restore" feature could "break" things, but it was removed from the logout dialog in XFCE 4.20. So your problems are a ...

m_pav : Thank you for that suggestion. I'll let you know. Unfortunately I'm working a 12+ hour day today, so it might only be tomorrow.

MikeR : Thank you for the reference. I, too, learned a lot from my stint in global corporate. In this case I have automated differential backups every hour, and ...

This relates to my wife's laptop, who uses it for work (she's self-employed, and I'm her IT support, so there's some pressure ;) ). In the past this issue was easily resolved, but I've run into a wall here.

TL;DR: Restoring from a backup didn't help, so I'm not sure if I might have missed ...

@b3ta Feel free to provide a patch to review, code is here: https://github.com/gazelle-installer/gazelle-installer/tree/trixie
(fun fact: that's how I ended up on the dev team)


I seriously considered it until I had a look and saw it's in C++, as I gave up on C++ in the 90s. For now I'll stick ...

@MikeR Yes, I am aware of Bleachbit , but as per fehlix's post (https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=789332#p789332), the next package upgrade will put it all back again, while localepurge can deal with that.

@AK-47 Bleachbit can be used for this, but requires an extra work-around to keep ...