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Kermit the Frog wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:47 am Then.. it may be something other than format type (usb device is not being detected for some reason).

and bearing in mind that usb drive opened fine on Win7.

I opened Gparted, re-freshed drives, no sign of the exFat drive. I did click the drop-down rh corner too.

When I simply plug the ext drive into usb outlet the drive led flickers and there's a clicking sound, but doesn't mount.

And correction - it is SystemD.

Snapshot created on: 20241005_1744
System:
Kernel: 6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 [6.5.3-1~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 ...

I have a new 2tb external usb drive formatted in exFat - to use for backing up folders.

It wouldn't mount on MX. I mounted it on a Win7 pc and the re-format options were exfat or NCTF. I tried the latter in case that would mount on MX, but the formatting would not finish, so I formatted it back to ...

Today I re-booted and the previous session's open tabs were there, and the Bookmarks Toolbar is showing again.

All very mysterious, but I'll mark this Solved.

Snapshot created on: 20240216_1305
System:
Kernel: 6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 [6.5.3-1~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.5.0-1mx-ahs-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
init=/lib/systemd/systemd
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info ...

In the past few days I find Firefox 127.0 (recently updated in mx updates) is re-opening without any of the previous windows and tabs. I have selected General > Open previous windows and tabs, but it doesn't work.

At the same time the Bookmarks Toolbar opens empty. I have to open bookmarks sidebar ...

MX23, Desktop pc

If it's true that apps have access to the clipboard, is it not unsafe to use a password manager which pastes the passwords to the clipboard first?

The "Clipboard Manger" Clipman in Xcfe does handle both "buffers" the clipboard copy/paste buffer and the "selection" buffer.
The ...

Thanks for all the replies, still to digest some of them!

As my main concern was about passwords, if I was going to use a PW manager that pasted to clipboard, I think I have solved it by installing keepassxc with the browser integration.

https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_setup ...

I've added that to Keyboard as you've shown, but ctrl+delete still doesnt clear the clipb.