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Hope this helps anyone else who’s been pulling their hair out over this. Cheers!


Oh, this is lovely. Thank you.

I had a similarly hair-reducing experience with our TV that I also drive from an ancient laptop with AVL on it. With actual TV one doesn't pick up things like this without a test ...

Thank you for that, seasoned_geek ; very useful.

The quality of Xfce's documentation has long been a thorn in my side. Last night I also had a look at some of the files in /usr/share/xfce4/helpers, but it would be great to have a documentation reference for more of this stuff.

I didn't know about ...

CharlesV's recipe for getting rid of that swap file is a good idea, including the backup!

20G for /var seems like a lot to me. I just looked at three machines (our media server (MX), a Proxmox server in my study, and a Raspberry Pi in my office at work), and the biggest /var was 3.8G.

Using the DU ...

When I get back to office and start working on this I will thieve this to create a betterbird.desktop in /usr/share/xfce4/helpers. If the forum wishes, once I get it working I can post the final results in this thread, perhaps write a tutorial?


That would be very useful, thank you.

On ...

If you're on Android, have a look at GadgetBridge . It's open source and it cannot send any data anywhere, as it doesn't have (nor does it ask for) network permission.

Of course you'd need to check for compatibility. You also need to understand that it needs an enormous number of permissions in ...

Looks like the "mail client" part of post #14 was swallowed up by the following one.

<I digress>


According to statistics, the market share of web browsers used by 2025 is:

Chrome 63.68%, Safari 22.07%, Edge 5.71%, Samsung Internet 3.36%, Firefox 2.1%, and Others 3.08%.

Source: https://www ...

Mail client

Which application gets called to deal with MIME links and how to configure that depends on which Desktop Environment you're using.

I use Xfce and after calling up its menu I typed "def" before it came up with "Default Applications". Choosing that I clicked on the drop-down populated ...

j2mcgreg's point is valid, so check the drive's status anyway, even though your immediate problem is that it is full.

This should help to get information. All of this requires you to boot off a live USB, so that you can mount your drive's root to, say, "/media/mydrive" and then check things out ...

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't looked at embedded systems for many years.

I've never looked at Yocto before, but saw the following at https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/system-requirements.html#supported-linux-distributions:


Currently, the 5.2.999 release (“Walnascar”) of the ...

seasoned_geek : I see you registered here a few hours ago, so are probably asking the same question elsewhere and might not have had time to look around here too much. Assuming that, the following:

There are three MX Linux variants which are officially supported, differing in the main in their ...