Ahh, my apology, I missed this,:
by JeSuisFlaneur »
I apologize for the confusing title. What came to mind, belatedly, is that Synaptic and other apps, won't work in Cinnamon or Gnome or X11.
Now that is a entirely different topic, Is this the problem ? "Synaptic and other apps won't work in Cinnamon or Gnome or X11", it is a little to long, so let's shorten it up:
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Synaptic and other apps won't work in Cinnamon or Gnome
X11 is not a issue, synaptic works just fine on a Xorg, X11 with fluxbox WM, but yes it is a common problem, on Gnome, and I noticed Cinnamon depends mostly on Gnome programs, ...there are several threads open on this, it is related to Wayland,... I thought they had fixed those problems, guess not, just goes to show,...
https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland18 Mar 2020 ... Another way to test Wayland is to install the GNOME desktop ... Emacs: because Emacs is not a real GTK apps, it still talks with X11 and ... Cinnamon: discussed ... other window managers unlikely to be supported ... Xresources won't load ... (In fact, synaptic was removed from buster because it doesn't work ...
(later it (synaptic) was put back in at the last minuet)
There is a bunch more results and info:
on Debian Synaptic and other apps won't work in Cinnamon or Gnome
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I've yet to understand whether the problem is on my end alone, or the app's problem.
It could be both, but I think it mostly is Gnome, Wayland , and many of the "apps",...all very problematic,
buggy, etc,...have been for years now.
You might get better help / advice though, if you just try to fix 1 problem at a time, start a new topic, for each specific app,.. any way I gave up on Gnome about 10 years ago now,...it all is way to complicated, bloated , for my taste, I use a much simpler system, and am happy with it. I need a reliable system, that is also simple, easy to debug and repair if and when there is a problem," knock on wood", there have not been any real problems, now for years as well.
but I thought the problem is with the "Desktop Environment".
Yes indeed, now you are getting closer to the real problem