Having installed Daedalus with KDE, I am finding some stuff does not work, for example Simple Screen Recorder. This is because Daedalus installed with Wayland rather than the X window system (I don't recall being offered a choice) and eg Simple Screen Recorder does not support Wayland (or vice-versa).  My package manager Synaptic tells me that x11 is installed, but it seems that Daedalus is not using it.  What do I need to do to tell Daedalus to boot using x11 and not Wayland? To comment or uncomment some lines in /etc perhaps?

Googling for help found some discussion on how to do this for Gnome, but it involved some files that do not exist in my Deadalus/KDE installation.

In the last couple of days I have had ads showing up at the start of YouTube videos (I use YT quite a lot). By using uBlock Origin on Firefox I have not seen ads for a long time, so I guess YT have recently upped their anti-adblocking game.  There are usually two ads and can last up to a minute. In fact I hear the ad but the screen is black so I guess uBlock is half-working.

Anyone else found this?  Perhaps there is a uBlock Origin update to counter it? I will stop using YT is this goes on.

I have a GeForce GTX460 card which worked under Ascii with driver version 390.116 (as nvidia-detect tells me)

I have now installed Daedalus, apparently successfully, until I try to boot it - when the screen goes blank during the boot messages just after the "populating /dev" message and a couple  of lines after it changes font (going into a graphical mode?). The disk drive seems to stop shortly after that. Thinking I could go into a text screen (ie Ctrl-Alt-F1) to try installing drivers from a command prompt like it says on the Nvidia web page  https://www.nvidia.co.uk/download/drive … 6226/en-uk, I found that was completely blank too. I guess the boot process had not just vanished from the screen, it had stopped completely. This happens in the advanced recovery boot mode too.

Fortunately I still have Ascii on a different partition (I'm using it now) and that does work with the GTX460.  I have also tried an older GeForce GT430 and found that works with both Ascii and Daedalus, and the Nvidia website says both cards use the same drivers (the latest version of which is 390.157).

I would prefer to use the newer and faster GTX460 card (for games).  Can anyone tell me what is going on?

I have just installed Daedalus which came with kde v5.27.5.  The menu editor is not allowing me to add an item such as this :

gpg -d /home/dukenukem/secrets.gpg |less

I was previously using Devuan Ascii with whatever its default kde version was, and it allowed me to specify a complete command line such as the one above.  Now however the menu editor splits the command into a "Program" field and a "Command-Line Arguments" field. I have tried putting "gpg" in the "Program" field and the rest in the the "Command-Line Arguments" field, and also tried putting it all in the "Program" field. I have also tried omiting the "|less". But the best I get is a brief flash of a terminal window.

The above command works fine in a terminal. In the "Advanced" tab of the menu editor I have the "Run in Terminal" tab ticked.

Is there a way around this? What was the idea of splitting up the command - an attempt to dumb things down? It is very frustrating if you can no longer put a staightforward bash command into the menu editor.

The Pale Moon browser is not in the Devuan repositories, although it is in the Debian ones (I could try it from there). Is this an oversight? There does not seem much choice of browsers these days with Chrome almost taking over the world (even Microsoft have now switched to it), although  Safari survives for Apple users. People are predicting the death of Firefox, but I've seen good reports of Pale Moon which forked from it.

Does anyone know how to change the console background colour in an SSH session?

I have Konsole set (via its Menu Bar "Settings"->"Edit Current Profile") to white text on black, but any changes apply to all sessions, not just the local one. I would like a background (eg dark grey) in SSH sessions that is different from that of other PCs on the network, so I can see at a glance which one I am using.  Fiddling around with the PS1 variable in .bashrc in the remote PC I have only succeded in changing the background colour under the text itself, not the whole background.