Category: Debian

The easy way to send a notification email when apt updates are available on a Debian or Ubuntu based system, if you don’t have an email server installed

This method is intended primarily for home users who want to be notified via email when apt updates are available to be installed, but who don’t want to have to deal with setting up a full-fledged mail server ….. Maybe you have a server or two, or a few, on your home network that run Debian or Ubuntu or one of their derivatives, that use the apt package manager to do package updates. And maybe you’d like to get an email when new apt updates are available to be installed. Well, here is a relatively easy way to do it.

Source: The easy way to send a notification email when apt updates are available on a Debian or Ubuntu based system, if you don’t have an email server installed – Two “Sort Of” Tech Guys

Add Trash Can to Activities Panel in GNOME Desktop

…But how do you add the application to the Favorites menu that is not in the list of installed applications, such as the Trashcan application? If you search for it, you will not find it in the list of installed applications.

In this article we will learn how to work around this problem and how to add the Trashcan to the Activities panel in the Debian system. We will create a script to add the trash can to the list of applications and then add it to your favorites.

Source: Add Trash Can to Activities Panel in GNOME Desktop – VITUX

Do you experience unexplained crashes or freeze-ups on your Ubuntu (or other) Linux based home theater PC or gaming system? Here is a possible fix!

After installing Ubuntu 22.04, Kodi on a home theater PC would frequently freeze. This issue, applicable to various Linux distros, can be resolved…

Source: Do you experience unexplained crashes or freeze-ups on your Ubuntu (or other) Linux based home theater PC or gaming system? Here is a possible fix! – Two “Sort Of” Tech Guys

How to connect to Raspberry Pi Desktop using wayvnc VNC Server

The following description is from a (slightly edited) Mastodon post:

When I prepared a Raspberry Pi with the latest Raspberry Pi OS (based on Debian Bookworm) as a monitoring and observability display, I noticed the “wayvnc” package during the dist-upgrade.

Turns out this is a pre-installed VNC server package – at least on the Desktop variant.

But how can the VNC Server be configured and started and more importantly, how can I connect using a VNC viewer? Figured it out and wrote about it

Link: How to connect to Raspberry Pi Desktop using wayvnc VNC Server (Claudio Kuenzler)
Also see: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) in the Raspberry Pi Documentation