I'm trying to establish that at the moment.

I installed Debian Bookworm into a virtualbox VM, selecting xfce as the
desktop (overriding the default, which was Gnome), and then ran
"update-alternatives -config x-terminal-emulator". It was set to use
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper. zutty wasn't installed. I tried
installing it just to see if it worked, and if it automatically
configured x-terminal-emulator to point to itself. It did work, and it
didn't reconfigure x-terminal-emulator.

So - based on that, it would seem that this is specific to devuan
daedalus - at least at the time that I installed it earlier today.

I'm currently doing a new test install of daedalus into another
virtualbox VM. At the moment, I'm thinking that this must have been a
recent error, and maybe has been corrected upstream by now - and if so,
maybe by now it's percolated into the devuan repos. (I think it would
only be noticeable if someone installed daedalus onto old hardware, or
if they noticed that the fonts looked a bit weird. I'm not sure - I
haven't delved into what's actually behind the zutty error as yet.)

More once I've finished the new test install.

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 16:31 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 05:43:48PM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> > Bingo.
> >
> > https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/wiki/FAQ.html
> >
> > "Your graphics hardware or driver is not sufficient, you need
> > support
> > for GLSL ES 3.1 or better"
> >
> > Think I might just avoid zutty for the foreseeable future.
> >
> > The decision to default x-terminal-emulator to a program which
> > depends
> > on specific levels of graphics hardware/software seems somewhat
> > rash,
> > to put it very mildly indeed. In fact, it seems positively
> > unbelievable.
>
> So is this an upstream issue that should really be solved in Debian?
>
> -- hendrik
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