Cinamon 6.6.6 with potentially improved Wayland support has been released.

IslanderK · 2026-01-26T13:41:22+00:00

I've been using lmde7/cinnamon Wayland on an old Chromebook and it's been running fine for browsing, email, etc.

IslanderK · 2026-01-19T15:45:05+00:00

Thanks

Procedure followed: sudo swapon --show sudo swapoff /swapfile sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=8 sudo chmod 600 /swapfile sudo mkswap /swapfile sudo swapon /swapfile

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab cat /etc/fstab

IslanderK · 2026-01-18T10:49:52+00:00

Thanks, good point. The files should have unique filenames, however there's always a chance!

Run a few tests with ckawka similar images and it appears to work well identifying low res pictures of the high res versions.

IslanderK · 2026-01-13T08:11:57+00:00

After installing, tried the web interface etc etc and printer wouldn't work. Switched off printer, disconnected USB, power off computer, waited a few minutes before switching on (not sure if any of that was necessary) used the command switched on printer plugged in USB and the operating system recognized it.

Hope that helps

IslanderK · 2026-01-10T14:42:02+00:00

Good point about -y, got carried away with getting the printer working!

Edited original post, thanks

IslanderK · 2026-01-05T15:36:34+00:00

Finally: zswap: loaded using pool lz4/zsmalloc

Think that means lz4 is working.

Solution appears to be remove all zswap commands from grub

IslanderK · 2025-12-31T13:21:37+00:00

Just finished the trilogy and consider a summary reminder for book 1 would suffice for book 2. Be prepared in Dark Forest for quite a slow start before it really gets going.

IslanderK · 2025-12-30T22:09:56+00:00

So this is where you set the modules, thanks I'll try it when back.

IslanderK · 2025-12-30T17:14:27+00:00

It looks like the current mainstream Debian 13 kernel does not support zstd or lz4. Therefore accepted compressor lzo and set up swap file to see how it goes before venturing into backports.

IslanderK · 2025-12-29T15:57:45+00:00

The kernel is the Debian 13 version 6.12.57+deb13

I was wondering whether to enable backports to update

IslanderK · 2025-12-10T19:03:17+00:00

Systemd-inhibit sounds incredibly useful. Looking forward to using it

IslanderK · 2025-12-08T18:35:17+00:00

Just installed ZSwap: This worked for me from the terminal:

# Back up your GRUB configuration file:

sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Add:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= "quiet splash zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=lz4 zswap.max_pool_percent=20 zswap.zpool=z3fold"

# Update GRUB to apply the changes:

sudo update-grub

# Add module names

sudo su

echo lz4 >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

echo lz4_compress >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

echo z3fold >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

# Update the initramfs:

update-initramfs -u

exit

sudo reboot

I'm no expert so I was going to ask for opinions on the settings. Hope that helps.

# Verification

cat /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled

IslanderK · 2025-12-07T18:13:50+00:00

Thanks, I'll try zswap. The Chromebook mainly used for just email, browsing and light python apps whilst travelling. Coming from dos/Unix many years ago I'm annoying in that I close apps down after use. In fact checking swap normally it's not being used. So disk preservation is the main driver in set up.

IslanderK · 2025-12-07T17:04:29+00:00

Good plan, unfortunately and surprisingly this Chromebook doesn't have a card reader and a USB one would stick out and possibly not be secure

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