EDIT: As it turns out this is just how gnome is supposed to look and to get a permanently visible dock showing running apps and favorites I must install an extension like dash-to-dock

Thanks everyone to help me understand I was the problem here 🙂

After using Ubuntu for years I thought it would be a good idea to try out plain old Debian for the first time.

So I downloaded the live-Image setup a VirtualBox and started installing it… installation ran trough without any problems. But I don’t see any panel/taskbar anywhere.

I tried to google this and best guess was that gonme-panel was not installed (how?) after installation I tried to run it by the terminal but it only trows an error “(gnome-panel:3427): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 20:24:58.712: invalid cast from ‘GdkWaylandDisplay’ to ‘GdkX11Display’”. So before I start digging into this I just wanted to confirm that I am on the right track and not just mixing stuff up. So does anyone have an idea what went wrong here?

  • @BestBouclettes
    2•1 year ago

    Try to run a checksum on the image and compare it to the one on Debian’s website. It might be corrupted.Try to download it and run the the checksum again.

    Edit: also the error seems to be related to a missing package on Xorg or Wayland

    • FeyterOP
      2•1 year ago

      Thank you. Will definitely do this (should have done it right away I guess)

      But from your comment I assume gnome-panel is the correct software for this and something is definitely wrong with my setup.

      Maybe installing Debian from the live image is not the best idea?