Raspberry Pi OS Gets One More Update Before Debian 13

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Raspberry Pi OS, the main recommended operating strategy for Raspberry Pi computers, conscionable received a adjuvant update. This mightiness beryllium the past mentation based connected Debian 12 ‘Bookworm,’ up of the expected merchandise of Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ successful a fewer months.

Raspberry Pi OS is the desktop Linux organisation developed by Raspberry Pi, with a modified LXDE desktop environment, immoderate built-in acquisition software, and assorted tweaks to get the champion acquisition retired of performance-limited Pi systems. There are galore different operating systems disposable for Pi computers, including Ubuntu, RetroPie, Android, and Kali Linux, but Raspberry Pi OS is fundamentally the default bundle experience.

First, this update improves the fastener surface with a amusive inheritance and improved password introduction box. It’s inactive much minimal than the fastener surface connected Windows, macOS, oregon astir different Linux distributions, but it does the job. You tin entree it with the Ctrl+Alt+L keyboard shortcut, oregon by opening the shutdown paper and selecting the ‘Lock Screen’ option.

The blog station explained, “We’ve installed a modified mentation of the swaylock surface locking application. Anyone who has utilized swaylock volition beryllium acquainted with its somewhat minimal interface – erstwhile you fastener the screen, you conscionable get a wholly achromatic surface with nary denotation of what has happened oregon what you request to do. We felt this was a spot unhelpful, truthful we’ve added a customized beforehand extremity which gives a spot much feedback arsenic to what is happening and what you request to bash to unlock it again!”

Raspberry Pi besides has a caller Printers application, replacing the Python-based system-config-printer tool. It’s based connected the printer power plugin from the GNOME desktop environment, but with immoderate plan changes to hole “a fewer of GNOME’s much puzzling idiosyncratic interface decisions.” If you ever request to people thing from a Pi, it should present beryllium easier to adhd printers and diagnose problems.

The update has immoderate improvements for touchscreens, too. Raspberry Pi OS uses rodent emulation by default for touchscreens, which allows taps and treble taps to power emblematic rodent clicks and treble clicks. However, virtualizing a rodent means scroll gestures and different mean touchscreen behaviors don’t work. There’s present a toggle successful the Screen Configuration sheet to power betwixt rodent emulation and multi-touch mode.

Raspberry Pi said successful the blog post, “The main disadvantage of nary longer utilizing rodent emulation is that it isn’t imaginable to double-click by tapping the surface twice, and this makes navigation successful the record manager alternatively difficult. […] Hopefully, astatine immoderate constituent Wayland touchscreen enactment volition beryllium mature capable that it is nary longer indispensable to connection this option, but successful the meantime, this lets users take their preferred behaviour.”

There are a fewer different adjuvant improvements successful this update, including a newer mentation of the Wayland model manager, much car login options, faster startup times for the desktop, and galore bug fixes. You tin instal the update connected a Pi by moving sudo apt update and sudo apt full-upgrade arsenic usual. Raspberry Pi says this is “probably the last release” based connected Debian 12, arsenic Debian 13 is owed to beryllium released sometime successful the adjacent fewer months.

Source: Raspberry Pi