Re: "An application want to turn on your camera..."

On 4/7/25 18:46, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

A few minutes after running a software update, per the little
prompt in the top menu bar, a pop-up appeared saying an application
wants to turn on my camers. There is no camera, at least not a
permanent one. I've been copying photos off an old Canon A460
to the Pi, but it can't take photos over its USB connection so
far as I know (would be handy if it could!).
 Anybody know what might be going on? The systme is running Bookworm,
up to date as of a minute ago.

You're running "stock" (plain-vanilla) Debian 12 with Raspberry Pi "enhancements", right? Upgraded from Debian 11, rather than a fresh install, right? In either case, you're probably using the default DE (LXDE), right?
At some point you attached your Canon A460, and the "smart" DE auto-configured it as the default multimedia camera. The system probably "remembers" it as being connected and/or wants to verify that it's there and/or that it (or some other device) is there.
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