X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

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Mike Walsh · #901 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Wed 13 Jan 2016, 13:25

@ rg66, Geoffrey.

Okay; fair enough. I'll uninstall the one I have, then dig out the Carolina version (I do know where the repo is for that!) I'll give it a try, and let you know how it makes out.

Cheers, guys.

Mike.

Mike Walsh · #902 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Wed 13 Jan 2016, 13:59

@rg66, Geoffrey.

Nice one, guys! The Carolina xfce4-weather-plugin does indeed work in 2.3.2. I didn't know which one I actually wanted, so I downloaded all three. Started off with the newest one, with the intention of working backwards if I encountered any problems.

Needn't have bothered. Worked like a charm..! I shall have to remember this; I'm guessing this means that some of the other XFCE stuff in the Carolina repo will also work with 2.3.2, on account of it using the older version of the desktop, yes?

Anyway; much appreciated, guys. Cheers!

Mike.

muggins · #903 Post by **muggins** » Thu 21 Jan 2016, 05:04

If anyone wants the last stable release of avidemux, i've uploaded a slackware derived pet here:

avidemux-2.6.10-i486.pet.

It needs QT4. I'm using Pemasu's qt-4.8.2.sfs.

Mike Walsh · #904 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Tue 02 Feb 2016, 12:11

@rg66:-

I've got a query.....and this is something I didn't even realise till a couple of days ago, despite having run X-Slacko 2.3.2 for several months now.

Besides using this one, I'm also using vanilla 570, which this is based on (plus the other Pups in my sig.....each in its own partition). It appears that X-Slacko has installed its save-folder into 570's partition (alongside 570's save-file). It's running sweet as a nut (no problems there; each partition has got bags of space).....but does anybody have any ideas as to why it's gone and done that? Might it have something to do with them both using the same identical kernel?

Just curious, that's all..!

Mike.

rg66 · #905 Post by **rg66** » Fri 05 Feb 2016, 05:01

@ Mike

Not sure why that happened. First save is done by /usr/sbin/shutdownconfig, must be getting something wrong.

Mike Walsh · #906 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Sat 06 Feb 2016, 12:20

Hi, rg66.

Okay. Answer me this one, if you will. If I move the xslackosave folder out of 570's partition, and back into the correct one (i.e., X-Slacko's), what exactly will happen? I've got a fairly good idea that all the paths will be wrong, and that just about everything will need resetting.....or will it?

I would like to re-organise that, and get things where they ought to be, but.....just how much work am I letting myself in for?

Mike.

rg66 · #907 Post by **rg66** » Sun 07 Feb 2016, 06:48

Mike Walsh wrote:Hi, rg66.

Okay. Answer me this one, if you will. If I move the xslackosave folder out of 570's partition, and back into the correct one (i.e., X-Slacko's), what exactly will happen? I've got a fairly good idea that all the paths will be wrong, and that just about everything will need resetting.....or will it?

I would like to re-organise that, and get things where they ought to be, but.....just how much work am I letting myself in for?

Mike.

Just did a test and it wasn't as hard as I thought. I copied my save dir from sda1 to sda2 and renamed the original (backup). Ran blkid from terminal to get the uuid of sda2 and changed that in grub4dos menu.lst. Booted straight away and am posting from it now.

Some "special" files from the save won't copy (from /var I think) but they should be remade.

Only problems so far were broken symlinks for .mozilla and .skype which I keep on a different partition for all my saves.

Edit: Had to copy all my sfs's to the new partition for them to load on start up. This was easier than running SFS-load and reloading them all.

rg66 · #908 Post by **rg66** » Tue 01 Mar 2016, 08:30

A fix for "Open terminal here" right click custom action in directories with white spaces.

Open Thunar > Edit > Configure custom actions, highlight "Open Terminal Here" > edit.

Replace

Code: Select all

terminal --working-directory=$PWD

with

terminal --working-directory="`echo "$PWD" | sed 's/ /\\ /'`"

Click OK to save.

rg66 · #909 Post by **rg66** » Sat 12 Mar 2016, 10:11

I've decided to get off my lazy arse and start working on X-slacko-4. Beta 1 should be out in a day or two (hopefully).

Marv · #910 Post by **Marv** » Sat 12 Mar 2016, 14:11

rg66 wrote:I've decided to off my lazy arse and start working on X-slacko-4. Beta 1 should be out in a day or two (hopefully).

Wahoo

Sage · #911 Post by **Sage** » Sat 12 Mar 2016, 14:53

X-slacko-4.

Fantastic decision - XS is one of the very best; it works!

starhawk · #912 Post by **starhawk** » Sat 12 Mar 2016, 16:52

X-Tahr is still in beta... just sayin'.

rg66 · #913 Post by **rg66** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 06:04

starhawk wrote:X-Tahr is still in beta... just sayin'.

Ya, I know. With 6.0.5 out, I might have to start over

Will have a think about it after X-slacko-4.0 is released. X-tahr was kind of a nightmare to build.

starhawk · #914 Post by **starhawk** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 17:13

A shame it was a pain -- it really is great stuff. I'm using it right now and not only does it run on dang near everything, but it's super stable for what's labeled as a beta

Marv · #915 Post by **Marv** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 17:55

starhawk wrote:A shame it was a pain -- it really is great stuff. I'm using it right now and not only does it run on dang near everything, but it's super stable for what's labeled as a beta

Yea, I run 1b3 alongside 3.1n on all the Pentium Ms and the one Bay Trail box I have farmed out. Sometimes one, sometimes the other. Both completely stable over a fairly long time with user users. Some have even ventured to use the menu

thanks to whiskermenu.

rg66 · #916 Post by **rg66** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 18:10

Luckily, Xfce hasn't updated much since 1b3. If I don't have to compile anything it shouldn't be too much trouble. I'll put X-tahr-1.0 on the to do list after X-slacko-4.0 is out.

Back on topic, Geoffrey is going to help with some things and X-slacko-4b1 should be out in a few days. It's running quite nicely, only a few minor issues.

starhawk · #917 Post by **starhawk** » Sun 13 Mar 2016, 18:38

rg66 wrote:I'll put X-tahr-1.0 on the to do list after X-slacko-4.0 is out.

Aw, shucks. I'll gladly help test if it makes that frown go away...

rg, you make some good stuff. Know it and feel it.

rg66 · #918 Post by **rg66** » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 11:19

X-slacko-4a2

I've uploaded a 4a1 ISO for Geoffrey to help with bug fixes. If anyone else wishes to help, or just check it out, you can download X-slacko-4a1.iso here: http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/testing then download X-slacko-4a1.iso___X-slacko-4a2.iso.delta and use Xdelta in the utility menu to make X-slacko-4a2.iso

Billtoo · #919 Post by **Billtoo** » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 12:49

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive of my lenovo desktop.

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.14.55 (i686)
Version #1 SMP Mon Oct 26 11:54:01 AEST 2015
C Library GNU C Library version 2.17 (stable)
Distribution Slacko Puppy - 6.3.0
Current Session
Computer Name Puppy-PC
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment XFCE 4
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.5.0 NVIDIA 361.28
Direct Rendering Yes

Added peebee's Chromium sfs

No problems so far, will play more later.

Thanks

Marv · #920 Post by **Marv** » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 15:18

Manual Grub4Dos frugal to core 2 duo laptop. Net connection with SNS fine. No warnings or errors in dmesg. XFCE panel set up. Peebee chromium SFS added and links to external profiles for it, Opera, and Firefox in. Samba shares connection slick under Thunar. SimpleGTKradio installed. Sound fine.

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 2021MB (235MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Slacko Puppy - 6.3.0
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Thu 17 Mar 2016 09:58:05 AM CDT

Display
Resolution 1280x800 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

Operating System
Kernel Linux 3.14.55 (i686)
Version #1 SMP Mon Oct 26 11:54:01 AEST 2015
C Library GNU C Library version 2.17 (stable)
Distribution Slacko Puppy - 6.3.0
Current Session
Computer Name Puppy-PC
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment XFCE 4

Misc
Uptime 13 minutes
Load Average 0.18, 0.15, 0.13

Glxgears exactly as expected for this laptop. Very good.
# vblank_mode=0 glxgears
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
6549 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1309.723 FPS
6580 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1315.856 FPS

More on other boxes later.

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