Fatdog64-710 Final [4 Dec 2016]

[Gobbi]

No problem here .
Gslapt installed well fatdog-update-710.0-noarch-2.txz .

[jake29]

@jake29: Your wine 2.0 package and SFS have been uploaded to the official repo. Thank you for your contribution.

Glad I could help.

[step]

Just a note for people trying to troubleshoot wifi connection problems. It might help to peek at the system console, because the wpi_gui process (the "brains" behind the radar tray icon) logs its error messages there. You can dump system console output by opening a terminal window and typing to the shell: conspy -d 1 then scroll up the window until you get to the wpa_supplicant section. Example (your invalid lines - if any - will look different):

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50-Wpagui - auto dhcp for eth0                                                                                                                                  
50-Wpagui - loading wpa_supplicant for wlan0                                                                                                                    
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant                                                                                                                         
Line 54: Invalid BSSID '"c4:6e:f1:40:8a:90"'.                                                                                                                   
Line 54: failed to parse bssid '"c4:6e:f1:40:8a:90"'.                                                                                                           
Line 62: failed to parse network block.                                                                                                                         
Line 78: Invalid BSSID '"30:a2:8f:98:46:bd"'.                                                                                                                   
Line 78: failed to parse bssid '"30:a2:8f:98:46:bd"'.                                                                                                           
Line 85: failed to parse network block.
                                     
Failed to read or parse configuration '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'.

In this example the last line tells us that the wlan0 interface isn't configured, hence it won't even show up in the pull-down list of adapters when you click the radar tray icon.

[fr33land]

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[stemsee]

Wifi problems.

Try Wifi-Connect, with Wifi-Profiles, Wifi-Eduroam, Wifi-Scanner and Wifi-HotSpot.

wpagui only displays one wifi interface, when started with default configura.

Wifi-Connect, currently only at Alpha stage,
lets you use any or all! It's what I use on FatDog.

here is a shot of scanner admin mode.

[jamesbond]

Thanks for the info. Diversity is good, and of course use what works for you .

@step - your error looks like a misconfiguration in wpa_supplicant.conf. This should not happen unless you edit the file manually.

@stemsee: where's the link to Wifi-Connect?
Also, "wpagui only recognises one wifi interface." - this needs to be corrected. You can have it manage multiple wifi cards. It's an unusual configuration and is not supported out of the box, but it can be done (very easily). In fact what you change is how you start wpa_supplicant. There is no change on how you run wpa_gui.

[drunkjedi]

Hi Jamesbond,
How did you make that gif screencapture?

I used our Screencaster app to make avi, then used ffmpeg to make gif.
I didn't use any options, so the resulting gif was of poor quality and high on size.

Please share your method.

[belham2]

Hi Jamesbond,
How did you make that gif screencapture?

I used our Screencaster app to make avi, then used ffmpeg to make gif.
I didn't use any options, so the resulting gif was of poor quality and high on size.

Please share your method.

Haha, I am glad somebody asked, because ever since he posted it, I've been staring and wondering how in heck he did that. I didn't know if it was proper manners/form to bug one of our leaders with such trivia. But Drunkjedi is Nobility, fears no God nor mortal men, so thus my slaver-skin will soon have an answer to "how did he do dat?". Gracias Drunkjedi!!

[jamesbond]

Haha, no worries at all.

Actually I do that exactly like what drunkjedi said.

I used screencaster, and selected the screen area I want to capture. Then I set capture quality to high --- this is important, high quality capture means lesser artefacts, and lesser artefacts means better GIF compression. If the default "high-quality" setting is not enough (you capture a larger area), go to custom quality setting and increase the video bit rate. And capture with mp4 - it has **much** better quality than AVI for the same bit rate.

Then I just use ffmpeg to convert it to gif: "ffmpeg -i video.mp4 output.gif". The final GIF quality isn't great, but the file size is small (good for forum upload). If the file size is still too big, you can scale the image by using ffmpeg option "-vf scale:200:-1" (set horz resolution to 200 pixels wide, with aspect ratio preserved for vert resolution; change 200 to whatever value you like).

There are options to produce a much better GIF quality by doing two-pass convesion (look here), but it increases the file size between 2-5 times in my test (definitely bigger than the mp4 video you get from screencaster).

This, scripted, may be an idea I can contribute for the next release of puppylinux newsletter that has been recently launched.

[stemsee]

@Jamesbond

How to start wpa_supplicant so that any wifi interfaces connected can be selected?

What is your work-around for setting portuguese keyboard?

Here is Wifi-Connect-beta.sfs. First use of Wifi-HotSpot requires devx loaded, for compiling and installing create_ap AP creation tool.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8-coZ ... FprRVhUOWM

[step]

@jamesbond, I misconfigured wpa_supplicant on purpose, just to show an example I could capture for my post.

[jamesbond]

@step - yes, of course.

@stemsee: Thank you stemsee.

To run wpa_supplicant so it can support multiple wifi interface, do it like this:
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -N -i wlan1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant1.conf -N -i wlan2 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant2.conf ... ad nauseam.

wpa_supplicant.conf, wpa_supplicant1.conf, wpa_supplicant2.conf etc can be the same file if you wish (which is what I did for my example).

Fatdog uses wpa_supplicant (for obvious reasons), wpa_cli (for automatic IP address setting) and wpa_gui. To support multiple interfaces, wpa_gui does not need to change; wpa_supplicant needs to be modified as above; and wpa_cli needs to be run multiple times, one for every interface.

EDIT: the "pt" workaround is to run setxkbmap -query as soon after running setxkbmap.

[L18L]

Never got any new puppy or fatdog or quirky run on my computer before.

Archlinux gave me a solution.

No xorg driver modesetting needed
Only disadvantage: resolution cannot be changed without reboot.

Other operation systems which I could get running are slacko64 and remixOS (matter of kernel configuration).

[drunkjedi]

Thanks James for the Gif screencapture help.

[step]

Hi L18L, good t o se e you in the forum! Your post reminded me of the only computer I ever owned with poulsbo graphics. It was a Dell netbook. It worked very well with Windows XP but behind that, Windows 7 or Linux regardless, getting decent graphics output was a nightmare. I got rid of that computer. Glad you got yours tamed.

Never got any new puppy or fatdog or quirky run on my computer before.

Archlinux gave me a solution.

No xorg driver modesetting needed
Only disadvantage: resolution cannot be changed without reboot.

Other operation systems which I could get running are slacko64 and remixOS (matter of kernel configuration).

[stemsee]

Fatdog desktop drive icons .... How do I increase the spacing between the desktop drive icons?

[jamesbond]

@L18L: Greeting!
I'm glad to see you back, I hope everything is good for you.

@stemsee:
1. Open Control Panel
2. Find the "desktop" tab.
3. Launch "Fatdog Event Manager"
4. Change the "Grid width"
5. Click Save, then Quit.
6. Right-click any drive icon, then choose "Redraw all icons".
7. Repeat 3-6 until satisfied.

[dr. Dan]

@jamesbond: I thought I posted my reply, but apparently not.

I manually downloaded and checked the update, and installed it without issue. I'm sure you had already tested it, and knew it was correct! So, is it safe to uninstall and reinstall Gslapt? Are there any warnings or instructions for doing so?
Thank you.

[stemsee]

Thanks Jamesbond.

I had trouble with screencaster; when changing directory for recordings to ~/Downloads, the recordings were being deleted. on examing the script I commented out one line and now its fine.

I am also having trouble getting host name change to persist!

[step]

I had trouble with screencaster; when changing directory for recordings to ~/Downloads, the recordings were being deleted. on examing the script I commented out one line and now its fine.

Hi stemsee, the real issue is that screencaster doesn't expand ~/Downloads into /root/Downloads as you expected. I think you can uncomment that line and enter the save path without ~, as in /root/Downloads. The output file name will end with .mp4 if you selected mp4 in the screencaster dialog. *.video and *.audio are partial files, and should be deleted.

Even if you had run screencaster from a terminal you wouldn't see any error messages, but this is a different issue that needs to be fixed in the script.

edit: fixed tilde expansion in my development copy of this script, now testing it...