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#1 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-03-13 14:34:30

Q: Why did the old man let out a groan?
A: He was catching up on the Devuan forum joke thread.

#2 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » multimedia repo not available and nvidia driver not installable » 2024-03-09 18:57:20

I'm going to back up the proposals to removing the multimedia repo.  I view the repo as a solution to a problem that no longer exist. There once was a time where the multimedia repo was a must have for audio/video codec, dvd playback, etc. That is no longer the case. Even if you are a musician or other media artist you would be better off using something like the KXStudio repo. No that's not a promotion of the KXstudio repo, just my thought on the subject.

#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox-esr Audio through ALSA Alone » 2024-02-27 15:06:37

@Iggy64 Great work!

I wonder if this has something to do with why Firefox is silent with sndio when using alsa-sndio? Firefox creates a sndio stream and you can control it. It's just silent. I'll have to test if I can use libasound's pre-amp with it.

Thanks for reporting back with your findings. I believe you've provided some useful information.

#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox-esr Audio through ALSA Alone » 2024-02-26 04:22:53

The-Amnesiac-Philosopher wrote:

2. Open your file manager as root, got to /usr/share/applications and open the Firefox application with your text editor.
    Find the line Exec=

3. Insert apulse after the = sign in that line; such as Exec=apulse firefox

Wouldn't the .desktop file can be overwritten with updates or reinstall? Doing it this way should prevent this and does not require root permission.

- copy the file firefox.desktop (or firefox-esr.desktop) to $HOME/.local/share/applications/
- open the newly copied desktop file into your text editor and add apulse to the start of the EXEC= line.

#5 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-02-09 22:17:39

WOW!
Quickfur, that has to be the ultimate Geek/nerd joke. Dare I say a dad geek joke?

#6 Re: Devuan Derivatives » JWM KIT love fest » 2024-02-09 22:14:20

Thanks for the reply.  I hope you found the info useful. Most of the issues are just about polishing the menus and such. Let me know if I can provide any kind of info regarding the amixer issue. Also any help you might need with JWMKit.

#7 Re: Off-topic » terminal title parameter » 2024-02-09 20:25:21

@quickfur
I had the thought of creating a dictionary for terminals and the parameter.  If a terminal was not in the dictionary just don't set the title. For now I think I'll just not set the title.

@The-Amnesiac-Philosopher
To be clear this is not about "general" settings for the terminal, but for a creating a launcher that starts the terminal and a specific task.

My goal was to set the title to the name of the task the terminal would be running. To clarify I mean the actual name, not the executable name.   Most terminal will set the title to the executable name. Which is close enough. So it's not worth writing a bunch of code to implement.

#8 Re: Devuan Derivatives » JWM KIT love fest » 2024-02-09 12:58:14

It's a good amount of stuff. I hope you don't mind, but I sent an email.

#9 Re: Off-topic » terminal title parameter » 2024-02-09 12:55:42

I know that doesn't help you, but I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish?

Not everyone uses the same terminal, so if I share code with others that launches the user's default terminal emulator then that code needs to be compatible with as many terminals as possible, hopefully all of them.  If the parameters used are not consistent across all terminals then the code will break.

Setting the title is only cosmetic and is not that important.  For the sake of compatibility I guess I'll just leave ti out for now.

#10 Re: Off-topic » terminal title parameter » 2024-02-08 16:06:58

Having read the man pages for several terminal emulators I have come to the conclusion that there is no standard.  Which really is sad. Most of them do support either -T or -t. Simply recognizing both upper and lower case T for the argument would be a giant leap forward.

#11 Off-topic » terminal title parameter » 2024-02-08 14:43:24

JWM-Kit
Replies: 9

I had the idea that all terminals supported the -T parameter used to set the window title.  It has come to my attention that sakura does not.  Instead it uses lowercase -t as the parameter.

Is sakura alone in this behavior or are there other terminal emulators that use a different parameter, or don’t even support setting the title.

This is an important issue since this incompatibility could easily break programs and scripts with terminals that do not support it.

#12 Re: Devuan Derivatives » JWM KIT love fest » 2024-02-08 14:24:46

Nice! It always makes me happy to see JWMKit used in a project.

Where do I report issues? (along with possible fixes)

#13 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » requesting recomendations for a small window manager » 2024-01-22 18:35:55

Mike wrote:

9wm, cwm, dwm, evilwm, flwm, lwm and windowlab . . . .
I was wondering if anyone here had tried any of those and liked them.

It seems the tread has spiraled away from the question.  I have tried all of these in the past, but it's been awhile. From my experience I have to agree with @Camtaf . Not only are the listed WMs very basic, they fail to be take the crown for being lightweight. In opinion you can't beat JWM. I've not seen any WM as lightweight, but when configured properly is very nice.

#14 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working. » 2024-01-22 18:12:24

When I configured for pipewire all I did was install pipewire-media-session
That's the magic that worked for me. it conflicts with wireplumber so it will be uninstalled.

Then I added /usr/bin/pipewire and /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session to my startup

It works fine for me. Maybe it will work for you.

#15 Re: Forum Feedback » [SOLVED] Quote Button » 2024-01-22 18:01:24

I think it's a wonderful changes.  To many people were quoting giant walls of text. Many including multiple previous quotes.
Doing it manually is simple enough.  I had a habit of using the quote button and then trimming it down to the key part, but its easy to adapt.

#16 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] transmission-gkt ( release version) » 2024-01-12 22:13:57

We are assuming he want to compile the newest version just so he can have the newest version.  We don't really know if that is the case.

Sometimes a user has specific reasons to use an unstable version.  For example I quite often build JWM from the master branch in order to keep up with new features and other changes. This is not because I want the newest version. It is so I can become familiar with the new version in order to implement the new changes into JWMKit. If JWM has a new feature I want to support it in my software.  I need to experience it first hand, and I also need to test JWMKit with it. If I wait for a new stable to be release it slows me down on supporting those changes in JWMKit.

I'm glad you figured it out!

#17 Re: Off-topic » Search babble » 2024-01-11 23:20:15

Not gonna happen.. tongue It's gotta be JWM.. I've tried Ratpoison, Awsome, and other tiling window managers.  I just don't like them.  The keyboard.control is great, but I feel restricted with them.  I quite often overlap windows were I can only see the desired part of the windows.  So I need a WM that allows for overlapping windows.

I do admit that Ratpoison is good software.  So we can agree on that. Someone needs to be using it. Just not me.  Here's something we can agree on.  I take JWM, and you take Ratpoison. cool

#18 Re: Off-topic » Search babble » 2024-01-11 22:06:42

quickfur wrote:

Just don't expect me to agree with everything, that's all

The day we all agree will be a boring day lol

#19 Re: Off-topic » Search babble » 2024-01-11 20:15:17

@aluma concerning the double entries on Firefox. I like having two entries.  Because when I mistype a url in the url entry I want it to fail to load the page, not do a search result.  I know that is not what most people want, but it is for me.  As was just stated, it's about choice. Why they don't offer a similar feature for the single entry is a puzzle to me.  They really should.

I am in agreement that It doesn't bother me which search engine some one uses. But it doesn't hurt to discuss it.  Who is forcing anyone? I guess we can't discuss the pros, cons, or preferences of a search engine because someone is going to relate discussion to being forced.

#20 Re: Off-topic » Search babble » 2024-01-11 14:33:31

aluma wrote:

I miss a button in browsers that would allow me to select a search engine with one click.

Its not the default, but you can configure Firefox to have both a URL bar and a search bar. The search bar has a drop down menu that lets you select the search engine you want to search with. You can also add other sites to search and it's not limited to search engines.  For example Youtube, translate, maps, etc.

#21 Re: Off-topic » Search babble » 2024-01-11 00:30:00

quickfur wrote:

The reason I use google is not because I agree with their practices, but because their search engine is technologically the best among the competitors

I strongly disagree.  When I use duckduckgo I get much relatable results.  It is so obvious that google's search results are manipulated and filtered. Maybe you would prefer this over the raw results, but no thank you.

#22 Re: Devuan » Debian Farm? » 2024-01-08 17:41:50

aluma wrote:

But Win7(8) still loads faster.

Does it? or is it just that windows lies and hibernates when you tell it to shutdown.  Compare the boot time from a real cold start.  You probably already know this, but  holding down the shift key when you press shutdown will shut down windows for real.

#23 Re: News & Announcements » The dev1galaxy.org (almost) No Code of Conduct » 2024-01-08 00:18:05

The edit version should suggest that adult like behavior is expected, even if you aren't an adult.

#24 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to fix unicode text, it's showing as a box » 2024-01-03 15:50:26

Don't know if it will help, but have you tried updating the font cache

fc-cache -fv

#25 Re: Devuan Derivatives » JWM KIT love fest » 2023-12-27 16:02:55

Yes the issue with the time templates was a silly mistake. It shows the difference a single character can make when coding. in this case it was matter of lowercase vs uppercase.

For those who don't know what we are talking about.  The suggested templates for the tray clock used months instead of minutes.  This meant the minutes were only correct once per hour as they only change once a day. An embarrassing mistake, but one that was easy to make.

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