Posts by siva

siva · Hardware & System Configuration

I had a very similar issue to yours in Ubuntu 14.04. The only difference is that it produced the error on every reboot, not just random ones. I kinda lost faith in lightdm afterwards, and began a full transition to either slim or console login.

I wonder if the 14.04 and ascii packages are based on the same lightdm version.

siva · Devuan Derivatives

Long-time user, first-time caller here -- I love and have used refractasnapshot for a few years now. I highly recommend it.

I was wondering if it is, or would be, possible to inhibit X at boot by default. Ideally, the user would run startx (or equivalent) to launch a graphical x session. I read through the documentation and didn't see anything like this. (EDIT: To clarify, I was wondering if this could be done with a live session for a refractasnapshot-created iso.)

Thanks!

siva · Off-topic

Early Porcupine Tree is the best for relaxing and background music.

Cloud Zero (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwijKGCFQqk

Neural Rust (released 2003, but I think it was originally a demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03BJrYjJaJA

siva · Hardware & System Configuration

This works for me for pm-suspend/hibernate, and works with acpi/lid.sh:

/etc/pm/sleep.d/00lock

#!/bin/sh

# Specify the display for acpi
export DISPLAY=:0
# Run a specified program as user
run(){
su -c "$1" omega
}
# Run programs for pm-utils
case $1 in
        suspend|hibernate)
                run /usr/bin/slock &
                ;;
        resume|thaw)
                ;;
esac

/etc/acpi/lid.sh

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$3" = "close" ]; then
	/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
fi

siva · Devuan Derivatives

@miyo: I reached out to the PM licensing team with a few questions. Thanks for sharing the redistribution page from their site. I'm trying to find something similar on Devuan's site, but I might be illiterate, lol. It seems that devuan is really supportive of small projects, and I love that; I just want to make sure I have a document with any possible restrictions.

@fungus: reading the project page link in your signature, it looks like vuu-do comes with PM, so mayhaps I'll look into that as well. I did notice that the devs are cool with redistribution so long as the binary in the public OS is unaltered: doesn't include 3rd-party addons, custom settings, etc.

siva · Devuan Derivatives

I appreciate the information and will look into the pm installer. I've been lurking and checking out some of those projects for a little over a week or so.

Are you making a mirror repository of your own? If no, and you are using devuan then it is devuan.

This was my original thought. However, I've observed that several other distros use, for instance, the analogous debian repositories in sources.list.d, so their public releases aren't completely debian-independent. In addition, I also observed other distros that seem to "clone" the bulk of debian packages, making small (if any) changes to the version. Those distros' repos seemed, essentially, to be debian ones.
This led me to speculate on how far a project can stray from its mothership (in my case, devuan) without aggravating any labeling, branding, or licensing issue.
All of that actually leads into my answer to your next question.

If whoever installs your system wants an update of your own scripts and modifications, how would they get them?

Thank you for asking this. My idea was to utilize devuan as the main repository, and any of my modifications in a separate one. If this were legal, it would seem to me the easiest way to maintain a small, one-man-army derivative, since I'm not flying by RHEL's ambitions.

siva · DIY

Thank you for sharing this. My only question is, how does this differ from macchanger?

siva · Devuan Derivatives

Hey all,

I have a project system that my friends keep encouraging me to release publicly (eg, on a sourceforge link). I never really thought to release it, but lately the thought has been on my mind. I'm using 99% devuan packages; the only exceptions are palemoon (pulled from MX) and linux-libre kernel.

My only concern is with licensing or credit/citation of any sorts (not that I wouldn't give devuan credit, but maybe there would be more than just saying, "built on devuan" or something of that ilk). I've read that, since everything is under an open-source license, it should be free to redistribute. However, I'm wondering if there's more to the story -- or, more that I need to read. It would be agonizing to produce a derivative that gets me fined.

I was wondering how much truth is in the claim that a custom-built devuan can experience mostly-trivial modifications and still be branded as a project of its own. I'm also curious if any user has ever found him/herself in a predicament due to this: what happened, how was it resolved, etc.

siva · DIY

OP: you should be able to disable loading xfwm from the session settings, and add "openbox" as an autostart command.

You can test it like so:

openbox --replace

If that works, you can run an xfce session with openbox and any other gtk theme or settings you want.
(Nightmare goes well with the albatross theme, btw.)

siva · Installation

Does anyone know which plugins or software for multimedia signal in Palemoon?

What do you mean by "multimedia signal?" Also, palemoon works fine on my system. I do not, however, use flash, due to its history as exploitable and oftentimes very buggy.

Have you checked out the surf browser? Also built on webkit, like midori, and way quick if you're doing any non-multimedia browsing.

siva · Other Issues

fyi, x86 is still vulnerable to meltdown.

The officially official Devuan Forum!

#251 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » occasional boot hang on ascii [SOLVED] » 2018-03-29 19:01:02

#252 Devuan Derivatives » Refractasnapshot » 2018-03-29 17:22:09

#253 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2018-03-29 14:57:31

#254 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Issues with Laptop Lid Suspend/Hibernate and Panel Plugins » 2018-03-27 19:11:58

#255 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Conversation about "officially" launching a devuan derivative » 2018-01-26 15:13:32

#256 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Conversation about "officially" launching a devuan derivative » 2018-01-25 21:04:26

#257 Re: DIY » automatic mac address spoofer » 2018-01-25 20:42:15

#258 Devuan Derivatives » Conversation about "officially" launching a devuan derivative » 2018-01-25 20:21:26

#259 Re: DIY » Openbox Nightmare theme with XFCE? » 2018-01-25 20:02:55

#260 Re: Installation » Palemoon a browser that doesn't convince! » 2018-01-25 19:55:18

#261 Re: Other Issues » How to fix the meltdown and spectre issue in Devuan » 2018-01-25 19:53:20

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