Hi nixer.

It can be downloaded from here...

MiyoLinux-Update-Notifier-2.0

Thank you.

You're welcome very much...but...I have some good news and possibly bad news.

I did another installation on another computer. I did a dist-upgrade of Miyo-i3 from ascii to beowulf. I didn't do any of the steps I described before. I just upgraded the ascii system, rebooted, changed the sources.list and upgraded to beowulf.

When it finished, I rebooted, and...

The good news:  everything is working normally.

The bad news:  I'm not sure what could be causing your issues.

Hmmm...okay...sorry about that. The ASCII version is using lightdm instead of slim. I'm not sure if lightdm is working correctly in beowulf yet. It wasn't when I built the beowulf versions; that's why I went with slim on those.

I'll see what I can figure out, but it may be awhile...it's been a very busy day for me and still is.

Thanks paolo.

Hi paolo! Sorry for the late reply.

To move the bar from the bottom to the top, you'll need to make one small edit in the i3 config file. When you open the file, scroll all the way to the bottom, and you'll see these lines...

bar {
        status_command i3blocks
}

Just add the following line so that it looks like this...

bar {
        status_command i3blocks
	position top
}

...save the file, then restart i3.

This will in turn cause dmenu to open on top of the bar, and it will also possibly interfere with partially covering part of the conky. If you want to fix those issues, you'll need to do another edit to the i3 config file, and an edit to the .conkyrc file. They both can be opened from the MiyoLinux Accessories application.

If you want to make dmenu appear at the bottom of the screen, Miyo-i3 is using i3-dmenu-desktop in order to show only applications when you open dmenu. Unfortunately, I'm not sure myself how to make i3-dmenu-desktop appear at the bottom of the screen.      If anyone here knows how to do that, please feel free to comment.

However, I do know how to make the regular dmenu appear at the bottom.   If you enable line numbers in the i3 config file, look for lines 162 -167. They look like this at present...

# start dmenu (a program launcher)
#bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu_run -fn "Ubuntu Mono-9"
# There also is the (new) i3-dmenu-desktop which only displays applications
# shipping a .desktop file. It is a wrapper around dmenu, so you need that
# installed.
bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id i3-dmenu-desktop

If using regular dmenu is okay with you, just remove the # from the second line above and place a # in front of the last line above. You will also need to add -b on the second line. When you're finished, those lines will look like this...

# start dmenu (a program launcher)
bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu_run -b -fn "Ubuntu Mono-9"
# There also is the (new) i3-dmenu-desktop which only displays applications
# shipping a .desktop file. It is a wrapper around dmenu, so you need that
# installed.
#bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id i3-dmenu-desktop

Also, if the font is too small, you can change the 9 in that second line to a 10, 11, 12, etc.

After finishing the edit, save the file and restart i3.

To make the conky appear slightly lower on the screen, you'll need to edit the .conkyrc file. Find the line close to the top that looks like this...

gap_y=5,

Change the 5 to a larger number...something like 25. Just play around with that number until you find what looks best to you. It should automatically go to the new position when you save the changes to the file.

Edited to add: Also see my follow-up reply

Hmmm...my battery indicator works as it should. The configuration file for the bar is found in /etc/i3blocks.conf. However, the script for the battery indicator is found in /usr/share/i3blocks/battery. I hate to say this, but I'm not sure what the issue could be since mine works. Perhaps your battery isn't being assigned the correct number. What is the output if you run the following command in the terminal?

acpi

I hate to say this, but it may require for you to do some internet searches for something like...

battery indicator doesn't work on i3blocks

Here's one that I found where they got it working...https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/ … _not_work/

That makes me happy to know it survived all of the updates! I've been wondering about that, so thank you for that report!

I really appreciate that, but I'm very happy just doing what I'm doing...the way that I'm doing it.

siva, I would love to try it too.

Unfortunately, that's all I've got to offer. LOLOL!!!

I've been following Obarun for some time (Arch with s6) to see how it continues to evolve. That's really the only system that I'm personally aware of that uses s6.

You may already be aware of this on Devuan GitLab, but here it is just in case...

https://git.devuan.org/66-devuan/66

Hi Paolo!

You had no need to think I would be angry at the timing of your responses.   I was hoping you wouldn't be upset with my late responses!

The beowulf version is still considered testing, and I don't have an UEFI version of it...so just be aware that if you are able to install it, some issues may arise until beowulf becomes Devuan's stable release. Hopefully, things will go smoothly until then.

Take care, and take care of that little girl!

Thank you paolo.

Regarding the battery life that you asked about earlier...if you're able to get Miyo-i3 installed, I would wait and see what kind of battery life you get before installing the tlp package. I've always noticed that resource usage is higher when running from a live system, so you may not need that package.

Regarding the installer...I'm not sure what the issue could be. I tried it on two different computers, and the installer opened and ran well. To be more thorough, I tried opening the installer from...

1. The Welcome Screen
2. DMenu
3. PMenu
4. By entering sudo refractainstaller-yad in the terminal.

All four options worked well on both computers, so I'm not sure what the issue could be since I couldn't reproduce it. Perhaps fsmithred will see this and offer a possible suggestion.

You might try the fourth option, but when you open the terminal, enter...

sudo refractainstaller-yad -d

If the installer fails again, show us what is in /var/log/refractainstaller.log...that should give us something more to look at if it fails again.

Respectfully,
MiyoLinux

Hi paolo...thank you for the kind words about Miyo-i3!

My first introduction to i3 was Microwatt several years ago! It was a really great system too!

If I recall, there was a package installed on it that was specifically there to help with battery life. It's available to be installed on Devuan also...

apt install tlp

I haven't used it since using Microwatt, but I do remember there are a lot of options to use that can really help a user get the most from their battery. Hope that helps, and thank you again! I hope you enjoy using the system!

Little Hurricane: Trouble Ahead

you-get'd...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! That's classic!

I'm glad to hear that, because the video's instructions differ slightly from the finished instructions on the .iso. Thank you stanz!

Michael Martin Murphey & the Rio Grande Band - "Wildfire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl4Y4FWWkn0

Dan Fogelberg - "The Last Nail"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBWeSHZUtzA