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#451 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-15 18:12:05

Ron

golinux wrote:
And desktop users are NOT our target audience

This statement has me baffled. Do you mean desktop as in Desktop Environment, or as in desktop versus laptop?

#452 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-15 00:43:45

Ron

golinux wrote:
@siva . . . You'd think a quick search would be the first thing to do.  But is sooo much easier to let someone else do it.

If you go back, you'd see that I did say I'd research it when I have the time. You know, I have a full time job, and a wife and kid that takes quite a bit of my time. I don't live on the computer. I really don't know what I said to warrant such passive aggression. And who was whining? That crack was unwarranted.

#453 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-14 00:31:51

Ron

I am still "fairly" new to Linux. And I'm just a computer user, not a geek (I don't mean that pejoratively). When I have time I'll research it, I guess.

#454 Re: Devuan » Why are pulseaudio files present in Devuan? » 2018-12-14 00:19:58

Ron

I agree with spartrekus that pulseaudio is crap. I avoid anything made by its author.

#455 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-14 00:15:10

Ron

I have something on my computer made by Lennart Poettering?  mad  I avoid anything that guy makes.

Can I get more info on how to disable this crap? I have no idea what rcconf is.

#456 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-14 00:12:41

Ron

When I first tried Devuan, I had no idea which installation option I should use. So it was confusing for me. And the one I did download didn't work. Maybe I downloaded the wrong one? Thankfully the Miyo installation file worked. I can appreciate where esr is coming from on this issue, and most of the other things he has said. If he can start his own derivative of Devuan, I'd help any way I could (which would probably be limited to be a beta tester).

#457 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-08 18:39:11

Ron

I took what he wrote to mean that he tried to install Devuan over top of Mint. Any other way wouldn't be possible, right? It seems he is knowledgeable enough to know that.

#458 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-08 17:14:46

Ron
Panopticon wrote:

So if you have never done a Debian install, your frustration it seems is not really based on any facts is it, or am i missing something here?

He has tried a Devuan install:

esr wrote:

The first, my wife's home-office machine, is "minx", an Intel NUC running Mint 19 - I've tried to Devuanize that and failed.

#459 Re: Devuan » Migrating from Mint » 2018-12-04 03:58:51

Ron

Hi Vargr, I've come over to Devaun from Mint also. It really isn't that hard. If you have questions, just post them here. This is a friendly forum.  smile

#460 Re: Other Issues » Problems with youtube-dl [solved] » 2018-11-10 21:58:35

Ron

Did you download the app via Synaptic? That might be the problem as the repo version is too old to work with youtube videos. I download the app straight from their website (using wget) which gives you the current version:

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

#461 Re: Off-topic » IBM is acquiring Red Hat! » 2018-10-28 19:43:55

Ron

Should we consider this as good news or bad news? Or neutral news?

#462 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 19:40:30

Ron

I totally deleted the line, "sleep 0.5" and the line itself. That was the right way to do it, right? It seems to have made the delay a (very) tad bit shorter.

Thanks GNUser. smile

#464 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 15:49:28

Ron

Thanks GNUser, sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/atril did the trick. There's just one little annoyance . . . when I open Atril (and AbiWord), it first opens unmaximized for a split second, before going maximized. But I can live with that (I'm guessing there's nothing that can be done about that).

#465 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 04:25:02

Ron

@GNUser, it isn't working for me. When I open Atril (from the desktop icon) it still doesn't open maximized.

#466 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 01:11:03

Ron

Thanks golinux. I'm using Mate. The "Save Current Settings as Default" option didn't help. Any other ideas?

#467 Re: News & Announcements » The D in Systemd stands for 'Dammmmit!' » 2018-10-27 22:16:28

Ron

Interesting article. How do you disable IPv6? Is disabling it a bad idea?

#468 Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-27 22:03:01

Ron
Replies: 18

There are two apps, specifically AbiWord and Atril, that don't open in a maximized window. What can I do to get them to always open maximized? I did a search but came up empty. And, closing them while maximized will not make them open next time maxed.

#469 Re: News & Announcements » Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support » 2018-10-27 01:13:24

Ron
golinux wrote:

I guess none of you are on the Devuan mail lists or IRC. Perhaps this is a wakeup call to get more involved . . . .  Devuan is not going anywhere.  Someone from Debian did reach out to us and Devuan devs are now cooperating and contributing to ensure sysvinit functionality in Debian.  Devuan devs are also working actively on runit and openrc.

Glad to hear this. I had been worried reading this thread, until I saw the above quoted post.

#471 Re: Other Issues » Click-Drag on desktop changed » 2018-09-29 23:54:56

Ron

Sorry. It's on ASCII (Miyo) with Mate. If you want anything else, please let me know.

#472 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Xfce forum down? » 2018-09-29 23:33:59

Ron

Yes. I found out about it yesterday on a different forum.

#473 Other Issues » Click-Drag on desktop changed » 2018-09-29 23:32:48

Ron
Replies: 4

I just noticed this today. I'm not sure if the last update caused this, or a previous one. When on the desktop, left click and hold, and drag the mouse. Before, it would dim the dragged area, but you could still see what was in it. Now, it puts a white area where you drag and you can't see anything behind it. I know I probably didn't explain this well, so here's a screenshot. Anyone else noticing this? It's not a big deal but I thought it should be reported.

aTzlU9l.jpg

#474 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Testing Exe GNULinux / Trinity Desktop » 2018-09-27 21:37:22

Ron

I think the best way for me to go is to do a dual boot, and use Miyo since I already do the same thing with it for Mate.

BTW, does anyone know if ExeGNU's creator is a member of the forum?

#475 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Testing Exe GNULinux / Trinity Desktop » 2018-09-27 17:02:54

Ron

Thanks for sharing MiyoLinux. I don't think I'm that brave though. It's times like this I wish I had a spare computer to experiment on.

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