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#26 Re: Installation » [Solved]display resolution » 2017-06-01 23:16:02

@OP

Maybe just GPU driver isn't functioning, which might explain this behavior. Guess could be whatever without logs provided.

#27 Re: Off-topic » When Wayland will fully replace the old X11? » 2017-06-01 21:03:34

spartrekus wrote:

When Wayland will fully replace the old X11?

Once you install only Wayland and don't install any X11 app, which might happen whenever you want.

Sorry for sarcastic answer as these kind of question can't be answered really especially with a keyword "fully" in it, as it could be now or never so depends on you.

When someone says "fully" i think of "empty"... kind of Monty Python's Flying Circus logic.

Also word old is relative as Wayland is also old kind of 10 years old or at your choice maybe you can say "decade young" big_smile They started thinking of it as soon as Google's phones and Android appeared, actually developed so year or two before.

Builded upon Google's success and dominance with phones, Wayland was basicaly X for phone and Gnome is DE for phone (big icons, touch friendly, etc... vs keyboard/mousing, you know)... basically kind of X/DE also phone-friendly, (Cannonical's Unity X/Mir is similar story), where X is considered not so phone friendly, now by extending functionality and investment from RH, what remains is to convince people to use it on their Desktops too.

Future is Now if you want that, just don't run X apps wink Otherwise and the opposite run bloat if you want that. Third option should be, The Past is Tomorrow that could work also big_smile

#28 Re: Off-topic » Xfwm4 (and Openbox) Window Themes » 2017-06-01 20:45:33

zephyr wrote:

Audacious for audio is awesome too!

Audacious is interesting from GUI perspective also as upstream default is gtk2, while jessie have gtk3 version but jessie-backports have qt5 version but nothing has recent one...

It seems no one listen anyone there, so ideal to be compiled big_smile

#29 Re: Off-topic » Xfwm4 (and Openbox) Window Themes » 2017-06-01 17:09:42

Well, there are varios music and internet radio players avilable, for example:

https://opensource.com/article/17/1/ope … ic-players

Maybe i can recommend GogglesMM to try (not that version from repo, but recent one 1.1.8), that does not depend on gstreamer and uses fox toolkit 1.7.x for GUI, can organize music, can play internet radio, etc... As you see you don't need to depend on any gtk nor even qt for that, but to still have a GUI if you want to. Of course it is entirely different GUI lib and have nothing to do with these Gnome/RH/systemd stories.

And when you compile fox check apps inside, something that Debian refuses to compile for some reason it seems big_smile There is fox calulator, adie editor, control panel for fox, even file manager pathfiner, but someone might find xfe more useful altogh that is fox 1.6, there was sound editor i forgot how that was called now, etc...

Sounds like if someone write say panel, synaptic in fox and web browser (at least in suckless way)... and couple other tiny apps, that would be pretty much usable gtk/qt free version of Desktop Linux big_smile

I have no idea why these fox apps aren't presented better, reminds too much on Windows maybe? smile Or maybe worse, what isn't in RH control that shouldn't be presented anywhere, probably some deal with distros or something... no idea big_smile

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#30 Re: Off-topic » Xfwm4 (and Openbox) Window Themes » 2017-06-01 16:10:43

golinux wrote:

Xfce has also jumped the gtk3 shark . . .

From developer perspective i guess there is no what else to do with gtk2 version anymore, that is long time stable.

But if someone like MATE or XFCE all gtk2 to keep going they should do like for example TDE guys do. KDE3 was dropped back in 2008. so 9 years ago but they, still manage to get that going by maintaining it, latest release  R14.0.4 in november 2016 or so.

http://trinitydesktop.org/

BTW i am not interested in DEs, i use just openbox wm. Currently on Devuan 1.0 I don't have gtk3 installed even qt4 is not installed, nor pulseaudio, nor... yeah, i am pretty minimal but all what i do serves me well, kind of i can't decide really (as that would be only i guess) on what is good for someone else - so i can only say - here are solutions possible, but really it is up to you.

#31 Re: Off-topic » Xfwm4 (and Openbox) Window Themes » 2017-06-01 14:38:13

People can use gtk2  version of Synaptic, verison 0.75.13 from wheezy should compile and work on Jessie just fine smile

GNUser wrote:

MATE has been my DE of choice. Do you know whether the MATE version in ASCII is GTK3-based?

It is, somewhat halfly still is mostly gtk2 but wants gtk3 some mate apps are gtk3... while current MATE upstream is all gtk3.

#32 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] update-alternatives warning: broken link group? » 2017-05-30 20:07:58

It means user error, i guess you do something wrongly with it before smile. But take this seriosly, as update-alternatives is part of dpkg so package managment, when you installing something some package which want alternative update this also. So any error there if you make let say some typing mistake you must fix as later with dpkg and apt and of course apt GUIs like synaptic might be affected and can't update something if it broken.

Basically any warning like that you must fix.

#33 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to set a default desktop enviroment at Devuan start? » 2017-05-30 11:17:33

ms2417 wrote:

I have openbox, LXDE and Mate and LXDE is always the default one.
I've already set autologin in slim.conf but there is nowhere a place to set Mate as a default.

How to do it, please?

m

Hm, try maybe in same /etc/slim.conf to put sessions line, in order you want of course:

sessions mate,lxde,openbox

Ah, that is not there anymore it seems maybe work mayb not... nothing, does this allows you to select default:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

If it does that is it, just select default..

#34 Re: Devuan » Devuan on Distrowatch » 2017-05-30 08:08:20

MiyoLinux wrote:

Ranking for the last seven days...#10

https://13707080-557519846114226283.pre … s_orig.png

And now it is #8, if that is consistent it looks like it have a chance to go to #4 weekly spike soon

#35 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Has anyone here installed nextcloud from source successfully? SOLVED! » 2017-05-30 07:56:37

Cool, anyway for adding keys of this repo to cite:

https://software.opensuse.org/download. … oud-client

For Debian 8.0 run the following as root:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ivaradi/Debian_8.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nextcloud-client.list 
apt-get update
apt-get install nextcloud-client

You can add the repository key to apt. Keep in mind that the owner of the key may distribute updates, packages and repositories that your system will trust (more information). To add the key, run:

wget -nv http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ivaradi/Debian_8.0/Release.key -O Release.key
apt-key add - < Release.key
apt-get update

#36 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] bit torrent port forward » 2017-05-30 07:18:36

devur wrote:

my problem is, haw do i find the port to forward i my ufw to get bit torrent to download?

Launch torrent app you use first and then do:

sudo netstat -ltpnu

It will show you port. Of course if i understand this question right smile

#37 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown and root passsword » 2017-05-30 01:19:53

pekman wrote:

Nice explanation. But, need to install the polkit package.

I tought policykit-1 is installed by default big_smile

Yes, Restart/Shutdown commands require 'policykit-1' package to be installed, Suspend/Hibernate require 'upower' package also.

Thinked of as zapper mentioned KShutdown that GUI require a lot of packages/deps, there is also i think 'obsession' gtk2 app can do this also... but if someone like OP mentioned don't use/want a GUI that is it smile

#38 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Has anyone here installed nextcloud from source successfully? SOLVED! » 2017-05-29 23:44:54

zapper wrote:

ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/lib64/libnextcloudsync.so.0': File exists

happens when I used,

ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libnextcloudsync.so.0 /usr/lib64/libnextcloudsync.so.0

so knowing this, I wondered if anyone here knows a fix

I wouldn't know where to begin. I am intermediate but I am by no means an expert at gnu/linux.

  you can strace that as mentioned in a bug to see where it expect lib to be, did you followed their build instruction for Debian from github?... anyway if you are not an expert may i ask why did you compiling it? Also, at first does their repo packages for Debian 8 works for you? This one:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositori … ebian_8.0/

Repo line goes like this:

deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ivaradi//Debian_8.0/ /

I tried this and it works here, at least started. No idea for further, only spotted that have dependancy on libqtwebkit4 which is not anymore supported by Debian security on jessie, just as info for you and so on.

#39 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown and root passsword » 2017-05-29 19:15:53

With ck on Devuan 1.0, as a user proper commandline should be:

Shutdown:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop

Reboot:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart

No additional dependencies again, for those who like smile

I don't use Suspend/Hibernate but these should go with UPower, so something like...

Suspend:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

Hibernate:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate

#40 Re: Other Issues » What is best way to install latest version of Firefox? » 2017-05-29 18:30:17

Spass wrote:

And that's it, now I'm on newest ESR branch, it uses my settings from ~/.mozilla without a problem, it even auto-updates, everything works fine. Well, almost... Still, from time to time some links want to open in the "older" Firefox 45, because the newer one is not registered as a default browser system-wide (it doesn't show in the update-alternatives --config x-www-browser). I didn't find a way to do it 100% correctly yet. Maybe it should be placed somewhere in the /bin or /lib folders instead of /home?

Use install then config, as root or sudo goes something like:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser /home/spass/Applications/firefox/firefox 20

After that config and select it.

#41 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Has anyone here installed nextcloud from source successfully? SOLVED! » 2017-05-29 11:02:01

Probably lib is not on right location or something... Seems happen on any distro, making a link looks like do a job:

https://github.com/nextcloud/client_theming/issues/48

#42 Re: DIY » automatically disable screensaver during video (incl. web browser) » 2017-05-29 09:00:23

Somewhat Reticent wrote:

On one system, I have to use a screensaver to keep the LED+LCD display from shutting down due to boredom.
If a video is playing fullscreen, I'd think suppressing the screensaver makes sense - provided someone's watching.

Pausing the video as well might be a way to save electrical energy ... tradeoff for human energy, of course ... hey, wake up! Aw...

Problem is that screensavers does not actually save neither energy, running these actually uses more energy. People usually use opengl ones and with that your screen is still active, your CPU is more used, your GPU is more used.

What saves energy is only monitors DPMS (marketing name Energy Star) states are useful to really send monitor to save energy and do nothing else. For that screensaver is not needed.

Basically:

xset dpms force off

Saves energy and it wakes up on any input, doing something else actually uses more energy.

I understand as GNUser mention he runs screensavers for ornamental purposes, that is fine - so for aesthetics. But does that really save a screen? No. Does that really saves energy? Again, no.

#43 Re: DIY » automatically disable screensaver during video (incl. web browser) » 2017-05-28 19:15:46

I stopped using screensavers since i stopped using CRTs something like 10+ years ago big_smile.  My scenario is that i completely have disabled that xserver feature and then i do manual dpms off with xset command if/when/where i need it and mostly i don't.

Just saying maybe someone found idea useful, since screensavers actually does not save anything just might look fine.

edit: to mention computer monitors have DPMS on in EDID by default, while TVs or TV/Monitor combinations have DPMS off usually since you don't want TV to auto go to sleep by default but on PC some users like that for some reason still... well even my PC monitors never sleeps too, only when i force dpms off, timings can be set there also for those who like, etc... Thing sometimes further requre manual configurations as some GPU drivers might like to command there also... i like to disable it everywhere and to have non-automatic/manual control. But that is just me smile

#45 Off-topic » Who is Maradona? » 2017-05-25 18:38:48

smoki
Replies: 15

OK, i know who Maradona is... but todays devuan-baseconf update has changelog like this.

devuan-baseconf (0.6.4+devuan1.3) jessie; urgency=medium

  [ KatolaZ ]
* Maradona scores the decisive one
  * And Maradona scores again...a dubious goal, but the referees agree!

-- Vincenzo (KatolaZ) Nicosia <katolaz@freaknet.org>  Wed, 24 May 2017 22:06:15 +0100

Maybe someone (KatolaZ preferably) could translate this big_smile

#47 Re: DIY » My "Slightly" Customized Devuan Menu Icon » 2017-05-23 14:52:09

I use this, i think glowed is visible on anything but i might be wrong probably not so much on total white big_smile But at least it is visible on anything else and from far away.

FluxBB bbcode test

#48 Re: Devuan » Feedback devuan rc2 » 2017-05-20 00:07:59

greenjeans wrote:

MPV needs a little work, I can't seem to get it to play DVD's on openbox, and doing it in mate took some work.  Needs moar gui.

And in recent mpv DVD is disabled by default:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases

MPV actually tend to remove a lot of older MPlayer's functionality, so if you need old things working MPlayer keep these so it is better from that POV and partiiculary it is better for old hardware without decode functionality... MPV is sort of an Mplayer guy who wanna be modern and ignore or care less about old things.

Both are active in git/svn (i use these instead of old packaged versions actually) so i can't favor nor decide between these two... depends on age of hardware and what user wants to achieve i guess.

#49 Re: Devuan » Feedback devuan rc2 » 2017-05-19 01:07:33

pekman wrote:

4 - I Came - How many users will use came in the XFCE version?

XFCE is used by about 15% according to Debian's popcon.

Linux communities are real diverse... i like to say - traditionaly most people on Linux Desktop use Gnome or KDE, but majority uses something else and that is not Unity not even Gnome's leftovers like MATE and Cinnamon big_smile

So if suggestion is not obvious now you have an idea, as if you wanna minimal Desktop... then ditching any of these is good starting point. And maybe also think twice if you need some app that depends on some parts of their frameworks, as that is rule for breakages, general PITA as leads to bloat.

Now, if you ask... but what is left if i ditch all these? Exactly that, your minimal Desktop of choice smile You might share results with others or not, again your choice.

#50 Re: Other Issues » Why excellent, non for business, Motif softwares will die? (Ex.TeD) » 2017-05-15 22:38:15

I just try to compile this Ted, both gtk2 and motif variants seems to behave fine:

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Can't say which one is which with similar theme, only diff i spotted is that motif variant uses 2+ less memory or so.

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