Pretty sure that's where Synaptic gets it's history, loads that file when you open it. So it's the same history.

But if you never use the GUI, then yeah.

So you just have one sound output? No HDMI too?

If not sure run aplay -l in terminal.

alsa-topology-conf
alsa-ucm-conf
alsa-utils
alsamixergui
bluez-alsa-utils
gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64

Is what I have that's working, note that all depend on libasound2 as well. And I also have libasound2-plugins:amd64

And libasound2-plugin-equal:amd64 gets you the alsa equalizer as well, which is really nice to have.

uuggghh, i'd rather smack myself in the jimmies than look at stuff like that all day long.

Many years ago when my kids were young, and they'd watch cartoons and anime-type cartoons which were even worse, it would render them completely incapable of using their brain for anything else whatsoever. They might acknowledge words you spoke to them, but they didn't really absorb the content. I'd have to go shut the TV or computer off, and that was actually rather traumatic for 'em, almost like a hard reboot on a computer.

I became convinced that stuff is bad for you, before I made the first Vuu-do, I did a bunch of research on colors and active video imagery, and their effect on you.
Bottom line: All that stuff is hard on your eyes (strain), and hard on the brain, when watched for long periods of time. So I like my stuff nice and dark and muted without a bunch of blingy colors hopping around everywhere like a friggin' terrier trying to get your attention.

ETA: omg I hate these skinny disappearing scrollbars in FF so much.   I know you can go into the about:derp and change it, but why on earth would they be the default.

@brocashelm, thanks! That's some cool info I didn't know about.

Sounds great and i'm sure it works for some folks, but I tried every possible way of implementing it last night and nothing worked, tried both the gtk2 and gtk3 versions and no joy. Bummer, I was really excited when I saw your post, i've literally been working my tail off for the last couple weeks trying to unify the theme in my openbox stuff....i'm sooooo close too, posting from a liveCD of the mini now, no VLC or other stuff in it obviously so not an issue, but in the maxi it's got all the regular stuff including VLC, would just really be stunning if it all conformed to the theme i've worked so hard on.

This is what I did to get my printer running, the whole printing shebang has a ton of PPD's, but didn't have one for my newer Canon printer, but the Canon website had just what I needed, pulled the appropriate .ppd and dropped it in and printer fired right up next time I opened the print manager.

@moulder61 Nice! Working on a theme project now that includes lots of Miyolinux, he really nailed it at multiple instances with his experimentation, everything I do is based on that philosophy of "make it your own" which to me is the heart and soul of linux in general.

Ick @QT.

I really don't like having both on my system. Bad enough having gtk2, gtk3, gtk4 etc, and trying to make it all look right. Really wish stuff like VLC would stop insisting on QT.

Enshittification is a great term. I already disliked CSS, but having to deal with it in ginormous theme files has made me despise it to the nth degree.

I'm sorry, but gtk 3 is a regression, adding nothing but bloat and all for the sake of doing stupid useless crap that's just annoying rather than useful to people who use computers as a tool.

It's like elementary school kids are doing everything these days, whatever they see on cartoons and anime`, they feel the need to include that bizarre crap in computer operating systems. The themes and icons are just beyond stupid. Nobody bothers to think of whether they should do a given thing , they just do mindless crap because they can.

</old man yelling at clouds>

Posting now from a liveCD of Vuu-do mate-mini, that I installed firefox on in the live session, checked youtube and sound and video are working perfectly with nothing but pure ALSA. Literally, no pulse, apulse, or pipewire and everything works.

Please check on the ALSA packages you have installed, and i'll compare them to mine, and perhaps we'll find what you're missing.

Do you not have a /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf file?

New Mate-mini Vuu-do uploaded!

Now maybe I can take a break, happy holidays everybody!

Yad is your friend. The learning curve is very small, once you figure it out it's pretty fun messing with it.

Yad+shellscript and you can make a machine do anything, i'm having a blast with it last few days, mocked up a script+gui last night to adjust xset settings in lieu of using a dedicated screensaver/power manager.

I just can't help myself, it's like a 7 year itch, once I start it's hard to stop.

Yesterday I built a Vuu-do Mate mini and rolled up the iso late last night, testing it today. It wasn't bad at all as i'd already laid the groundwork, I built it off the openbox mini so it already had all the hardest stuff done. And best of all I just barely made it to CD size, 699.5 mb!

Just installed core Mate packages plus useful caja right-click options, was already using Pluma and Engrampa anyway, but I didn't throw the whole Mate kitchen sink at it, for good reason, actually used some different options for some things.

The EOM mate picture viewer, task-manager/system monitor, calculator, and screenshot additions together are over 100 mb of stuff, just to do simple tasks.

Gpicview, LXtask, Galculator and Scrot do all the same stuff basically, and together are less than 10 mb and work much faster. Even got all my regular choice of keybinds working great.

It's dang fast for Mate, not quite as quick as Openbox, but very nice. Not sure i'm going to do a maximal version though. Maybe.

Right now the menu is super-quick, but in a full version the svg icons slow it down and make it glitch (at least on my low power machine), svg icons i'm seeing these days are much smaller and better than they used to be, but still for major programs i'd need to make png copies in several sizes and use those instead to stop the menu issues on older machines like mine.

Still pondering the idea of a fully translatable version of the openbox max. But man, that's probably an extra 600 mb of stuff when all is said and done, and I have never tried to change languages on a machine, don't even know how and wouldn't be able to test properly if I did, I speak a little Spanish but not enough.