So, working off an old 4-port switch that has a USB print server function, we have had a little Canon pixma ts-3122 that we got on a wally world black friday deal for like 15 bucks a few years ago, never used it until now.

I never use a printer, but the wife-unit wanted to be able to print out dress patterns, could have just hooked it up to her machine, but ya know, so much cooler to make it available on the lan, lol.

I won't go into a lot of detail unless somebody wants help, but a few things:

Loaded additional CUPS programs from the repo and the config printer packages, especially libcupsimage2 was vital.

This model was not on the big list of models already on the system after that, so had to go to Canon's website for downloads, fortunately Canon is with the program and offers source, debs, and rpms's and also for different architecure (64,32, ARMS etc.).

https://www.usa.canon.com/support/p/pixma-ts3122

Selected the version 5.50 deb and downed it (tar.gz), extracted and dpkg'ed the deb for 64 bit, note that I had to go into her machine and add a line to .bashrc like I did to mine to be able to manually use dpkg. Not sure why that isn't already in there by default, a proper PATH is pretty important.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Then I had to extract the ppd file for the machine from the .deb I just installed as it needed to be input manually through the printer-config program. PIXMA TS-3100 series, (it had a LOT of different PPD's in that file, probably a 100 or more models).

Now all is good, can print from any machine in the house, kinda cool I guess for folks who use printers, funny thing is that it all works at all, both our laptops are 12-13 years old and were low-spec even back then, and the 4-port switch has got to be close to 20 years old.

Nice work Devuan!

EDIT: For Canon-specific printer a couple more packages I had to install just for reference:
cups-backend-bjnp
cnijfilter2 (this was the one that needed libcupsimage2, a dependency).

Hey y'all!

Got around to installing the new Devuan last night, first Devuan i've used since the first one (Jessie), yep i've been rolling with the first edition (as VUU-do) since 2017. I think that speaks volumes about the stability and longevity of this distro.

Excellent work guys, runs fine except for momentary weird video glitches during bootup and shutdown. This thing is HUGE, to me at least, first time in many years i've run a distro that big!

Installer is VERY complete, lol, a tad lengthy too. So let me here just re-iterate my undying respect and admiration for Refracta-installer which is what i'm used to using!  Installed the MATE version on sda1 of my machine and grub to the MBR and it went very smoothly, recognized my other two Devuan partitions and existing swap just fine.

One issue: I was sorry to see my favorite music player Exaile wasn't in the repo, no biggie I went and downloaded a package, but when I tried to install it via dpkg, it refused to let me do so for some reason ( and I forgot to copy the reason it gave, dangit, it was late and I was wiped out). Hopefully I can figure that out, but would like to request it as a package for Devuan, great little player.

So thanks again to all the people who work hard on making my favorite distro, just moved and broke as hell, lol, but let me get another paycheck under my belt and i'll be sending a donation!

Cheers!
~texpat

Hi everyone!

Whew, been a long few years, life got in the way of my Linux, but happy to report that after 40+ years of renting, the wife and I finally bought a house!!! And after 10 years of using coffeeshop and library wi-fi ( one of the ways we saved money to buy a house), we have internets at home again, fast too, they actually have fiber in our tiny town so we got 300mbps which is kinda freaking me out as I have never used internet with that kinda speed! Missed all of y'all big-time but we had to work our butts off to make this happen.

So now I finally have time to do all the things I love, one of which is playing with Devuan, going to sit down soon and start building a new Vuu-do, but first i'm downloading the new Devuan to familiarize myself with all the new stuff.

So couple questions as I am rusty as heck amd my memory is starting to really suck.
1. Can I use the new Devuan with the MBR and GRUB I already have on my laptop or do I need to convert to GPT?
2. I have 3 partitions plus swap on the machine, was wanting to drop new Devuan on sda1 in place of old vuu-do build, can I do that without wiping the other partitions? Because I really need one of them, has all my files on it, I could backup on a stick and wipeout all if need be but rather not if possible.
3. I already have swap on it, so no need to re-format that right? Can I just bypass that on install?

Thanks!
~greenjeans

Hey guys, been out of touch for a long time now, big moves, covid, etc. been getting in the way of my linux'ing...anyhoo, had a question about some extensions i've been using and working on again and need some help if anybody has time. I'm still a terrible rookie coder, lol, trying to leanr more though.

Here's the main one, it's a right-click context menu extension for pcmanfm that re-sizes pics using imagemagick for the backend and yad, super-handy and fast, and works perfectly...except...spaces in file or folder names break it, and can't seem to fix it with usual methods. I can finagle it into working with spaces in filenames but then it drops all output into home folder instead of current directory and no amount of cd or mv commands seems to make it work right. I'm pretty good about not putting spaces in file/folder names, but ya know, would be nice if it didn't break script.

Here's the code, a .desktop file that goes into /home/user/.local/share/file-manager/actions and the script I made (usr/bin):

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Action
Name=Resize Image
Comment=Shrink image and convert to jpg
Icon=edit-cut
Profiles=resize;

[X-Action-Profile resize]
Exec=sh -c 'cd %d && shrink2 %f'
MimeTypes=image/bmp;image/jpeg;image/png;

#!/bin/sh

sizebox=$(yad --fixed --window-icon=edit-cut --form --title="Resize Image" --field="Resize to:" --width=400 --text-align=center --text="Enter new size (W x H in pixels, i.e. 800x600, 1024x768 etc.)")

size=$(echo $sizebox | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|" } { print $1 }')

convert "$1" -resize "$size" -set filename:copy '%t-%wx%h' '%[filename:copy].jpg'

# Depends: yad, imagemagick
# (note: later versions of imagemagick may require a different command than 'convert')

# DESCRIPTION:
# This script makes a copy of an image file (JPG, BMP, PNG), resizes the copy to whatever
# dimensions are entered, converts it to a JPEG, adds the new dimensions to the original
# filename, and outputs the copy into the same directory as the original. It is intended to
# be used with a .desktop file for activation in PcmanFM to offer a "Resize Image"
# option when you right-click an image file, but can also be used in terminal: shrink2 [img file]

Thanks!
~greenjeans