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Gtksu looks interesting, is there a .deb package anywhere?

I don't see it in jessie, maybe ascii?

Palemoon isn't either, but the latest .deb from the Palemoon site installs and works perfectly in jessie.

+1, my experience with it has been better than recent versions of Firefox by far.

Well I was just getting online now to thank you and fsmithred for checking it because it was a bug on my end, lol.

I had been running my yad experiments in my old beater try-everything-and-never-cleanup partition, but when I tried it in one of the Vuu-do partitions the next month days were properly grayed out, works perfectly now.

I think now it's in the gtkrc, certain themes don't differentiate some of the colors or don't make them contrast enough.

It's possible to inject yad commands with a custom gtkrc, as I start fine-tuning this calendar thing i'll look into that, but again don't want to end up with too much code.

Got the thing working really well last night though, this will definitely be the calendar in future vuu-do's. Here's the command now:

yad --calendar --undecorated --button=gtk-close:0 --skip-taskbar --borders=5 --posx=-1 --posy=-1 --width=300 --on-top

This drops a calendar in the bottom right corner and unlike gsimplecal it's absolute positioning (as opposed to opening wherever the mouse is). It doesn't have the usual top with controls (min/max/close), instead it just has a "close" button at the bottom. 

This works good because you have to close the calendar before you can click the clock again (prevents multiple instances), this allows me to use one line of code in the tint2 clock command as opposed to having to make a separate script + an on/off switch.

A good example of what I mean about narrowing down packages and code:

I have 3 extensions in my Mate file manager Caja: Open terminal here (arbitrary locations), resize/rotate images, and a GKSU extension to let me open folders and files as root. With the common files it adds up to over 900,000 bytes, and in gnome-fashion (which I foolishly expected Mate to move away from) it uses binary files where a simple script would have sufficed, the binaries are ZERO percent faster to do their job than my scripts, and bonus: I can't even look at them.

In Vuu-do Openbox, all seven extensions and the scripts that do the resize and rotate functions add up to 3600 bytes.
And all are 100% editable by the user with a simple text-editor.

It's really ridiculous, especially the caja-open-terminal package at 86,000 bytes (plus requiring the common files packages at 629,000 bytes). Just to open a terminal where you're at in the file manager. This kind of nonsense is why I don't take Mate seriously anymore.

And last thought before I go: This kind of stuff is why I say there is PLENTY of work that needs to be done in the stable branch, I have more than enough to keep me busy.

Sometimes I think some folks who write code for Linux would better serve the community by slowing down and actually dotting the I's and crossing the T's and making things work well, as opposed to constantly dumping projects that are half-assed and moving on to half-ass some new code that will also never get fixed (the gnome model of doing things).

Using that yad command above? Or your regular calendar?

Using that command I mentioned, I get a calendar that looks like Mate calendar or gsimplecal in every respect, except it doesn't gray out the next months days at the bottom of the calendar.

Working on a "Crop Image" extension for pcmanfm next, that should be the last image extension as I only wanted to cover a few of the most common tasks so you don't have to open gimp. But this one may be much tougher to do. Viewnior has a nice crop image option that works exactly like what I want to do, thought about switching to it for image viewer.  Mirage is an awesome picture viewer and still works really well in jessie, but no longer developed since 2011.

I wonder if the Mirage dev would let someone else take over since it's been 6 years...it's really a featureful pic viewer and yet still has a small footprint.

Yet another awesome use for older hardware, thanks GNUser! I'm snagging your script

Used it to login and am now posting from it .

*edit* Realized the bank question was a good one, hadn't tried before, but it worked. Https works fine.

Complex sites are slow to load though, all that bling bling trying to load. And occasionally video causes it to crash.

I'll check it out, thanks! But don't know how ambitious I am messing around withe date, I was thinking simple like :

yad --calendar --title Calendar --no-buttons --mouse --skip-taskbar

Try that out in a terminal, it's almost perfect, just need to figure out how to gray-out the next months days at the bottom of the calendar.

But this is all gsimplecal is, mate calendar too though it uses zenity. They all use the GtkCalendar widget.

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Forgot to mention yesterday, I threw up a zipped file of the extensions i've been working on and put it up at sourceforge too, for anyone that wants them or just wants to play around with them.

man page now says you should use --full-restart for the restart command.

service <name> --full-restart

And that's your Virgo OCD moment of the day, brought to you by the mighty VUU legions.

New Vuu-do Openbox 64 bit iso's uploaded just now : https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do/files/Openbox/

Added ffmpegthumbnailer for video thumbnails.
 
Replaced Osmo with gsimplecal, I like Osmo but just couldn't integrate it like I wanted to do and it's slow to start up. I will be dumping gsimplecal probably next version and just make one from yad as these things are all just a GtkCalendar anyway.

Added multiple extensions to pcmanfm, for images: Set As Wallpaper, Rotate Image, Resize Image. Also added a right click search option and I fixed the existing extensions (a couple needed fine-tuning for file types).

Used an acpi event to make system suspend when laptop lid closes, this is better than nothing, but will be looking into fixing xfce power manager if I can on next run so it's close/lid functions will actually work. Still couldn't get it to lock screen too, but if you suspend using the desktop shortcut (alt+s) you can set it to lock upon resume from suspend and hibernate that way, just edit obsession.conf, instructions are in release notes and in that file.

Many small fixes, added shortcut to open menu with keyboard (alt+m), useful if your desktop is clogged up with open windows as it opens on top of all. Changed conky a bit, did some menu work, shaved a little more cruft and yet still added more functionality. A nice tidy 594 mb iso, unpacks to 1.9 gigs installed, so very comfortably within the 2 gig goal.

So far I haven't had to have those to connect Android phones to Devuan, it already has libmtp onboard and that's been working so far.

OP this may sound silly, but make sure the cable you're using to connect phone is charge-AND-data, not just a charging cable. This happened to me is why I mention it, it's always the little things in linux.....