Adding another vote for Refracta-snapshot in the strongest possible terms. Don't linux without it!

Sorry, I should have posted at least the short version, basically I had wiped out two log files in /var/log/  using the snapshot exclusions when I made the iso.

Almost all files in /var/log/ are automagically re-generated on a new install, but there were some that don't, and rsyslog was hanging because it was trying to write to two files that didn't exist.

I'm pretty sure it was "btmp" and "wtmp" but I had also excluded the /var/log/fsck/  folder which has two files in it, it's possible they may have been the ones, that's as close as I got it narrowed down.

I replaced those files and the problem went away immediately.

Such good info guys, thanks!!

Yeah I tried that cvlc command too and it's really cool without all the toolbars, but unfortunately no controls when you run that way.

If we could figure out a way to fool that controlless window into thinking it's been maximized to fullscreen, then maybe we could get the popup controls that appear when you are running regular video/DVD fullscreen to work with the webcam "cvlc" window??

Wouldn't that be trick? I started messing with it looking for an way to give folks an easy solution for playing with their webcam without having to install Cheese or something else, since VLC is already installed on my stuff and already does everything anyway.....was hoping at least the v4l2:// command was mostly universal so I could maybe add a menu entry for convenience.

cvlc v4l2:// --fullscreen

  will give you the window fullscreen, you can hit escape once and it will shrink some and you have the regular window controls in the upper left, but no popup menu sadly.

Not having the problem with it shutting down like Miyo is though, weird.

You know you can do this with just VLC right?  File >> Capture device >> and then hit the dropdown "capture mode" at the top and change from  "Video camera" to "desktop".

While on this subject, if you get a chance, will you try this in terminal or gmrun :

vlc v4l2://

FYI that's an 'L' after the 4, it's actually video4linux2, first time I tried it I thought it was a one.

That should launch your webcam with VLC, trying to see if this universally works, works on all my machines, v4l does a great job of figuring out the correct device.

Almost forgot to post this, I decided that for future Vuu-do releases, that it will follow the Devuan releases insofar as being alphabetical, the current 1.*.* series of Vuu-do is just jessie like Devuan, starting with ascii (when ready) it will be alphabetical order.

The animal naming scheme for Ubuntu is one of the few things I like about it.

So the ascii version of Vuu-do will be................................................................................

................ARMADILLO!

lolololol! Got a little cartoon vision in my head, Golinux chasing a fat lil Vuu-do armadillo around the yard with a stick. hahahaha!

Bloody hell, I just checked my spam folder in gmail, first time in quite a while, and there was a note from FOSSuser recommending adding a battery indicator in the conky display from back in early August. Google mail is such crap, I specifically whitelisted everything Devuan a while back, so didn't think to look into spam folder. Could have implemented that battery idea over a month ago....{sigh}...

Better late than never though, thanks FOSSuser, awesome idea and I agree 100%!

Please keep suggestions coming guys when you have time, this helps a LOT.

New Mate maximal up today: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … 4-maximal/

Almost done with the Mate mini, had to update today and might finish tonight or tomorrow, probably be up Monday or so.

And that will be all the 1.0.2 versions up.

Already working on 1.0.3, some nice config changes already happening, working on perfecting icon set too. Making some changes to conky, changing the HD listing to "used/total" config to match RAM and added a line for Swap too. I'm not into big giant conky displays, trying to keep this one pretty small and only really useful info, so with that consideration I added a couple more things, since the xfce power manager doesn't offer a tray status icon, and Mate's is completely broken and doesn't work right anyway, I put a simple battery status line in conky that displays the battery's state (charging, discharging, charged) and it's percentage of charge remaining. Next to that a line that simply lets you know whether the AC adapter is off or online.

Anybody have an opinion on the best config tool for Alsa? Somewhat-reticent is right, needs to be some more detailed config of sound in the Openbox Vuu-do's. Quite a few choices when you search on alsa in synaptic. The mixer is already onboard and clicking the volume icon will offer it, alsamixer-gui in the repo is just a gui version of the mixer which normally opens in terminal if I recall correctly, so that won't help much.

Also, wondering if I should provide a better way to choose video resolution in Openbox? I never have to mess with it usually, if I do I use xrandr in terminal, but maybe I should include arandr? Again though it seems like a kinda half-baked gui that looks and does the same thing as xrandr does in terminal....

And lastly, I have added some time configuration in the Openbox versions, zone-change-via-right-click on the clock and NTP is onboard maximals and should correct just fine. But I can't seem to find a GUI frontend to change time manually like you can in the Mate versions, anybody know of one that works in Openbox?

LOL! YES!!

Hey by the way, thanks for the detailed and awesome rsync info, it will be implemented ASAP as I am right now suffering through the wait period of another http upload, having had one fail on me already today, lol.

FYI: VLC is installed already in the maximal versions. ;-)

If installing it on a minimal, Synaptic is the recommended way as it is for all packages in Vuu-do.

That's what i'm finding out, it's not only different desktop environments that require some different settings in conky, the hardware itself can flip the whole script so to speak.

Once it's tweaked though it works great.

As simple as it is, it does have some configuration available, the command currently used to lock is " i3lock -c 000000",  this tells i3lock to lock the screen and fill it with a solid color while locking is activated, it uses regular color hex code for that, '000000' is obviously black but you can use any color. You can also use a picture for the background instead, change that command to " i3lock -i /path/to/your/image.png" .

The man page for i3lock gives all the options, there's quite a few.

I thought quite a bit about the screenlocker before I settled on i3lock, tried most ways to do it, but the more I used it the more I got hooked on the simplicity and the speed, and no service or daemon or applet running to use it.

But I also kinda figured some folks wouldn't read the instructions and would flip out the first time they tried to use it, lol, so thus my hesitation and seems it was well-founded, but try it for a while, I promise it'll grow on you, it's a very openboxish way to do things IMO.

From the releases notes which are also posted as the readme file on SF:

I checked after you asked, on the Mate build partition but forgot to check the Openbox one, the mate one didn't seem bad and seems to follow the theme fine, i'll check on the one in Openbox tonight and if it's too loud i'll definitely see about turning it down some, that is one of the goals of Vuu-do for sure, to be easy on the eyes, thanks for bringing that to my attention. ;-)

Don't know what to say about your wicd issue, works flawlessly here so I don't have any reference point to start troubleshooting anything.

Alsa has also worked really well, and did so from the get-go without any configuring on my part, I left it just like it originally came in Miyolinux and it's worked wonderfully in every install, I was so stoked to try something that didn't include Pulseaudio and worked right that I never stopped to check any configs.  VLC fires right up with good sound on my machine as does Exaile, and FYI all Vuu-do's (maximal) will play DVD's out of the box.;-D I'll check it out though and try to make it better.

But again that makes it hard for me to see what's going on with your machine, part of my problem is that both of my laptops are HP/Compaq and so are the last half dozen or so I have converted to Linux in the last few months for some reason, an endless stream of cheap AMD APU's, I could really use some different hardware for testing at least, i'll check with my local pawn guy to see what he has, other than HP what would y'all say was the most common laptop? Dell? Toshiba?