Posts by SpongeBOB

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Thank you @Camtaf,

apt...

Camtaf wrote:

... is trying to be 'helpful' by not breaking it, I expect.

But I don't think that menu as been generated by apt it self right ?

So from where come this menu (screenshot) ? and why ? and why not have the possibility (like before) to not have any GUI Login manager ?

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

if I reply Yes I got this -->

But I don't want any Login manager !!

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi,

on another VM I did a apt purge slim
and it just removed slim.

now when I try the same command on another vm I got

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libck-connector0
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
liblightdm-gobject-1-0 lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter task-desktop
task-xfce-desktop tasksel tasksel-data
Suggested packages:
accountsservice xserver-xephyr
Recommended packages:
gnome-themes-extra cups
The following packages will be REMOVED:
slim*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
liblightdm-gobject-1-0 lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
The following packages will be upgraded:
task-desktop task-xfce-desktop tasksel tasksel-data
4 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 143 not upgraded.
Need to get 463 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,017 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

So weird that it will force install

liblightdm-gobject-1-0 lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter task-desktop task-xfce-desktop tasksel tasksel-data

is this necessary to get rid of slim ?????

I've tried apt --no-install-recommends purge slim but that do not work either...

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Talking about I've just try also
apt install latte-dock
and i got

After this operation, 1,711 MB of additional disk space will be used.

is that normal / usual with Linux ??

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for an animated and simple dock.

I just installed apt install plank

but when I try to launch it I get

[AbstractMain:255] Only X11 environments are supported.

I'm running Devuan 4, XFCE 4.16

Is XFCE not compatible with apps for X11 ? or is it plank that have a bug ?

Thanks

SpongeBOB · DIY

Thank you @golinux !

I don't know those tools (I will dig). Do I need the three of them ?

I found some info on this very forum

Thanks.

SpongeBOB · DIY

Hi everyone,

Do you know a neat way to redeploy my Devuan (current settings, like kind of a fork ?) on another computer and more importantly on new fresh Devuan next version ?

I was thinking to make a (long) script with all the apt and cp necessary but this a long process.. maybe something else exist ?

Thanks

SpongeBOB · DIY

is nala depend on apt ?

or could we remove apt ? like apt purge apt ?

SpongeBOB · DIY

manyroads wrote:

... and MXLinux (non-systemd Debian).

Can you confirm that you run MXLinux on sysvinit ?
Last time I tried it was systemd and during the install no choice to choose sysvinit.
Thanks

ps -p 1

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your inputs !

I found something really great for me (that support many langues and have a ton of feature and this is FOSS -> https://vscodium.com

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Thank you @Nili,

If it appear that ATOM is not in line with the Debian\Devuan policies then no ATOM for me either.

I will have to find an alternative any ideas ?

BTW

I wanted to reach the authors of this .Appimage but unfortunatly no contact info on the website too bad.

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Thank you @fsmithred,

here what I got from the terminal ( ~/Desktop )

. Atom.AppImage
bash: .: Atom.AppImage: cannot execute binary file

I'm Running Duvean Chimaera 4.0

--

Does someone have the link of a working .Appimage to se if it run on my system and therefore see if it's was Atom.Appimage that was buggy or my system

Thanks

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi everyone,

Just be curiosity (because I'm not sure that I will ever use Appimage on the long run, see -> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=36176#p36176)

Can we launch an x.Appimage out of the box with Devuan ? because I just dw https://apprepo.de/appimage/atom

Placed it to /home/me/Desktop/ tried to run it but nothing happen (it has has 0777 )

Any ideas ?

Thanks

SpongeBOB · Off-topic

Hi everyone,

Real interesting topic !

I'm trying to install ATOM (off-line) https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=36174#p36174 with the most practical solution possible.

I've been recommended to use appimage with Firejail. What you think about that solution ?

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install ATOM offline

Is atom install file is in Devuan repo ?

i've looked here -> https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … m&x=submit

but it seem not (not sure It's necessary in order to have it running correctly ?)

Fanboi wrote:

1. Does this version match the version in your repo? Devuan is basically Debian without systemd (plus some tweaks AFAIK). That means Debian rules will likely apply: "One cannot simply..." install a random .deb. You need to a) meet the correct versions of the dependencies and ensure the same of related software. That is why we have package managers. And b)ensure said random .deb is stable.

https://www.linux.org/threads/install-s … -way.40689

SpongeBOB · Desktop and Multimedia

Thank you @fsmithred !

It is correct that you see only the Deepsea theme in Appearance settings. The other themes you see in /usr/share/themes are for other things. To take your example, Smoke, note that the gtk.css file is in a directory called xfce-notify-4.0. That's a good hint.

oohh ok, so all those entry in /usr/share/themes are not especially Themes !... sorry my bad, it was a little bit misleading..
Thanks for the hint !

Thanks for the tree command, I know it, but I was wondering if there was something that could do the ~same output out of the box.

Cheers,

SpongeBOB · Desktop and Multimedia

@HOAS,

Gentle reminder this is happening also on a fresh(untouched) install.

cd /usr/share/themes/

alias lsforum=ls --group-directories-first -lhA

lsforum | grep Smoke #To focus on one.
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb  7 06:37  Smoke

cd Smoke;lsforum
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Feb  7 06:37 xfce-notify-4.0

cd xfce-notify-4.0;lsforum
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610 Dec 12  2020 gtk.css

Voila, I hope it help ? (permissions seem ok to me)
Sorry I don't if out of the box there is a command to allow an output like ~

#example

755 Themes
|---- 755 Smoke
        |--- 755 xfce...
                    |--- 644 gtk.css

So on a fresh install of Devuan 4, Am I the only to have only Clearlooks-Phenix-Deepsea in the GUI Appearance ?

SpongeBOB · Desktop and Multimedia

Hi HOAS,

/usr/share/theme work (you were right) for the theme that I imported of my previous distribution !
It was a problem of files permissions

Anyway the question remain for the default themes in /usr/share/themes that do not appear in Appearance GUI

SpongeBOB · Desktop and Multimedia

Thank you everyone for your input !

I succeed !

Here what I've done

1- I didn't use the City_XFCE_color_pack.tar.gz but imported my own XFCE theme files from another distro from/to
/home/spongebob/.themes

FYI: /usr/share/themes didn't work

2- After having moved the files, I log off / log on (just in case).
The theme didn't appear in the GUI xfce4-appearance-settings but it appear in Window Manager I selected it then log off / log on and it applied. then ! the theme appear also in the Appearance !

Weird...

Also, to note is that in /usr/share/themes I have the following

ls wrote:

Bright
Clearlooks
Clearlooks-Phenix-Deepsea
Crux
Daloa
Default
Default-hdpi
Default-xhdpi
Emacs
Industrial
Kokodi
Mist
Moheli
Raleigh
Redmond
Retro
Smoke
ThinIce
ZOMG-PONIES!

but in Appearance was only listed by default the Clearlooks-Phenix-Deepsea

and in Window Manager only
Default
Clearlooks-Phenix-Deepsea
Daloa
Default-hdpi
Default-xhdpi
Kokodi
Moheli

I don't know if that normal ?

Cheers.

SpongeBOB · Desktop and Multimedia

Hi everyone,

I'm running Devuan Chimaera 4.

I would like to pimp my XFCE desktop

So I've downloaded a Style (aka theme) City_XFCE_color_pack.tar.gz from https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1165653

When I click on +add (in the GUI xfce4-appearance-settings)

I select the City_XFCE_color_pack.tar.gz and I see that a folder /home/spongebob/.themes is created

.themes dir wrote:

drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE emerald'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE grass'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE lemon'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE lime'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE ocean'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE ruby'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE tangerine'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE violet'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE watter'
drwxr-xr-x 3 4.0K May 31 08:38 'City XFCE wine'

but the GUI (xfce4-appearance-settings) previous screenshot remain unchanged. I've restarted the computer but it remain the same.. any ideas ?

Thanks.

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

...
b) the file does end with at least one newline.

Damn, It was simply that ! and it happen to me with something else... !

Thanks @ralph.ronnquist & Marjorie.

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi everyone,

I created a shell script that I run with CRON trough

su
crontab -e

So everything is running almost smoothly.

crontab -e create the job in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

So not the best in my case as /var is considered as unimportant and ok to be lost...

So I rather put my cron job in /etc/crontab or etc/cron.d

I've tried to add something quite simple in those file/path (as test) without success

* * * * * root /bin/echo -e "it work" >> /home/Spongebob/Desktop/CronWork.txt 2>/home/Spongebob/Desktop/errors.txt

Any ideas why it's not working ? (errors.txt is not even generated)

SpongeBOB · Hardware & System Configuration

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Try adding this to /etc/rc.local (needs the kbd package):
initty="/dev/tty[1-6]"
for tty in $initty; do
   /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < "$tty"
done

It work like a charm ! Thanks HOAS.

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

Hi everyone,

I was doing some test with USERGROUPS_ENAB under /etc/login.defs

If I set the value to no Then useradd will not create a default group with the name of the user (Great !)

instead it will assign the group users that exist by default.

If I substitute another user that not in the users group and do

su another user
newgrp users
Password:

I get prompted for a password, I've tried everything, root psw, the suer password, blank, but nothing work..
Is that mean that user can't add themselves to a group ?

Thanks

SpongeBOB · Other Issues

ooh I think I see what going on, The sticky bit prevent everyone else than the owner of the file to delete it, so therefor edit it too

The officially official Devuan Forum!

#101 Re: Other Issues » how to not install additional package when doing apt purge !? » 2022-06-25 06:00:27

#102 Re: Other Issues » how to not install additional package when doing apt purge !? » 2022-06-24 07:40:58

#103 Other Issues » how to not install additional package when doing apt purge !? » 2022-06-24 07:11:49

#104 Re: Other Issues » XFCE and X11 (Dock) » 2022-06-23 09:50:00

#105 Other Issues » XFCE and X11 (Dock) » 2022-06-23 09:37:04

#106 Re: DIY » How redeploy devuan with all my settings / tweaks / image » 2022-06-22 13:35:29

#107 DIY » How redeploy devuan with all my settings / tweaks / image » 2022-06-22 05:14:25

#108 Re: DIY » Nala (a prettier apt?) » 2022-06-22 05:02:27

#109 Re: DIY » Nala (a prettier apt?) » 2022-06-22 04:56:40

#110 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] install offline ATOM editor » 2022-06-14 17:52:25

#111 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] install offline ATOM editor » 2022-06-08 06:36:10

#112 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Can we run .Appimage out of the box ? » 2022-06-08 06:20:42

#113 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Can we run .Appimage out of the box ? » 2022-06-07 14:01:38

#114 Re: Off-topic » Info » AppImage security and alternatives » 2022-06-07 13:56:04

#115 Other Issues » [SOLVED] install offline ATOM editor » 2022-06-07 13:19:47

#116 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Install XFCE Style on Devuan. » 2022-06-03 14:39:34

#117 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Install XFCE Style on Devuan. » 2022-06-03 11:43:05

#118 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Install XFCE Style on Devuan. » 2022-06-01 16:46:07

#119 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Install XFCE Style on Devuan. » 2022-06-01 06:45:44

#120 Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Install XFCE Style on Devuan. » 2022-05-31 06:47:02

#121 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] /etc/crontab and etc/cron.d » 2022-05-30 08:19:36

#122 Other Issues » [SOLVED] /etc/crontab and etc/cron.d » 2022-05-29 09:04:22

#123 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] NumLock on at boot time, possible? » 2022-05-01 05:34:07

#124 Other Issues » Default group users » 2022-04-20 06:32:50

#125 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Sharing files between users with stickybit and setgid » 2022-04-19 12:03:02

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