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#126 Re: Documentation » zram service » 2022-01-14 07:46:55

id say submit it to devuan first as a .deb

debian already has zram-tools with the required systemd service files.

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/al … s/filelist

there is also this on the wiki in below link buts its self setup.

https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam

#127 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2022-01-11 10:05:33

Making use of the gtk3-nocsd option. I quite like the look of gtk3 csd decorations, the corners on the windows are much smoother and since ive discovered how to modify gtk.css i have been able to modify them in subtle way.

Ive always settled on adwaita dark theme as it just has the aesthetics i like, so here is my xfce4 desktop.

Screenshot-2022-01-11-20-00-17-267.png

#128 Re: Off-topic » Boot iso from hard disk » 2022-01-11 07:58:22

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

so could i create an ext4 partition on same disk as devuan os and host say a debian live iso on it and boot to it via this kind of menu setup?

my thinking is just copy over to say /dev/sda3/debian11/debian11.iso then use that menu config like so below ?

menuentry '[loopback]debian11' {
        set isofile='/debian11/debian11.iso'
        loopback loop $isofile
        linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config fromiso=/dev/sda3/$isofile
        initrd (loop)/live/initrd.gz
}

#129 Re: Installation » Devuan takes a long time to start up » 2022-01-09 05:07:24

just out of curiosity, is it slow to get to the grub boot menu or slow after the grub boot menu?

I had issues i dont know why but the splash.png inside /boot/grub/ made it super slow to get to the grub boot menu so i deleted that and it was a lot quicker to boot to grub screen. Deleting the splash.png or whatever it swas called reverts thegrub boot menu to the old look so no blue devuan background just the dialog blue look.

#130 Re: Devuan Derivatives » heads linux » 2022-01-03 06:54:28

Thanks for the info, will have to read the live-sdk documentation and see if i can give it a shot.

#132 Re: Installation » chimaera update firefox broken/ linux-image not updated » 2022-01-02 12:30:37

Maybe post a screen shot of your issue mclien?

Ive not used fluxbox much before, i always found it cumbersome to edit and modify and has ugly ui.

#134 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-31 11:22:12

andyprough wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

Im not religious but i do believe there is higher powers, i say powers (plural) as i dont believe in universality, i think many powers converged to create or make what we see and experience today, and in saying that those powers can just as easily take them away or change them beyond comprehension.

There's something very close to what you describe in mainstream biblical scholarship called the Deuteronomy 32:8-9 worldview, which attempts to reconcile all the "divine council" power sharing scenes in Deuteronomy, Job, and many other places in the Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament). Very fascinating stuff. There's a cool ancient Hebrew scholar named Dr. Michael Heiser that does youtube videos on it - search for his videos on the "Unseen Realm" if interested.

With all due respect, no thankyou.

#135 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Installing Tor » 2021-12-31 10:51:35

i have no issues installing Tor on Devuan 4 stable? Maybe you have borked something by trying to installl libc6 from a .DEB file, please give more info on that libc6 .DEB file ?

The safest way to use the version of Tor that you want that needs an updated version of libc6 is to use a bleeding edge distro or using Devuan unstable.

#136 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 11:57:56

Im not religious but i do believe there is higher powers, i say powers (plural) as i dont believe in universality, i think many powers converged to create or make what we see and experience today, and in saying that those powers can just as easily take them away or change them beyond comprehension.

#137 Re: Installation » Gnome on Ceres - unstable repo » 2021-12-30 10:47:42

definitely some sort of snafu. Must be a setting somewhere that needs tweaking.

Xwayland is Version: 2:21.1.4-1

Gnome is Version: 1:41+1

#138 Re: Installation » Gnome on Ceres - unstable repo » 2021-12-30 10:30:20

my mistake it is there.

~ > dpkg -L pulseaudio | grep xdg
/etc/xdg
/etc/xdg/Xwayland-session.d
/etc/xdg/Xwayland-session.d/00-pulseaudio-x11
/etc/xdg/autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop

uninstalled pipewire-pulse, i had actually installed that manually to begin with to see if it was the issue.

So i put everything back the way it was when i installed  gnome and still same issues. Im fairly certain xterm should start under wayland if Xwayland is installed but it does not.

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox 

starting FF like that from the terminal does nothing, it just hangs there, no output either.

#139 Re: Installation » Gnome on Ceres - unstable repo » 2021-12-30 10:08:20

there is no pulseaudio.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart

When i originally edited the file /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/01-enable-autospawn.conf the file contained autospawn=yes un-commented and the audio was non existent.

I have pipewire-pulse installed.

Not sure what you mean by starting FF under Xwayland, from the wayland session in a terminal? How is that done?

Just to mention i start the session using gdm3 if you were wondering. And also the volume icon disappeared in gdm when i made my edits and desktop file and rebooted.

#140 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-12-30 08:01:35

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Yeah, it really is impossible to tell what Chrome is doing. It even adds Google's repositories in an install script, which freaks me out.

Is that with .deb ?

#141 Installation » Gnome on Ceres - unstable repo » 2021-12-30 07:52:04

hevidevi
Replies: 6

Bored so decided to install ceres unstable and see how gnome desktop performs, the full bloated version, like 900 mb download.

So it is working ok, i have a few issues id like to share.

1. pulseaudio needs to be started via pulseaudio -D, can do this via xdg autostart in a .desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=pulseaudio
Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio -D

2. i have commented #autospawn=yes in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/01-enable-autospawn.conf but this made no difference to getting the pulseaudio daemon to start via sysvinit.

3. this is all on the wayland session, the x11 session works fine, so my guess is that wayland is the issue, and i do have xwayland installed.

4. i have to start firefox via MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

Just some obeservations here, if anyone has some input on why these issues have arisen please let me know.

#142 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 11:54:06

All i can say is that the universe, galaxies are very hard to comprehend on how they operate together.

Here is a good video on how we figured out how the earth goes around the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIzr6610cQ

#143 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2021-12-28 11:37:51

andyprough wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

Hi andy, how would i go about adding abrowser to devuan chimaera so i can catch any updates to the browser, does trisquel allow there repos to be used outside of trisquel? Like im thinking i could add in the repo and just pin it to a low archive priority?

My steps for installing abrowser on Devuan and pinning the repos are here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-inst … ser-devuan

A Trisquel forum contributor improved my procedure a little bit and wrote a shell script to do it all automatically on Debian. Should work about the same on Devuan: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/state-we … ent-163433

The main improvement was using 'Pin: origin "archive.trisquel.info"' instead of 'Pin: release a=etiona-updates', so that the repo should update to the latest Trisquel repo. Also some of the Pin Priority numbers were adjusted in the shell script to be more in the range of what apt expects to see.

Either method will work, but the shell script steps will probably work for a longer period of time. My steps are all commented, which makes it useful to read through both.

Thanks for that detailed how to andy, appreciated, cheers.

#144 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 11:29:26

LU344928 wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

Solstice is not really a fantasy...

What I was getting at was, and to put it succinctly, Dec. 25 was originally a pre-Christian festival which celebrated the sun's movement north (by a small degree) thereby signalling longer days and eventually warmer weather.

so mythology = fantasy ?

Not trying to be divisive, just trying to understand your point.

#145 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-27 06:58:53

Solstice is not really a fantasy...

The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern).

edit: Merry Yule

#146 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2021-12-27 06:41:15

andyprough wrote:
aitor wrote:

Ruben's packages were quite outdated -at least the last time i used Trisquel-, based on 52.3:

http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/pool/main/i/icecat/

Oh, I see, you are really focused on just using icecat. I was talking about "abrowser", which is Ruben's/Trisquel's fork of regular Firefox. It is quite up to date, and uses the same build scripts as icecat from what I've heard.

Latest version is 95: https://archive.trisquel.org/trisquel/p … x/?C=M;O=D

Hi andy, how would i go about adding abrowser to devuan chimaera so i can catch any updates to the browser, does trisquel allow there repos to be used outside of trisquel? Like im thinking i could add in the repo and just pin it to a low archive priority?

#147 Re: Installation » how to clone a partition with os installed? » 2021-12-24 05:22:04

You could use refractasnapshot and refractainstaller for this.

refractasnapshot-base/stable 10.2.12 all
  tool to create a live-CD from the running system

refractasnapshot-gui/stable 10.2.12 all
  tool to create a live-CD from the running system

refractainstaller-base/stable 9.6.0 all
  tool to install a running live-CD to hard drive.

refractainstaller-gui/stable 9.6.0 all
  tool to install a running live-CD to hard drive.

Install either cli tool and or gui and read the documentation.

#148 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] create new partition table on HDD, but not with root as owner » 2021-12-23 09:22:56

how are you mounting/connecting the ntfs data? Through devuan or windows?

By mount, hoas means that the device is connected and mounted read write, usually partitions are created by root and can be accessed by the user so long as the permissions are correct, so this applies to the EXT4 data filesystem, so we want to know how you are connecting and mounting this also.

mount = mount a filesystem

https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

#149 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-12-19 13:40:35

Custom jwm setup. No borders or window decorations, keyboard driven.

19-12-21-23-32-23.png

2021-12-19-233211-1366x768-scrot.png

#150 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-12-19 13:03:54

Candlemass # Nightfall # Full Album 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8YcyMLJQk

Old school doom metal! Perfection...

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