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#176 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] ungoogled-chromium, Iridium, or LibreWolf, please » 2021-11-07 10:26:46

andyprough wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

Did you manage to get ublock origin to work?

I had ungoogled chromium working but using the latest releases from ublock github were not working for me.

The chrome webstore will not let you install any addons through the ungoogled browser that im aware of.

Re: ublock - I'm not using it right now on ungoogled-chromium - I'm using noscript and it's blocking ads fine.

There's apparently some chromium build problem with respect to ublock and other dedicated ad blockers right now:  https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-ch … ssues/1698
Devs are apparently working on a fix.

To use the chrome web store, use the instructions on this page: https://avoidthehack.com/manually-insta … d-chromium

excellent, thanks for the info.

#177 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] ungoogled-chromium, Iridium, or LibreWolf, please » 2021-11-06 11:25:56

andyprough wrote:
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Oops, sorry for the misinformation. I really should have checked that. Thanks for the correction Andy.

I was of the same opinion up until about a week ago, as ungoogled-chromium used to be horribly out of date. But recently they've added special deb repos on their github page and I had been trying it out on Devuan and Trisquel. Seems to work well, and pretty much up to date. The deb repos are running about a week behind, but not too bad.

It's good for chromium to have a bit of competition. Too often it is released in a semi-broken state. ungoogled-chromium can pick up a lot of users if they can stay current and release a version that mostly works well.

Did you manage to get ublock origin to work?

I had ungoogled chromium working but using the latest releases from ublock github were not working for me.

The chrome webstore will not let you install any addons through the ungoogled browser that im aware of.

#178 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] ungoogled-chromium, Iridium, or LibreWolf, please » 2021-11-02 12:18:22

Debian bullseye OBS (OpenSuse Build Service) repo is available for ungoogled chromium. Debian bullseye is equivalent to Devuan Chimaera, that being both are stable releases, so in theory there should be no issue with installation of the OBS repo to install ungoogled chromium for the debian stable version. Actually i have done this a few weeks ago just to see if it works and had no issues, i did not keep it around as i did have issues with getting the addon ublock origin to work, for me that was a deal breaker so uninstalled it.

See here: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/u … ium-debian

#179 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-10-31 09:56:19

That is a nice theme too, easy on the eyes.

#180 Re: Off-topic » NetworkManager wifi signal bars » 2021-10-31 09:46:25

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Is NetworkManager running and connected before your user logs in? I don't use it myself so I'm not sure how that works.

hevidevi wrote:

i call a network status shell script from slstatus

Wait, what? Why would you do that? hmm

Please show how you have hooked the shell script into slstatus' components.

Yes network manager is running before user logs in.

slstatus in config.h has below function call and i want a network status script that tells me at a glance the wifi is working with minimal info possible, just prints nmcli bars for the wifi and a usb icon for when im using usb phone tethering.

* run_command         custom shell command            command (echo foo)

then i put it as an argument like so.

static const struct arg args[] = {
        /* function format          argument */
        { run_command, " %s ",          ("temperature") },
        { run_command, " %s ",          ("network") },
        { run_command, " %s ",          ("volume") },
         { datetime, "%s;",                      "%R" }
};

#181 Re: Off-topic » NetworkManager wifi signal bars » 2021-10-30 11:55:17

i call a network status shell script from slstatus.

#!/bin/sh

get_net="$(ip r | awk '/^default/{print $5}')"
get_bars="$(nmcli -f ACTIVE,SIGNAL,BARS dev wifi list | awk '$1=="yes" {print $3}')"

if [ "$get_net" = "wlan0" ]; then
        printf "$get_bars"
elif [ "$get_net" = "usb0" ]; then
        printf ":Usb0"
else
        printf "no network"
fi

#182 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-10-30 09:13:46

looks good tylerdurden, i see you may or may not have an artix linux background image, nice! Or maybe its a similar image to what they have as default backgrounds in there distro??

#183 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-10-30 09:11:04

tylerdurden wrote:

I'll let it upgrade when the upgrade is due but I'm not looking forward to this given what I've seen from the new interface. Probably will be messing with profiles as well. Getting ready for more tweaking.

Yeah the proton theming is not that great, the icons and graphics they are using for it look terrible on my end.
They made some better improvements as far as pdf printing is concerned imo, not as good as chromium though.

#184 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] apt and residual files » 2021-10-30 06:43:13

use dpkg -l like so to search for unneeded config files.

dpkg -l | grep ^rc

then remove them like this.

sudo apt purge '~c'

#185 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] apt and residual files » 2021-10-30 06:30:57

Yeah i have this as well, the package is not installed but still comes up with your command
apt list | grep residual

Mine says this using stable chimaera...

residualvm-data/stable 0.3.1+dfsg-2 all
residualvm/stable 0.3.1+dfsg-2 amd64

Quick debian package search and its a lucas arts game config or something??

Package: residualvm (0.3.1+dfsg-2)
interpreter to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/residualvm

weird!

edit: i think i understand why now, your command using apt list is picking up the repository contents, so when you grep any package you dont have it will come up, this just happens to be residualvm because you are using residual as a search term.

#186 Off-topic » NetworkManager wifi signal bars » 2021-10-29 01:38:28

hevidevi
Replies: 4

Just wondering if anyone could shed some light on this weird issue. Probably belongs over at suckless.org but thought id pose the question here. When i start slstatus normally via .xinitrc the bars show up as asterisk symbols but if i start slstatus via xterm or st term then the bars show up. Seems like there is a bug or something starting characters such as these bars via xsetroot or however slstatus prints output to the statusbar and needs a terminal to print the bars?

how i start slstatus via .xinitrc to show the bars = xterm -e nohup slstatus

code:

nmcli -f ACTIVE,SIGNAL,BARS dev wifi list | awk '$1=="yes" {print $3}'

scrots:

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#188 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-10-26 12:46:40

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The Lockdown Sessions by Elton John. Featuring a Metallica cover. Weird.

Yes very weird. Will have to look that one up.

Dont mind some classic Elton John, his old stuff is the best imo.

...

Funeral For A Friend

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

#189 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-10-24 10:25:26

devadmin wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

Im happy to stay with debians firefox-esr but if you wanted to add some level of security to a mozilla tarball (snaps and flatpaks should be avoided imo), then a good starting point is the custom user.js. I use a modified, custom version of this https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ with a custom user-overrides.js

Hi. I was using the same but FF was trying to connect to mozilla site. So I had to block the push.mozilla.. etc on dns level and I cannot install addons anymore smile

I've tried ungoogled-chromium - good. Icecat - looks like abandoned. Will try abrowser. Looks fresh and promising. (?)

In what way, how could you check that? push.mozilla is all false in my about:config with custom user.js when i downloaded and unpacked firefox 92. Just curious is all as i dont know all that much about this.

These are what push settings i could find in my custom user.js

user_pref("dom.push.enabled", false);
user_pref("dom.push.connection.enabled", false); // [UNBREAK=true] [*PRIV=false] *TODO* unknown - assumed to be related to push notifications
user_pref("dom.push.userAgentID", "");  // user-agent ID for push services

#190 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-10-23 11:51:18

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

There are also packaging decisions such as disabling studies in the De{bi,vu}an version of FF ESR. This is a strong argument against Mozilla's tarball, flatpaks, snaps, and to a slightly lesser extent, third-party packaging solutions such as Bedrock. See also https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/27/Let- … r-job.html & http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/

Im happy to stay with debians firefox-esr but if you wanted to add some level of security to a mozilla tarball (snaps and flatpaks should be avoided imo), then a good starting point is the custom user.js. I use a modified, custom version of this https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ with a custom user-overrides.js

#191 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » apt-pinning for Gnome-40 packages from Daedalus with Chimaera? » 2021-10-19 11:55:37

I tried this a few months ago and failed miserably on a test partition.

#192 Re: Installation » how to boot from netinst.iso? » 2021-10-17 12:10:39

EFI directory at the root of your HDD  or the USB?

#193 Re: Documentation » HOWTO: Ratpoison Basic Configuration » 2021-10-17 11:54:14

Ogis1975 wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

Ogis1975, if you have ffmpeg installed does ffplay go full screen mode?

No sad

That is a shame. Its been awhile since ive played with ratpoison.

#194 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » What games do you play on Devuan?? » 2021-10-17 11:49:41

AisleRiot Solitaire, best card game on linux imo. I used to play all those 3d games years ago on ps1,2 and 3. Not anymore though. Hoas, I used to play Colin Mcrae rally on ps1 when it first came out religiously, took me a good 6 months to beat it. The rally games were the best imo.

#195 Re: Installation » how to boot from netinst.iso? » 2021-10-17 11:42:32

how did you copy over the iso file to the disk and what medium did you use. By disk do you mean usb disk or compact disk (cd rom)? Usually you have to set the bios to boot from usb or cd, on mine i have to press F10 when the computer boots up to get to boot menu which lists what disks or medium boot from.

This is what i do to clear usb disk before i copy over the iso file to make sure there is no old gpt data or bios mbr data which could interfere with a successfull usb boot.
as root user..

# wipefs --all /dev/sdb
# sgdisk --zap /dev/sdb

then dd to usb disk.

# dd if=devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso of=/dev/sdb oflag=sync status=progress bs=4M

#196 Re: Documentation » HOWTO: Ratpoison Basic Configuration » 2021-10-16 13:31:25

Ogis1975, if you have ffmpeg installed does ffplay go full screen mode?

Good thread macondo123, ratpoison is one of the best window managers made imo apart from dwm.

#197 Re: Other Issues » Virtualbox guest share not working » 2021-10-13 15:00:02

lookup arandr, its a gui application for xrandr and can give you settings you can autostart. Better to learn xrandr commands though.

Offtopic but the app in devuan called aqemu is a nice starting point to learn about virtualization away from virtual box which is mostly proprietary software, so not free. Ive successfully used it to run all kinds of setups from openbsd to  windows xp , windows 7 and alpine linux etc. Ive even managed to rsync full backup an alpinelinux system from a qemu session to a usb stick with encryption.

#199 Re: Off-topic » ssd failure » 2021-10-13 12:46:58

James1138 wrote:

I found several things that may help in future. Setting automatic TRIM job to daily https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c … d.html#ID6 and setting the browser (Firefox or Chrome) to use memory cache more and write cache less.

James
Indiana

Good ideas James, thanks.

#200 Re: Off-topic » ssd failure » 2021-10-13 12:38:28

steve_v wrote:
hevidevi wrote:

any recommendations? Im thinking possibly WD or maybe Samsung.

I'm running 5 samsungs, 4 kingstons, 2 intels, an ancient OCZ, and a couple of random (micron OEMs IIRC) drives in various applications ATM, and I haven't had any problems with any of them... Besides a couple of the kingstons griping about being out of write endurance, but then they've been doing that for about 6 months now and they're still working fine.
That's a very small sample size of course, but the samsungs and kingstons regularly get the same kind of thrashing that killed those crucial drives, and they don't even blink.

I don't know anything about WD SSDs since I've never owned one, and as far as Gigabyte goes... TBH I'm pretty biased there. I've considered anything Gigabyte to be pure refuse since about 2004, and I don't know if quality has improved in the intervening years because I haven't bought from them since.

If I had to pick, I'd probably say Samsung or Intel of you want performance, and Kingston if you want dirt cheap without being completely horrible. But I'd also say take with a large grain of salt, because I don't have any real data to back it up.

Thanks for the detailed reply.  I completely understand what you mean by grain of salt, everyone's experience can differ. I will most likely get a samsung, see how that goes and get a backup drive in a kingston.

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