Vuu-do Linux! *New Openbox-64 iso's (1.0.7) up 2-02-18*!!

GlennW · 2025-04-16 03:40:18

I like it. Thank you for your hard hours of work and love.

greenjeans · 2025-04-16 15:40:33

Thank you Glenn! That's very kind of you to say, good to wake up to after working into the wee-hours last night.

I took @deepforest's comments to heart, and decided to offer some alternative artwork that's not so zombie-fied, but still works with the darker theme I use. Started out intending to just do something specifically for Vuu-do Openbox versions, but as usual once I start working with fractals it takes hours and hours and I wind up with several dozen pieces of assorted artwork.

But I did get a piece made that seems to work. it's tough (at least for me) to make things that are coherent using fractals, super-easy to make a bunch of pretty swirls and abstractions, but my goal here was to make something that referred to the term "openbox" in a graphic way. Here's where I am as of late last night, the thumbnail is clickable and takes you to the fullsize version, it's a pure fractal render, only used Gimp for the text and to darken it up some:

GlennW · 2025-04-16 23:01:17

Looks great. Kinda reminds me of a rubix cube that was left on the driveway... :-) I've saved it for use after I install voodu later today or this weekend. Cheers!

greenjeans · 2025-04-17 01:16:19

4-16-2025: Updated Vuu-do ob-max-z uploaded.
4-18-2025: Mini-z now up as well.

Major updates to artwork, all new original stuff, wallpaper & login background,
grub splash, lock screen, user avatar etc. Lots of package updates including a new
kernel and security updates. New menu entry to configure keyboard and much nicer
gui for that and also for changing tzdata via right-click on the panel clock, and
many other small tweaks. Ob-max is first up, will get a new mini up here soon.

Lots of changes in this one, and minor tweaks galore, finally got around to updating
the conkyrc to the newer lua format, fixed an icon issue and stomped some more
tiny bugs. Added the keyboard-config menu entry, wrote a tiny script for it as it
didn't have a confirmation dialog for when you get done. Thanks to fsmithred once
again as I snagged some code from the pre-install scripts in Refracta-Installer to
make the keyboard and tzdata functions much prettier and easier to deal with.

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greenjeans · 2025-04-21 04:06:11

Finally got around to working on a workaround for the bug I posted here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1100053

Doesn't seem like it's going to be fixed anytime soon as I have no replies. Got a workaround running using a script that creates cached thumbnails under 4.2 mb and applies them via autostart for users home. Checks for files at login, creates if there isn't one, updates if needed.
Pcmanfm runs nice and fast with this applied, initial and subsequent visits to file-manager with any images open waaaaay faster.

Still need some fine-tuning, but should have it done and new isos up soon!

ETA: well that was harder than I thought, almost there though....

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greenjeans · 2025-04-23 01:19:26

4-22-2025

New 5.03 Vuu-do Openbox Z's uploaded

Tons of tiny fixes, the theme change left some things undone. Added a lot of bug
and error fixes plus updated functionality quite a bit, support is extended for
newer image formats, and the biggest change is the addition of the thumbnail-cacher
script which assists PcmanFM in creating and caching thumbnails properly. This has
greatly speeded up image-heavy folder loading. Check the menu for the entry to
update the cache during sesssion if you add a lot of images or video.

From the comments in the script:

This script creates and caches thumbnails of image/video files.
It sweeps the users home folder only (excluding hidden files), checking for
image and video files and if they have a thumbnail cached, if not then it
creates new thumbnails and adds them to the thumbnail cache in ~/.cache.
It's set to only thumbnail files 100 kb and larger. It's intended use is for PcmanFM,
to assist in generating a proper thumbnail cache. It can be set to run once at boot/login,
and/or used as a menu entry to create an updated cache file at any time.

PcmanFM will continue to generate the cached thumbnails for images larger than
4.2 mb on-the-fly as you add them, run this after you add smaller images and it will add
them to the cache as well. At 4.2 mb or higher the thumbnail setting in PcmanFM works,
any lower and you start losing thumbnails randomly for some reason, this just catches
the smaller stuff albeit not on-the-fly which would be optimal, but image-heavy folder
loads are way faster when the images are already thumbnailed & cached.

Script located in /usr/local/bin if you want to edit thumbnail size or add thumbnailers/formats.
Atril has a thumbnailer which lets you add text and pdf thumbnails but I don't see a point in it.
I may try to add .xcf and maybe another video format to see what happens, but as of right now
it supports most major image formats, and .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4 and .mkv video formats. It also
works on the newer image formats that I added support for in Vuu-do not long ago, .avif, heic, heif, and .webp.

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