it¿s not rare to me this problem .. seems Devuan unlike Debian have very problems in environment with multilanguajes, by example my keyboard are always english no  matter what i choose.. i have setup rusian and spanish and have lot of problems

so since those, i only use devuan for servers, here devuan are very good.. but for desktops : no way

There is a lot of work to do in Devuan and I understand that localization (less used languages) has lower priority.

so since those, i only use devuan for servers, here devuan are very good.. but for desktops : no way

Unfortunately, after upgrading from Devuan Jessie to ASCII Beta, I can't save adobe flash player archive fle into directory which name consists of russian national character:

The file could not be saved because you do not have the proper permissions.  Choose another save directory.

I'm using Firefox ESR, Palemon, LXDE.

ls command in LXTerminal, XTerm can't display these national character of that folder name but shows that I should have  proper permission.

Does anyone know please how to fix it ?

If I select a language at the login screen and then login, I don't get that language.

Same here.

Yes! Interesting! After reboot I really got en_GB instead of de_DE! I didn't try it over reboot before...

I want LightDM because of  VNC (and maybe XDMCP somewhen).

(I don't remember to have got an email signalling your message... sorry... hence the late reply.)

If/when gksu goes away, you can edit the Exec line in the .desktop file to use xterm. For example:

Exec=xterm -e 'su -c synaptic'

An xterm will pop up to let you enter the root password.

When i installed i did not enable the root login and rely on sudo, so that command didnt work for me, does that seem right?

I instead use this command and it works.

Exec=xterm -e 'sudo -i synaptic'

greenjeans wrote:

(((...))), if you don't trust yourself to be root on your own machine then I don't know what to say to that.

I trust me in a shell but not separated from the system by a GUI.
Well... maybe better saying: I don't trust GUIs.

I think some of the people here and everywhere in the 'nix world that possess a lot of technical acumen and skill with computers, tend to forget that not everyone uses their computer that way, and not everyone develops exclusively for geeks like us, lol.

One of the primary reasons I do it, is for friends, family, and people in my community who don't have the money (for the dozenth time) to take their machine to a PC repair place and have it wiped (for the dozenth time) to get rid of all the garbage that has destroyed windoze (again) only to have the tech load freakin load windoze on it (again). The definition of insanity being doing the same thing again and again expecting a different result.

Most of these people don't have the time to learn what we know, they just want a simple GUI interface to everything, drag-n-drop functionality, a system of doing things they are basically familiar with and a small learning curve.

So that is always uppermost in my mind while developing. And so it stands to reason that while developing I should do as much as possible with GUI's myself, so as to constantly be able to test and verify that these systems work as intended, and if they DO get interested in learning more about linux and want to start experimenting themselves, it's very easy with the tools I have provided and is robust and well-tested.

I am already really pushing the envelope trying to convert windoze refugees to linux using Openbox, lol, I don't want to scare them off completely by taking away their GUI's.

(((...))), if you don't trust yourself to be root on your own machine then I don't know what to say to that.

I trust me in a shell but not separated from the system by a GUI.
Well... maybe better saying: I don't trust GUIs.

I've just no idea why you'd need to run an X11 file manager as root?  Can't see how it would effect "workflow", can't see the scenario where "work" involves being in a file manager as root...  what are you doing?

Developing. I use this function constantly, it's super-easy to add/delete/modify/destroy-system-cruft when "Open as admin" is right there in the context menu, it absolutely speeds my workflow....I really don't understand why anyone would NOT make this available to themselves, if you don't trust yourself to be root on your own machine then I don't know what to say to that.

Trust me on this CW, it helps a LOT. Have had lots of people thank me in fact for making it so accessible in my systems. Possibly you and others use their machine differently, please don't discount this effective tool because you personally do it a different way.

xterm -fn 10x20 -g 80x54+616+28 -fg black -bg white -cr DarkGray -bc -sb -rightbar -sl 500 -aw -rw

The "-g 80x54..." bit sets the number of lines to stretch from top to bottom in my monitor, given the font specification. Change it to suit.

... or you could also just define an alias:

alias myxterm='xterm -fn 10x20 -g 80x54+616+28 -fg black -bg white -cr DarkGray -bc -sb -rightbar -sl 500 -aw -rw'

(No thread drift here, right?)

Exec=xterm -e 'su -c synaptic'

An xterm will pop up to let you enter the root password.