10-16-2026

Some 20 package updates including Chromium (max only). Also added FireMenu (also max only), a simple GUI frontend for sandboxing with firejail. Updated to the newest version of AlsaTune which adds a nice first-run to dialog to guide users in getting sound set up. Did a couple of mods to LXtask to improve the interface.

Big changes in PcmanFM, fixed a thumbnailing bug that goes all the way back to 2014 that trashed the size control in Preferences, caused improper thumbnail-caching, and random failures to thumbnail. This also means it's no longer necessary to run the thumbnail-cacher script at startup, thus freeing up some ram and cpu, everything works as it should now (Big thanks to SysVanon who made that happen!) Also fixed a small theming bug that affected some themes (including Ice-Breaker) which caused the divider between the treeview and the main pane to disappear when multiple tabs are open.

And I added a feature to the tooltips in icon-view, now in addition to the full file or folder name, it will also give the size of the file or the number of items in the underlying folder. I have increased the size of the panel and icons so it displays better on larger screens, and added a main menu button on the far left side of the panel, which will open the main menu when left-clicked, and a run dialog if you right-click. Fixed a couple of small bugs in the default theme and icon set, and many other small tweaks and improvements.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do/

I have to disagree though, I have actually gone to great lengths to make it easy for people, just made a new version of AlsaTune recently that adds a nice first-run dialog to make it easier for folks to get sound running.

The only hard part is getting rid of Pulse/Pipe to start with, they are dug in like Texas ticks, but once that's dealt with it's smooth sailing.

That's not at all true, you are in fact a member of that forum since April of this year. With quite a lot of interesting posts.

Let's be clear here, Dev1galaxy is a support forum for Devuan, not mine or anybody else's spins or projects, and users can usually always find answers here.

Our forum was created to be a think-tank, to offer help and ideas to anyone who is an experimenter in numerous distros of all kinds. There is no animosity between us and this forum, quite the opposite, most of us actively use Devuan and appreciate the work that goes into it very much, and are actively developing solutions to upstream issues that plague us all, which might be of benefit to Devuan and the whole of the Linux community. You can see many of the projects we are working on at git.devuan.org where we freely share them in the hope that they might be useful.

The things and topics we discuss over there, would just clog up this forum with a lot of extra noise and would degrade the quality of tech support that is provided here.

I would agree with this for the most part, have done a lot of work with it over the years, it does have some issues here and there though. Keep an eye on ~/.xsession-errors as occasionally Caja takes great exception to certain themes and will spam you to death about it.

Suggestions:
IMO the right-click extensions for Caja shouldn't be in separate packages, they should just be native.

The screenshot tool throws up like a 10 pixel border around the shot when trying to grab just a single window, yuck.

The set-as-wallpaper extension works, but it throws whatever you selected up there using the same style as the previous one had (i.e. zoom, center, stretch etc.), which in many cases is the wrong style, frequently users will use an image that's much larger or much smaller than the screen, so they wind up and have to open the settings-manager and go to the wallpaper tab anyway.

There's a couple ways to do this better, in my stuff the extension first copies the image to the wallpapers folder, then opens the wallpaper manager to set it and apply a style. Bonus there: If someone sets the paper from an arbitrary location, then later moves that image, it blanks the desktop, this way that can't happen.

You could also just have that extension open up a specific tiny dialog before applying, that asks the user to set the style.

I do agree with golinux that flatpaks are not much loved around here, myself included. Nor snaps. And if you're looking for stable deployment for customers it would seem that blithely encouraging them to download whatever from flathub or whatever flats repo, is a recipe for heartache.

Good luck and welcome to Devuan!

It's still discrimination, it may be the popular thing to do these days, but it is illegal in most countries. The old standard was simple, if two equally qualified individuals applied for a job, the one who applied first got the job.

Yep.

The GB (Gigabyte) is decimal system and equals 1,000,000,000 bytes. The GiB (Gibibyte) is binary system and equals 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Look close Altoid : 7.8 GB, 7.2 GiB

Alive and well and under constant development in addition to many new apps: https://gitlab.com/liquibyte/gamut

I find myself somewhat flabbergasted that for once I am in total agreement with Igor.

I agree with the above statement completely, it's a good concise summation of the state of the state with a nice easy-to-understand analogy at the end.

The question is: What do we do about it?

For me personally it seems clear, fork all the things, all of them. As i've stated many times, in Linux you either make do, or you make new. I'm working on making new.

Srsly, some of you are using google for things?

Thanks for that link @Altoid, I hope he's still around somewhere. His avatar used to be a cartoon chicken tapping on keys, I was raising chickens at the time and I had a lil banty rooster that looked a lot like his avatar, so I named him "OP junior" and posted pics frequently and he enjoyed that.

I don't know about a proper way, but on a single-user system i've always just used su. I have right-click extensions to edit a file as root, or to open a directory as root if I need to move some files around.

As far as the changes to sudo, what systems would make /usr/local/ writeable for a non-root user? That seems silly.

@Altoid that link was a blast from the past, I remember when Old Polack wrote it, PCLOS was really popular at the time and there had been a steady influx of new users posting "where's muh sudo?". OP was a brilliant guy, don't know if he's still around but I learned a lot from him.