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#1 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2017-07-03 03:21:57

mckaygerhard wrote:

PAleMoon have few manpowers and must take care of that.. maybe GTK2 need too much efforts and GTK3 its more easyle.. so you must understand

I would understand if someone stick to his words and don't change them in such a timeframe. What happen there seems to be, hey we will focus on black and month after OK pardon (with no pardon we will focus on white.

Summa summarum, at the moment i don't care on what they will focus as i am not an swinger no way i can understand that big_smile

#2 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2017-07-03 00:12:54

mckaygerhard wrote:

jajaja please, gime a break, you are using a piece of software that have same behaviour..

I specially started using Pale Moon as i heard earlier they will stick to gtk2, something they officially stated also month or so ago... but since that is no longer true then good bye big_smile

They have a right to choose and no offense there... switched to Seamonkey as main, compiled NetSurf git now posting this from it, btw NS also have gtk3 non default, that gtk3 shit is everywhere big_smile

#3 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2017-07-02 21:35:16

Oh, that was short love:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph … 21#p116121

Month earler they said "Our focus will be GTK2." and now "Linux focus in UXP will be GTK3, not GTK2." big_smile

If i hate something that is when people in a short period of time entirely switch statements... so good bye PM

#4 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2017-06-22 19:42:41

mckaygerhard wrote:

tri it at github.com!.. i could not edit a already made issue... in firefox works.. but i hate now firefox.. tooo slower

but its maybe common in this days of constans changes on web.. one day works, another not!

Seems that is a know issue with github, they seems to run incompatable csp and framework code here and there ... well, for your pleasure Moonchild tries to be rigorous there big_smile

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=15681

#5 Re: Other Issues » Fglrx and devuan... how's that looking? » 2017-06-22 08:45:13

LizziAS wrote:

Does it work out of the box?  With some tweaking?  At all?

No out of the box, since installation is needed. No particular tweaking needed, should work after proper installation. Here is picture from Devuan Jessie:

FGLRX.png

This is from low power Kabini APU, your's will differ of course. Official upstream FGLRX supports kernel versions up to 4.2 and xserver versions up to 1.17. So default Jessie 3.16/1.16 combo is expected to work, no problem. Kernel version support can be patched further, but xserver can't!

So if you patched it to 4.9 kernel it should work there, like you see in picture i am running latest vanila longterm 4.9.33 kernel there... Same thing should work on Devuan Ascii with default 4.9 kernel, but only with downgraded xserver version since there is 1.19 default which is not supported, etc...

Basically only attention should be what major xserver/kernels are running and what chips particular FGLRX version supports.

15.9 found in jessie repo supports EG/NI/GCN hardware also, but 15.12 from backports only GCNs... on AMD site you can found Catalyst-PRO driver which supports workstation chips that are listed there, etc...

Of course people with GCN 1.3 or Gen 4 AMD hardware, so called Polaris or later shouldn't try this at all as that hardware isn't supported by FGLRX for sure.
So up to GFX7 totally, but GFX8 partially - some GFX8 are supported and some not at all, etc...

OK, i think that info is enough big_smile So does it work? Well it does, but it depends what your chip is, what are kernel and xserver versions. Deal is the same on average for any distro.

#6 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2017-06-15 03:49:25

Didn't expected debian-security will push gtk3 build of 52.2 ESR  in Jessie, but they did it. Tought SLE/RHEL plan to do it at 59 ESR point, so looks like a bit to early and no idea why this rush in "stable"

Maybe "Mike is busy and security don't wait" reasons... Anyway:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=864851

#7 Re: Installation » Why sane (scanimage) installation depends on GIMP? » 2017-06-14 06:35:21

Package sane does not depend on gimp, gimp is suggested or optional package to install.

Might be some missconfiguration of apt, or some of utilities you use like apt, apt-get, aptitude, wajig, synaptic... as you can configure apt to install recommends/suggest packages by default also or disable just rec or not to install these at all, etc...

spartrekus wrote:

Is this normal?

Everything is normal, if that is what you want. Requirement of libgimp is there so that suggest works, sort of necessary bloat.

Otherwise rebuild sane/xscanimage without gimp plugin, general purpose binary OSes which target wide audience must serve anybody not just you, so dep bloat is there considered either necessary evil or necessary angel depending on POV big_smile

#8 Re: Devuan Derivatives » how to setup installer with different desktop rather than Xfce4 » 2017-06-14 06:06:24

mckaygerhard wrote:

in debian JESSIE there's sqlite odbc package.. and in devuan jeesie there's not..

Here is the search for 'libsqliteodbc' on debian packages, so as you can see certainly it is not in jessie:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

There you can spot it was removed cos of 'Bug #771669: segfault on SQLPrepare SELECT with expression result column'

https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sqlite … 3914Z.html

And it seems was never returned back in jessie, basically Debian prob.

I can only guess that maybe you are running debian jessie from before its release and if installed, that package is there but just for you smile Or maybe you have some weird repo combinations enabled there so it came from somewhere else. etc...

#9 Re: Off-topic » Xfwm4 (and Openbox) Window Themes » 2017-06-14 04:13:49

msi wrote:

Speaking of desktop environments built with alternative GUI toolkits, there's also EDE, which uses FLTK. I've found some quite informative slides that were used for a presentation of EDE (and FLTK) at FOSDEM 2013, too: http://equinox-project.org/slides/fosdem-2013-ede.pdf.

I can't really say much about Fox. The only Fox application I've been giving a try so far was Xfe, which is a nice project. However, I like PCManFM's GTK+ 2 interface much better. I'm using the GTK+ 2 default theme (Raleigh) and I think nothing really beats that in terms of clarity and, of course, "ugliness" – though Clearlooks is pretty clear as well.

 
Cool, i know of EDE but i am not interested in DEs really as i think that is too much to be any default big_smile... so no any GUI toolkit dependancy is a major feature there i more like WM or so called Box approach, that is like user buy (of course empty) suitcase and put whatever he want there or like if you buy a new flat/house and it is empty and then user put choose furniture and place it where he decide. WM only needs to comply to general standards and nothing much else.

Yes, there are many gtk2 file managers... btw, i think SpaceFM gtk2 is better than PCManFM but that is just personal opinion smile

To these "ugliness" of themes i have really no idea, that is to me again per user eyes to decide, some like more black some like more light or anything in between. What is ugly for one that is beauty for another and so on.

I always say - *this* is traditional desktop metaphor big_smile

openbox.png

So what is this? This is Box design, it is like new empty suitcase, new empty flat, new empty house, empty... now read guidelines/suggestions and put/place there whatever you want as no one really can decide for you smile Also if one contionosly keep asking someone else to decide on this for him, he will by the time lost all of his freedom, etc...

23878059_couple_at_their_new_empty_apartment_Sto.jpg

#10 Re: Off-topic » Xfwm4 (and Openbox) Window Themes » 2017-06-14 03:54:45

Somewhat Reticent wrote:

(Careful you don't run afoul of some Not-Invented-Here or GPL3-or-Die zealotry!)
Cross-platform, Freed Open-Source (LGPL), suckless - what's not to love? cool
Though I only noticed Gentoo and Ubuntu packages (sigh).

Fox toolkit is LGPL3 and app is GPL3. If you want packages you can get deb source lab from launchpad goggles ppa, dget>dpkg-checkbuilddeps>install deps> and rebuild on Devuan for yourself by using dpkg-buildpackage or debuild whatever. First fox lib install and then Goggles app, etc...

FluxBB bbcode test

#11 Re: Devuan » Question/Suggestion:What about being an entirely free GNU/Linux disto? » 2017-06-13 14:15:17

FSF is also about pushing standards "here is a newest version of standard we invented, so please comply with it"... while in reality let say 99% of hardware needs blob firmwares. I agree that is the high problem, so i can understand why FSF pushes standard.

But who is quilty about that, users aren't... so why should users feel any frustation what company legaly do? Yes, legaly as i don't know any state on this Planet Earth where blobs are marked as criminal act.

Here recently, is Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 released:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00005.html

That one is for Debian 10, more and more policies less freedom again big_smile Let quote whatever, let say:

9.6

           The menu system is deprecated in favor of the FreeDesktop menu
           standard. New requirements set for FreeDesktop menu entries.

No more debian menu system, new requirements to comply to FreeDesktop standards created again by companies... Gnome pushes this ans Wayland as it check app instead of window, blah, blah... again who asked users about anything big_smile

Or this Alioth replacement:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00002.html
http://blog.snow-crash.org/blog/upcoming-alioth-sprint/

We want to start with the basic things, git and and identity provider. For git there are two candidates: gitlab and pagure. Gitlab is really nice, but has a big problem: it is Opencore, which that it is not entirely opensource. I don’t think we should use software licensed under such a model for one of our core services. That brings us to the last candidate: pagure.

Pagure is a nice project based on gitolite, it is developed by the fedora project which use it for all their repos.

Ha, he, so reasoning here and there, blah. blah... and again they choosed Pagure as last candidate which is first candidate actually so it is not even choosen and again what Fedora uses funded by Red Hat big_smile

This is so boring... and i know about X Window System Trap big_smile

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.en.html

Stallman should write there about Wayland Trap Plus and all of its dependants as Trap Plus Plus... again, why people should fight and feel any frustation when companies do these shits in the first place? Even if it is open source it is shit anyway, sort of to some extend it is even worse than using pure blobs

edit: So when it comes to inconvinence - blobs, free software and open source have equal potentional, no one is safe there from the crap. Especially when it is introduced (a like to say pushed) as something called "standard"

#12 Re: Devuan » Question/Suggestion:What about being an entirely free GNU/Linux disto? » 2017-06-13 13:30:40

sunshine wrote:

[*]According to https://distrowatch.com just 2 of the 9 entirely free GNU/Linux distros don't use systemd[/*]

More standards, less freedom - let push another standard big_smile

Problem with so called "standards" is that companies pushes standards and never users wink And user, who ask a user about that... in Debian exactly that happened on systemd debacle, proved that exactly no one honestly listen user about anything wink They decided what will be pused even before introducing "question" about init systems, etc...

#13 Re: Installation » Devuan for Raspberry PI 3 ? » 2017-06-09 22:31:45

spartrekus wrote:

The PC is slower than the default raspbian

Well i would expect that, even if no one tells me big_smile As Raspbian is the RPi Foundation’s official supported operating system, they i guess take care there about that one default.

#14 Re: Installation » Devuan for Raspberry PI 3 ? » 2017-06-09 20:49:16

Well, Chromium armhf is not there neither in Debian 8, not even in Raspbian repo, but you might try Chromium from RPi Fondation repo:

http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/

Don't have RPi to test it might or might not work, looks like it should... so just suggestion smile

#15 Re: Other Issues » What is best way to install latest version of Firefox? » 2017-06-09 20:46:33

hughparker1 wrote:

Also here is a brief description of the laptop specification...

DELL Inspiron 5559 laptop
Processor: IntelCore i7-6500U CPU 2 Cores, 4 Logical Processors
Integrated Graphics Processor: Intel HD Graphics 520
Discrete Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R5 M335
Drive: Crucial CT750MX3 SSD size: 750GB
Memory: 16GB 1600MHz DDR3

Looks like too much new hardware for default Devuan 1.0, for Debian 8 even of course...

Because of that Intel's Skylake mainly... there is also AMD's PX there, so i hope you use everything driver related kernel/userspace from backports repo, like kernel, mesa, ddx.

edit: BTW fglrx 15.12 driver from backports is also an option for that Radeon R5 M335, but together with Skylake iGPU i am not sure that first must work perfect, as that manage screen for PX... maybe 4.9 kernel for Skylake and just intel ddx too, but now that fglrx as i see is not pached for 4.9 but stevepusser have patched one fglrx for 4.9 in his repo...

It sounds complicated anyway i guess big_smile, ideally SKL iGPU should use modeseting driver but for that newest X is better and then PRIME switching should work for radeon... whatever even without all that and if you don't mind that Radeon PX again kernel, mesa, ddx to upgrade from backports is recommended on Devuan/Debian 8, etc...

#16 Re: Off-topic » Is Blackbox still today a recommended or outdated WM ? » 2017-06-05 22:05:50

spartrekus wrote:

I want to compile the kernel and have my own compiler and system, based on Linux kernel.

Ah thinkering about something is cool so that is cool, i just expect this 'Support>Desktop and Multimedia' forum would be about Devuan and not about something else.

Even deb packaged blackbox in Devuan i now tried works fine here and recompile fine too, so big_smile And of course thing easely goes offtopic because it is offtopic in the first place big_smile

#17 Re: Off-topic » Is Blackbox still today a recommended or outdated WM ? » 2017-06-05 20:31:56

spartrekus wrote:

I would be interested to compare the mem usage of JWM versus Blackbox.

Debian packaged jwm on 32bit uses about 500 KB uncached, blackbox about 800 KB, openbox about 3500 KB... but it have more features enabled since it mainly serve LXDE as i said you can take that down to 1200 KB easely or so wink

Of course, if anyone care about that range of sizes these days he might look at other distros, doing static and other special embeded builds or so.. on the other side general purpose builds (what major distros do)  and computing tends to be more bloated, more features and more deps and particualary more dynamic also means more cached memory used, probably less long term compatability of that build... and so on big_smile

#18 Re: Off-topic » Is Blackbox still today a recommended or outdated WM ? » 2017-06-05 19:53:57

spartrekus wrote:

  Well, you won't sell me Openbox, so far, I but well, if Openbox might reduce the use of Memory, maybe, it could be good.

You can make Openbox more tiny too, when compile disable all optional features at configure time and it would use something like 3 times less memory wink

#19 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2017-06-05 19:20:44

Probably SeaMonkey or Pale Moon... actually using Pale Moon here for about 3 month or so (mainly because of my own gtk3-free reason, i don't even have that s*it lib installed big_smile), it is nice for me.

Maybe to mention this page, since there are also user contributed deb packages there, sse build, etc...

http://linux.palemoon.org/

#20 Re: Installation » Devuan for Raspberry PI 3 ? » 2017-06-05 07:03:26

spartrekus wrote:

Raspberry PI 3 Model B is rather an ARMHF. I am not sure which one for the PI3B

devuan_jessie_1.0.0_arm64_raspi3.img.xz            23-May-2017 11:20    175M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armel_raspi1.img.xz            23-May-2017 11:13    172M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armhf_chromeacer.img.xz        23-May-2017 11:14    231M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armhf_chromeveyron.img.xz      23-May-2017 11:15    235M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armhf_n900.img.xz              23-May-2017 11:15    155M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armhf_odroidxu.img.xz          23-May-2017 11:16    154M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armhf_raspi2.img.xz            23-May-2017 11:14    172M
devuan_jessie_1.0.0_armhf_sunxi.img.xz             23-May-2017 11:17    152M

Per README these two, depending if you want 32bit or 64bit.

* Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 (raspi2)
* Raspberry Pi 3 64bit (raspi3)

#21 Re: Devuan » Devuan on Distrowatch » 2017-06-03 17:23:50

I think spike was at #6 one day 3 days ago or something, just to mention since now is at #14.

Weekly spikes, what to say... whatever someone releases it goes up for couple days big_smile

#22 Re: Installation » [Solved]display resolution » 2017-06-02 23:17:39

Cool, but hm i can't say what is the difference smile Maybe only VertRefresh, you can try to cap it to 60 instead of 76 so that does not go up for any res or something like that happen it seems.

#23 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown and root passsword » 2017-06-02 18:59:45

I just hope someone wouldn't come and say here is a AppImage, Snap,  Flatpak... package to do a shutdown big_smile

I have mapped it to what i don't use and can't easely press it like ctrl+super+alt+del for reboot or end for shutdown.

#24 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Shutdown and root passsword » 2017-06-02 15:48:12

zapper wrote:

KShutdown is flawless for ascii.

Flawlessness is not a problem there, just unbelievable too much uneeded bloatness there big_smile

PC hardware have poweroff/restart buttons, these are simple buttons - you press that usually just with one finger and it did the job.

So why in the hell someone needed 500+ packages on top of basic system, just to provide same functionality with that KShutdown wink

#25 Re: Installation » [Solved]display resolution » 2017-06-02 00:56:06

Sanssystemd wrote:

I've tried everything suggested but alas nothing worked, if i start a terminal and use xrandr newmode, addmode and output i get the desired setting of 1280x1024, but not at startup.

Thanks for the suggestions

If xrandr works, well remove xorg.conf if you have any first (as that takes priority over .d dir) and try like this:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-prefmode.conf

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "Monitor-VGA1"
	VendorName	"HP"
	ModelName	"L1906"
	HorizSync	30 - 83
	VertRefresh	50 - 76    
	Modeline	"1280x1024"  108.88  1280 1360 1496 1712  1024 1025 1028 1060  -HSync +Vsync    
	Option		"PreferredMode"  "1280x1024"
EndSection

I guess PreferredMode would force this, hopefully.

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