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#1 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xfce power manager brightness change hotkeys » 2019-02-21 00:38:32
found a partly solution, as nvidia drivers are quite old(390.87) in ascii repos, default brightness control in them is using ACPI video.ko module, instead of /sys/class/backlight/.
Adding
nvidia.NVreg_EnableBacklightHandler=1 to grub fixes brighness hotkeys, they work fine now, and brightness change notifications appeared as well.
However some strange interaction between nvidia-setting app and xfce brightness control still happens: changing brightness on a color correction tab of nvidia-settings does not affect xfce panel power-manager plugin and vice verca. But maybe they just change different properties, i'm not sure here.
#2 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » gray font antialiasing in xfce » 2019-02-20 11:50:04
I did, and yes it helped a bit, however edges of letters are still colored
while root(gksudo) apps switch to grayscale
when none is selected in pixels order and become rgb if any of the orders selected, i.e. behaves as it should.
White text on black background looks awefull and no saturation change helps to fix it
I'd like regular user app fonts to be grayscale aniatialiased like root ones are but for some reason xfce settings do not affect regular use apps.
Hope that could help with terrible white on black.
I found ~/.Xresources file in user home foler with
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.hinting: 0
Xft.antialias: 0
Xft.rgba: rgbcontent, but after removing it nothing happens. Root use doesn't have ~/.Xresources.
p.s. on my macbook fonts antialiasing is grayscale and looks good
#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » gray font antialiasing in xfce » 2019-02-19 23:49:57
CTAKAH wrote:Do you have grayscale or rgb antialiasing when none order selected?
All the options are rgb. But setting it to "none" avoids hints of color here.
I'm doing exactly that but borders are still blue and yellow (, will try to leave with it
#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » gray font antialiasing in xfce » 2019-02-19 23:02:35
I noticed a funny thing - root apps use hinting and antialiasing settings right - when none of rgb pixels order is selected - antialiasing turns to grayscale, not ideal either but makes me feel better. What's wrong with user apps in xfce?
2golinux: not saying fonts are ugly, they are in fact good, even better then on Win10 that is a native OS for this laptop. But I prefer grayscale antialiasing over rgb.
Do you have grayscale or rgb antialiasing when none order selected?
#5 Desktop and Multimedia » gray font antialiasing in xfce » 2019-02-19 21:49:36
- CTAKAH
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Hello again,
I noticed, a long ago, that in xfce I can't reach turning subpixel antialiasing off completely and in any case it stays like
with blue and yellow borders.
(as I understood - turning it off should make antialiasing borders colors become of a grayscale).
The matter of choice for sure but I however prefer greyscale or something with not so unupropriate colors.
I have to use gtk color theme with bright and a bit yellowed backgrounds to prevent fonts looks too ugly, but on some white-backgrounded controls it still looks not so good, as well as white text on dark backgrounds that is even worse.
Some talks around that that I need to select RGB subpixel order appropriate to a monitor, but I tried all options and colors do not change at all(I'm on Thinkpad P50).
Any assumptions if I can reach what I'm asking for? Or for example are there any ways to control these colors?
Best wishes,
Alexander
#6 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xfce power manager brightness change hotkeys » 2019-02-17 21:47:48
and one more thing found - when changing color settings through nvidia control app, sometimes it says that color setting have been modified outside nvidia app, color slider setting may be incorrect, who else is there? )
#7 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xfce power manager brightness change hotkeys » 2019-02-17 21:12:28
tried to boot with acpi_osi=linux and acpi_backlight=vendor,
things changed, hotkeys perform some reaction, notification windows appears but right after pressing brightness up, progressbar within the notification windows jumps back to the previous (lower) position, so brightness does not change. Looks like some other daemon resets it to it's default parameters when detecting changes in current configuration.
What else changed - overall brightness range (both lower and upper borders) became darker then while booting without additional acpi variables, however nvidia control sets brightness fine.
Tried several tools like xbacklight but with no success.
#8 Desktop and Multimedia » xfce power manager brightness change hotkeys » 2019-02-17 20:46:45
- CTAKAH
- Replies: 3
Hello mates,
can't get this work, video card is nvidia with proprietary drivers installed.
Running xfce4-power-manager with --debug gives
TRACE[xfpm-button.c:118] xfpm_button_filter_x_events(): Key press: ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_MON_BRIGHTNESS_UP)
TRACE[xfpm-manager.c:281] xfpm_manager_button_pressed_cb(): Received button press event: ((XfpmButtonKey) BUTTON_MON_BRIGHTNESS_UP)but nothing happens.
Changing brightness via nvidia control panel works as well as decreasing brightness after inactivity period set in power manager options.
Regards,
Alexander
#9 Re: Installation » Dual-boot with Windows 10 from separate drives » 2019-02-05 23:54:43
BTW, my laptop has 3 disks actually, two M2 ssd with Win10 and Devuan and one sata 2.5 disk, now they are named
/dev/sda - Win10 ssd
/dev/sdb - 2.5 disk
/dev/sdc - Devuan ssd
any ideas on wouldn't there be any problems with device naming if I remove 2.5 disk and the insert other 2.5 disk for example?
Thanks in advance,
#10 Re: Installation » Dual-boot with Windows 10 from separate drives » 2019-02-05 22:39:32
I looked up my ASCII on a Ryzen 2700X platform with a NVME installation for Devuan and another SSD for Windows 7. Both installed in UEFI mode. I boot Devuan per default and get the choice in grub to boot Win7 if required.
I think you should create individual EFI partitions on the drives to have maximum decoupling.
Windows ignores other OSses. When you boot into Windows per default you normally have no choice. With some fiddling you may be able to boot other stuff from the Windows boot manager, but that can get screwed by updates. When I had a Debian and Windows7 on the same drive (without UEFI), I got some issues with Win7 updates that did not like grub in the MBR or even fail to update if Win isn't the only OS on the drive.
When you choose Devuan as default, run osprober (should run automatically actually), and this will enter Win10 into the grub menu, so you can select at boot time into which OS to boot. No issues with this setup.
My EFI Bios has the option to override the default an select from a menu which OS I want to boot.
Regards, rolfie
Thanks rolfie!
writing a responce from my newly installed Devuan, great )
Installed on a second ssd, so now I see two boot records(devuan + windows boot manager) in laptop boot menu, looks grub put its record in the NVMe. If selecting Devuan there I can then load Windows from grub menu also, so it's even a bit superfluous, but thats fine.
Had a little problrem with missing wifi firmware while installing, but IIRC with debian it was the same.
What's bad with co-existing Win/Devuan on separate drives - after I boot into Windows, next time I boot Devuan it got it's root system fsck-ed, no idea what Win is trying to do with it, but tried several times with the same result.
The rest is great, my old-good debian is back, thanks devs!
#11 Re: Installation » Dual-boot with Windows 10 from separate drives » 2019-01-30 08:52:27
CTAKAH wrote:last time I dealt with grub/mbr/.. was years ago and now it seems to be all different.
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AlexanderWelcome and thank you for the question, but as far as I know there are some points to consider:
guuml.dev1, thanks for a detailed answer!
I however have a laptop already working in UEFI/GPT with win10 installed on ssd with GPT table and UEFI partition, so I was picturing installing Devuan on a second ssd in UEFI/GPT mode too.
Windows is already installed, so no worries it'll override Devuan installation boot records.
The questions I was looking answers to were
- do I have to create a separate EFI partition on a second, Devuan ssd or will grub-efi(or whatever used put it's .efi files into partition already existed on a win10 drive?
- is it possible(mandatory) to have EFI partitions on both drives and let laptop UEFI firmware choose between them (from a boot menu or just by changing default boot order)
- what steps should I reproduce in Devuan installer to achieve that
actually I looked through some articles, looks it's possible to install Devuan on a second ssd, creating distinct efi partition on it and installing grub there. And then UEFI firmware should just let me to choose a boot device (or even will read efi records and let choose an OS to boot).
That seems to me the best way to ensure OS-ses will not even know about each over.
Do my assumptions make sence?
Regards,
#12 Installation » Dual-boot with Windows 10 from separate drives » 2019-01-29 13:11:19
- CTAKAH
- Replies: 7
Hello, sorry for bothering,
last time I dealt with grub/mbr/.. was years ago and now it seems to be all different.
So, I've got one ssd with Win10 installed (UEFI,GPT) having 260MB EFI partiotion. I'd like to insert another ssd to install Devuan to.
Would anybody be so kind to give a starting point to discover action needed to accomplish that or to a right Devuan manual if any.
Regards,
Alexander
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