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#1 Re: Freedom Hacks » WhiteSur Dark GTK Theme for MATE Desktop » 2025-06-02 13:33:25

By the way, have you noticed a secret command "dh_auto_build --list",
and a trick with dpkg-shlibdeps

Yes, of course smile I'm following your experiments with interest.

#2 Re: Freedom Hacks » WhiteSur Dark GTK Theme for MATE Desktop » 2025-05-31 15:46:42

Have you tried to compile fftrate? It will improve sound quality of your pipewire.
You can test it with and without fftrate. The difference should be obvious.

Yes, I tried it (on a test computer). The results are good. The improvement in sound quality is clearly noticeable.

#3 Re: Freedom Hacks » WhiteSur Dark GTK Theme for MATE Desktop » 2025-05-30 11:33:38

Nice tutorial. Especially for crating .deb packages. Thank you.

#4 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-05-28 15:37:51

in a  minimal install is totally wrong for this situation.

Hello.

The system installation method I proposed is correct, because it allows you to install a COMPLETELY MINIMAL CLI system. By the way, the author's desire to install a minimal system and install a monstrous KDE environment on it (with its own packages) is more than strange. Do CLI programs that take up about two dozen megabytes on the disk matter if he plans to install Kde, which takes up almost one gigabyte of disk space?

#5 Re: Installation » Minimalist/selective installation? » 2025-05-28 11:29:41

I used to have a method for installing Debian where I could install a minimalist shell using the network CD/DVD and manually install only the shell utilities I wanted, then install just the very core of KDE/Plasma

Hello.
I'll put in my three cents and say that this is not a minimal system installation, because Plasma does not fall into the understanding of minimalism.

If you want to install Devuan and have a REALLY MINIMAL system, then you should use debootstrap mechanism.
More info here
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ … 03.en.html

#7 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Stale keyring files? » 2025-05-22 12:50:53

Very strange. I have gnome-keyring installed in my system. And don't have such problems....

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#8 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Stale keyring files? » 2025-05-21 15:45:52

Hello. I don't have

  • keyring-*

sub-folders in my .cache folder

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#9 Re: News & Announcements » Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin » 2025-05-21 11:16:01

Might I also recommend, while we're on the subject of AppImages and modern browsers, to have a look at the FreeTube privacy client for watching YouTube videos ad-free? It's very user-friendly, "modern", and uses their own servers for their API (Invidious relies on Google's servers). There are DEB files available, but you could also try their AppImage, Flatpak, and other provided packaged binaries for GNU/Linux.

Thank you for the info. Very nice app!

#10 Re: News & Announcements » Chrome based browsers and uBlock Origin » 2025-05-15 11:17:06

I am currently holding chromium / chromium-common / chromium-sandbox at version 134.0.6998.117-1 to keep uBlock Origin working.

Hello.

In my subjective opinion, this is a very bad solution. For security reasons. The current version of chromium is 136.0.7103.92....

#11 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Disabling IPv6 » 2025-04-28 15:42:04

Hello.

Dmesg show that ipv6 is administratively disabled. So, if it's disabled, it means it's not being used. Isn't that enough?

#12 Re: Documentation » How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire » 2025-04-17 12:07:43

Maybe .xsessionrc has a section for commands ran on logout?

Hello.

Check this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186450

#14 Re: Documentation » How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire » 2025-04-15 11:17:08

Do you have a suggestion how to automatically do so on a DM+WM/DE setup?

Use XDG Desktop Application Autostart: many desktop environments also support the Desktop Application Autostart Specification.

If your environment supports the Desktop Application Autostart, you can start pipewire by symlinking the desktop file to the system

/etc/xdg/autostart

or user

 ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/autostart

or

~/.config/autostart) autostart

directory.

If you are using a desktop environment, window manager, or Wayland compositor that does not support this, a tool like

dex

can be used to add support for Desktop Application Autostart, for example:

dex --environment <window manager> --autostart --search-paths ~/.config/autostart.

Also, pipewire can be launched directly from your window manager or Wayland compositor's startup script...

#15 Re: Documentation » How to: Devuan 5 Daedalus an pipewire » 2025-04-09 12:04:26

that makes it a Devuan problem.

I don't think it's a Devuan problem...I think there's nothing complicated about writing a pipewire to the DE or WM autostarting mechanism...

#16 Re: Documentation » [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus » 2025-04-01 11:42:46

I've never got nvidia to install even by following the instructions above. The msg I get is:

Install linux headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

Then install nvidia driver (for newer video cards) with command:

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends nvidia-driver

Or if you using older video card:

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends nvidia-tesla-470-driver

then, if needed, install nvidia-settings

sudo apt install nvidia-settings-tesla-470

#17 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Desktop app menu between different windows managers. » 2025-03-29 11:19:59

Another option would be to use j4-dmenu-desktop. It is a very fast program that can be "hung" on the jwm keyboard keys.

sudo apt install dmenu  j4-dmenu-desktop

And then in .jwmrc

<Key mask="C" key="space">exec:j4-dmenu-desktop</Key>

#18 Re: Devuan » Why sysvinit can't create init scripts by itself? » 2025-03-24 15:03:21

I am shocked the fools have not just dumped that AI garbage into everything yet like they usually do with such trash.

I agree. I think they will do so when the time comes.

#19 Re: Devuan » Why sysvinit can't create init scripts by itself? » 2025-03-24 12:10:41

Why doesn't sysvinit doesn't create those things automatically?

Because sysvinit follows a design principle which states that designs and/or systems should be as simple as possible.

#20 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » grub cuts the sound using HDMI-connection to a 4k-TV » 2025-03-24 12:08:19

Hello.

Just install package

xfonts-terminus

and reconfigure konsole with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

#21 Re: Installation » How to upgrade to devuan testing? » 2025-03-24 12:06:07

but seriously can someone please fix this pipewire? We using bash scripts to start it, it will blow up someday. I tried to start it up via sysvinit, but couldn't succeed.

Hello. For auto starting pipewire, you can use desktop (or window manager) auto starting mechanism.

#22 Re: Installation » SDDM is all white, can't even see usernames » 2025-03-20 12:47:52

on a multi-user system not allowing you to choose the user to login in with, certainly eliminates anyone using the system for a total security win...

Then yes, it shouldn't be. It's a program bug. And to be honest, I've never had such a problem with SDDM (I use sddm-theme-maldives).

#23 Re: Installation » SDDM is all white, can't even see usernames » 2025-03-19 14:53:36

At least it was one of them -debian pieces of junk that did it to me.

It is for security reasons. The login name is considered sensitive information.

#24 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Fluxuan-Daedalus » 2025-03-13 12:44:55

after re-design

Very nice design! Keep a good work!

#25 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] apt install: So where did it go? » 2025-03-07 12:21:12

but I am unable to convert them to .jpeg to upload to a website that does not accept .heif photos.

Hello.
Have you tried converting those photos using imagemagick? If you have it installed, open a terminal and type a simple command

convert namefile.heif  namefile.jpeg

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