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#226 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2018-04-24 23:12:59
Sade, Michael, Crimson, Zeppelin, A-Ha, Trower, Dead, T-Dream.... all most enjoyable music. Check out Brubeck very kool 60s jazz:
#227 Installation » ASCII KDE Install Success » 2018-04-15 20:48:20
- dxrobertson
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Installed ASCII Beta with KDE desktop and have it working very stable. There are a few problems in regards to polkit, as noted in other posts, but they are easily fixed. Here is my install procedure to get a nice running KDE.
Installed Devuan NetINST devuan_ascii_2.0.0-beta_amd64_NETINST.iso.
Touchpad would not work and could not connect via wifi, so used usb mouse and ethernet.
Install is typical with these 2 notes:
Selected devuan desktop, kde, and standard utilities during the install process, unchecked all other software.
Selected SDDM as login manager, but this caused problems; best to select LIGHTDM.
Install went well and was able to reboot and login to a nice KDE desktop. Initially had several problems; could not mount usb, could not access wireless... seemed something fundamentally wrong with permissions. Turns out polkit is the culprit (thanks to "Irrwahn" for a post somewhere that fully explains the problem).
My system had libpolkit-backend-xxx-systemd and libpolkit-gobject-xxx-systemd installed, this is the problem.
Remove libpolkit-backend-xxx-systemd and libpolkit-gobject-xxx-systemd.
Install libpolkit-backend-xxx-elogind and libpolkit-gobject-xxx-elogind.
This fixed all permission problems.
Other problem was with SDDM; shutdown in KDE returns you to SDDM login screen.
Removed SDDM and re-installed LIGHTDM and all is well with shutdown.
System seems quite stable and certainly usable.
#228 Installation » Upgrade to ascii » 2017-06-10 14:40:51
- dxrobertson
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Just wanted to report that ascii seems stable and usable at the moment. I upgraded from jessie to ascii and all went well, with the addition of a manual upgrade of xconf (it appears to be broken in ascii).
Proceedure:
change all jessie to ascii in /etc/apt/sources.list
=>apt-get update
=>apt-get dist-upgrade
then I manually installed an xfconf package
=>dpkg -i xfconf_4.12.0-0mx150+1_amd64.deb
I believe Devuan xfconf problem has something to do with d-bus. I chose to use an xfconf package from MX Linux, because I have it installed on another pc; probably most any distro package would work.
Its nice having a more current system, much improved; xfce 4.12, kernel 4.x, libreoffice 5.2...., have had no problems.
#229 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Slim - no user, password field titles » 2017-05-05 17:46:05
Thanks very much. I am using Devuan as the sole OS on 2 machines, very happy with it. Have had no major problems, working solid here.
Yes, I changed the various colors in the theme and the titles as well as the session now show up. Much better and not too cluttered.
#230 Desktop and Multimedia » Slim - no user, password field titles » 2017-05-04 23:53:27
- dxrobertson
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The slim purpy theme does not show any titles for the user and password entry fields. This can be confusing if you enter the wrong user or password; you then do not know what field you are currently entering. I tested with the other slim theme under the default directory and and it shows titles, so its something about the purpy theme. Could this theme be changed to show field titles?
I may add that the entire purpy theme set is attractive, very nice.
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