Posts by Charon795

Charon795 · Other Issues

Camtaf wrote:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
So it is set to the US keyboard layout.
Is your actual keyboard a US model(?).

I don't know US model my keyboard or not. my keyboard is english and russian layout if you ask this
ps: given that dell are American manufacturers, maybe the keyboard is also American

Charon795 · Other Issues

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Most Dell-branded devices such as keyboard, mouse, external hard drive, speakers, do not have a Service Tag or Express Service Code. Such devices must be identified using the model number or name of the device. The label containing the device name and model number is usually located on the bottom of the device.

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inspirion 7537

Charon795 · Other Issues

I use 2 languages -
Russian and English
locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

Charon795 · Other Issues

Camtaf wrote:

It's more likely to be 'country' related - we (in the UK) have to change from American, quite often, as all the symbols are in the wrong place ( ).

I just used windows before and somehow did not encounter such a problem. Yes, even when the same ubuntu downloaded everything was fine. And as soon as I installed an unknown devuan, there were some problems right away ..

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

Hi all! I am a new Linux Devuan user.
I would like to install a new theme for myself, but I do not know where to get them from. 1 person advised to look for themes in the official devuan package repository, but I don't know how to do it.
This person also advised to install downloaded themes in your home directory
And to create a directory, you need to register the $mkdir .themes command in the terminal.
I write this command but it gives me an error:
bash: .themes: command not found
what should I do?

Charon795 · Other Issues

Hi all! I am a new Linux Devuan user. Faced the following problem: the characters on the keyboard changed places.
With the letters on the keyboard everything is in order. I write the text calmly. But when it comes to any symbols like a dot, then a real disaster occurs.
When installing the system, I indicated the model of the 105-key keyboard, although as I understood it was necessary to install the Dell Inspirion 6000-8000 model
I changed the model in the settings, but it did not help.
What to do?

Charon795 · Other Issues

rolfie wrote:

Show the printout of:
$ locale
$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
and tell us which keyboard layout do you have? Norwegian, Swedisch, Spanish .... ?

I can't copy information from the terminal. I press ctrl+c but nothing
I use Russian and English layout

Charon795 · Other Issues

Sorry. I'll keep it in mind next time.
When installing the system, I specified the usual 105-key model and now I have mixed up characters on numbers like a question or an exclamation mark
As I said, I changed the keyboard model to my own, but still, for some reason, nothing changes. As instead of an exclamation mark, she wrote the letter n with a round, and continues to write it. and I literally don't know what to do with it

Charon795 · Other Issues

stopAI wrote:

Hello.
You shouldn't play with the root directory. Especially with files downloaded from unknown sources. Considering you have no experience with Unix systems, I would advise you to install the theme you downloaded into your user home directory.
I would advise to make everything much simpler
Create dir
$mkdir .themes
And put extracted files to that folder.
P.S.
I also suggest you to search for themes in the official Devuan package repository. It really has a lot of good themes, which, by the way, are properly tested and compatible with the current version of Devuan.

Thank you for your reply.
And sorry for the dumb question. Do I just need to type this in the terminal? Nothing else needs to be added to create a directory?
I will only be glad if you send a link where you can download themes

Charon795 · Other Issues

The issue with the installation of the theme has been resolved. The keyboard issue still stands.

Charon795 · Other Issues

PedroReina wrote:

Charon795 wrote:
I tried to extract the folder with Colloroid to the path usr/shame/theme/ but I get an error saying that I do not have enough rights to extract to this directory
You have to do it as the user named "root".

Logically. How to do it?

Charon795 · Other Issues

golinux wrote:

Charon795 wrote:
Hi all! I am a new devuan and linux user. i have some questions and also i am facing some problems
Welcome to Devuan!
Charon795 wrote:
2. I want to put a theme from the following site: https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1661959
Chose the Colloroid theme. The question is how to install it instead of the standard one?
You can either put it into /home/[youuser].themes/ or in /usr/share/themes. You will need to put it into /usr to have the theme work on synaptic etc.

I tried to extract the folder with Colloroid to the path usr/shame/theme/ but I get an error saying that I do not have enough rights to extract to this directory

Charon795 · Other Issues

Hi all! I am a new devuan and linux user. i have some questions and also i am facing some problems
I need your help
1. Keyboard issue
I have a dell inspirion 7537 keyboard model. In the settings, I set the dell inspirion 6000/8000, but the keys are still confused for some reason. what to do?
2. I want to put a theme from the following site: https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1661959
Chose the Colloroid theme. The question is how to install it instead of the standard one?

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

rbit wrote:

Sometimes when a GUI application doesn't start up properly, it can help to start it within a terminal window.
Open up your favorite terminal emulator, and enter the command firefox
What response appears in the terminal?

i tried launching firefox via terminal like you said.
Nothing happens. The browser does not appear, and the terminal does not write anything in response

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

alexkemp wrote:

Some small notes to try to quickly key you in to the way Devuan works cf Windows.
The original Windows was a text-based OS that later (1995) got a graphical desktop added to it. They then later tried to convince the world that Windows was a graphical masterpiece and oh, there was a sort-of command window added to it.
Devuan is a software kernel (common to all versions of 'Linux', which is the Operating System (OS)) which has options for a terrifyingly-large number of user-shells. The shells - only one of which is required - are the means for a human to interface with the underlying OS to 'get stuff done'.
Software writers tend to be used to dealing with text, and therefore are used to working within a command-terminal, which is a text-terminal. Confusingly, these are often called "Terminal Emulators". There are a great many of them available (Linux's problem is usually "too much stuff" rather than "too little stuff"). The most common OS for the terminal is BASH, known as the "GNU Bourne-Again SHell" (first was the 'Bourne Shell", known as 'BSH'). There are also lots & lots of different shells that can be used in a Terminal.
The great advantage of text-terminals is that they require far less resources than graphical shells, and that makes them inherently far, far faster.
The next option to operate your computer is via a Graphical shell which, for Linux, is normally a version of the X Window System. Linux *always* starts in text-mode, then at a point during startup it will launch startx (or maybe the local-shell's version of that command), and the X-Session will begin showing you a GUI ("Graphical User Interface") rather than a TUI ("Text User Interface").
The default GUI for Devuan is XFCE which is renowned as a stable, lightweight Desktop. There are scores of others that can be used.
The final point to make is that, with Devuan, both GUI & TUI are on an equal footing. BASH is extremely stable & useful as an interface, as is XFCE.
That's a heck of a lot of 'small notes'. HTH.

Thanks for such interesting information, but..
back to the topic...
What to do with browsers?

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

golinux wrote:

Charon795 wrote:
golinux wrote:
What desktop did you install? FF should be installed by default.
When installing the system, instead of Xfce, I chose to install Gnome.
Why? I never could figure out the gnome3 desktop. That's when I stopped using it a very long time ago. So sorry, can't help except to mention the Mate desktop which uses gnome2.

as I wrote above, I am new to linux. Therefore, I'm not familiar with all these desktops yet. Gnome is used in Ubuntu and I more than liked it, so I installed it.
And judging by the screenshots on the Internet, MATE, which you mentioned, is somewhat reminiscent of the Windows desktop, and I'm tired of Windows. Want something new

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

golinux wrote:

Did I misread something again . . . sigh . . .
This is what confused me because I have no idea what that means:
I tried to install through the Chromium terminal . . .
What desktop did you install? FF should be installed by default.

There are 2 browsers:
firefox and chromium. Firerox was installed by default and does not start.
I installed Chromium myself, through the terminal using the command: "sudo apt install chromium" and it also does not start
When installing the system, instead of Xfce, I chose to install Gnome.

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

golinux wrote:

Installation of packages is handled by apt either via the command line or the synaptic package manager. Have you read this page?
https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

No. I have not read this page. In order for firefox to start, you need to install a package for it?

Charon795 · Desktop and Multimedia

Hi all! Recently finally managed to install Devuan daedalus.
Since I am new to linux and basically spent most of my life in windows, installing Devuan was difficult for me.
But, okay. Now it's not about that.
After installing Devuan, I wanted to open firefox, but for some reason it does not open!!
I tried to install through the Chromium terminal, but for some reason even it does not start
What's wrong with this OS?

Charon795 · Installation

good evening everyone.
in general, I tried to install devuan again, but not through live.iso, but through server iso.
As I wrote above, I had problems with server.iso, it gave an error about the absence of configuration files and then nothing happened
I decided to wait a while and to my surprise the error then disappeared and then the devuan installation window appeared!
I managed to install devuan as a result, only without a desktop (I did it on purpose)
Unfortunately, the original problem was never solved - it was not possible to install devuan through the "live" image, for unknown reasons.
Many thanks to everyone who responded so quickly and tried to help

Charon795 · Installation

HelenSmith wrote:

Only guess:
Bios,
F2->General->Boot Sequence->Boot List Option->UEFI->save.
If there is a Windows OS in the pc/laptop, and you choose install only one system,
when install the linux iso, please choose erase the old windows system. (Back up all your files.)
I installed devuan_4.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso, and chose "All files in one partition".
P.S.
Using torrent file can quickly download the iso, and can choose the only one iso, you want to download.

I checked. indicated by uffi.
windows is gone. I erased it with its sections.
I'll try to install via devuan_4.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso you mentioned
Can you please tell me with what program you used to create a bootable flash drive? If in rufus, did you specify the image recording through iso or did you specify dd?

Charon795 · Installation

Segfault wrote:

There is one step what may be failing, after UEFI GRUB is installed its EFI binary must be "introduced" to the EFI BIOS. If this step fails then you get this error. Presuming there are no other EFI binaries.
I'd boot from an external media and check if GRUB binary is present somewhere in ../boot/efi/. If it is then copying it to ../boot/efi/bootx64.efi will make your system bootable, this is the default location by UEFI standard and the executable there is found without registering it with UEFI BIOS beforehand.
P. S. You absolutely sure your computer has UEFI BIOS?

Yes. even in the bios itself it is indicated

Charon795 · Installation

Camtaf wrote:

Can't remember for sure, but one of the installations I did needed to be connected to the internet for the grub files to download & be installed - it may have been this one, but wouldn't harm trying.

Connected the Internet, reinstalled OS - did not help.

Charon795 · Installation

HelenSmith wrote:

Please try again.
Use another pc or smart phone to see the steps of installation guide, and install the iso again.
Please write down the details of the steps of installation.
I follow the below guide,
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … installing
diffrent from yours:
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … s/live-gui
You can check the bios, to see if there are any boot system.

the link with the instruction that you threw off implies the installation of devuan linux through the "netinstaller" and "server" disks
I tried to install linux with them earlier, but nothing worked. I just didn't even get the installation screen

how i installed os:
1) I created a bootable flash drive using rufus
2) Started the computer via a flash drive in live mode.
3) ran the install devuan shortcut and got the following message:
the dekstop file "refractainstaller.dekstop" is in an insecure location and not marked as executable
pressed launch anyway.
4) the terminal opened, the message "this utility will install live usb to your had drive" appeared
5) a message appeared: EFi partition found at /dev/sda1
6) installation options: check boxes 1,3,5
7) started gparted. created 5 partitions /dev/sda. (top right is /devsda (223 GiB))
8) installed OS to /dev/sda5 (142 GiB)
9) chose another partition for /home
10) chose another partition for swap
11) SUMMARY:
retelling of points 5), 8), 9)
dekstop autologin will be disabled, console autologin will be disabled, UUIDS willl be used crypttab, /dev/mapped/name will be used fstab
pre-install scripts are enabled
post install scripts are enabled.
clicked on the button processed with the installation
12) Next, I entered geographic area, locales, Set the keyboard type, keyboard layout, Set special keys, Set an encryption passphrase,
13) Confirm the installation partition.
14) system installation started
15) Install bootloader.
install otloader and finish the installation.
chroot: will be open an xtem in the chrooted installation for custom work.
/dev/sda1 should already be mounted to target/boot/efi/
continue: will proceed whether or not you have installed a bootloader. if not, you will need to have another way to boot this installation
abort: will exit the installer and abort the installation.
clicked install botloader.
- setting up grub botloader.. please wait .
16) configure hostname and username
17) Refracta UFFI/BIOS installer.
installation comlete.
you may now reboot into new system.
remember to remove your installation media

Charon795 · Installation

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

@Charon795, which ISO file did you download? Does it have a filename?

Devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_dekstop-live

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#26 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Messed up keyboard characters » 2023-09-07 14:46:28

#27 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Messed up keyboard characters » 2023-09-07 13:57:23

#28 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Messed up keyboard characters » 2023-09-07 13:36:44

#29 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Messed up keyboard characters » 2023-09-07 13:29:50

#30 Desktop and Multimedia » installing a theme from the official devuan package repository » 2023-09-07 13:14:23

#31 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Messed up keyboard characters » 2023-09-07 13:00:58

#32 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 12:28:22

#33 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 12:04:19

#34 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 11:46:15

#35 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 11:25:31

#36 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 09:13:53

#37 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 08:26:23

#38 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Keyboard issue, theme installation » 2023-09-07 07:10:44

#39 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Browsers won't launch » 2023-08-27 02:30:14

#40 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Browsers won't launch » 2023-08-27 01:47:22

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#43 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Browsers won't launch » 2023-08-27 00:22:53

#44 Desktop and Multimedia » Browsers won't launch » 2023-08-26 23:12:10

#45 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 15:36:27

#46 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 14:09:04

#47 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 13:53:37

#48 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 13:33:01

#49 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 13:11:40

#50 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No boot device. Press any key to reboot machine » 2023-08-25 12:59:15

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