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#27 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Any luck with the (Debian) backported OpenJDK-11? » 2019-05-29 18:21:25

Assuming you are running 64 bit - here is the link to download and install OpenJDK 11...   

https://debian.pkgs.org/10/debian-main- … 4.deb.html

James
Indiana, USA

#28 Re: Off-topic » Life after Firefox » 2019-05-12 23:49:02

I am using PaleMoon without issue. To manually enable WebRTC:

    Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit Enter.
    Click the button "I accept the risk!".
    Type "media.peerconnection.enabled" in the search bar. Only one entry should appear.
    Right-click on the entry and choose "Toggle" to change the Value column to "true".

If you want to enable support for legacy extensions again, set the "extensions.legacy.enabled" preference to true in about:config page. Now all legacy extensions should start working again. Just ignore the messages about possible incompatible issues.

What extensions are you having trouble running in PaleMoon??

James
Indiana, USA

#29 Re: Devuan » Why are pulseaudio files present in Devuan? » 2019-02-07 15:05:31

Apologies if this information is already known. Seamonkey, Pale moon browser nor Iceweasel support DRM at this time - which means watching things like NetFlix or Hulu that people pay good money for will not happen. As for installing PipeLight/Silverlight or MoonLight... does not seem to help with watching DRM content. As for using Chromium or Vivaldi... while based on Google Chrome - requires much tweaking and plugins, it feels not worth the time and effort to enable Chromium to watch DRM content such as NetFlix.

I dislike PulseAudio also and tweaked my system to fall back to using ALSA. But kept the PulseAudio files installed so I can use Firefox ESR to watch stuff like NetFlix. Even then I am sticking with version Firefox 52.9 ESR since Firefox screwed everyone over forcing upgrades that stopped plugins users love from working and even killed themes such as LittleFox and MicroFox - which laptop users like myself enjoy.

#30 Desktop and Multimedia » Trying to install Kodi 18 Leia beta - seeking help » 2018-11-08 03:20:16

James1138
Replies: 0

I currently enjoy running Kodi 17.6 on Devuan ASCII. I recently heard that Kodi 18 Leia allow a person to watch NetFlix without having to exit Kodi and go to a browser such as FireFox or Chrome. I added Kodi Nightly PPA to the repository list in hopes of upgrade but still been unable to upgrade 17.6 or do clean install of Kodi 18 Leia.

I even tried installing the Windows version of Kodi 18 using Wine but with little improvement... I can install the Windows version - but not run.

If anyone has already been able to install Kodi 18 Leia on Devuan ASCII or know someone who has successfully installed Kodi 18 Leia on Devuan ASCII - please let me know how it was done.

Thanks in advance,
James
Indiana/USA

#31 Re: Installation » Palemoon a browser that doesn't convince! » 2018-10-26 16:44:45

From Pale Moon main website...

https://www.palemoon.org/roadmap.shtml

Pale Moon supports and will continue to support the following features/technologies:

    Full UI customization
    Full theming (complete themes) and lightweight theming (personas)
    XUL and XBL to build interfaces and applications (including the ability to launch independent XUL-apps from the browser binaries).
    Full support for NPAPI plug-ins
    Overlay and bootstrapped (restartless) extensions
    Access to low-level APIs from extensions, allowing them to truly extend browser functionality, and not just manipulate web content
    Pale Moon Sync (in the secure, time-tested Weave fashion); it will be able to use any Weave Sync 1.1 compatible server, including some FOSS cloud solutions.

What is explicitly not on our roadmap:

    In-browser DRM. We continue to support DRM-capable NPAPI plugins like Silverlight as an alternative.
    WebRTC (Web Real-Time Chat) and media capture.
    Integration of "features as a service" like Mozilla has been doing.
    Extension signing.

...so sadly we must consider other browsers instead of PaleMoon for things like watching NetFlix.

James
Indiana/USA

#32 Re: Installation » A repo serving Pale Moon » 2018-10-26 16:26:18

Installing PaleMoon via repo or installing from deb package...

https://software.opensuse.org/download. … e=palemoon

James
Indiana/USA

#33 Re: Installation » Palemoon installation from source » 2018-10-26 16:24:48

This may help a little in the way of installing PaleMoon on Devuan/Debian...

https://software.opensuse.org/download. … e=palemoon

James
Indiana/USA

#34 Re: Installation » Odd mouse behaviour » 2018-10-26 16:14:26

What about installing "mdetect" and reboot? It is a small program that help auto-detect any mouse attached to the system. I use it any seen no problems.

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/mdetect

James
Indiana/USA

#35 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [Solved] MIYO and Seamonkey » 2018-10-26 15:59:17

This may help in staying up-to-date on your installed version of SeaMonkey without the need to add any repositories...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntu … lla-build/

I used SeaMonkey in the past but so far cannot use it to watch Netflix since it does not yet support DRM playback like Firefox does,

James
Indiana/USA

#36 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Anyone get Lutris working? » 2018-10-26 14:49:05

I must pass on Lutris since it is tied too closely with Steam - you will soon need a Steam account. And... Steam dropped support for us still using 32 bit.

James
Indiana/USA

#37 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » XFCE performance on old hardware? » 2018-10-26 14:40:10

I  used to run Lubuntu and Xubuntu. I found from my experience very little speed difference between LXDE and XFCE - if you use a few minor speed tweaks. First - install "Preload", second - turn off font-hinting and third... disable display composting. You can be amazed how responsive/snappy the peformance becomes. There are other XFCE tweaks but I suggest those 3 first.

Generally I found LXDE/LxQt  is too stripped down... to minimal for my taste. Nowhere near as as easy to customize as XFCE.

James
Indiana/USA

#38 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » How to upgrade Claws Mail client to Stretch backport » 2018-10-26 14:28:07

Thanks for the tip. Did that but found I shall stay with 3.14 because 3.17 forces a person to install Dillo.

James
Indiana/USA

#39 Re: News & Announcements » Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support » 2018-10-26 14:23:56

If Devuan does fade into history and there is only Linux w/systemd (yuck)... how long would us that use Devuan now continue to see support from the general Debian community? What I mean to say is Ubuntu LTS is a average 3 years support... what is Debian average support?

I know next to nothing about systemd but... guess we may have to individually take our own steps to avoid "systemdAM-IT"...
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.p … stallation
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.p … stallation
https://appuals.com/remove-systemd-ubuntu-permanently/

Worried,
James
Indiana/USA

#40 Desktop and Multimedia » How to upgrade Claws Mail client to Stretch backport » 2018-10-25 14:04:48

James1138
Replies: 4

I first added the Stretch backports to the sources list but when I then installed Claws Mail email client - I found version 3.14 installed instead of the 3.17 in the backport.

Help,

Thanks,
James
Indiana/USA

#41 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Seek advice on best fonts for laptop » 2018-10-24 12:33:22

Sorry about confusion. I was looking for fonts that use the least amount of system resources since I used Devuan primarily on my laptop. I already turned off hinting. I heard "Terminus" font was light on system resources.

#42 Hardware & System Configuration » Seek advice on best fonts for laptop » 2018-10-19 19:10:37

James1138
Replies: 3

Since laptops generally have weaker or no GPU built-in... any suggestions on fonts that are readable and DO NOT need hinting.

Thanks,
James
Indiana/USA

#43 Re: Installation » Installing printer drivers » 2018-10-19 18:59:25

I believe the answer will be "no"... but thought I ask anyway. Has anyone found a way to trick a Lexmark x9575 multifunction printer to work with Devuan/Debian? OpenPrinting website said the Lexmark is a paperweight and nothing found in CUPS works. The native Windows XP drivers refuse to install. I do not know if anyone found a generic setting and/or generic driver for printing. I do not even care if I remain unable to use scanner function so long as I can print.

Thanks,
James
Indiana/USA

#44 Re: Devuan » Offering to submit usage reports » 2018-10-19 18:52:17

Thanks for the tip. I went ahead and did that.

#45 Devuan » Offering to submit usage reports » 2018-10-17 15:49:13

James1138
Replies: 2

General question about Devuan. Is there a way to automatically send usage reports to developers to help (however small) in working on future versions of Devuan?

James
Indiana / United States

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