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#51 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan does not detect Huawei smartphone hardware! » 2021-06-10 15:47:40
what do you mean by hardware?
Ive only ever needed to detect the storage medium.
#52 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] How to connect to internet using 4G Huawei USB dongle » 2021-06-10 10:08:35
Is this dongle like those pocket wifi dongles?
I found this link which may help from a simple websearch.
#53 Re: Documentation » Some security configuration after installation » 2021-06-09 08:54:59
@Dice again, "Not trying to be a nitpick here"? You perfectly succeed. Knowing better than others what theirs posts should be? Wonderfullll! (I don't repeat Devuan howto from the webpage I link, obviously, I add an optional step.) Read precisely what was wroten: your posts are some kind of noise.
okay no need to be rude, i was confused with your wording.
meridian wrote:
1. Testing burned files before installationAfter the stage Writing an image to a CD/DVD or USB drive described at Devuan website https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan, add a test for the burned ISO files, which are rarely but sometimes wrong. Mount the image and cd into it, then:
md5sum --ignore-missing --quiet -c md5sum.txtThe ISO can be burned again in case of failed file(s), if they are important for the installation.
the mount the image bit instead of usb/cd or dvd caught me offguard. I thought you were mounting the iso file not the usb or dvd/cd.
So imo the line Mount the image and cd into it, then: should read Mount the CD/DVD or USB and cd into it, then:
#54 Re: Off-topic » Today I Learned » 2021-06-08 13:41:06
So today i learned you can install the window manager EXWM from inside emacs.
not very well documented on debian, but archlinux has a nice wiki on it.
#55 Re: Off-topic » Today I Learned » 2021-06-08 13:29:27
dice wrote:what did you learn today in the unix world?
I learned to understand about 1/4 of what you learned today.
Hey glad you did, its bare bones type of stuff, that most dont even care about as the desktop environments handle all this.
#56 Re: Off-topic » Today I Learned » 2021-06-08 13:27:52
Also, I just learned about using heredocs in bash scripts.
Yep they good to use for relaying info inside the script itself. You can use also EOM (end of message) or EOF with heredocs, you can also use PURPLEMONSTERS if you like 
#57 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-06-07 14:55:46
Perturbator "Death of the Soul" [Music Video - "Lustful Sacraments" - 2021]
#58 Re: Off-topic » Today I Learned » 2021-06-07 14:46:18
I learned that if I wanted to trim the front matter and end matter off of a text file so I could insert the text into an Atom feed entry's <content> tag, I could use head and tail like so:
tail -n +5 $filename | head -n -5Much easier than using sed.
that looks useful, do you use this in a script?
#59 Off-topic » Today I Learned » 2021-06-07 14:30:42
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That if you have have a fontconfig file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf the setting for monospace family fonts will set the line inside ~/.Xresources
*vt100.faceName: Mono:style=Regular:size=12to the font font specified in the the fonts.conf file.
I think this is only xterm behaviour though, possibly urxvt but i dont use it.
fontconfig...
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
<const>hintslight</const>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Noto Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Noto Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>PT Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>what did you learn today in the unix world?
#60 Re: Off-topic » What will happen to Windows? » 2021-06-06 14:54:38
@Altoid (and others) . . . Censorship is a slippery slope. This post may be stupid and irrelevant but until the OP figures that out and kindly marks it as "solved", just try to just ignore it. FWIW . . . I find it a bit embarrassing also. Devuan is better than this . . .
It will go away with time.
What i take from this is someone who is struggling to come to terms with the loss of windows because they have realized unix/gnu/linux can offer so much more. But in saying that, it must be hard to let go the familiarity of windows, you can see it in how people opt to create the look and feel of the windows desktop environment and then weirdly expect the functionality to appear because, "computer"!
#61 Re: Devuan Derivatives » List of Devuan derivatives » 2021-06-05 10:57:48
Camtaf wrote:CPU usage is of little consequence to a normal desktop user.
Those that need good CPUs are those that use their resources heavily, like compiling software, complex graphics, CAD, etc.
That depends on your focus, My x230 which has deuvan on it has 8GB of ram, so if you wonder why I use a lightweight window manager and try to keep memory and cpu down, there is a reason.
It's called battery life!
and power consumption, having the computer draw a few extra watts can make a difference to the power bill if you are on the computer a lot.
What is the heaviest consumer of cpu in the linux desktop environment, im gonna say gnome?
#62 Re: Off-topic » What will happen to Windows? » 2021-06-04 13:40:25
i just hope the linux kernel remains untainted as much as possible from the influences of microsoft and other big tech companies. I know ill never visit microsoft products again and if this trend spreads it can only be a good thing imo.
#63 Re: Installation » netinstall ISO » 2021-06-04 13:29:23
What camtaf said is probably the best way. Although netinstall should give you the tasksel option to install devuan desktop along with xfce, mate, kde, lxqt, lxde, desktop environments which should pull in a large amount of gui apps to work with.
#64 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-06-04 13:25:24
Glenn MacArthur is the developer behind the AV Linux project, a specialty distro for audiophiles. I got to know him a bit last year when he switched the AV Linux base to MX. He's the lead singer and guitarist in a band called Rated Blue which has a lot of original prog rock and R&B tunes on youtube/yewtu.be, of which "Mesmerized" is my current favorite: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=znZl9aT7F8U
His catalog is well worth checking out for fans of Zeppelin, Bad Company, etc, and to get a feel for some of the quality of sound that can be produced with a desktop distro.
Nice, thanks for the heads up andy, ill def check this out.
#65 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-06-04 13:22:20
nice playlist there starbreaker, me likey. Especially blue oyster cult and sisters of mercy.
Welcome to the forum 
#66 Re: Installation » netinstall ISO » 2021-06-03 15:10:28
It can be a minimal install or a full installation. What do you want achieve ?
#67 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to properly install and use Zram » 2021-06-03 15:08:07
You have quite the task ahead of you. Good luck and Godspeed!
#68 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-06-03 14:17:40
King Giant - Burden
#69 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to properly install and use Zram » 2021-06-03 12:44:42
@dice
Yes, I can see this, but I don't know, if I use sysvinit
I think I have the problem, that zram is not getting started on boot. If I understand the article right, then the script is just a option.
But ok, my Devuan works very well without zram, so for the moment is not priotity 1.
SysV-based init system is sysvinit just spelled in another way.
See what below command tells you, if you indeed have an SysV-based init system it will tell you.
file /sbin/initThe problem you are having is PEBCAK.
#70 Re: Documentation » Some security configuration after installation » 2021-06-03 12:34:59
@Dice, I said "After the stage" you are speaking of.
Not trying to be a nitpick here, but step one in your post should include both integrity check and verification check.
#71 Re: Documentation » Some security configuration after installation » 2021-06-02 13:52:48
You missed a step.
always.....
Verify the images
Installation images distributed by Devuan are signed so that they can be verified as coming from Devuan. Verifying images lets you know they have not been altered prior to you receiving them.
Get the Devuan developers signing keys and import them to your keychain.
user@hostname:~$ gpg --import devuan-devs.gpg
Use the signed SHA256SUMS.asc from the release archive to verify the image.
user@hostname:~$ gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc
A report of a good signature indicates everything is fine.
openbsd signify would be a nice addition for this security measure.
#72 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to properly install and use Zram » 2021-06-02 13:36:48
I come back to this older post.
I installed zram-tool and made the settings in /etc/default/zramswap. But it doesn't work yet, because zram is not created. I then tried to add it to autostart. But I don't know which command to enter, resp. where the executable script is. Or do I have to do something else?
I would also like the zram with lz4, if possible, or with an even better algorithm.
Is there any other method than zram-tool to get a zram from boot on Devuan?
That link says to copy the script kindly posted here https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam for systems using sysvinit to /etc/init.d/zram, are you using sysvinit?
You can clearly see that an edit can be made to /etc/default/zramswap to allow for a differnt algo.
#73 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-05-31 01:25:36
Very nice and pretty minimal dice,
Having a NONE dbus inside me has become an impossible mission nowdays (gtk3/devuan4/elogind/apps), although i did not take it seriously to remove it because i want to have some like transmission, geany etc... that depend on dbus.
...But i had a few questions i wanted to ask you on your early scrots.
Did you compile apps without dbus? or simply use GTK2 alone?
Do you have gtk3 installed without dbus? how about elogind, firefox? how they run without dbus on your system?
Your DeadBeeF i believe it runs GTK2 layout.Also do you use Xorg as a Root or User?
Forgive me for the extra questions and i hope didn't bother you.
Hi Nili, i got most of my information on how to not have dbus activated from this link > https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2158 .But probably not completely dbus free as the libdbus-1-3:amd64 library still needs to be installed. So no i did not compile any apps without dbus.
From what i can gather, firefox relies on libgtk-3-0:amd64 and libdbus-1-3 << (just dbus libraries), so not completely dbus free but again i dont have dbus activated by init? Yes i believe deadbeef is just gtk2 layout, but deadbeef is no longer available in debian or devuan so grabbed the upstream .deb and installed it as it has no reliance on dbus afaik. Im mainly a terminal user so i have very few programs using gtk. Instead of geany and transmission gtk i use neovim and rtorrent.
I dont have elogind installed.
I dont have xserver-xorg-legacy installed which i believe is how to run Xorg via startx without elogind so would that be using Xorg as root user?I do use xdm (x-display-manager) and use ~/.xsession as startup file so i believe Xorg should not be running as the root user?
edit: seems x-display-manager doesnt run rootless Xorg and do need xserver-xorg-legacy with Xwrapper set to needs_root_rights=no
~ % ps -o user $(pgrep Xorg)
USER
diceHope that helps
#74 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-05-30 13:58:51
suckless fanboy here.
kiss.
deadbeef.
no dbus.
#75 Re: Off-topic » post your interesting bashrc commands » 2021-05-28 10:33:34
^ faster than mine
i got 10.0 GB/s
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