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#51 Re: Off-topic » Haiku r1/b4 » 2023-01-14 03:24:42

...been playing around with it on-and-off for about a week...

...and still can't get sound to work. tongue

...but my wireless connection worked great!

smile

#52 Re: Off-topic » Lennart Poettering (Systemd) Lands at Microsoft After Leaving Red Hat » 2023-01-14 03:09:23

Oh dear...

This reminds me of something from my past.

Back around 2015 or 2016...when Archyness was really reaching its height in popularity...I had heard that Arch followed the KISS principle and only installed the packages that you needed.

OKAY!

That interested me, because I was used to building my system from a Debian netinstall. I had also built systems from the Ubuntu base (sorry, I don't remember what it was called)...

Anywho...

I had a list of packages that I installed on my Debian/Ubuntu systems for a bare-bones Openbox system.

I decided that since Archifontiferous was so highly lauded, I would try it.

I split my hard drive into 3 partitions, and installed a bare-bones Openbox system onto each partition...one with Debian, one with Ubuntu, and one with Arch.

The results were as follows...

Lowest RAM at startup - Ubuntu   (Seriously???  yikes Hahahahaha!)
2nd lowest RAM at startup - Debian
Highest RAM at startup - Arch

Lowest disk space used - Debian
2nd lowest disk space used - Ubuntu
Highest disk space used - Arch

Arch was last in both cases.

No hate against Arch, and I haven't tried this experiment since then...but I have no desire to use a system that claims one thing but does another... tongue  I guess their KISS philosophy is to keep it simple and install junk that users don't need??? I don't know. big_smile

If I want a rolling release, I'll use unstable on Devuan/Debian.

Sorry Archipontificators...  tongue

EDIT: To remove double words. By the way, it's Arch's fault... tongue

#53 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-01-14 02:41:16

zapper wrote:

has a crapton of ...

Now you're getting into my happy space! Hahahahahaha! Well said man...well said! smile
tongue

#55 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2023-01-12 12:03:31

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Jeff Beck. RIP.

Indeed.

#56 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-01-12 12:02:00

I have several things... tongue ...that I've built (aka coded) and include with MiyoLinux releases, but I don't think they're really worth making "repository builds" for; they're basically just convenience-items that I include on MiyoLinux.  wink

Perhaps My Crappy Radio Player and the MiyoLinux Update Notifier (which I don't actually include in MiyoLinux releases) may be of interest to some folks? I don't know, but I would be glad to package them for a Community Repository if desired.

#57 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » No sound from speakers - VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HDA » 2023-01-09 16:13:15

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The firefox-esr packages are compiled with the --enable-alsa option, unlike the shite Mozilla ship.

https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/f … fig.in#L32

EDIT: so you don't mind user studies being enabled? That would bother me.

Okay. Well see, that's why I said Firefox and not Firefox-ESR from the repos. The OP is using Seamonkey, and Seamonkey isn't in the repos. Therefore, I assume he's installing it apart from the repos. Hence, my assumption that it too may possibly require apulse in order to work out of the box...but I have no idea.

I disable all of those studies right after installing it. So unless something nefarious is going on, no, they aren't enabled.

#58 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » No sound from speakers - VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HDA » 2023-01-09 16:02:29

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
MiyoLinux wrote:

if you're using alsa-only in Firefox, the package apulse is needed to have sound

No it isn't.

Do you mind explaining why it isn't needed?

I don't use Firefox-ESR (or Firefox) from the repos. I use the packages from Mozilla, and they won't work out of the box without apulse.

#59 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » No sound from speakers - VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HDA » 2023-01-09 14:43:17

I'm no sound-expert, so these are just tips that have worked for me. You may want to wait and see if people with more knowledge respond before trying what I'm going to post here. wink

Assuming you are using only Alsa for sound...

You can look at this and see if it helps...

https://sourceforge.net/p/miyolinux/wiki/Sound/

Next, if you open a terminal, and enter the command...

alsamixer

...do you see a column for Speakers?

If so, at the bottom of that column, is it showing MM?

If so, that means your speakers are muted.

If that's the case, with that MM highlighted, can you press m on your keyboard to unmute your speakers, and then use your arrow keys to increase the volume?

Also, there is an Automute column that may appear if you use your arrow key to scroll to the right. If it's there, highlight it, and use your "up/down" arrow key to turn that off.

Is the issue with "no sound" coming from trying to hear things in your web browser (SeaMonkey)? I haven't use SeaMonkey in many years. So, I'm not familiar with it these days.

If I recall correctly, Seamonkey uses the same rendering engine as Firefox.

What I can tell is...if you're using alsa-only in Firefox, the package apulse is needed to have sound...but I don't understand why you would have sound in your headphones but not the speakers.

#60 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2023-01-06 16:57:37

scottish-metal.gif

This Dutch band really brings out my Scottish Highlander Symphonic Metal heritage... big_smile

Within Temptation: Ice Queen

#63 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2023-01-05 16:18:48

MrReplikant wrote:
golinux wrote:
MrReplikant wrote:

This would make a lovely addition to Devuan, I think. Maybe talk to the powers that be on the packaging side to have this added? If you're willing to maintain it?

Yours is not the first such request. There are many attractive and useful user-contributed "extras" but they are unlikely to ever be added to devuan itself. Why? Our mission is to provide Debian without systemd . . . full stop.  wink

Fair enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you for your interest MrReplikant. I appreciate it. smile

#64 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2023-01-04 19:12:32

golinux wrote:
MrReplikant wrote:

This would make a lovely addition to Devuan, I think. Maybe talk to the powers that be on the packaging side to have this added? If you're willing to maintain it?

Yours is not the first such request. There are many attractive and useful user-contributed "extras" but they are unlikely to ever be added to devuan itself. Why? Our mission is to provide Debian without systemd . . . full stop.  wink

wink  smile

#65 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2023-01-04 14:08:18

MLEvD wrote:

Yay! Looks much better in minty dark and green big_smile

Any chance of using checkinstall to create a .deb file install?

I had considered making a .deb file, but at the end of the day, I prefer for people to be able to unzip the file and easily see the scripts and what they entail...so that they could easily see that nothing nefarious is going on. wink

I always try to keep anything that I do as simple and basic as possible because of that. It's the "Miyo way". smile

Doing so will hopefully help people learn some basic scripting...but it may cause script-sperts (scripting-experts) to roll their eyes and look at me with a bit of...well...you know. tongue

LOLOLOLOLOL!

...but that's okay with me. wink

Thanks for your interest MLEvD! smile

#66 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-31 13:45:36

If you try the radio player, but you don't like the default orange icons, I've also uploaded some extra icons that are green. I like them better myself. tongue

Also, if you want to use any other icons, just copy the ones that you want to use into /usr/share/pixmaps and name them accordingly so the my-crappy-radio-player script will use them. Below are the names of the icons (along with the sizes)

mcrp.svg (size of 16x16 px...used on the titlebar and buttons)
mcrp2.svg (size of 24x24 px...used for the system tray)
mcrp3.svg (size of 48x48 px...used for the desktop file)

EDIT: Silly me...I forgot to include the download link...again! tongue

My Crappy Radio Player

2022-12-31-071702-658x440-scrot.png

#67 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-30 18:28:12

MLEvD wrote:

Please also add:

http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/live/shoutcast/mp3/eieuk.pls

and also selectukradio stream, thanks smile

New versions with the requested stations are now available...

You could just replace the my-crappy-radio-player script with the new one; however, after adding the new stations, I had to increase the horizontal dimension of the logo. If you just replace that script, the old logo will still work, but it will be slightly off-center. So I would suggest replacing the mcrp.png image with the new one (if desired).

I also updated the my-crappy-radio-player-about script to show the change in version numbers.

Thanks! smile

EDIT: Silly me...I forgot to include the download link... tongue

My Crappy Radio Player

#68 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-30 14:06:03

Since I'm having no idea for a third radio station, I've stolen the station from HOAS's post regarding "New Brighton Radio NPR".

#69 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-30 13:43:29

MLEvD wrote:

Please also add:

http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/live/shoutcast/mp3/eieuk.pls

and also selectukradio stream, thanks smile

Hi MLEvD,

Sure! I'm glad to help. smile

I have both stations working in the build, but it's throwing off the cohesive look of My Crappy Radio Player's GUI by adding only two extra radio stations.

Instead of completely changing the GUI's layout, I'll add a third station to keep the look of it cohesive.

...'cause I'm all cohesive n'stuff.

cohesive...

cohesion...

cohesiveness...

cohesiveprocity....

tongue

LOLOL!!!

#70 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-30 06:19:43

MiyoLinux wrote:

it's just a couple of scripts.

Sorry. I'm a stinkin' liar. It's not just a couple of scripts.

It's a coupl'a scripts...and...some icons.

i hope you can forgive me.

Tee hee...
big_smile  tongue

#71 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-29 22:49:33

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Oh dear, sorry Miyo, I'm being incredibly dumb. I just tried to run alltray. What an idiot I am...

Thanks for sharing!

Oh.

tongue

#72 Re: DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-29 22:24:55

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Do you have a link to the source code? I'd like to try this in Arch & Alpine.

You have http://alltray.trausch.us/ as the Homepage but I can't reach it.

Wha'the???

Dude...sincerely...thanks for the interest, but I don't know why you're getting that link as the Homepage. That's making me wanna have a stinkin' nervous-jerkdown! big_smile

The source code is in the download...not that there's a source code; it's just a couple of scripts. The link to the download should go to Sourceforge. When I click on it, it goes to where it's meant to.

Here, I will post the actual link...sorry for the problem!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/miyoli … %20Player/

#73 DIY » My Crappy Radio Player » 2022-12-29 21:40:39

MiyoLinux
Replies: 22

If anyone is interested, I've made a radio player with several different music genres of radio stations available...from Metal to Relaxation.

It's called "My Crappy Radio Player"...because it's kind'a crappy. tongue  It's basic. In other words, it's crappy.

It may be crappy, but at least it's crummy too... tongue

Two versions are available...

1) For systems with window tasks on the panel
2) For systems without window tasks on the panel

It's available here...

My Crappy Radio Player

Enjoy the crappiness! tongue

#74 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Where did obmenu go? » 2022-12-29 15:49:09

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

#!++ uses obmenu2, their debian directory is here. It's all MIT licensed so you don't need to ask Ben for permission. I'm sure he would grant it though.

Thanks matey.

#75 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Where did obmenu go? » 2022-12-29 00:44:43

As an Openbox fanboi tongue , I recently tried out Crunchbang ++...for the second time.

After playing around with it for a while, I took a dive into the "GUI Menu Editor"...I'm not sure how I didn't notice this before.

The developer of #!++ has repackaged obmenu to work on newer systems using python3. Not only that, but he also incorporated (into obmenu) the ability to add icons to the Openbox menu (if desired). yikes big_smile

I downloaded the .deb file from my installation of #!++, and I've installed it on Chimaera, Daedalus, and Ceres...it works perfectly on all of them! wink

This may be what the OP was looking for???

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