zapper wrote:

  $HOME/Zeal/Music*/*.{opus}

I think bash doesn't handle braces around singleton option well; it only works well when there are options. And it also has to find some * match for every option otherwise it results in the glob string itself. Though, perhaps inserting a prior

shopt -s nullglob

changes that.

Thus, in effect, all those selections ending {opus} end up as "bad pathnames" when picked for the later play command.

In other words, remove the braces for all {opus} and insert that shopt command, and then it hopefully will work consistently.

dice wrote:

Today i learned about this very cool link.

https://oldcomputers.net/

Steve's Old Computer Museum!

Early personal computers were nothing like present day computers - they had personality!
Each was different and more exciting than the previous, with new features and capabilities.
old computer This website is dedicated to the preservation and display of these vintage computer systems.
To the left you can "click" and explore old computers from the dawn of time!
For fun, view 150 old computers all at the same time to appreciate how diverse and interesting they are

Bet you guys didn't know before now that my Commodore 64 was the highest selling computer system ever. I wonder how many of those original 17 million systems are now running Beowulf like mine? Must be at least 5 million machines, I'm thinking.

The script could be something simple, like

#!/bin/bash
AUDIO=( $HOME/folder*/*.{wav,mp3,ogg} )
LENGTH=${#AUDIO[@]}
PICK=$(( RANDOM % $LENGTH ))
play ${AUDIO[${PICK}]}

Then it depends on which display management you are using; with xfce4 you would go to "Settings":"Session and Startup" and add a new entry for "Application Autorstart" and there point at your executable script. That would set it up so that that script gets executed upon login.

If you want it tied to console login you might add it to your ".bashlogin", or similar depending on which shell you are using.

I suspected that switching files out might break other things and was going to start investigating after a good night's sleep.  Looks like sgage and  fsmithred and ToZ on the Xfce forum saved me the headache. Gtk-3 is such a pox . . .

zapper wrote:

golinux wrote:

A glass that is full and overflowing cannot hold wine or wisdom.  Fear and desperation can manifest in infinite ways . . .

I suppose I am sometimes full of myself,  my bad...

Though I still think ideology is impossible to avoid, good or bad?

@ zapper . . .That was just a general observation about this thread and not directed at you.

"Minimalism" -  is that which allows you to do what you want with the least amount of fuss - not necessarily the absolute smallest program....

At the moment I'm working on my own project, it's called LinuC. Perhaps this project will one day also lead to a LinuC OS, which is based on the above 4 distributions and takes over the positive from all of them? If God willing, yes!

Until then, I'll just work on my project every day and hope it will be a success. My "warnings" are formulated in general terms, but I plan to include detailed warnings in the individual distributions so that other users know what they are risking.

linuc.mipropia.com/

At the moment I am still working with antiX, even if I wish it was a goodX, an antiX without anti-ideology. And I also hope that Devuan will one day be free of ideology, because it is already systemd free. Come back to the normal world and forget about the ideological world, because ideologies are just fantasies of unstable people who have let themselves be caught! By whom? You know exactly

Have a nice weekend

Do not use bloated window managers. Just use dwm

zapper wrote:

x86 is also a huge and stupid problem. 

On a semi related note, corporations are dangerous without actual checks and balances.

There is a reason x86 was often dubbed "wintel".

MS hijacked that market from IBM who admittedly probably got what they deserved and again with OS/2.  Their were casualties along the way along with, most notably, CP/M, and others of course. Everything that has occurred since has been at the behest of Microsoft, including UEFI and Secureboot, often to the rapturous applause of some Linux fans (quoting some developer on the payroll of AMD, Intel, Microsoft or whoever as they gush about meaningless quasi security). If things had worked out differently you might have had two Apples instead of one and no "open" x86 hardware. It's hard to say, but old MS may have been a "necessary evil", whereas new MS are just evil. EEE didn't just stop, it was simply adapted to the times.

The reality is that MS' secret deals with its OEMs continues, alternative OS are still frozen out of new PC sales and closed source firmware is the norm.  The Intel Management Engine may not be the worst thing they will devise...

I've kept my hand in with BSD ever since systemd became a reality - too much Corporate interference going on in Linuxland - I'll be ready, if I have to...