the first version of shed, v.0.0.0 is finally out

https://codeberg.org/eylles/shed/releases

after this i plan to work on the rest of intended features, bash completion and a man page.

yep the printf didn't ran after the killchilds() function was done, that has been corrected now, also added a basic makefile, this combined with the reloading capability of shed working properly makes it easier to test changes and commit them as i go.

okay, now shed is on a working state i just have to really iron out the kinks, i'm already running it on my .xsession and did reload the session services, i would be really glad if anyone who has knowledge of sysvinit and init scripts take a look and comment on my approach.

Been on devuan ceres since december 2020, it just works, only thing ever broke was gimp, but i ran a sudo aptitude full-upgrade the next week and it got fixed, the obly other problem i had was with logs and cache filling up my root partition but ncdu took care of that, now i just got a cronjob to yeet all logs weekly.

Perhaps adding a patch to the init scripts that can use hardened malloc, so that they can read a config like from /etc/default/hardened_malloc.config to use hardened malloc in a local LD_PRELOAD

g'day m8, shoitstemd is crap m8, install sysvinit m8.

i don't get the obsession with getting an aur like thing into debian when the aur is trash, why not aim for something better, like nix derivations, that way these "independient" packages integrate better into the package manager unlike the hack that is the aur.

should suffice to add a .desktop entry in ~/.config/autostart/
something like polkit.desktop with contents like these:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Polkit Agent
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=eval "$(/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1)"

yeh, i know about the wiki entry, in my opinion using perl in an initscript for something that can be done with a simple awk command is rather dumb

for the script in the repo i added a couple extra facilites like restarting and status along loading a config file, u know to facilitate things a little for the folks that do intend to use this.

Yeh the installation is rough around the edges, specially if you want to install something other than stable, but i guess it is a combination of 2 factors.
1 the dev team size, it isn't large enough to cover every corner.
2 priorities of development, my guess is since there is an assumption that a large portion of the devuan userbase falls in the cathegory of experienced users the attention is shifted from installation and instead put into more urgent matters, like the current situation with php needing systemd in the near future (which i think is either already fixed or that already is a route to fix it)

late night posting, modified my post so now clicking on the image should direct to the full size image.

eh my rc.lua is currently a "here be dragons" while my dotfiles are at an "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here" state, i'm cleaning them tho, currently cleaning of my rc lua brought me to cobble together the volume slider as a proper widget, still it needs some work to do but on the meantime i created a repo for dashboard widgets, the volume slider is still not complete but works okay enough i still have to add functionality to change the icon when the sink/souce belongs to an external card or if the port is set to external/headphones, if you want to take a look here's the repo: https://github.com/eylles/dash-widgets

yes i do plan to eventually add the progressbar widgets from the screenshot too, just need to tidy them up.