@ceesians true, and there's also that option at the top of the file menu. I was just using that one as it's the easiest to test, since it doesn't require other programs and scripts to work, just lxterminal.

There's a half a dozen others I use and that's what i'm concerned about, resize image, rotate image, edit file as root, open folder as root, set image as wallpaper, view exif data etc.

Basically i'm reproducing the functionality you can get in Caja file manager in MATE by installing the extras from the repo, I really missed that one-click convenience when I started using Openbox and PcmanFM.

Okay, solved the krita thing at least effectively though I still don't know how it happened, logged into root account and it was not happening and there was a message that there were no "templates" installed.

Logged back in to user account and sure enough in the Templates folder there it was, krita appimage. And I was today years old when I learned you could put stuff in Templates and have it appear in context-menus, lol.

But I never put it there or downloaded any krita appimages, so i'm stumped how it got there.

My apologies, been a while since I did this stuff and I should have tested more before posting.

This weird abomination now occurs across all file managers in this install, pcmanfm, pcmanfmqt, and also Caja when i'm running a MATE session.

I don't know when it happened, or whether it was in some update I did, or third party stuff I installed, or maybe one of the appimages i've been trying.

But it obviously stuck something in the system files somewhere that makes it occur in all file-managers. Kinda freaking me out.

Newer pcmanfm gtk version will still just not use right-click extensions, apparently this started happening off and on about 4-5 years ago, about the time they started working with the qt version. It's really aggravating me because in the qt version they seem to want to work at least, they show up in the context-menu at least when you right-click.

Seriously considering using an older version that actually works properly and just pinning it.

^^^^The above reply by blackhole is how I have always done offline installs of .deb packages myself. Just got to check that list of depends and make sure you got 'em all, if so, this is by far the fastest way to install.

In point of fact, it's going on and is an epidemic, I have seen multiple instances of people with IT/software/coding jobs bragging online about how they don't really have to work anymore, they get chatgpt or others to spit out the code for them, they check functionality and for bugs real quick, then commit. And get paid a lot of money for doing it.

@ks Nice! My everyday machine since 2014 is a 2010 model Compaq laptop with a little dual-core APU, one of the hinges is broke, and the screen did some weird crap a while back like it's trying to become de-laminated from it's backing, so it turns the whole screen into nothing but weird colors, so I literally have to keep a spring clamp from my shop on it at all times so I can view the screen, lol. It came with 2 gigs of ram though, and I upped that to 4, so we're still rollin' and squashing up new stuff...it does take it's sweet time though.

Wife keeps telling me we can afford a new one, but i'm not giving this thing up, too much sentimental value, and it's been a complete workhorse.

Got a couple of desktops I built circa 2005 and 2008 that still work, lol dual-booting windoze xp and Devuan 1 with my first vuu-do experiments back in 2016-2017.

Ahh the beauty of Linux and not having to buy a new machine every 3 years!

2005, that would be awesome! But I think I have some to work on that are even older, lol, tagging this thread for interest, hope you get it working!

The world is not going to end any time soon my friends, take heart.

Been some issues with dev.devuan.org for a while now, couple of other threads on here about it.

Here's what's working for me currently in sources.list:

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus main  

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-updates main 

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-security main 

On my laptop, there is a switch to turn wi-fi on and off (f12), once turned off it persists through re-boots, and ifconfig confirms that it indeed disabled.

If you right click on the Network Manager icon in the tray, there is an option to enable wi-fi if not running, and disable if running.

Left-clicking that icon confirms also that wi-fi is disabled.

This all persists through re-boots, easy-peasy. Hope this helps!