Thanks y'all!

First thing I tried was all kinds of quotes around the %f and %d and didn't work for me, but will go back and try again to be sure, normally that works in terminal but seems like it wouldn't work here because the entire command string is quoted.

@dice: cd is to first change the directory to current one, or it will drop all output into the home folder regardless of what directory you're in.

Okay, just tried the recommended double quotes again, still no joy.

@Golinux: Hi there Lady! Hope all is well down there, FYI we may be moving back home soon, so maybe i'll get to see ya! ;-)

I loved me some Crunchbang, favorite distro for several years, it's part of what made me want to make Vuu-do, and it is unabashedly crunchbang-ish. Only thing I didn't like was dealing with the menu, that's why I went with obmenu-generator.

Hey I zipped up the extensions I use in pcmanfm and they are on my SF section, feel free to add them to your accessories if you feel like anyone could use them.

I need to document a tad better, also need to update a little code to work with newer Imagemagick before I make an ascii version of a couple of them, the current stuff all works 100% with jessie.

Re-posting what I just posted from another pertinent thread:

I've never had to do anything extensive the times i've had a permission issue with polkit, edit the files in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ directly, you can spot the relative entries, it may not be the correct way, but it's quick and it works perfectly. The bolded part on a couple of entries in the udisks2 policy is all it takes.

You can do that in alsa as well, I see it fairly often as a lot of machines have an hdmi output in addition to the regular one and alsa defaults to using card 0 which is usually the HDMI output, simple solution is adding an .asoundrc file in your home folder:

pcm.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
 }

ctl.!default {
        type hw
        card 1
 }

(Note: I know you solved your problem, i'm just posting this additional info for other folks who might be looking for solutions and read this thread)

Not for nothing, but some livecd's write a sudo-nopassword entry for the duration of the live session so the user can use everything freely, but doesn't delete that entry when you install it, it breaks pkexec, and pkexec being the POS it is, when it breaks it defaults to allowing program to open with no password.

I think some of the people here and everywhere in the 'nix world that possess a lot of technical acumen and skill with computers, tend to forget that not everyone uses their computer that way, and not everyone develops exclusively for geeks like us, lol.

One of the primary reasons I do it, is for friends, family, and people in my community who don't have the money (for the dozenth time) to take their machine to a PC repair place and have it wiped (for the dozenth time) to get rid of all the garbage that has destroyed windoze (again) only to have the tech load freakin load windoze on it (again). The definition of insanity being doing the same thing again and again expecting a different result.

Most of these people don't have the time to learn what we know, they just want a simple GUI interface to everything, drag-n-drop functionality, a system of doing things they are basically familiar with and a small learning curve.

So that is always uppermost in my mind while developing. And so it stands to reason that while developing I should do as much as possible with GUI's myself, so as to constantly be able to test and verify that these systems work as intended, and if they DO get interested in learning more about linux and want to start experimenting themselves, it's very easy with the tools I have provided and is robust and well-tested.

I am already really pushing the envelope trying to convert windoze refugees to linux using Openbox, lol, I don't want to scare them off completely by taking away their GUI's.

Thanks for the kind words Stanz!!

Not sure why it's showing 27.6.2 on yours, is it the latest one? I just checked the build partition to be sure and it's showing me 27.7.2 as is this partition.

The XFCE power manager also works pretty well for me.

The mate power manager is a disgrace, everything is grayed out, none of the functions really work, I recommended it be dumped from the repo months ago.

Mate has really disappointed me in the last year, not only are longstanding bugs still not fixed, there are regressions now that are a big PITA. It's gotten way worse as they have progressed to GTK3, it's almost as bad as Gnome now, and with good reason as they are no longer anything like a fork of gnome 2, they are simply falling into line with the new gnome glitchware. It's embarassing really, windows 7 is more stable.

You freakin ROCK Golinux!

It starts with the kernel, which is 25 mb larger than the 3.16 kernels.

Continues with larger packages for firmware, drivers, X, etc. etc.

Next, it's important to understand that not everything on that iso is going to be installed when you build your system, there's LOTS of things you won't use. Using grub? Then you won't need lilo which is available on the disk, lots of other examples of this.

Want a 100 mb install iso? You can maybe build one if it's a CLI-only builder iso you want, but it will take some work for sure, I would abandon the netinstall idea and just roll up your own using Refracta-Snapshot.

Use the netinstall iso, do not install any DE's or printer support etc, once installed a lot of stuff will go bye-bye on it's own, then purge any other stuff you don't want, install Refractasnapshot and Installer + depends, clear out the cruft and squash you a nice lightweight base iso.

Working on EFI Vuu-do now...arrgh...lol. But needs to be done I guess.