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#101 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Games. Counter Strike 2 On Steam » 2023-12-19 09:08:02

Yeah, using Linux Steam leaves you almost on your own. But I've found a good place at the Proton GitHub. Here:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues
There you can find more info on the Shader Cache problem and several workarounds.

There are also another line of Proton you could try, it's the "GE"-line. Those versions can be downloaded and manually copied to the steamapp directory.  I'm running those for some months now.

#102 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Daedalus nvidia borkage with nvidia-driver 525.147.05-4~deb12u1 » 2023-12-19 08:53:12

Good to know! I was holding off updating one of my machines. Thanks!

EDIT: just updated and it seems to be working 100% Kernel 6.1.0-16-amd64 and Nvidia version: 525.147.05

Yayy!

#103 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Games. Counter Strike 2 On Steam » 2023-12-18 07:43:25

There were some problems here too with slow building of shader cache - every startup. But in my case I could disable it. Supposedly there is some minimal lag sometimes when the game is starting but I haven't noticed much.

#104 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Games. Counter Strike 2 On Steam » 2023-12-17 07:54:22

I play World of Warships on Devaun/Steam/Nvidia and it works very nicely. So I'm following this thread too! Good Luck!

#105 Re: DIY » Announcement of the OpenMATE desktop environment » 2023-12-16 19:05:02

Good job! I'm into Xfce but I've used Mate before too. Mate is nice and your goals are the best!

#106 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Strategies to deal with .xsession-errors » 2023-12-04 19:48:34

Think I finally found the right way to rotate .xsession-errors and save a copy too.
It is to use this script:

#!/bin/bash
for i in {9..1}; do
    if [[ -f /home/$USER/.xsession-errors.${i} ]]; then
        mv -f /home/$USER/.xsession-errors.${i} /home/svensson/.xsession-errors.$((i+1))
    fi
done

And in Xfce autostart run it as script at shutdown. At boot doesn't work since the file won't be written to. For some reason.

#108 Installation » Success! Upgraded to Daedalus again. » 2023-12-01 09:23:46

swanson
Replies: 0

Just upgraded my second machine to Daedalus from Chimaera with good results. I followed the procedure from here:
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … o-daedalus

But before starting that I disabled third party sources temporarily.

Everything seems to be in working order. smile smile

Thank you Dev-team!

#109 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2023-11-27 11:36:20

I'm reading a biography of George Orwell ("1984"). "The Ministry of Truth" by Dorian Lynskey. Really good! Generally biographies gives you a lot of history of the times concerned in the book. This book writes about circa 1880-1950 and touches the Spanish civil war, several other big authors of the time like H.G. Wells, just to mention one. As you might already know Orwell/Eric Blair partook in the civil war in the trenches of Spain. 

The book 1984 might be hot even today with all the Big Tech and polarization going on in society. But I do not know if I can stand re-reading it right now. The future doesn't seem too promising, I think. smile

#111 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Upcoming browser changes » 2023-11-23 04:01:26

golinux wrote:

Their shinny new shackles might be more appropriate . . .

smile

It might be time to read George Orwell's "1984" again...

#112 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Upcoming browser changes » 2023-11-22 19:03:15

"ad-blockalypse " is the word! I've just these couple of weeks changed to Firefox from Chrome on my main Devuan machines. This thread is really interesting and I'll follow it closely. I really really hope some open source will survive Big Tech and their shiny new clothes.

#113 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Strategies to deal with .xsession-errors » 2023-11-22 09:11:36

Made the above posted script as an init.d script instead. But beware, this init script runs the actual script as normal user - which is NOT recommended. Tested this and it works. The reason is that sometimes when an x session is running and the .xsession-errors file gets rotated, it won't be written to again. So running it at shutdown or reboot should work better.
Script:

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: /home/$USER/bin/logrotator for .xsession-errors
# Required-Start: $syslog
# Required-Stop:  $syslog
# Default-Start:  0 6
# Default-Stop:   3 4 5
# Description: Rotate .xsession-errors as user $USER, creates backups. Should run at shutdown only without X
### END INIT INFO

#. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
  start)
	touch /run/logrotator.pid
	chmod 600 /run/logrotator.pid
	chown $USER:65534 /run/logrotator.pid
	sudo -u $USER /home/$USER/bin/logrotator
	;;
 stop)
	killall logrotator
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME start" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

Actual script (home/$USER/bin/logrotator):

#!/bin/bash
for i in {9..1}; do
    if [[ -f /home/$USER/.xsession-errors.${i} ]]; then
        mv -f /home/$USER/.xsession-errors.${i} /home/$USER/.xsession-errors.$((i+1))
    fi
done
mv -f /home/$USER/.xsession-errors /home/$USER/.xsession-errors.1
touch /home/$USER/.xsession-errors
##Might not be needed:
chown $USER:$GROUP /home/$USER/.xsession-errors

Edit $USER and $GROUP to taste.

PS. As you can see, I do not know what I'm doing, so don't try this at home.

#114 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Strategies to deal with .xsession-errors » 2023-11-20 13:14:01

Altoid wrote:

Hello:

In my opinion, there's no need to keep .xsession.errors files.

They are generated every time the xserver is started and the last one is appended to the previous one, which is why it can grow to huge sizes.

....
That said, even with that setup, much if not all of the information shown is of no value to the average desktop user.
ie: not a maintainer/developer.

In my case, practically all of it is made up of (endessly repeating) Gtk-WARNING entries for which the only solution would seem to be some fix in a future version of Gtk (?).

Agree, but scripting is fun for an amateur. And once in a while the xsession-errors might be a saviuor. (every Blue Moon maybe) smile

#115 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Strategies to deal with .xsession-errors » 2023-11-20 08:26:26

Oops! On my other Devuan machine .xsession-errors was 830MB!!! But I thought I share my findings for a solution of the growing file size (not the errors smile )

Create a file like this in /etc/logrotate.d/my-xsession-errors

$HOME/.xsession-errors {
missingok 
notifempty 
copytruncate
compress  
weekly  
rotate 5
}

This will rotate the file weekly and keep 5 old files. Edit to your needs.

EDIT: added copytruncate because sometimes when the .xsession-errors file get renewed, it is not written to anymore (in that session).

#116 Re: Devuan » The insanity continues... BSOD coming to a systemd near you? » 2023-11-16 17:44:32

From the link above

systemd was originally born as a replacement for other useless init daemons, targeted for the Linux platform, which couldn't properly initialize the system.

It's really terrible! What's the world coming to?

PS Read the whole article
PPS I didn't. (Hiding in the corner)

#117 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Strategies to deal with .xsession-errors » 2023-11-11 18:52:39

Thanks for this thread! My .xsession-errors was 26 Mb. Big! Mostly BS, some GTK errors, the weather applet complaining, xdotool missing for some old script.

I chose ralph.ronnquist's no 2 script and running it manually for now.

#118 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] youtube-dl upgrade problem » 2023-10-30 07:36:36

yt-dlp version stable@2023.10.13

works.

#119 Re: Off-topic » Gnumeric Logic problem » 2023-10-25 12:29:06

Finally my two brain cells got it! Thank you!

=if(or(B281="Sat";B281="Sun");"0";"1")

(Sry for the very late answer)

#120 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Can't figure out how to play DVDs » 2023-10-23 14:33:17

Thanks for the solution @alexkemp! Works on Daedalus too. For VLC at least.

#121 Off-topic » Gnumeric Logic problem » 2023-10-06 08:50:46

swanson
Replies: 2

I've got to evaluate the strings of weekdays in Gnumeric- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs.... - and IF it is Sat OR Sun the result should be "0" or else it should be "1".

This far is OK; =if(B279<>"Sat";"1";"0") it prints "0" for true and "1" for false .

But this does not work: =ifs(B280<>"Sun";"0";B280<>"Sat";"0";B280<>"Mon";"1") it prints "0" every time. (Note IFS function)

It's a work schedule and it's keeping track of my days worked, hours, salary and stuff for each month. The week days are listed in a column.

Sorry to bother you all with this, but googling gives Excel and VBA hits that don't tell me much. Gnumeric man pages just gives me bare basics.

PS I'm not a student!!!!!

#122 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » What games do you play on Devuan?? » 2023-09-18 08:42:31

I play World of Warships on Steam with Proton. Works fine after Devuan update. I also have PlayOnLiinux and some older games like Battlefield and stuff. One other favourite is Linux native Warzone, but haven't tried it yet on Devuan.

#123 Re: Off-topic » Is systemd still bad in 2023? » 2023-09-02 07:18:26

Yes it's bad and it has even gotten worse over the years. Gobbling up more and more features. A big blob.

#124 Devuan » Long story about moving all my machines to Devuan. » 2023-08-30 11:58:45

swanson
Replies: 1

I've been using linux since 1998-ish starting with Yellow Dog Linux. Then Ubuntu since 2007 and then Arch since 2012-ish. Then Devuan on my DAW PC about two tears ago. Still using Ubuntu 18.04 on my streaming/gaming/TV main PC. I haven't used Windose at home since ten years, at least.

Because I have a big disliking to Systemd, I've been holding off updating Ubuntu till now. But today I'm working on transferring all my files, settings, games and whatnot from my Ubuntu to a new Devuan install.  It's a process but it's coming along nicely.

I've already got Devuan Daedalus booting my newer hardware with faster CPU and Graphics. I'm physically moving disks from machine to machine and had a UEFI hurdle at start. Turned out it was a missing jumper on the new machine on the clear RTC/CMOS pins. (after changing CMOS battery and upgrading Bios)  Fixed that and then began testing games on Steam and Playonlinux. Seems that I can just copy all the installation directories from disk to disk, without reinstalling. Good! Already tested a couple of games and they worked fine. Nice!

As said, I do not like Systemd at all, but I also don't like the way Ubuntu and others are going with Flatpak, Snap and other bloat. The turning point for me was when in Ubuntu, Systemd took over DNS resolving in one of its services. It created a lag when surfing immediately noticeable and unacceptable. Together with other Systemd problems like with Journald and it's huge files and the very cumbersome process of creating or editing services, it's very reassuring that some people - like Devuan team- see this and act accordingly.

I'm very thankful to Devuan for allowing me to have a complete DAW and a complete entertainment platform fully functioning and easily managed too! Devuan repo's are full of all you need and easy to safely install. I strongly recommend Devuan to each and all!

Thanks Devuan team!

#125 Re: Devuan » They say systemd makes packaging easier, better of the two evils? » 2023-08-30 11:29:09

My turning point with Systemd was when it slowed down my surfing by taking over the resolver. Systemd created a lag and it was unacceptable to me. I already knew about its history and Poettering, so since then I've been waiting to transition completely to Devuan.

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