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#1251 Re: News & Announcements » Daedalus desktop needs some love » 2022-01-17 17:20:38
Oh aitor! Thank you!! But do you have the time to take on another piece of Devuan? The task is not trivial. I'll post the request to DNG and -dev also. Let's see what happens . . . 
#1252 Re: Devuan » Devuan look and feel » 2022-01-14 16:37:26
With all that needs to be done, changing the wallpaper is definitely not on the to TODO list.
#1253 News & Announcements » Daedalus desktop needs some love » 2022-01-13 18:48:42
- golinux
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HELP WANTED! Devuan needs someone to take over the branded theming of the Xfce desktop going forward.
While I can still do colors, integrating them into the templates has become too much for my old brain to navigate.
The many pieces that need to be coordinated are described in this HOW-TO.
I am happy to mentor/collaborate as needed.
So who would like to make the Daedalus desktop beautiful?
golinux
#1254 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Wallpaper browse from ANY folder? » 2022-01-13 04:15:05
In Xfce, I just right click on any image that I want on my desktop in any location and choose the "Set as wallpaper" option.
#1255 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Beowulf to Chimaera recent upgrade.. issues, please help » 2022-01-06 18:21:25
Where are my styles though?
Themes are found in /usr/share/themes/ or locally in you user directory in .themes. All previous Devuan themes are still available in the repos.
#1256 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-01-02 19:58:49
This also dense reading:
In the 70s and early 80s, Sugar Blues and Confessions of a Medical Heretic and others exposed the manipulations that have gotten us to exactly where we are so no surprise to me that we are in this mess.
#1257 Re: Installation » I am shocked: The most official way to install Devuan is TERROR pure! » 2022-01-01 16:57:25
Plenty of different Daedalus ISO's from this page.
I stand corrected. The Devuan elves have been busier than I imagined!
#1258 Re: Installation » I am shocked: The most official way to install Devuan is TERROR pure! » 2021-12-31 23:05:17
Hi
First of all, I wish you fsmithred, as well as all forum user an Happy New Year for 2022! We all need that: Never did our world so much exigences to satisfy not really being easy to satisfy... ALSO BEST WISHES TO ALL!
You too!
But the major problem is not that: if I really understand https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan there is no DVD for devuan daedalus i686 :-) !
How to use that, what is not available?
The full list of Daedalus options is not available because it has not been released yet! It is not "stable" but "testing". That is where bugs are discovered and worked out by Devuan users like you.
#1259 Re: Installation » chimaera update firefox broken/ linux-image not updated » 2021-12-31 18:44:14
Isn't symbiosis great!
#1260 Re: Installation » chimaera update firefox broken/ linux-image not updated » 2021-12-31 18:27:37
Please use code tags when posting terminal output (as I have above), they greatly aid readability.
Your wish is my command! I often edit users posts to do that.
#1261 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 18:34:29
^ Well it's certainly one of my coping mechanisms, along with trolling. How do you manage?
In a few cryptic words . . . by not following the rabbit down the rabbit hole.
Data impinges on the eye, ear, nose, tongue, physical body and mind. Where we take it from there is a choice. We can either note the event and let it go or follow the rabbit into a Proustian novella of mental spaghetti.
With practice, the reaction to these events swings with less force and stays closer to a place of neutral observation. Like frames in a video the discreet events go by but the mind does not latch on to and follow them down the rabbit hole so over time there is less and less to cope with.
This is a taste of freedom from impulses that bring us so much grief.
#1262 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 16:08:20
Newton's laws have already been shown to be nothing more than a vague approximation, as has Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
FWIW I find Loop Quantum Gravity to be the most appealing of the current theories on offer but we don't have enough data to make any firm statements. Yet.
The human mind has infinite ways to entertain itself with excursions like these while ignoring the reality of the present and thus remaining mired in ignorance. 
#1263 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 00:16:20
Nothing that's been brought up here is worth arguing over.
I am seeing rather playful observations and discussions not arguments.
For me it's a matter of it being part of the fabric of society, as is our wrongly dated calendar.
There are many possible "fabrics" from which to choose. Why does it always have to be the same. All yearly observances for whatever reason are boring and annoying and . . . a great way to control the narrative. "Columbus Day" is embarrassing for any number of reasons . . .
Around Christmas each year I get time off from work, so I spend it with my family like most others. I don't mind adhering to incorrect traditional dates and calendars as long as the trains still arrive on time - no harm no foul.
There are many holidays that provide a respite from the day to day but only one that beats us over the head with nonsense for months in advance.
#1264 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-29 21:58:08
Thanks to everyone who has made this thread such fun! All of you are what makes Devuan so special!!
#1265 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 19:15:02
Modern BMWs are horrifically unreliable, sadly.
Ah . . . what's in a name . . .
Marketing!
And the sheeple "buy" into it!!
#1266 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 02:18:24
@MiyoLinux . . . Are you suggesting that the movement of planet earth around the sun is a belief? Maybe the earth is flat too?! LOL!!
Well, perhaps a flat earth belief is going to make it into your neighborhood school . . . You never know these days . . .
#1267 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-27 16:56:19
Thanks for a definition/description of the solstice. I assumed everyone would already know that but maybe I expect too much of humans in 2021 (which is also an arbitrary numerical designation) . . .
#1268 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-26 17:41:28
Very true. In fact the fantasy comes from the solstice...
Yes . . . humans live in a fantasy world. They rarely see things are they are but rather as they imagine them to be. The source of all our suffering . . .
#1269 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dual boot, can't do "update-grub" » 2021-12-25 20:04:10
Sorry for not knowing this, yet.
And Thank you to point that out and get my problem fixed.
The "problem" is not that your installation hit a wall. The problem is not reading the Release Notes BEFORE you start to install.
#1270 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] minimize,maximize buttons gone » 2021-12-25 20:00:41
Do I have to load them externally with the img tag?
Yes.
#1271 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-24 17:47:06
The solstice is the only event worth noting. All the rest is just human fantasy.
#1272 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] create new partition table on HDD, but not with root as owner » 2021-12-22 21:59:24
Note to nobodyuknow . . . I still struggle and get confused when I try to do what you're trying to do.
#1273 Re: Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 21:51:44
I think we could consider (in some way) honouring the name.
That's pretty much the process I went through for ASCII, beowulf and chimaera. Feel free to take over the task. There is a short HOWTO here.
But also note that #806A55 is a nice almost chocolate and nothing to do with green . . .
#1274 Re: Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 16:54:19
I like pastel green ...
Interesting that you would say that . . . the original color for jessie was going to be "leafy green" but it got voted down by devuan users.
If anyone is interested in taking on the theming of Daedalus, ping me.
#1275 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] WiCD and Chimaera » 2021-12-17 15:05:23
@Altoid . . . You might look in chimaera-proposed-updates.
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