It worked surprisingly well for me the last time I tried it, but last I checked it wasn't in the repo anymore for some reason, thanks for reminding me of it, I am going to download the latest version and give it a try again, it might be more apropos for what i'm trying to do with Vuu-do.

I wonder why it's not in the Devuan repo anymore?

Right-click that file, choose "extract here", next move the extracted icon pack into /usr/share/icons/

That should do it, you can change the ownership to root if you want.

Icons are easy like that, just drop them in the folder and when you next pull up your preferences editor they should be there.

New calendar is here to stay, works great!

But in going through and fine-tuning I had a headslapper moment, went to fully test the games and of course Aisleriot (gnome solitaire) wants me to load 50 mb of yelp crap just to display a help file that could be displayed in a text editor or dialog window. This kind of stupid is how bloatware is born. It was bad enough that to play a game of solitaire required about 25 mb of the game and dependencies.

Gone. Ace-of-Penguins works great. Wrote another little yad script so as to avoid multiple menu entries, when you click "Solitaire" it opens up and offers you Klondike, Freecell, or Canfield. That's good enough for onboard solitaire I think. And the help files work.

Total space used for all the games, help, and my script is under 100k.

Next Vuu-do (1.0.5) is looking to drop down below 590 mb methinks (roughly 1.88 gb unpacked/installed), and yet again getting smaller while adding more features.

Well, acknowledging for the moment that I and my wife are a sample size of just two, and hardware makes a difference, and all the other disclaimers necessary:

Extensive testing on several machines for me has very conclusively shown that Palemoon is faster than Firefox in every way that I have used it, for the most part it's a very dramatic difference.

It's reminds me of Firefox back when Firefox didn't suck completely.

https://alternativeto.net/

Gtksu looks interesting, is there a .deb package anywhere?

I don't see it in jessie, maybe ascii?

Palemoon isn't either, but the latest .deb from the Palemoon site installs and works perfectly in jessie.

+1, my experience with it has been better than recent versions of Firefox by far.

Well I was just getting online now to thank you and fsmithred for checking it because it was a bug on my end, lol.

I had been running my yad experiments in my old beater try-everything-and-never-cleanup partition, but when I tried it in one of the Vuu-do partitions the next month days were properly grayed out, works perfectly now.

I think now it's in the gtkrc, certain themes don't differentiate some of the colors or don't make them contrast enough.

It's possible to inject yad commands with a custom gtkrc, as I start fine-tuning this calendar thing i'll look into that, but again don't want to end up with too much code.

Got the thing working really well last night though, this will definitely be the calendar in future vuu-do's. Here's the command now:

yad --calendar --undecorated --button=gtk-close:0 --skip-taskbar --borders=5 --posx=-1 --posy=-1 --width=300 --on-top

This drops a calendar in the bottom right corner and unlike gsimplecal it's absolute positioning (as opposed to opening wherever the mouse is). It doesn't have the usual top with controls (min/max/close), instead it just has a "close" button at the bottom. 

This works good because you have to close the calendar before you can click the clock again (prevents multiple instances), this allows me to use one line of code in the tint2 clock command as opposed to having to make a separate script + an on/off switch.

A good example of what I mean about narrowing down packages and code:

I have 3 extensions in my Mate file manager Caja: Open terminal here (arbitrary locations), resize/rotate images, and a GKSU extension to let me open folders and files as root. With the common files it adds up to over 900,000 bytes, and in gnome-fashion (which I foolishly expected Mate to move away from) it uses binary files where a simple script would have sufficed, the binaries are ZERO percent faster to do their job than my scripts, and bonus: I can't even look at them.

In Vuu-do Openbox, all seven extensions and the scripts that do the resize and rotate functions add up to 3600 bytes.
And all are 100% editable by the user with a simple text-editor.

It's really ridiculous, especially the caja-open-terminal package at 86,000 bytes (plus requiring the common files packages at 629,000 bytes). Just to open a terminal where you're at in the file manager. This kind of nonsense is why I don't take Mate seriously anymore.

And last thought before I go: This kind of stuff is why I say there is PLENTY of work that needs to be done in the stable branch, I have more than enough to keep me busy.

Sometimes I think some folks who write code for Linux would better serve the community by slowing down and actually dotting the I's and crossing the T's and making things work well, as opposed to constantly dumping projects that are half-assed and moving on to half-ass some new code that will also never get fixed (the gnome model of doing things).

Using that yad command above? Or your regular calendar?

Using that command I mentioned, I get a calendar that looks like Mate calendar or gsimplecal in every respect, except it doesn't gray out the next months days at the bottom of the calendar.

Working on a "Crop Image" extension for pcmanfm next, that should be the last image extension as I only wanted to cover a few of the most common tasks so you don't have to open gimp. But this one may be much tougher to do. Viewnior has a nice crop image option that works exactly like what I want to do, thought about switching to it for image viewer.  Mirage is an awesome picture viewer and still works really well in jessie, but no longer developed since 2011.

I wonder if the Mirage dev would let someone else take over since it's been 6 years...it's really a featureful pic viewer and yet still has a small footprint.

Yet another awesome use for older hardware, thanks GNUser! I'm snagging your script

Used it to login and am now posting from it .

*edit* Realized the bank question was a good one, hadn't tried before, but it worked. Https works fine.

Complex sites are slow to load though, all that bling bling trying to load. And occasionally video causes it to crash.