EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

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scsijon · #1781 Post by **scsijon** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 07:52

A facebook front end with security and other features built in.

Caprine is an unofficial and privacy-focused Facebook Messenger app with many useful features.

Might be worth considering as an addition, I don't think we have something like this yet.

Rodney Byne · #1782 Post by **Rodney Byne** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 09:31

Thanks gents for all your help, alfons and others.
I too was surprised that the config file was missing
from the .pupradio directory, so made one via geany
and inserted PLAYER=mpv

Now pupradio is working normally, free from those
annoying floating modules of xine.
Regards.

scsijon · #1783 Post by **scsijon** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 11:49

thought i'd play a couple of my video dvd's and found a couple of problems.

1- right-click on the sr0 icon at the bottom if a dvd is loaded and it gives a menu including unmount sr0, however if you do try to unmount it, it opens the dvd player tray up correctly, but almost immediately closes it again and reinitializes sr0. It should leave the tray open until you touch/push the tray for it's auto-close mechanism to work.

2- and the big problem is that a dvd can be started, the music side comes out the speakers, but almost no audio voices (it's muffled to unlistenable).

3- you still have to use the Audacious Music players File>Settings to set things up, such as Audio for the overall volume amplification.

BTW, I'm reinstalling xine through the ppm to see if the audio problem is inherant or not. I think i'd still prefer it to the others.

EDIT: xine installed ok and can play dvd's with the music and audio both working, looks like there is something up with the others. Audio/music volume is correct too, with settings changeable from within the xine control pannel being acted on.

and an extra problem I found for you

4- Gnome MPV is failing to start, nothing appears on the screen.

scsijon · #1784 Post by **scsijon** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 11:54

Trying to disconnect from the internet seems impossible, it just automatically reconnects again if your using ethernet and tell it to "Disconnect from Network" via the tray icon.

That should be enough for tonight,

I'll do some further bug hunting tomorrow.

Rodney Byne · #1785 Post by **Rodney Byne** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 13:25

To scsijon,

after loading a dvd in sr0 to play, mine plays immediately,
picture and sound normally by default in mpv.

Perhaps it helps in Default Applications Chooser
to set Media Player at gnomempvshell then save.

Right-click on drive icon sr0 to eject & open the tray.

Regards.

rufwoof · #1786 Post by **rufwoof** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 15:00

Weird. Some time back and Barry had a quirk where when libre office was started the first time you couldn't save, but closing that save dialog and starting save again for the second (and subsequent) time(s) and it was fine.

Had the exact same when building a voidlinux today. Oddly, if I install all packages in a block Libre is fine, installed piecemeal however, one by one, and Libre has the first run of save doesn't work problem.

Not a issue for me as I've just opted go with the block install method (which in voidlinux that uses xbps package manger ...

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xbps-install -y linux4.19 base-system shadow xorg xinit xbitmaps \
                terminus-font squashfs-tools alsa-utils jwm chromium tilda \
                mtpaint mc galculator adwaita-icon-theme ccrypt xdotool \
                skippy-xd xlunch bmon calcurse htop ncdu curl k3b chrony \
                geany gparted libreoffice qt5ct guvcview audacity cryptsetup \
                kdenlive android-file-transfer-linux dbus alsa-plugins \
                inetutils dhclient alsa-tools gvfs polkit usbutils p7zip \
                usbmuxd wireless_tools alsaequal gkrellm yad encfs wkhtmltopdf \
                fzf octoxbps \
                gcc make gtk+-devel pkg-config gettext

BarryK · #1787 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 15:52

Finally SeaMonkey 2.49.5 has arrived!

The Linux From Scratch guys have figured out patches for it:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... onkey.html

But I am still getting a compile failure.

scsijon · #1788 Post by **scsijon** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 22:29

BarryK wrote:Finally SeaMonkey 2.49.5 has arrived!

The Linux From Scratch guys have figured out patches for it:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... onkey.html

But I am still getting a compile failure.

How many patches are you adding, i've got 113 available as of last night, do you want them? Some won't be relevant to us of course, as this is across all linux platforms, but a lot are.

You are building with both gtk2 and gtk3 installed I take it. It's sort of why I haven't had a go at it.

I also see they have firefox 69.0 there, not bad with only 30 patches, might have a go at building that.

scsijon · #1789 Post by **scsijon** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 22:45

Barry, another problem for you I fear.

I use 4 desktops, a for active tasks, b for local on-system background stuff (logbook, diary, etc.), c is communications programs, d for development work. Been doing it this way for decades (~early ';70's), so it's sort of automatic.

If I load all of them up with working programs (even if only loaded up and not doing or running things), i'm finding the desktop controls are sometimes loosing focus after the fourth is 'loaded' (in any order), can't swap windows, mouse does nothing, keyboard sort of works though (both keyboard and mouse are wired usb). Have to <ctl><alt><F1> and stop the x server (<ctl><alt><Fx> seems to be about the only thing still working properly), then shutdown and start again from 'cold', a reboot or xwin will allow it to come up again, but control is not properly regained for either the mouse or keyboard. Not every time of course, that would be too easy to track, but as many times as not, looks like there is a xserver problem somewhere.

scsijon · #1790 Post by **scsijon** » Sat 07 Sep 2019, 22:55

Rodney Byne wrote:To scsijon,

after loading a dvd in sr0 to play, mine plays immediately,
picture and sound normally by default in mpv.

Perhaps it helps in Default Applications Chooser
to set Media Player at gnomempvshell then save.

Right-click on drive icon sr0 to eject & open the tray.

Regards.

thanks, but i've already tried that, no-go. I also started again with the same result, I do like the debian buster xine though and it's plugins, better than oe's was, so i'm keeping that one.

scsijon · #1791 Post by **scsijon** » Sun 08 Sep 2019, 03:07

@barryK, thought i'd note that the problems i've listed all relate to EasyOS Buster 2.1.1, EasyOS 1.2 is behaving beautifully so far. I'm about to try it's patience with a bit of building though.

BarryK · #1792 Post by **BarryK** » Mon 09 Sep 2019, 01:39

scsijon wrote:
BarryK wrote:Finally SeaMonkey 2.49.5 has arrived!

The Linux From Scratch guys have figured out patches for it:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/vi ... onkey.html

But I am still getting a compile failure.
How many patches are you adding, i've got 113 available as of last night, do you want them? Some won't be relevant to us of course, as this is across all linux platforms, but a lot are.

You are building with both gtk2 and gtk3 installed I take it. It's sort of why I haven't had a go at it.

I also see they have firefox 69.0 there, not bad with only 30 patches, might have a go at building that.

I obtained several patches from Fedora, doing a compile right now. Will document it if succeed.

ejazjv · #1793 Post by **ejazjv** » Mon 09 Sep 2019, 08:08

hello berryk
if i close my laptop it can't wakeup system is running but screen is blank
thanks

Sage · #1794 Post by **Sage** » Thu 12 Sep 2019, 09:45

Default sound setting 60% too low at boot up. Onboard speakers on monitors too pathetic to hear the woofwoof and don't switch into wifi until ready to d/l, stream, w.h.y. Neither is the tray icon available before set-up complete and restartX, so cannot adjust volume until it's too late!

[ejazjv - not sure what your native script is Cyrillic? Arabic? Hindi? but the originator of Puppy is BARRY not berry. I think this has been mentioned previously.Hope you have the 'a' symbol on your keyboard, as in lap, wake and blank.]

Rodney Byne · #1795 Post by **Rodney Byne** » Thu 12 Sep 2019, 20:48

To all;

As per Barry's blog, to help satisfy those pupRadio buttons having dead links
that don't work, here's an extracted URL sample of overseas stations from my
collection that do work.
There's loads more where these came from and no doubt from other users
who could be helpful:

Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/res/streaming/aud ... _radio.pls
http://www.abc.net.au/res/streaming/aud ... nberra.pls
http://abc.net.au/res/streaming/audio/a ... tional.pls
http://stream.rawfm.com.au:8006/listen.pls

New Zealand
http://vps.worldfm.co.nz:8882/worldfm.mp3
http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/international.mp3
http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/national.mp3
http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/concert.mp3
http://shoutcast.classicgold.co.nz:80/mp3
http://stream.truelightfm.co.nz:8000/mp3

America
http://live-mp3-128.kexp.org:8000/
http://www.wnyc.org/stream/fm.pls
https://20603.live.streamtheworld.com/WLSFMAAC.aac
http://72.13.86.203:8000/

Barbados
http://184.154.57.230:8000/947fm128.mp3

UK
http://bbcwssc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcwssc_mp1_ws-eieuk

Miscellaneous
http://live-bauer-mz.sharp-stream.com/magicmellow.aac
http://media-sov.musicradio.com:80/ChillMP3
http://live.kuznetsovsk.net:8000/radiorelax
http://icy-e-bab-04-cr.sharp-stream.com/absolute70s.mp3
http://stream-tx4.radioparadise.com:80/mp3-128

Trust some of these work for you to fill the empty butttons.
Occasionally .pls files only work in VLC.
Regards.

lp-dolittle · #1796 Post by **lp-dolittle** » Fri 13 Sep 2019, 18:44

@ ejazjv

on a Dell-laptop, I can reproduce your 'black screen' problem.

There seems to exist a 'workaround'. When I repeatedly close and reopen the laptop, the desktop reappears for a short instant but just turns black again. After I noticed that the laptop's power button continues blinking constantly, I pressed this button for a short moment (less than the 4 seconds needed for the poweroff); and the desktop returns permanently and, as it seems, fully functional.

I hope this information helps resolve your issue

kind regards

rufwoof · #1797 Post by **rufwoof** » Fri 13 Sep 2019, 19:00

Running voidlinux at present (built using wiaks scripts), and I like its zzz suspend command. My laptop display turns off when the lid is near closed by default, but the system continues working. Which is a feature I like as sometimes I want it to continue working whilst being carried around with the lid closed. Manually having to type zzz to suspend is great as it can be suspended with the lid open or closed. Pressing enter results in ...yawn! closure of zzz and resuming as before being suspended. In short, manual control is better than automated IMO.

BarryK · #1798 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 14 Sep 2019, 02:06

Rodney Byne wrote:To all;

As per Barry's blog, to help satisfy those pupRadio buttons having dead links
that don't work, here's an extracted URL sample of overseas stations from my
collection that do work.
There's loads more where these came from and no doubt from other users
who could be helpful:

Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/res/streaming/aud ... _radio.pls
http://www.abc.net.au/res/streaming/aud ... nberra.pls
http://abc.net.au/res/streaming/audio/a ... tional.pls
http://stream.rawfm.com.au:8006/listen.pls

New Zealand
http://vps.worldfm.co.nz:8882/worldfm.mp3
http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/international.mp3
http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/national.mp3
http://radionz-ice.streamguys.com/concert.mp3
http://shoutcast.classicgold.co.nz:80/mp3
http://stream.truelightfm.co.nz:8000/mp3

America
http://live-mp3-128.kexp.org:8000/
http://www.wnyc.org/stream/fm.pls
https://20603.live.streamtheworld.com/WLSFMAAC.aac
http://72.13.86.203:8000/

Barbados
http://184.154.57.230:8000/947fm128.mp3

UK
http://bbcwssc.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcwssc_mp1_ws-eieuk

Miscellaneous
http://live-bauer-mz.sharp-stream.com/magicmellow.aac
http://media-sov.musicradio.com:80/ChillMP3
http://live.kuznetsovsk.net:8000/radiorelax
http://icy-e-bab-04-cr.sharp-stream.com/absolute70s.mp3
http://stream-tx4.radioparadise.com:80/mp3-128

Trust some of these work for you to fill the empty butttons.
Occasionally .pls files only work in VLC.
Regards.

Thanks for that.
They are all audio aren't they. Do you have any streaming video URIs?

BarryK · #1799 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 14 Sep 2019, 02:08

Expect Pyro 1.2.3 and Buster 2.1.3 in a day or two.

I have been chasing down bugs, see latest post:

http://bkhome.org/news/201909/running-i ... fixes.html

BarryK · #1800 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 14 Sep 2019, 03:41

scsijon wrote:By the way, i've noticed in /tmp/xerrs.log that the defaults-changer script is issuing an error each time it's run
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/usr/local/bin/defaults-changer: line55: shift: shift count out of range
default (****) changed to (****)... Bye xxx
each time it's run, not sure why though.
EDIT: btw the (****) lines are appearing for each of the default applications so it's doing it a number of times, not once.

It is the 'defaults-chooser' PET, originally created by sc0ttman and last updated in 2014 by shinobar, version 0.9.

I found three bugs in it, fixed, There was that shift out of range, also a syntax error when ran 'which'utility, and /usr/local/bin/defaultimageeditor is a symlink to defaultpaint which causes an error.

Bumped to version 0.9.1, will upload the PET soon.

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