alphaOS [closed]

[simargl]

Porteus/Arch aka Sensei (Porteus w/pacman package manager)

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=2386

For those that don't remember, stifiling was making Xfce versions of Archpup some time ago...

[simargl]

I have made patch for gpicview that allows setting wallpaper in alphaos directly from this Image Viewer. Button for "Set As Wallpaper"is added in toolbar and in right click menu on right side/bellow "Full Screen" button. Later I will change wallpaper.sh script, so it will not be so root-centric., means that wallpaper choice should be saved in $HOME/.config, not in usr/share/backgrounds.

[rameshiyer]

Now I am able to setup Static Wired LAN through Frisbee. Moreover, my 3G modem also detected in AlphaOS 9 !. Hope to connect ISP. Thanks for the same. What about Printer setup?

[simargl]

That's good news rameshiyer, I remember you had some problems with Internet connection previously using Pwireless. Now when those problems are solved I think this is one of, if not the most stable distribution based on Puppy Linux. Very competent people from Arch Linux make packages for us, and what is extremely important we use those packages directly, no need to convert them to pet format, click examine dependencies, and choose mirror manually every time. Everything is fast, bugs free, it looks like mission accomplished.

/usr/bin/wallpaper.sh is slightly changed, wallpaper can be set in two ways - right click on image file in Spacefm file manager, or with gpicview image viewer toolbar or right click. Config directory is now /root/.config/wallpaper/, chosen background will be linked to /root/.config/wallpaper/default.jpg and set from /root/.start when window manager is started.

[watchdog]

I had success installing and printing in alphaOS-9.0: HP Photosmart C3190 Ink Jet and Brother HL2130 Laser. My way is the following.

Step 1 -

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pacman -S cups

Put in /root/.start before "sleep 7":

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cupsd &

Copy the attached file in /usr/lib (uzip it).
Then in console:

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ln -s /usr/lib/libsystemd-daemon.so.0.0.10 /usr/lib/libsystemd-daemon.so.0

Reboot.

Step 2 - I had no success accessing by browser cups server but you can install printers in another way.

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pacman -S hplip

Install all suggested dependencies. Then:

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pacman -S system-config-printer

Install with it all suggested dependencies.

Step 3 - Right-click on the desktop, Applications, Preferences, Print Settings.
Add your printers and see if they work.

[smil99]

Hi yr1945,

...you won't believe this, but I can now print wirelessly...

Glad to know it worked for you ... finally . Hope others will benefit from our discourse too.

Cheers.

[Scooby]

/usr/bin/wallpaper.sh is slightly changed, wallpaper can be set in two ways - right click on image file in Spacefm file manager, or with gpicview image viewer toolbar or right click. Config directory is now /root/.config/wallpaper/, chosen background will be linked to /root/.config/wallpaper/default.jpg and set from /root/.start when window manager is started.

Does this mean you will remove imlibsetroot in next realease?

[simargl]

Does this mean you will remove imlibsetroot in next realease?

No, it will just add option to set wallpaper, using imlibsetroot backend, directly from gpicview image viewer.

Actually I'm thinking to add this program http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87851, after it becomes more stable.

[simargl]

Screenshot of the new wallpaper setter called gwp from Natan F. written in gtkdialog,

and my Control Center written in glade and vala for callback functions.

Now there are 3 ways to set wallpaper: gwp, right click action in spacefm or directly from gpicview. I've modified wallpaper.sh script so they all use same mechanism - imlibsetroot and cwp which reads data from /root/.config/gwp/last.

Control Center reduces number of items in the openbox menu. Make new, or increase size of the current personal storage file, Set wallpaper, Configure firewall or Input devices is now possible only from this Control Center, after openbox System submenu has been removed.

[smil99]

simargle wrote:

... new wallpaper setter called gwp from Natan F. written in gtkdialog, and my Control Center ...

Those are great stuff. How can one try them in V9?
I remember Nathan for his Grafpup of yesteryears. Good to see you around again mate .

Cheers.

[simargl]

I will leave http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org forum registration open today, if someone wants to join, then will disable it again to prevent spammers from registering or making comments.

[anikin]

Hi simargl,

Hope, you're doing well. I've done a quick test of alphaOS 9.0, mainly its startup routine. Will do some more testing and share my experience here later on. Both good and bad, in equal measure. In the meantime, I have a question, purely technical one: Can you apply the startup routine, as implemented in alphaOS to a classic puppy of your choice. So that, "xorgwizard" is taken out of the process, but leaving "quicksetup" intact. Can you make it happen?

Thank you in advance

[simargl]

Hi, I think xorgwizard in Puppy is started from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, and quicksetup from some script inside /root/Startup, so you can find xorgwizard there and comment that line to disable it. Every script from /root/Startup in original Puppy is executed when session is started, but that directory is not used here, instead of there is file /root/.start that sets background, tint2 panel, volume control and other programs on startup.

[anikin]

It's not that simple and the task is above my grade. The process is split into many parts, some moved to initrd, some to profile. Obfuscated, to say the least. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87662 I shouldn't have mentioned Quick setup as it is not related.

[simargl]

There is new Openbox release 3.5.2
http://icculus.org/pipermail/openbox/20 ... 08158.html

3.5.2:
* Fix crash in theme rendering code, and in theme parsing code.
* Maximize windows without borders to fill the whole screen, don't leave
a one-pixel empty space. (Bug #5996)

3.5.1:
* New translations: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Interlingua, Hebrew, Romanian,
Greek.
* Updated translations: Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish,
German, Arabic, Polish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Estonian.
* SVG icon support. This is optional, depending on librsvg being installed.
* Allow application rules to control window size with a new <size> tag.
* Allow application rules to pick a monitor for new windows without forcing
a position.
* Allow non-interactive focus cycling with a new <interactive> tag.
* New LeastOverlap window placement policy replaces the old default
behaviour. It finds a place on a given monitor that overlaps as few
windows as possible. Contributed by Ian Zimmerman.
* Improved Xinerama behaviour.
* Correctly interface with latest gnome-session for Gnome/Openbox X sessions.
* Allow third-party control of window opacity in compositing managers.
* Improved themeing options. Contributed by Dave Foster.
* Add <monitor>, <title type="regex">, <title type="exact"> and
<activedesktop> options to If action.
* Addresses bugs #4661, #5506, #5186, #5758, #5410, #5228, #5277, #5731,
#5746, #5737, #5419, #5721, #5711, #5385, #5500, #4992, #5443, #5518,
#5444, #4782, #5237, #5228, #5173, #5203, #5246, #5180, #5179, #5150,
#5132, #4937, #4889, #5253, #3769, #5819, #5811, #5081, #5426 among others.

[simargl]

I installed new openbox package from

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm ... 6/openbox/

with
pacman -U --force openbox-3.5.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

I don't like their new window placement choice, it looks like with some tiling window manager and it is too much robotic (better if they kept it random like before).

Window placement in previous version was perfect, now they have changed to worse.

[toppas]

Did anybody find a way to install additional broadcom wifi driver? i just can't get it working...

[simargl]

The GNU C Library version 2.18 is now available

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/ ... 00000.html

Already in the Arch Testing repository https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/i686/glibc/

Before they move it to the [core] repository, I think they will recompile all 6000 packages with this new glibc,

Than means Arch is still the most up-to-date, plus simple, fast and stable Linux distribution in the world.

[watchdog]

Did anybody find a way to install additional broadcom wifi driver? i just can't get it working...

In AUR repository there is a package for linux-sta:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-sta-dkms/

I ran the install script but I can't test the install because in alphaos the kernel does not recognize my hardware wireless' buttons... How to get working the hardware buttons of wireless?

EDIT: I made some progress. Successfully created the pkg from AUR but I need the source of the kernel 3.10.3-ALPHAOS to install and test by dkms the wl.ko driver. Can someone public the source of the kernel used in the last release of ALPHAOS?

[Scooby]

EDIT: I made some progress. Successfully created the pkg from AUR but I need the source of the kernel 3.10.3-ALPHAOS to install and test by dkms the wl.ko driver. Can someone public the source of the kernel used in the last release of ALPHAOS?

I think the file linux_3.10.3_src.sfs is what you want. check https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphaos/files

The link to it is availible from first post in this thread
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84870