Yara OSX 3

[rufwoof]

Tried the Mint version earlier, only briefly as I'm more preferring the other version.

Frugal installed to HDD and booted using grub4dos with a menu.lst entry of

title Yara
find --set-root /yara/vmlinuz
kernel /yara/vmlinuz pmedia=ataflash pfix=nocopy
initrd /yara/initrd.gz

I've also set pup event manager value to -0 never save, so I can boot, make changes and a reboot doesn't store any of the changes, but if I open a terminal and run save2flash then all changes up to that point are saved.

I reformed the main tahr sfs using no compression as I found that the high level of compression version (as standard) made it sluggish.

I am seeing some reports of the menu/title bar couldn't load ... re-execute or remove type report/dialog. I think that's the population of a windows title bar content into the menu bar. So it looks like there may be a bug there somewhere ... at least under the relatively heavy usage I've tried. If/when I can pin that down more I'll let you know fmiguel.

The configuration/flexibility is extensive and great, I'm mostly unfamiliar with all of the choices so a lot of reading/learning for me personally to understand the full extent of configuration potential.

Playing a youtube and a mp4 and both ran fine, with sound from both heard ok and where the sound settings could be toggled between external speakers and USB headphones.

I've attached some snapshots of my experience with Yara

[rufwoof]

Attached is a copy of the error message I periodically see.

[fmiguel]

Nice, rufwoof. This message I think it may be caused by the use of an application incompatible with the topmenu. I'm working in it.

[mister_electronico]

Funciona muy bien, al principio me costo un poco por que lo instale en un pendrive, pero el ordenador que estoy funcionando la bios arranca solo con sistema de archivos ext3, pero funciono perfecto.

Ahora lo arranco por USB y va a buscar la carpeta taharsave al disco duro, pudiendo crear multiples tahrsave.

Lo voy a instalar el un portatil que tengo y voy a probar a ver que tal van corriendo los programas de electronica que tengo.

Me gusta Midori pero todavia no he encontrado la forma de hacerle mas oscuro la ventana de trabajo para que no me queme la vista.

Bueno voy a seguir trabando con esta distro, si necesitas ayuda para hacer correr algun programa o para otra cosa cuenta conmigo.

Un saludo fmiguel.

[fmiguel]

Hola, mister. Si buscas en Configuración/Apariencia encontrarás temas más oscuros para conservar mejor tus pestañas. Un saludo, y si encuentras por ahí programas -sobre todo si funcionan bien con el menú global- puedes ponerlos aquí mismo y yo subiré el enlace a la web.

[fmiguel]

Ah, rufwoof, I think the error message comes out when the compiz control center -ccsm- is used, at least on my computer. Can you -or anyone- confirm that?

[fmiguel]

Yara OSX 1.1 update in http://yara-osx.weebly.com. New icon theme, added more settings options and many important changes.

[foxpup]

Just have tried Yara on an old computer that runs best on wary.

I can run tahr too, but not palemoon because my cpu is SSE only. Since you have replaced it with midori, I tried your build.
I had it downloaded a few days ago, before today's update.

Frugal install, booted fine, but slower then the regular tahr. Midori stopped and the desktop environment worked slowly, sometimes stopping altogether.

So your distro, although looking very nice, is not good for older PC's.
I definitely will try it again though when I have myself a new machine.

[fmiguel]

Hi, foxpup, you can try to disable Compiz effects from the configuration, or even use the xfce default window manager just typing «xfwm4 --replace» in a terminal.Or try with this version https://archive.org/download/yara-linux ... 0-mate.iso. And thanx for testing.

[foxpup]

fmiguel
I'll try the thing with compiz effects

I am not at home in desktops but I presumed mate to be fancier, so heavier, then the default. What is the default?
But I am even more on the wrong foot with "OS X". That is Mac, isn't it?

Anyway, I 'll report succes (or failure) with trying your beautifull distros.

[fmiguel]

Mate is most lighter than xfce. Try it. It surprise you. OSX is for mac look, yeah.

[rufwoof]

Ah, rufwoof, I think the error message comes out when the compiz control center -ccsm- is used, at least on my computer. Can you -or anyone- confirm that?

Hi fmiquel. I tried without having run ccsm and couldn't reproduce the error message. Then I used ccsm a lot and tried again ... but still couldn't reproduce the error. Its vanished. Good that its gone, not so good that it once appeared without explanation.

Is there a way to have the dock at the bottom of the screen appear on all desktops? And set it so windows don't cover it when they are maximised?

Thanks.

[fmiguel]

Hi, rufwoof, and thanks for the help. To see the dock in all workspaces, replace «currentworkspaceonly» value to false in /usr/share/ocd/dock/dock-config file. Unfortunatelly, only has an option to be the dock remain always on top: in same file change «keepabove» to true, but I don't know if the result is it you expect.

[rufwoof]

Hi, rufwoof, and thanks for the help. To see the dock in all workspaces, replace «currentworkspaceonly» value to false in /usr/share/ocd/dock/dock-config file. Unfortunatelly, only has an option to be the dock remain always on top: in same file change «keepabove» to true, but I don't know if the result is it you expect.

Thanks again fmiquel. I now have the dock set to minimum show, appearing on all desktops and over on the left hand side, with fast animation (show speed). Working great.

I've also set up a desktop cube, with some zoom animation effect, so when you click on ... the calculator as a example on one desktop when the calculator is ready open on another desktop then you get a nice rotating cube switch to the target desktop. The desktop must be active however for that to work i.e. click on a empty desktop space. If a window is in focus then it doesn't switch.

Another change I've made is make the /usr/share/applications/ccsm.desktop to be shown rather than hidden, and created a dock.desktop that opens geany showing that /usr/share/ocd/dock/dock-config file

[fmiguel]

Speak it sound nice. Images, please?

[foxpup]

Hi fmiguel. I have never used Macs so I do not know how they look like.
Anyway, I have been playing with your puppies again.

First I have disabled the Compiz effects by unclicking everything in “ccsm

[fmiguel]

Hi, foxpup. Thanx for your comments.

To permanently disable compiz you need to include the command in startup options, or edit the file /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml and, where it say «<property name="Client0_Command" type="array">», change

<value type="string" value="compiz"/>
<value type="string" value="ccp"/>

For

<value type="string" value="xfwm4"/>

Before restart X. The system will be more fast and stable with that window manager in your machine. About the internet browser, I recommend you xombrero, is more light even midori. In this forum you will find it.

[mister_electronico]

Que tal fmiguel, no he encontrado el paquete sfs o devx con el compilador gcc y demas, todavia no lo has montado???

Un saludo.

[foxpup]

Thanks fmiguel for the instructions on xfwm4.
Yara now runs better on my machine. The flicker of my cursor occurs once in a while though.

In midori I turned off "turn on scripts" an all is well now.
Still have to try Xombrero; I didn' know that one; the vi-like navigation looks interesting.

[fmiguel]

Lo siento, mister, al parecer hubo un problema con el hosting, prueba aquí: https://archive.org/download/yara-v1.1/ ... _6.0.2.sfs.

Thanx to you, foxpup, I hope Yara like you.