Quirky Xerus 8.6 (Aug. 16), Beaver 8.7.1 (Sept. 21), 2018

[BarryK]

Probably should think about bringing out 8.2.1:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00621

[Pelo]

Some french are testing Quirky Xerus. It would be fine to create a topic in section francophone, Not only to help, but to promote quirky too.
3mn37 video in english available you Tube.
Just to get an idea.
Un developpeur compétant pourrait lancer Quirky dans la partie francophone, non ? Go !
To replace topic Quirky 6.0 officiel outdated. here

[rerwin]

Thanks for changing the "remaster" dialog to one about "Boot CD". However, the subsequent confirming dialogs still relate to "remaster".

Sometime, all dialogs related to the boot CD should be updated to use that term instead of "remaster".

[don570]

I compiled Gimp 2.8.22 and installed it in /opt
To launch it I took an idea I read on gimp page
https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html

So I wrote a script to launch GIMP from /opt

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#!/bin/sh
PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8.22/usr/bin:$PATH
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.8.22/usr/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

/opt/gimp-2.8.22/usr/bin/gimp-2.8 "$@"

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[don570]

To release the F12 key to Blender app , here are instructions.

Modify the file
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal2

by deleting the line

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<Key key="F12">root:3</Key>

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[don570]

I found out how to set the cron jobs properly on quirky Xersus by studying
how James Bond did it in fatdog 710.

He made crond a service that must be started by the root user
The file is /etc/init.d/80-crond
Here is the relevant part of the script

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#!/bin/dash
# Description: System task scheduler.
# jamesbond 2012

start_cron() {
	# static uclibc crond only understands POSIX tz, convert
	export TZ=GMT$(date +%z | sed 'y/+-/-+/; s/.../&:/')
	echo "Starting task scheduler."
	[ ! -e /var/spool/cron/crontabs ] && ln -sfT /etc/crontabs /var/spool/cron/crontabs
	crond
}

To make a cron job work properly I first make the change to time
for the shell session. Then I launch crond which reads the jobs from a file in the folder /var/spool/cron/crontabs

Here is terminal output in xerus..

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# export TZ=GMT$(date +%z | sed 'y/+-/-+/; s/.../&:/')
# busybox crond -c /var/spool/cron/crontabs

[zygo]

don570,
Your script starts with

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#!/bin/dash 

dash =Debian Almquist shell
Does it work in bash?

[radky]

Pup-SysInfo-2.7.2
- Add enhanced help files in MD and HTML formats for user-choice viewing in mdview or defaultbrowser (thanks L18L)
- Add de locales in optional pet (thanks L18L)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73101

[BarryK]

SQLiteManager addon for SeaMonkey (and other Mozilla browsers) is now a PET:

http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00623

This will be in the next release.

[BarryK]

Pup-SysInfo-2.7.2
- Add enhanced help files in MD and HTML formats for user-choice viewing in mdview or defaultbrowser (thanks L18L)
- Add de locales in optional pet (thanks L18L)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=73101

Good, have updated.

[BarryK]

Have overhauled Pschedule, it seems to be working.

Blog post:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00624

[musher0]

@BarryK:

Please do not forget to have a look at the advanced keyboard selection
manager? (Illustration of its splash is attached.)

As I mentioned earlier, this wizard gives the illusion (pun intended!)
that it is working properly until it emits an error message at final save.

I have the experience to insert my preferred keyboard manually in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, but not all users do. (For newbies: this is what this
wizard does.)

If it may help, also attached is a screenie of the comparison between the
xkbConfigurationManager folder in DPupStretch (top) and Quirky-8.2
"xerus" (bottom). (The diff utility was next to useless to do this type of
comparison.)

As you can see, all the file sizes are different, except for that of the
MakeList file.

TIA.

[don570]

don570,
Your script starts with
Code:
#!/bin/dash

dash =Debian Almquist shell
Does it work in bash?

You can check if distro supports dash by typing /bin/dash in terminal.
I got script from fatdog linux which obviously does support it.
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[don570]

The first app I install is pfind plus
to find things quickly with a right click.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=110596
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[BarryK]

One other thing that I noticed is that I couldn't change my keyboard layout
to the qc keyboard. The intermediate steps for 105-keys international
keyboard, and choice of layout went ok, but the final saving gave me an
error, the changes were not registered. So I was stuck with the US default
keyboard, which is a pain, since I'm not used to it.

I have found what looks like a significant bug in Advanced Xorg Config Wizard. Fixing it now.

[musher0]

One other thing that I noticed is that I couldn't change my keyboard layout
to the qc keyboard. The intermediate steps for 105-keys international
keyboard, and choice of layout went ok, but the final saving gave me an
error, the changes were not registered. So I was stuck with the US default
keyboard, which is a pain, since I'm not used to it.

I have found what looks like a significant bug in Advanced Xorg Config Wizard. Fixing it now.

Thanks, Barry.

Here's another reason:

the xkb wizard cannot load a keyboard that isn't there, can it?!
(As Aristotle would have put it!)

Please see attached pic.

It's not just the qc (quebec) keyboard that's missing. I noticed there was a
discrepancy in number of about 10 keyboards between the ones in the
DPupStretch-7 and the ones in Quirky-8.2.

IHTH. BFN.

[BarryK]

To release the F12 key to Blender app , here are instructions.

Modify the file
/root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal2

by deleting the line

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<Key key="F12">root:3</Key>

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OK, jwmconfig2 pet package modified.

[BarryK]

Thanks for changing the "remaster" dialog to one about "Boot CD". However, the subsequent confirming dialogs still relate to "remaster".

Sometime, all dialogs related to the boot CD should be updated to use that term instead of "remaster".

OK, fixed.

[BarryK]

Quirky Xerus 8.2 for x86_64

- Some libraries are missing :

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# ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3
	libreglo.so => not found
	libunoidllo.so => not found
	libxmlreaderlo.so => not found

They are not missing, libreoffice knows where they are -- in /usr/lib/libreoffice/program

Many apps have their own libs, that ldd does not know about.

[mysticmarks]

It looks really good Barry. I'll be running the dog for a few laps this week.