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elroy wrote:nano isn't a part of lina-lite. mp is from the terminal, as is leafpad (in 004). However, the mime-handling isn't correct. You'd have to edit the /usr/loca/bin/defaulttexteditor to something like the following for leafpad to correctly open text files:

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#!/bin/sh
exec leafpad "$@"

~> which defaulttexteditor 
/usr/local/bin/defaulttexteditor

~> more /usr/local/bin/defaulttexteditor 
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/nano "$@"

~> ls -l /usr/bin/nano
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158660 2011-11-29 13:10 /usr/bin/nano
 

You probably don't want to remove any menu entry to "Open with other application...".
Being that lina-lite doesn't include default applications (other than leafpad) you may need this option to correctly handle the mime-types of your installed apps.

EDIT: if you wish for more automation concerning this subject, I'd highly suggest that you use Carolina instead of lina-lite.

sheldonisaac wrote:I realize you intended it for those who like to tinker. If someone will just point me to info on a few of the tinkering techniques, I will be very grateful.

Marv wrote:Attached is a pet for further testing. It eliminates the need for a custom mount command in the xfce4 panel mounter plugin. All the custom command did was make mount points for fixed disks in the system. The rules in udev handled the removable storage. It puts a tiny executable script in /root/Startup that makes mount points for all disks listed in fstab at boot. No conflict with the custom command or the pup-volume-monitor as they all check for existing mount points. It should simplify the maintenance of the panel mounter.

smaller than previous versions of lite.

... continue to make it smaller

elroy wrote:'lina-lite-005 is now available. Please see the first post on this thread for the download link.
Happy Holidays everyone!

elroy wrote:The long range plan is up in the air, but I've been considering the possibility of making an alternative version of lite down the road that consists of an adrive populated with very small versions of the basic packages found on most distros (browser, text editor, media player, etc.). I've been considering this in order to create a more newbie-friendly light weight puppy that makes use of the xfce window manager.

elroy wrote:'lina-lite-005 is now available. Please see the first post on this thread for the download link.

Sage wrote:Billtoo : no need of humour transplants amongst our Commonwealth friends! They've just been repeating FT again on TV; one of the most popular series ever. I know they've introduced a subscription service to iPlayer for foreigners, but some stuff may now be available without charge in N America? Not sure about 4OD, demand5 and ITVPlayer? Appreciate your advice on these, please, Bill.

mikeslr wrote:2 lite versions? How about a "bdrive" instead? with the ISO containing both. Noobs would have lite apps on bootup. Intermediate users could either --when installing to a 'lina-lite folder-- not include it, or delete it after bootup.With perhaps some modification of Custom Builder to designate whether the "drive" being built is to be adrive or bdrive?
Or alternative to the latter, what's the current statuses of Pet2SFS & SFS-combiner, or such? as each of us have our favorite applications that we'll want regardless of which Pup we boot into.
And a second version would pose a naming problem as there isn't any neat word for "in between" lite and populated. Perhaps if you renamed 'lina-lite to "Florida" you could could call an in-between version "Georgia".

mikeslr wrote:If lina-lite can boot to desktop without adrive, and geany (perhaps a basic version --who would complain?) were included in the "core," the default adrive could consist of small applications. Would an intermediate version of lina be needed?

mikeslr wrote:Separate issue regarding what to include when building an adrive: My apologies for not having followed developments closely, or failing memory. as the following may be well known to those who did or don't have that condition. As I understand it, the window-manager, Xfce, is included in the "core." Is that now xfce-4.8 or already 4.10? And which, if any of the Xfce pets --such as xfce-notify-- are NOT included in the core so that if their functions were desired they'd have to be included in adrive or installed? Lastly, are there any Xfce pets available from the repo which SHOULD NOT be used if the "core" includes 4.8, or 4.10?