X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

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Marv · #1066 Post by **Marv** » Sun 07 Aug 2016, 02:42

Finally updated the X-Slacko 4.0 on the Bay Trail desktop. No problems noted, Samba shares, printers, autoconnection to wired ethernet on startup all correct. In the summer, this box pretty much sits in the cellar as a NAS box. I use it more in the winter as the woodstove is down here. At any rate, it serves reliably and using minimal power and had been running 4.0 nonstop since its release.

video-info-glx 1.5.1 Sat 6 Aug 2016 on X-Slacko 4.2 Linux 3.14.56 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ValleyView Gen7 (rev 0c)

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.14.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.1.7

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz
Core 0: @1332 1: @1332 2: @1409 3: @1332 MHz

Cheers,

Pelo · #1067 Post by **Pelo** » Sun 07 Aug 2016, 05:50

Aide XFCE pour les francophones topic créé ici. Medor as Linux Helper.
XFCE : Help topic for french speaking people in forum francophone. We will translate English how-to to French, if needed by you
That is to promote XFCE.. ( abandoned a little bit since XFCE 410fr by Jejy69)
Medor is XFCE user, he speak french and Linux well.

Belham · #1068 Post by **Belham** » Mon 08 Aug 2016, 17:36

Nice job on this distro, rg66! XFCE is always a pleasure to use. Put it on a SDHC card partition and everything runs smooth & good, handles multiple screens well, video and sound, honestly cannot find anything wrong with it. Good job!!

rg66 · #1069 Post by **rg66** » Mon 08 Aug 2016, 17:45

Belham wrote:Nice job on this distro, rg66! XFCE is always a pleasure to use. Put it on a SDHC card partition and everything runs smooth & good, handles multiple screens well, video and sound, honestly cannot find anything wrong with it. Good job!!

Thank you, I really appreciate it. I already have a small to-do list but nothing too important. I'll wait for a while before releasing v4.3.

Billtoo · #1070 Post by **Billtoo** » Mon 08 Aug 2016, 19:32

I compiled wine-1.9.16 and tried to get kodi to run, kodi-15.2 was close to
working well but couldn't play videos.
Xbmc-13.2 Gotham is working okay but many addons are no longer
supported.

Billtoo · #1071 Post by **Billtoo** » Thu 11 Aug 2016, 16:05

I saw a fast 32gb SDHC card locally so I bought one and did a manual frugal
install,computer is an Acer desktop.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Thu 11 Aug 2016 on X-Slacko 4.2 Linux 3.14.56 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18 )

X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.14.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.7

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Core 0: @3067 1: @1200 2: @3067 3: @1200 MHz

I added applications with PPM + pets + compiled some.

Works well.

Billtoo · #1072 Post by **Billtoo** » Fri 12 Aug 2016, 19:49

I did a manual frugal install to the hard drive of my 12 year old
COMPAQ Presari S6700NX desktop:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Fri 12 Aug 2016 on X-Slacko 4.2 Linux 3.14.56 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: AMD/ATI [Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.] RV530 [Radeon X1600 PRO]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: radeon
X.Org version: 1.14.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.7

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Core 0: @2800 1: @2800 MHz

It's been upgraded from original with a better graphics card, sound card, and added
1gb ram, also using a usb DVD drive.

I added applications with PPM + pets + compiled some.

It's working well.

EDIT: I compiled wine-1.9.16 on this COMPAQ (took a little over 2
hours) and run XBMC-13.2 under wine.
It works pretty well.

Pete · #1073 Post by **Pete** » Mon 15 Aug 2016, 22:06

@rg66

Xslacko looks interesting and will try it out.
However, I didn't see a devx sfs for it, does one exist?, can one use the Slacko 6.3.2 version or is everything required already part of Xslacko hence no need for the devx sfs?

rg66 · #1074 Post by **rg66** » Tue 16 Aug 2016, 04:14

@Pete, just use the slacko-6.3.2 devx. If you need to compile Xfce stuff you might also need the Xfce dev files.

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/testi ... 12_DEV.pet.

For virtualbox use the tahr 3.14.56 pae kernel sources.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... _6.0.5.sfs

Pete · #1075 Post by **Pete** » Tue 16 Aug 2016, 09:15

@rg66

Thank you.
Downloading the required files now and will give it a test run.

rg66 · #1076 Post by **rg66** » Wed 24 Aug 2016, 14:18

Just for fun, KDE-3.5.10 running on top of X-slacko!

Pete · #1077 Post by **Pete** » Fri 26 Aug 2016, 16:30

Tried out X-slacko and very impressed with it, certainly better than Mint 18.
Dual monitor support worked a treat, so did sound on a HP Elitebook 8440p
with i5 and 2GB RAM.

Just wish there were more packages available for it.

Pelo · #1078 Post by **Pelo** » Tue 13 Sep 2016, 00:57

KDE for fun,i will try it. We like fun, us, retired people, BK with Quirky, and me with XFCE, Xnoise music player Copyright © 2008-2011 Jörn Magens.. playing when i watch canadians women beat germans ones, on the TV.
XFCE apps are not just released, but they play music for few MBs.
KDE.. Hum.. wait and see.
X-Slacko Version 4.2 dowloading.
plus X-slacko-2.3.2.iso 15-Jan-2015 20:06 206M
XFCE for Foreign languages :
Perhaps in the future, Our Toutou french team would think to release X-slacko remake.. to replace XFCE 410 Jejy69, 2012
Skamilinux issued last XFCE in 2010 SevenPuppy 10 + XFCE, perhaps they would renew magyar Puppytheque too. I contact them.. X-Slacko is worth an hungarian version.
I check Pupjibaros, i don't think they have an XFCE Puppy latina.

Pete · #1079 Post by **Pete** » Thu 22 Sep 2016, 09:15

Picked up a small problem with X slacko full install on a HP Elitebook 8440p
with i5 and 2GB RAM.

Every now and again, it will not shutdown.
It drops down to the cli then just sits there with the log in screen.
Tried going back into X then shutting down, does the same thing.
Typing "shutdown" in the cli does nothing even though the command is accepted.

Any pointers, suggestions?

mistfire · #1080 Post by **mistfire** » Sun 02 Oct 2016, 11:13

Hi @rg66 I tried to apply Redmond-Delta theme on xfce appearance of X-slacko 4.2. But it does not work. The appearance return to fallback. But the its window manager theme works. This theme works fine on x-slacko 4.1. Can you help me to fix this problem?

Redmond-Delta Theme: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=98485

rg66 · #1081 Post by **rg66** » Sun 02 Oct 2016, 12:59

Pete wrote:Picked up a small problem with X slacko full install on a HP Elitebook 8440p
with i5 and 2GB RAM.

Every now and again, it will not shutdown.
It drops down to the cli then just sits there with the log in screen.
Tried going back into X then shutting down, does the same thing.
Typing "shutdown" in the cli does nothing even though the command is accepted.

Any pointers, suggestions?

Sorry for the long delay in replying. Type wmpoweroff in console to see error messages. If none, open /usr/bin/wmexit in editor and add -x to top line so it looks like #!/bin/sh -x and try wmpoweroff from terminal again to see if there are errors.

rg66 · #1082 Post by **rg66** » Sun 02 Oct 2016, 13:03

mistfire wrote:Hi @rg66 I tried to apply Redmond-Delta theme on xfce appearance of X-slacko 4.2. But it does not work. The appearance return to fallback. But the its window manager theme works. This theme works fine on x-slacko 4.1. Can you help me to fix this problem?

Redmond-Delta Theme: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=98485

You probably need to install gtk-engines-1.0.pet.

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-common-packa ... es-1.0.pet

Edit: If that doesn't work then try gtk-engines-2.20.2-i486-1gv.txz from ppm.

mistfire · #1083 Post by **mistfire** » Mon 03 Oct 2016, 08:41

@rg66 thank you Redmond-Delta theme is now working. By the way how to change the name/username that appears on whiskermenu. I want to change X-Slacko 4.2 on whiskermenu to FOO

Geoffrey · #1084 Post by **Geoffrey** » Mon 03 Oct 2016, 09:41

mistfire wrote:@rg66 thank you Redmond-Delta theme is now working. By the way how to change the name/username that appears on whiskermenu. I want to change X-Slacko 4.2 on whiskermenu to FOO

You will need to either recompile it or use a hex editor, the name is hard coded.

Hex editor is the easiest way, though you will be limited to the same number of characters, at a glance it looks to be 13 characters.

mistfire · #1085 Post by **mistfire** » Mon 03 Oct 2016, 10:49

Geoffrey wrote:
mistfire wrote:@rg66 thank you Redmond-Delta theme is now working. By the way how to change the name/username that appears on whiskermenu. I want to change X-Slacko 4.2 on whiskermenu to FOO
You will need to either recompile it or use a hex editor, the name is hard coded.

Hex editor is the easiest way, though you will be limited to the same number of characters, at a glance it looks to be 13 characters.

@Geoffrey and @rg66 can you modify the source code to non-hard coded name by reading on a text file and recompile into package?

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