X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

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rg66 · #601 Post by **rg66** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 05:52

mistfire wrote:Can you please include xfce4-power-manager and gtk-xfce-engine?

I'll try and compile both of those and upload them to the repo. I've never had much luck getting power-manager to even run and I don't think it's too compatible with puppy.

rg66 · #602 Post by **rg66** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 07:08

gtk-xfce-engine-3.2.0 has been uploaded to the repo. As usual, power manager compiled fine but fails to run, looks like a dbus issue.

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/

mistfire · #603 Post by **mistfire** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 07:12

Thats okay @rg66, how about the pupsave gui is it redesigned?.

rg66 · #604 Post by **rg66** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 07:19

mistfire wrote:Thats okay @rg66, how about the pupsave gui is it redesigned?.

Pupsaveconfig isn't compatible with save to folder and it doesn't look like shinobar is updating it. Control Panel > System > Puppy Event Manager > Save Session tab will let you choose save interval. I just need to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to create the save icon, it's on the to do list.

mistfire · #605 Post by **mistfire** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 10:44

@rg66 what I mean is change the GUI of pupsaveconfig only. Not replace the pupsaveconfig completely. The appearance that I suggest was look like shinobar's pupsaveconfig.

How about this approach---retain the countdown of pupsaveconfig but remove the appearance of gtk-splash on taskbar. I noticed that the dialog for countdown always blinks on taskbar. By removing on taskbar will be better.

I still modifying the appearance of pupsaveconfig but still no luck.

By the way, if the x-slacko 3.0 is released; does the save file can be upgraded from x-slacko 2.x?

rg66 · #606 Post by **rg66** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 12:31

mistfire wrote:@rg66 what I mean is change the GUI of pupsaveconfig only. Not replace the pupsaveconfig completely. The appearance that I suggest was look like shinobar's pupsaveconfig.

How about this approach---retain the countdown of pupsaveconfig but remove the appearance of gtk-splash on taskbar. I noticed that the dialog for countdown always blinks on taskbar. By removing on taskbar will be better.

I still modifying the appearance of pupsaveconfig but still no luck.

By the way, if the x-slacko 3.0 is released; does the save file can be upgraded from x-slacko 2.x?

Ok, I understand what you mean. Apart from changing the background color to grey, I don't really want to touch that script. It's too easy to screw something up and I'm not the greatest with gtkdialog. I think Marv figured out how to change the color from yellow on the countdown splash, maybe he'll chime in.

I wouldn't upgrade the savefile from 2.x.x to 3, different versions of slackware and xfce.

Marv · #607 Post by **Marv** » Mon 02 Mar 2015, 17:37

rg66 wrote: I think Marv figured out how to change the color from yellow on the countdown splash, maybe he'll chime in.

I wouldn't upgrade the savefile from 2.x.x to 3, different versions of slackware and xfce.

I'll politely decline tinkering with rc.shutdown. Way too easy to misstep therein... And I see value in keeping certain core scripts 'stock'.

Just to see what would happen, I did try to update my 3b5 (xfce 4.10) savefile to 3b6 (xfce 4.12). In my case, it was a mixed sucess. Programs and printer setup survived but my panel and panel plugins were pretty badly dinged. Better to start fresh in this instance. My halfstep for those circumstances is to copy whatever .desktops, themes, icons, fonts, config files, etc. I want to transfer over into a work directory (along with the appropriate dir structure) and make a pet of it. Once done, it has suprising utility. All my browser profiles and personal data are external already so that's not an issue for me.

Edit:
A mousepad question. One of the reasons I keep leafpad on board is that Geany will not open certain system files, a long time issue. Mousepad also seems to have problems with them. It works fine for scripts and text files in /root and so forth. Two screenshots attached. Any thoughts?

mistfire · #608 Post by **mistfire** » Tue 03 Mar 2015, 01:08

@marv its not rc.shutdown. its the pupsaveconfig/shutdownconfig where @rg66 talked about.

Marv · #609 Post by **Marv** » Tue 03 Mar 2015, 01:16

mistfire wrote:@marv its not rc.shutdown. its the pupsaveconfig/shutdownconfig where @rg66 talked about.

I know. They all work together (on a good day) and I still politely decline.

rg66 · #610 Post by **rg66** » Tue 03 Mar 2015, 01:25

Marv wrote:A mousepad question. One of the reasons I keep leafpad on board is that Geany will not open certain system files, a long time issue. Mousepad also seems to have problems with them. It works fine for scripts and text files in /root and so forth. Two screenshots attached. Any thoughts?

Sorry Marv, not a clue. I do know that mousepad needs dconf-0.5.1-i486-s from the repo or settings won't be saved.

rg66 · #611 Post by **rg66** » Thu 05 Mar 2015, 10:22

Thunar-1.6.6 has some file corruption issues. 10 tries at rebuilding the main sfs and every time it was smaller by about 5mb and the md5 kept changing. Back to 1.6.3 and everything is ok again, it's by far the most stable.

mistfire · #612 Post by **mistfire** » Fri 06 Mar 2015, 03:52

@rg66 I successfully modified the puppy remaster script. This script is allowed to include xfce settings (except display setting), file assosciations, and installed packages which can be freely uninstall using PPM on remastering puppy linux. You may review this script that I modified if you want.

rg66 · #613 Post by **rg66** » Sat 07 Mar 2015, 07:50

mistfire wrote:@rg66 I successfully modified the puppy remaster script. This script is allowed to include xfce settings (except display setting), file assosciations, and installed packages which can be freely uninstall using PPM on remastering puppy linux. You may review this script that I modified if you want.

That works pretty good, although I just did a quick test. I have shortened it by a few lines and changed somethings.

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mkdir -p /tmp/root/.config

cp -fR /root/.config/* /tmp/root/.config

rm /tmp/root/.config/xfce4/desktop/*
rm /tmp/root/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml

mkdir -p /tmp/root/.local/share/applications

cp -fR /root/.local/share/applications/* /tmp/root/.local/share/applications

I not sure I would copy everything from ~/.config unless it was a remaster just for myself. If I remember correctly, Carolina or at least Saluki had a popup window that allowed you to choose what to add from ~/.config if anything.

Also, I think that user installed apps are copied over as builtin so ~/.packages/user-installed-packages is redundant.

mistfire · #614 Post by **mistfire** » Sun 08 Mar 2015, 00:44

Yes @rg66 it will copy anything including the subdirectory (-R must define on cp command to copy also the subdirectories).

mistfire · #615 Post by **mistfire** » Sun 08 Mar 2015, 04:41

by the way @rg66 could you please compile the parole media player and libxfcegui4 in pet packages?

rg66 · #616 Post by **rg66** » Mon 09 Mar 2015, 09:11

mistfire wrote:by the way @rg66 could you please compile the parole media player and libxfcegui4 in pet packages?

libxfce4gui doesn't appear to be available anymore, it's not listed on the xfce download page. libxfce4gui-4.10.0 is in the slackware repo through PPM though.

Parole failed to compile with a bunch of perl errors that I couldn't sort out.

starhawk · #617 Post by **starhawk** » Sun 15 Mar 2015, 01:41

rg66, you have a PM...

rg66 · #618 Post by **rg66** » Mon 16 Mar 2015, 01:39

X-slacko-3b7 delta uploaded

remove palemoon
add firefox-31.5.0-ESR
add f2fs patch (thanks to peebee)
add dconf-0.5.1
downgrade to Thunar-1.6.3
update yad-0.28.1
update getflash-1.5-3
fix samba-tng
remove logout from panel menu
add desktop save icon for pupmode 3,7,13,77
various fixes

Download and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/testing/

Marv · #619 Post by **Marv** » Mon 16 Mar 2015, 22:33

rg66 wrote:X-slacko-3b7 delta uploaded

Delta downloaded and applied. md5sum of iso produced checks. Pristine frugal boot to core2duo fine, 3b6 savefile stripped of whiskermenu, getflash pet installs and my savefile .desktop, cleaned and used for update. No hitches, no glitches. Save launcher noted, firefox run and customized, my Palemoon launcher switched back to my external. Anything in particular I should look for or at?

rg66 · #620 Post by **rg66** » Mon 16 Mar 2015, 22:49

Marv wrote:Anything in particular I should look for or at?

Not really, I think I got most of the issues sorted. Next one should be v3.0 with sfs names changed, just need to think about kernels for a bit.

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