X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

[rg66]

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]

rg66, you have a PM...

[rg66]

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]

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]

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.

[Sage]

Anyone offering the full .iso, please?

[ally]

@ sage

just going up on the archive now

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_X-Slacko

[Sage]

Magic! Thanks.

3b7 really is the bees knees. Since it's 32bit and will run on virtually anything, any chance of super slim version. It'd be far better if this were to be constructed by an expert rather than any old jock from a remaster, what with deps. & co.

[johnywhy]

hi

Running X-slacko-3b7.iso installed by:

- manually copy files inside X-slacko-3b5.iso to hard disk.
- run grub4dos. menu.lst was successfully created.
- boot x-slacko from grub, then reboot creating save-folder.
- apply some desktop personalization.
- shut-down
- upgrade to 3b7 by manually copy all files from X-slacko-3b7.iso into the x-slacko install folder, overwriting existing files.
- on reboot, lost wallpaper. Otherwise, generally seems to be working.

THANKS FOR THIS AWESOME PUP. It may replace my Vanguard-Carolina-R2 as most stable xfce pup.

However, a few bumps in the road. Grateful for any help:

- i cannot find acpi tool in control panel. I see acpid-busibox in the 'Remove built-in packages' tool (no, i did not remove it, just checking to see if it's installed). Running acpid-busibox from command-line returns 'command not found'.

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- when creating new 'Directory' widget on panel, picking a pre-loaded target dir on it's config dialog does not work. But, browsing to the target dir does work (so this is non-urgent).

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- flsynclient does not remember 'Sensitivity' setting. Some other puppies have this problem (but not all). Important for me, this is how i reduce false palm-taps, which is a major problem on my touchpad.

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Cannot get Wine to run a windows program:
(i prefer Portable Wine or PlayOnLinux, if any available for Slacko. Could not find. Anybody know of such?).

- installed Slackware "Wine-1.7.9 Wine is Not an emulator" and dependency mpg123-1.15.4. from the default PPM,
- successfully installed Windows software eM Client by double-clicking it's .msi installer in Thunar.
- could not run eM Client. Tried to run by "Wine File Manager > C:\Program Files\emClient\mailclient.exe"
- 'Check for installed dependencies' on Wine shows:

File /usr/bin/wmc has these missing library files:
libgettextpo.so.0
File /usr/bin/wrc has these missing library files:
libgettextpo.so.0
File /usr/lib/wine/openal32.dll.so has these missing library files:
libopenal.so.1
File /usr/lib/wine/gphoto2.ds.so has these missing library files:
libgphoto2.so.6 libgphoto2_port.so.10
File /usr/lib/wine/winegstreamer.dll.so has these missing library files:
libgstapp-0.10.so.0 libgstbase-0.10.so.0 libgstreamer-0.10.so.0

- So i uninstalled Slackware "Wine-1.7.9 Wine is Not an emulator".
- Then i installed wine-1.5.15-i686.pet from the Slacko directory. (curious, why is Slackware, not Slacko, the default repository on Slacko?)
- (hrm, did Sage just say xSlacko is 32 bit?..... :/
- Now PPM shows 4 different "installed" checkmarks, next to:
Slackware Wine-1.7.9
Slacko Wine-1.5.15-i686
Slacko Wine-1.3.28-i486_v1
Slacko Wine-1.5.2-i486_v1

(question, why are 4 different Wines installed now? I see two different Wine Notepads in application menu. Is the first Wine install interfering with the second Wine install, even though i uninstalled it? How to completely remove all Wines?)

- still could not run eM Client.
- installed mono & gecko by running at command-line: http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trun ... -addons.sh from http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono.
- seemed to execute ok.
- still could not run eM Client.

i welcome all suggestions.

THX FOR THE PUPPIES!

[starhawk]

FYI --

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88711
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91748

[johnywhy]

starhawk, thx for wine pointer. i saw that thread, but didn't understand it, but now i think i get it.

just not sure which pkg to install:

wine-1.6.2-i486_v1.1.pet _______ puppy 431

or

wine-1.6.2-i486_v2.1.pet _______ racy puppy 5.5

?

[starhawk]

I'd use the Racy Puppy one, I think.

[johnywhy]

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88711

yes, already tried POL, had troubles on Carolina:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 478#841478

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91748

also had troubles with these wine pets on xSlacko:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 015#843015

[starhawk]

WINE 174 is, as near as I can tell, a beta... use 162 if you can.

[Sage]

THANKS FOR THIS AWESOME PUP

You are right, jw. Time for those incredibly silent majority to speak up, loudly, and encourage both micko and rg to bring forward their golds. Slackware itself and ditto-based derivatives/compatibles are most underrated OSes.

[starhawk]

I don't normally 'do' betas, dunno why -- but I think I'll take a look at X-Slacko 3b7. Caro Vanguard is turning out to be a little temperamental regarding what CPU it runs on -- see the thread for details -- and on top of that the older CUPS in there is starting to annoy me a little too much. I'm kind of tired of having to change the print settings every single time I want to print something from LibreOffice.

"It's the little things in life..."

[starhawk]

Tried it on the Dell laptop. Chromium *still* didn't run (maybe it's the SFS and not the OS? Dunno.) despite the different glibc, and X-Slacko didn't like my rt2800usb based WiFi card. (Rosewill RNX-EasyN1.)

Oh well. Back to Vanguard.

[Sage]

rt2800usb based WiFi card

We did this (more than once?) on the Forum about 1-2yrs ago. According to my fallible memory, you have to blacklist something and run it as something else. One of the regular Forum members (Technosaurus? someone else?) is an out-and-out expert on NIC chip indiscretions. BK has alluded to it in one of his many missives. Guess it's down to 'Search' - good luck.
But it can be made to function correctly, I do remember that.

[johnywhy]

hello

how to log into xSlacko correctly?

somehow i broke my xfce reboot function.

if i click shutdown from xfce menu, then reboot, nothing happens.

i was trying to find a CLI way to shutdown, and ended up logging out of xwin. somehow logged back in, but i think i logged in the wrong way. (i used xwin startxfce4, i think).

how to get back to correct session and restore reboot function?

thx

[starhawk]

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xwin

...would be the typically correct start-X command

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poweroff

...shuts things down.

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reboot

...shuts down and starts back up.

It sounds like you have a corrupt savefile, though. Time for a new one! (or a reinstall, if you did *ugh* a full installation.)