X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

[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.)

[rg66]

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xwin xfce4-session

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wmpoweroff

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wmreboot

[johnywhy]

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xwin xfce4-session
wmpoweroff
wmreboot

thx for these, rg66! i could not find them anyplace

are they universal xfce commands, or xSlacko-only?

also, is there a way on xSlacko to get a "computer will shutdown in 30 seconds" countdown shutdown, like Tahrpup has?

thx!

[starhawk]

Hey, rg, long time no chat.

Two questions.

(1) is there any chance of the next non-beta being released with say glibc2.19 instead of 2.17?
(2) and when do you expect it to be released?

Reason I'm asking is that rcrsn51 is trying to blame my current printer problems on Caro Vanguard (which is out-and-out BS, it worked fine on the same system, same config, until I rebuilt my savefile due to some other issues I was having) and there's not much I can do other than switch back to X-Slacko if I want help. (I'd like to say a few things about that, but I'm in public.)

[johnywhy]

hello

is it possible to disable lid-suspend on stock xSlacko beta-7? i cannot find in etc/acpi.

i see acpid-busibox is installed, but can't find how to use.

i see the acpitool in the repo below, but it does not appear to be installed on xSlacko. i did not install it yet:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... es-slacko/

ideally, i'd like to install xfce's own power manager. It works great on VLina.

i installed xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-i486-2.txz in ppm, but when i run it i just get "power manager is not running, do you want to start it?". I click yes, and nothing happens. Dependency-checker says "nothing missing".

i found a Slackware package here:
http://packages.slackware.com/?r=slackw ... i486-1.txz

the slackware installed ok on xSlacko, but puppy says it needs the following depends, none of which are in the ppm, and only 2 of which i found in packages.slackware.com:

xfce4-power-manager has these missing library files:
libgbm.so.1 libxcb-dri3.so.0 libxcb-present.so.0 libxcb-sync.so.1 libxshmfence.so.1 libpng16.so.16 libupower-glib.so.1

any solution appreciated!

many thx!

[rg66]

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xwin xfce4-session
wmpoweroff
wmreboot

thx for these, rg66! i could not find them anyplace

are they universal xfce commands, or xSlacko-only?

also, is there a way on xSlacko to get a "computer will shutdown in 30 seconds" countdown shutdown, like Tahrpup has?

thx!

Except for xfce4-session those commands should be universal for puppy.

Run /etc/acpi/actions/acpi_poweroff.sh, that runs when pushing the power button and has a 30 second countdown timer.

[rg66]

Hey, rg, long time no chat.

Two questions.

(1) is there any chance of the next non-beta being released with say glibc2.19 instead of 2.17?
(2) and when do you expect it to be released?

Reason I'm asking is that rcrsn51 is trying to blame my current printer problems on Caro Vanguard (which is out-and-out BS, it worked fine on the same system, same config, until I rebuilt my savefile due to some other issues I was having) and there's not much I can do other than switch back to X-Slacko if I want help. (I'd like to say a few things about that, but I'm in public.)

If your printer worked with Vanguard before you rebuilt your savefile why not just start over with a new one.

Glibc-2.21 is in the Slackware current repo:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/s ... /slackware
Look in the "a" and "l" directory, if your try them please report back.

I'm not sure when the next release will be. After 7 betas I figured I needed a break.

[rg66]

@ johnywhy

/etc/acpi/LID/00000080 is a symlink to /etc/acpi/actions/suspend.sh, I suppose you could try and rename it 00000080.bak or something and see if that works.

I've compiled xfce4-power-manager but never got it to work, same issue as you, "power manager is not running, do you want to start it?". I'll look into the missing libs for xfce4-power-manager-1.4.4.

If I recall correctly, the one that Geoffrey compiled for lina worked in X-slacko. I might be mistaken but give it a try anyway.

[starhawk]

If your printer worked with Vanguard before you rebuilt your savefile why not just start over with a new one.

Glibc-2.21 is in the Slackware current repo:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/s ... /slackware
Look in the "a" and "l" directory, if your try them please report back.

I'm not sure when the next release will be. After 7 betas I figured I needed a break.

Re: savefile, that would be the third time this week, actually. Besides, I got the printer working finally anyways

I'll try the glibc upgrade and report back. Might be a minute before I do -- I've got a couple other things in front of that.

You deserve a break after seven betas! Take your time, man, I was just askin'.

[johnywhy]

Htop and pProcess giving "failed to install" error.

downloaded from this Slacko repo:
http://mirror.vcu.edu/pub/gnu_linux/pup ... es-slacko/

fyi, just reporting.

[rg66]

Htop and pProcess giving "failed to install" error.

downloaded from this Slacko repo:
http://mirror.vcu.edu/pub/gnu_linux/pup ... es-slacko/

fyi, just reporting.

pProcess dl'ed from link, installed and running without errors. Sounds like something is broken.

[johnywhy]

pProcess dl'ed from link, installed and running without errors. Sounds like something is broken.

hrm, here's my current package list. could one of these conflict?

fyi, all the libs and gst stuff are for claws.

[rg66]

pProcess dl'ed from link, installed and running without errors. Sounds like something is broken.

hrm, here's my current package list. could one of these conflict?

fyi, all the libs and gst stuff are for claws.

My guess is PPM or corrupted .pets. I got a lot of those on an NTFS partition.

[johnywhy]

xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-i486-2 does not seem to work on my xSlacko, even tho downloaded from xSlacko ppm.

when i run it from whisker, i get

Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?

So i click 'run' and then i do not see the Notification Area Icon.

if i again run it from whisker, i again get

Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?

is my xslacko damaged?

thx!

[rg66]

xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-i486-2 does not seem to work on my xSlacko, even tho downloaded from xSlacko ppm.

when i run it from whisker, i get

Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?

So i click 'run' and then i do not see the Notification Area Icon.

if i again run it from whisker, i again get

Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?

is my xslacko damaged?

thx!

As I stated earlier, I get the same thing. I can compile it easily enough but it has never run in X-slacko. Not sure why, I can't track down the problem.

[johnywhy]

As I stated earlier, I get the same thing.

oops, sorry i missed that.

i'm using xslacko, and suddenly my desktop is in zoom mode. it's like when you change your resolution to a setting it cannot display, so you get a zoomed-in window, which auto-pans when you move your mouse around.

i must have hit some keyboard shortcut. not sure how to get out of it, but i like it! just want to know how to control it. maybe it's an xfce thing?

thx!