switched color scheme of dwm to yellow for better contrast -



and fluxbox, which doesn't too much these days -

^ I use dwm sometimes - there is a recent scrot of my setup in this month's screenshot thread.

Anyone give gentoo (the file manager, not the distro) a look. I have no idea if it's a product of the gentoo distro and some dev gave it the same name, but it looks like a pretty powerful file manager. It's in the repos and didn't pull in any dependencies that were not already installed; tinkered with it for about 5 min and it appears to be highly customizable - can edit the commands, and custom button commands etc .... Two pane format is default -



not recommending it for VSIDO default, but I can see where a power user - lookin' at you statmonkey - would really like this one.

@vastone

4pane is a pretty good file manager, but I'm pretty sure it's not in the debian repos. I'm also certain that all of it's dependencies are not in the repos so getting it compiled from source is a bit tricky. It has some nice power user features, but required some effort for everyday tasks as I recall.

edit - looks like they have their own debian repository that can be added - http://www.4pane.co.uk/Download.htm

@vastone - regarding your /home partition not mounting at boot, any other time I've seen that issue, it has always been related to a problem with gvfs and/or udev (the two work together don't they?).

Edit - another update of lightdm today (21 Sept). I have yet to experience any issues with lightdm. However, inxi is no longer working - appears some directories and some binaries have been replaced:



@vastone - curious that /dev/disk/by-label is a missing directory. All my partitions are mounting though.

Edit #2

Mirage is also giving the error -

Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked

ristretto works though.

I'm currently using pcmanfm.

I like thunar as well, and it may be the better fit since there are already some xfce apps and libraries installed.

To quote the wise man jed - "apt-get is a handy tool"

One thing you may to check into, vastone, is the status of the lxde desktop/projects. I can't imagine that it too will be falling by the wayside in the near future, but it's not like I follow the project. I doubt xfce is going anywhere soon.

Yes, both systemd and lightdm have had recent upgrade(s). I haven't had any issues with lightdm though.

@orbea add xrdb to your .xinitrc file. Something like -

xrdb -l ~/.Xresources &

that's pretty basic, and the default for xrdb, I think. Man page has a lot of other options.

Quote from: ozitraveller on September 11, 2014, 04:14:32 AM
A pint of guinness for me please! 

your stock just went way up.

"..a plug and play SID system installable and re-installable in 5 minutes"

Looks like you want to stick with the Debian default then; the repos will be coded to work with it. Stray too far from that, and you'll be running the risk of becoming a boutique distro.

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

Not that I am aware of.

Deprecated.

dev thought he had removed that option.

I install the drivers for my nvidia card using the sgfxi script and have noticed one of the options is to install the ia32 libs so that 32-bit apps - like steam or googleearth - will run on a 64-bit system. Has anyone tried using this method?

Use to be that there were just two files needed to be installed on a 64-bit system for 32-bit apps to work, now there is the whole multi-arch method that installs a bunch of dev files. I am curious if the method using sgfxi is the smxi authors' custom build of the ia32 libs so that the old method will still work, their method of installing multi arch, or if it's something that is depricated but still part of the script.

Didn't find mention of it on their website. Any info appreciated.

libqtwebkit is used by KDE - and gpodder.

You can reinstall gpodder with apt or synaptic; will probably bring in a lot of dependencies that you didn't have before.

Maybe it's qt that's gone through a major upgrade. A word to the wise for anyone running some KDE or other qt based apps.

Edit - beat me to it.

Antonin Dvorak - Symphony #9

QuoteI am guessing SID is about to, or just did, a serious update.

I am not on KDE but yes it seems a lot of things have been updating lately, many changes.

I don't know about Sid going through a serious update, but I suspect KDE is getting a major overhaul (can't confirm, no KDE on my systems)-  Gordon and zbreaker had some recent issues. If either of you are using KDE apps (digikam, k3b etc ..) without the full KDE desktop, you may encounter some issues. Fortunately, they all have been resolvable using standard apt commands.