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#341
Scripts and How To's / Objective of Scripts and How To's
November 13, 2013, 04:10:50 PM
Please use the child boards within Scripts & How To's for posting.  If none of the child boards fits your needs for posting, let me know and we can discuss additional child boards

The objective of Scripts and How To's is to be the holder of all scripts and not a posting area

This area is not for posting threads

Thank you
#342
The muz script included with VSIDO uses youtube-dl which has recently gone through several changes and no longer works

To correct this, you need to run in terminal

get python-setuptools

or

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

python-setuptools will be included in the next VSIDO builds
#343
Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues.


  • Removed the need for a swap partition from the installer.  There are now two installers, one with no swap and one with swap from the System Menu on the Live CD
  • Updated to the latest SID kernel 3.11.6-2 (2013-11-01)
  • Installed suckless-tools with the latest dmenu options thanks to the great work from statmonkey (64bit)
  • Corrected lxpanel settings to correctly stay behind windows (thanks PackRat)
  • Installed mesa-utils (thanks Jedi and H2)
  • Updated the kernel to the latest SID levels

All files are available from the download page including torrents
#344
WM Designs and Discussions / FluxBox Slit
November 05, 2013, 02:46:04 AM
I am having an issue with Slit in FluxBox with the lxpanel

As I understand slit, it will recognize a dock item as long as it is labeled as dock within it's configuration, for instance in conky you can put

own_window_type dock

and slit sees it fine in the slit list

However by telling lxpanel that it is a dock, lxpanel never shows up in the slit list (damn that sounds weird)...

Any suggestions?
#345
I've Got a Life / Golfing in the rain...
November 05, 2013, 12:14:56 AM
There is something peaceful and fun about golfing in a slow gentle rain...

Went out and shot a 71 today, 1 under par and at every lake (5 total) I went out and caught bass like there was no tomorrow....

A good day folks, a good day
#346
Scripts / (Solved) Bash Challenge to Bash Guru's
November 03, 2013, 08:18:40 PM
I am working on removing swap from the VSIDO installer as it is more of a nuisance than a help

I have ran into a issue with removing it that I am hoping some of you Bash guru's can assist with

The installer is a basic bash script and here is the issue... I have included only the pertinent part

if [ "$PARTDRIVE" = "Exit" ];

$PARTITIONPROG /dev/$PARTDRIVE

#find the swap partition
#TARGETSWAP=`fdisk -l | grep swap | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d "/" -f3`
#TARGETSWAP=`echo $TARGETSWAP | sed -r "s/\/dev\///g"`
#for i in $TARGETSWAP; do
# swappart="$i"
# swappartsize=`grep -m 1 "$i" /proc/partitions | awk '{print $3}'`
# swappartmenu="$swappartmenu $swappart $swappartsize"
#done

#SWAP=""
#while [ "$SWAP" = "" ]
#do
#SWAP=`$DIALOGMENU $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MENU  $TEXT"Please select a swap partition to use.\nIf the only option you see is to Quit the installer then no swap partitions were found." Exit "Quit the installer" $swappartmenu`
#done

#SWAP=`echo $SWAP | cut -d "|" -f 1`

#if [ "$SWAP" = "Exit" ]; then
#  $DIALOG $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MSGBOX $TEXT"Quitting the installer now."
#  exit 1
#fi
#choose the partition to install to
CKLIVE=`mount | grep "live" | grep -v "loop" | awk '{print $1}' | awk -F "/" '{print $3}'`
PARTITIONS=`cat /proc/partitions | grep -v "$CKLIVE" | grep -v "loop" | grep -v "sr0" | awk '{print $4}' | grep "[0-9]"`
PARTINSTTEMP=`echo $PARTITIONS | sed -r "s/$SWAP//"`
PARTINST=`echo $PARTINSTTEMP`
for i in $PARTINST; do
tempsize=`grep -m 1 "$i" /proc/partitions | awk '{print $3}'`
if [ "$tempsize" = "1" ]; then
PARTINST=`echo $PARTINST | sed -r "s/$i//"`
fi
done


for i in $PARTINST; do
  part="$i"
  partsize=`grep -m 1 "$i" /proc/partitions | awk '{print $3}'`
  partmenu="$partmenu $part $partsize"
done

TARGETPART=""
while [ "$TARGETPART" = "" ]
do
TARGETPART=`$DIALOGMENU $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MENU  $TEXT"Please select a partition to install the root system to.\nIf the only option you see is to Quit the installer then no partitions were found." Exit "Quit the installer" $partmenu`
done

TARGETPART=`echo $TARGETPART | cut -d "|" -f 1`

if [ "$TARGETPART" = "Exit" ]; then
  $DIALOG $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MSGBOX $TEXT"Quitting the installer now."
  exit 1
fi


What you see commented out in the beginning is the removal of swap from the script.  This in fact works but creates another issue that I have spent all morning trying to identify and it is escaping my wisdom

The second half is where a user would create the partition to install / (root) on.  When the swap part is commented out, there is no partition shown to install / to.  If I put the swap stuff back in, every thing works as it should

The challenge is for anyone to identify why and what the correction would be

If you want the entire bash installer, let me know

Thanks

VastOne
#347
Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues.

- Updated to the latest SID kernel 3.11.6-1 (2013-10-27)
- Updated SpaceFM to 0.9
- Added arandr (thanks MHQ-Johnny)
- Corrected the vsido-welcome script (thanks dizzie)
- Updated the kernel to the latest SID levels

All files are available from the download page
#348
Artwork & Screenshots / November 2013 ScreenShots
November 01, 2013, 02:34:14 PM
Awesome October... Lets ride it into November

VSIDO FluxBox - World Domination

#349
I have a SAMSUNG  SGH-S425G cell phone that was being a total pain to mount in VSIDO / Debian

I was connecting it in a Win 7 VM solution but with the release of VirtualBox 4.3 the USB connections have now stopped dead.  With that I set about to solve it within VSIDO / Debian.  Here is how I did it. 

I determined what I had by turning on Mass Storage on the phone and then running in terminal:

dmesg | tail -n 25

this showed me:

[11006.914004] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=675a
[11006.914016] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[11006.914023] usb 1-2: Product: SAMSUNG Mobile Device
[11006.914028] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Samsung
[11006.914033] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 000000-00-0000000
[11006.916070] usb-storage 1-2:2.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[11006.916228] scsi17 : usb-storage 1-2:2.0
[11007.918127] scsi 17:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SAMSUNG  SGH-S425G        2.11 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[11007.918770] sd 17:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[11007.928089] sd 17:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk


Searching the webz I discovered that it was a MTP issue and I needed some tools to get it to work.  I installed the following:

sudo apt-get install mtpfs mtp-tools libmtp-dev libmtp-runtime

I then did this in terminal:

sudo mkdir /media/samsung
sudo chmod 775 /media/samsung


I plugged this phone in and selected Media Player as the Connection

and then mounted it successfully in terminal with:

sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/samsung

In SpaceFM, it does not show up automatically but if you go to /media/samsung all your files on the phone will be there

After you are done, unmount it with this

sudo umount /media/samsung

I have read that unmounting critically important to do before you unhook the device though I do not know why

UPDATE

I have found mtpfs to be very unpredictable... where some days it works flawlessly and others it will see and connect but not allow anything to copy to the folder showing an error of Permission Denied - Numerical result out of range

I have found another tool go-mtpfs and this is how I set it up... This works all the time

Download the attached go-mtpfs file and install it with gdebi or dpkg -i

Mount it like this, using the same folder as from above

sudo go-mtpfs /media/samsung &

(Change this to reflect your mount point)

Now open that folder as root in SpaceFM, Thunar or terminal and copy anything you want to into the folder/phone/tablet

To unmount it, run this

sudo fusermount -u /media/samsung

(Change this to reflect your unmount point)
#350
VSIDO News & Announcements / VSIDO /etc/skel git repo
October 24, 2013, 04:07:17 AM
Announcing the VSIDO /etc/skel git repo here

This would be for anyone needing current /etc/skel config files.  These files are what really define VSIDO and the settings and will be kept current

#351
VSIDO Raptor 32bit & 64bit ISO's updated 21-Oct-2013 20:40 CST

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues


  • Updated the kernel to the latest SID kernel 3.11-1
  • Reconstructed the OpenBox environment with help from PackRat
  • Corrected muz on the 32 bit
  • Installed locales-all per dizzie
  • Updated to latest SID levels
#352
VSIDO Debian II 32 bit ISO updated 18-Oct-2013 15:20 CST

The 32 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues


  • Brought the 32 bit to the same levels as the 64 bit

  • Updated to latest SID levels

Read about 32 bit version of VSIDO here
#353
VSIDO Debian II ISO's updated 16-Oct-2013 23:40 CST

The 64 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

Installed dmenu from a build by statmonkey

Installed console-data (dizzie)

Installed firmware-brcm80211

Corrected the Iceweasel settings so that all add ons now load and work, and installed a new default persona

updated to latest SID levels

#354
Our very own jedi has posted a blog about VSIDO and the forum here that mentions several of the users

Please take a moment to read the JedsDesk Blog

Thank you jedi!
#355
VSIDO Debian II ISO's updated 12-Oct-2013 18:40 CST


  • The 64 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues
    Brought back XFCE 4.10 and WICD. This decision was based on customer input (inexperienced users).  ceni is still available for we geeks (or you can go real hardcore and edit /e/n/i)

  • Installed lshw (could have sworn it was part of Debian base tools)

  • Installed firmware-realtek for realtek wifi support out of the box

  • updated to latest SID levels
#356
VSIDO Debian II ISO's updated 29-Sept-2013 10:10 CST

The 64 Bit ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded today with no issues

See the ChangeBlog for details
#358
Feedback & Suggestions / Scaled down ISO
September 26, 2013, 04:01:28 AM
After several days of discussions and work stemming from the New Directions Thread, I have built a new ISO for testing...

Link updated the latest ISO

I encourage everyone to check it out and let me know it is solid
#359
General Support / Latest VirtualBox update reboots host
September 23, 2013, 10:06:04 PM
After todays latest dist-upgrade which included a VirtualBox update, I am finding I cannot run any of my hosts and when I attempt any function, VSIDO logs out with no messages.

I have seen from google this has been an issue in the past few years after updates..

Anyone else seeing it?

Will keep you updated as this progresses
#360
I have made the following changes on VSIDO II that are on the latest ISO build

This is for users who have it now and want the changes

For the new 3.10-3 kernel, you will get an update of the headers with an apt-get dist-upgrade.  Once those are installed, you will need to install the kernel image by doing this:

x64

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.10-3-amd64

x32

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.10-3-686-pae

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Renamed ~/images/screenshot to ~/images/scrot

Renamed  /etc/skel/images/screenshot to /etc/skel/images/scrot

Made these changes to ~/.fluxbox/keys and /etc/skel/.fluxbox/keys

Last line changed to


107 :Exec scrot -d 6 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots & mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'


___________________________________


Made these changes to ~/.fluxbox/menu replacing the same lines 51-54 - also to /etc/skel/.fluxbox/menu


            [exec] (Screenshot Now) {scrot '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>
            [exec] (Screenshot in 5 sec) {scrot -d 5 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>
            [exec] (Screenshot in 10 sec) {scrot -d 10 '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>
            [exec] (Screenshot Pick Area) {scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d--%s_$wx$h_scrot.png' -e 'mv $f ~/images/scrots &amp; mirage ~/images/scrots/$f'} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/screenshooter.png>


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The SpaceFM Icon was corrected also. For current users, in SpaceFM go to View/Window Icon and put in

vsidosfm


Enjoy!