2021 - Perpetuity Screenshot Thread

[VastOne]

Hello VastOne
greetings everyone
install Method 3, Method 1. vsido Welcome a pleasure.

Hey riV.. good to see you old friend. Your setup and conky looks fantastic, thanks for letting us know about the install and your work!

[vitforlinux]

Yes, no problems, I used MX Linux 21.3, then RhinoLinux Grub (Ubuntu 23.10)... best grub: start Artix and Void.

I've refrained from writing a mini guide on my blog, maybe Vsido isn't for everyone. Many would find that Linux runs badly without realizing that a Sid-based distro has some problems from time to time.

Meh, it is all in the end users hands and I believe our target audience is those that have been around the block a few times .. At the same time we are also aware that any user wanting to use this one (or any distro) can have a forum and several decades of expertise to help with anything. Me personally, I have always believed SID to be maligned as the problem child when in reality it is as good as anything that a good backup can restore

Clearly you don't know the laziness of users accustomed to "either everything works perfectly or it's crap" as I do. When I think of who gave me a headache because the desktop background and the color of the icons had changed, I still feel bad today.

And if it comes to using the terminal it takes Einstein or Iron Man of your choice, and that all this is within the reach of normal people seems impossible to him.

Think I know people who call the technician to push the antivirus button. And I said it all.

The installation of VSIDO is the simplest ever seen, a command in the terminal is enough, provided you indicate the right image and the right partition in which to write it and then a grub, which can be from another distribution already installed, or chroot-rescue-scan from MX Linux, to enter the partition and manage it.

I was thinking about "How to use MX Linux to install VSIDO in 4 steps" It seems to me much easier than it takes to install Debian... yet it succeeds to many.

[riV]

theme Fluent, Style Twice

Hello PackRat and VastOne and hakerdefo and everyone
Anyone do wofi?
I have worked my options to wofi command, wofi -n -i -O alphabetical -S drun,run

The scrot select hole Option is interesting.
Having put it on a Launcher, use got me accustomed to the dual selections.

scrot 1.10-1
has a new default for .png screencapture.
The pmss screenshooter tool uses scrot png default;
so no change is necessary for the pmss script to work, but
the v.1.10 default png is a smaller file than previous default.
Not necessary but optional values, the scrot commands are the Options,
for my options,
for every line that is a scrot command is made the following changes for using pmss scrot options .
/usr/local/bin/pmss

where-ever is scrot found in pmss:
Added the --compression value for png as -Z 1
Any -c where there is no -d i took out the -c
i don't believe in -b; took out the -b
In the scrot Entire screen shot
is substituted imlib2_grab just because it can;
i do like the cursor in full desktop shots, so
that imlib will likely become scrot with pointer and delay options.
Looking into the pmss script is really a treat. Thanks.

In /pmss function upload_check, did an option (?)
on line 138
to the end of the line added a "&" character, key ampersand
xdg-open "${NAME}" &

[PackRat]

@riV - I've used wofi with wayland compositors. I didn't know it worked with Xorg.

some more fluxbox -

[riV]

Hello

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vsido@vsido:~$ uname -rv
6.4.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.4.13-1 (2023-08-31)
vsido@vsido:~$ inxi -xx -S -I
System:    Host: vsido Kernel: 6.4.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.8 dm: lxdm Distro: VSIDO V-Ger V-Ger
Info:      Processes: 126 Uptime: 2:17 Memory: 231.8/895.8MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 13.2.0 alt: 10/11/12/6
           Client: Shell (bash 5.2.15 running in xfce4-terminal) inxi: 1.9.14
vsido@vsido:~$ /usr/bin/inxi -xx -S -I
System:
  Host: vsido Kernel: 6.4.0-4-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 13.2.0 Desktop: Fluxbox v: 1.3.8 dm: LXDM Distro: Debian GNU/Linux
    trixie/sid
Info:
  Processes: 126 Uptime: 2h 18m Memory: total: 1024 MiB available: 895.8 MiB
  used: 371.1 MiB (41.4%) Init: systemd v: 254 target: graphical (5)
  default: graphical Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 alt: 10/11/12/13/6 Packages:
  pm: dpkg pkgs: 1480 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 running-in: xfce4-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.29

[VastOne]

That looks like a fresh install riV, if so how did it go for you?

[riV]

Hello VastOne
install August 9 reporting a kernel upgrade.

If you were to have a baking contest,
will you have first prize be equivalent for the Youth and Adult categories?

If You were to have a fishing contest,
will first prize for Youth be the same first prize for Adult?

[VastOne]

VSIDO and The Grateful Dead, is there anything finer?

That is GMusicBrowser with the Clem Desktop Widget I created


 

[PackRat]

^ Nice music. 

[vitforlinux]

pl ntnet gratis

I created the xdgmenumaker 2.1 deb package which allows you to have the dynamic menu, and with some tricks in your own language.

https://github.com/vitforlinux-gimp/xdgmenumaker-deb

This is my ~/.fluxbox/menu now

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# This is an automatically generated file.
# Please see <file:/usr/share/doc/menu/README> for information.
# to use your own menu, copy this to ~/.fluxbox/menu, then edit
# ~/.fluxbox/init and change the session.menuFile path to ~/.fluxbox/menu
[begin] (VSIDO Fluxbox)
    [separator] (--------)
    [exec] (Run Program) {xfce4-appfinder --collapsed} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/gnome-run.png>
    [exec] (Terminal) {launch xfce4-terminal} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/xfce-terminal.png>
    [exec] (Firefox) {launch firefox} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/firefox.png>
    [exec] (SpaceFM) {launch spacefm} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/file-manager.png>
    [separator] (--------)
    [submenu] (Fluxbox) {Settings} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
        [config] (Fluxbox Menu) </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
        [workspaces] (Workspaces) </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
        [submenu] (Fluxbox Styles) </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
            [stylesdir] (/usr/share/fluxbox/styles)
            [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles)
        [end]
        [reconfig] (Reload Fluxbox Config) </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
        [restart] (Restart Fluxbox) </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
        [exec] (About Fluxbox) {(fluxbox -v; fluxbox -info | sed 1d) | xmessage -file - -center} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
        [separator]
        [exit] (Exit Desktop) </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/fluxbox.png>
    [end]
    [separator] (--------)
    [include] (~/.fluxbox/xdg_menu)
    [exec] (Update Fluxbox Menu) {xdgmenumaker -nif fluxbox > ~/.fluxbox/xdg_menu}</usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/gparted.png>
    [separator] (--------)
    [exec] (Exit) {/usr/bin/vsido-exit} </usr/share/icons/LinuxLex-8/apps/shutdown.png>
[end]


[VastOne]

Subtle changes to conky and the GMusicBrowser Desktop Widget Plugin

Been without wheels for a couple of weeks so I am in tweak mode. Attached is the latest widget for GMB, just save it in your ~/.config/gmuscibrowser/layouts directory and then load it from the Plugins/Desktop Widgets in the settings of GMB


 

[riV]

Hello PackRat and Everyone

lxdm login and background.
The Trixie character with the debian logo in front of it resembles a game of Quoits.
Trixie colors and texture, trixietactile.

https://freeimage.host/i/Jx6case

[VastOne]

That's really cool riV 

My current mood


 

[PackRat]

Been using Wayland compositors the last couple of weeks.

Sway - i3 clone for Wayland. I mostly use i3 these days so sway would be the natural switch should Void (or I) make a full time switch to Wayland.



labwc - for those that prefer the openbox/fluxbox style of window management, labwc is an openbox clone (developed by jgmenu developer malm). Waybar for the system inforamtion panel:



Both are stable and fairly easy to configure. Most i3 and openbox configuration settings are supported. I don't think Xorg is going away any time soon, but it's nice to have some familiar Wayland compositors to use.

[jedi]

Still ticking...  (just been taking a licking!)



The mighty VSIDO is a true beast.