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PackRat · 2024-01-12 01:51:32

Dobbie03 wrote:

Manual theme application aside, that looks great. Light on resources?

It's pretty good.

xorg, openbox, tint2, xterm (2), dbus, polkit, udev services. Log in with startx.
Legacy BIOS system. HP laptop from 2011.

Last edited by PackRat (2024-01-12 01:53:44)

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-12 01:57:56

Not bad at all. Adding it to the list to test.

hhh · 2024-01-12 01:59:53

Sector11 wrote:

hhh wrote:

@Sector11, from man distro-info...

DESCRIPTION
       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in
       this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

I have no "distro-info"

 11 Jan 24 @ 18:23:15 ~
   $ man distro-info
No manual entry for distro-info
 
 11 Jan 24 @ 18:26:11 ~
   $ ser distro-info
alias ser = aptitude search
p   distro-info          - provides information about the distributions' releases                 
i A distro-info-data     - information about the distributions' releases (data files)             
p   libdistro-info-perl  - information about distributions' releases (Perl module)                
p   python3-distro-info  - information about distributions' releases (Python 3 module)            
 
 11 Jan 24 @ 18:26:17 ~
   $ sho distro-info
alias = aptitude show filename
Package: distro-info              
Version: 1.5+deb12u1
State: not installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 67.6 k
Depends: distro-info-data (>= 0.46), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: shunit2
Description: provides information about the distributions' releases
 Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release
 of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info
 scripts.
Tags: devel::debian, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility

 
 11 Jan 24 @ 18:26:30 ~
   $

TY hhh

No problem. I think I'll remove the package as well, but it just looks so ominous for a stupid package...

rachel@tyrell-corp:~$ apt policy distro-info
distro-info:
  Installed: 1.5ubuntu0.23.10.1
  Candidate: 1.5ubuntu0.23.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.5ubuntu0.23.10.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/main amd64 Packages
rachel@tyrell-corp:~$ sudo nala purge distro-info
[sudo] password for rachel: 
============================================================================================
 Auto-Purging                                                                               
============================================================================================
  Package:                      Version:                                             Size:  
  arch-test                     0.21-1                                              249 KB  
  debian-archive-keyring        2023.4ubuntu1                                       275 KB  
  debsums                       3.0.2.1                                             100 KB  
  genisoimage                   9:1.1.11-3.4                                        1.8 MB  
  libfile-fnmatch-perl          0.02-3build1                                         42 KB  
  piuparts-common               1.1.7                                               117 KB  
  python3-debianbts             4.0.1                                                54 KB  
  python3-dns                   3.2.1-2                                             114 KB  
  python3-pycurl                7.45.2-4                                            206 KB  
  python3-pysimplesoap          1.16.2-5                                            196 KB  
  python3-reportbug             11.6.0ubuntu2                                       361 KB  
  python3-ubuntutools           0.196                                               319 KB  
  reportbug                     11.6.0ubuntu2                                       195 KB  
                                                                                            
============================================================================================
 Purging                                                                                    
============================================================================================
  Package:                      Version:                                             Size:  
  debootstrap                   1.0.132ubuntu1                                      285 KB  
  distro-info                   1.5ubuntu0.23.10.1                                   68 KB  
  piuparts                      1.1.7                                               720 KB  
  ubuntu-dev-tools              0.196                                               381 KB  
                                                                                            
============================================================================================
 Summary                                                                                    
============================================================================================
 Auto-Purge 13 Packages                                                                     
 Purge       4 Packages                                                                     
                                                                                            
 Disk space to free  5.5 MB   
                              
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Screw it, buh-bye. I can always reinstall it if debian-archive-keyring somehow is a problem on an Ubuntu system. Thank you, apt.

hhh · 2024-01-12 02:02:40

OMG, MY LAPTOP IS MELTING!!!! HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPP! GLURP GLurp glurp...

PackRat · 2024-01-12 14:26:46

Dobbie03 wrote:

Manual theme application aside, that looks great. Light on resources?

lxappearance is available with Alpine edge (their rolling release). I'll just edit the repositories and go with a rolling release Alpine.

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-12 17:43:20

PackRat wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
Manual theme application aside, that looks great. Light on resources?
lxappearance is available with Alpine edge (their rolling release). I'll just edit the repositories and go with a rolling release Alpine.

This isn't replacing your Void is it?

PackRat · 2024-01-12 18:34:12

Dobbie03 wrote:

This isn't replacing your Void is it?

No way. I'll install musl-based Void if I want to go all in on that.

This old HP is just to test other distros. I haven't tried Alpine in quite a while so I installed it. Looks like uEFI requires a lot of manual intervention to get it installed. So won't be attempting a Alpine uEFI any time soon.

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Döbbie03 · 2024-01-12 18:37:42

Glad you mentioned uefi, I think I'll pass on Alpine if that is the case.

PackRat · 2024-01-12 19:33:19

Dobbie03 wrote:

Glad you mentioned uefi, I think I'll pass on Alpine if that is the case.

That's one of the reasons I am checking it out. See how far they've come on uEFI, packages, etc ....

Alpine is a robust, stable distro, but a few years behind the curve.

Next challenge may be to compile dwm in musl.

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-12 19:50:28

Good luck with the dwm compile

I came across somewhere someone had made a custom spin of Alpine, I can't find it but will share if I come across it.

hhh · 2024-01-12 21:45:10

^ I'm seeing a few Google hits, maybe this one?

https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2023/10/21/378/

PackRat · 2024-01-13 00:13:01

Dobbie03 wrote:

Good luck with the dwm compile
I came across somewhere someone had made a custom spin of Alpine, I can't find it but will share if I come across it.

No problem; just needed to install clang and pass a flag to make:

make CC=clang

got dwm and dk to compile.

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-13 00:54:42

PackRat wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
Good luck with the dwm compile
I came across somewhere someone had made a custom spin of Alpine, I can't find it but will share if I come across it.
No problem; just needed to install clang and pass a flag to make:
make CC=clang
got dwm and dk to compile.
https://i.postimg.cc/Fd7dsFfJ/dwm-musl-001.png

Great work. Any patches incoming or are you running vanilla?

PackRat · 2024-01-13 01:12:30

Dobbie03 wrote:

PackRat wrote:
Dobbie03 wrote:
Good luck with the dwm compile
I came across somewhere someone had made a custom spin of Alpine, I can't find it but will share if I come across it.
No problem; just needed to install clang and pass a flag to make:
make CC=clang
got dwm and dk to compile.
https://i.postimg.cc/Fd7dsFfJ/dwm-musl-001.png
Great work. Any patches incoming or are you running vanilla?

For dwm? Just a vanilla install. I just made the one change:

static const int resizehints = 0;    /* 1 means respect size hints in tiled resizals */

I may try it with patches later this weekend. Running just fine.

Compiling dk glitched. I only have one desktop instead of the default 10. Other than that, runs fine.

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-14 12:14:28

I've taken shortarcflyer's advice and installed Mabox, albeit an older version (23.01, Istredd) and so far I'm glad I did; it's working very well. It's got a very informative conky setup including a full set of key bindings for launching all the most used applications, and bar graphs for all mounted partitions showing the amount of space used.

[Edit: the update was big (1,609 MB) although that's to be expected because the version I installed is a year old now.]

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Sector11 · 2024-01-14 16:55:02

Colonel Panic wrote:

{snip} Mabox {snip} It's got a very informative conky setup {snip}

Any chance you can share the conky code in Show us your conky?

Colonel Panic wrote:

[Edit: the update was big (1,609 MB) although that's to be expected because the version I installed is a year old now.]

Yea I guess that's to be expected, glad it worked.

shortarcflyer · 2024-01-14 19:47:38

Colonel Panic wrote:

I've taken shortarcflyer's advice and installed Mabox, albeit an older version (23.01, Istredd) and so far I'm glad I did; it's working very well. It's got a very informative conky setup including a full set of key bindings for launching all the most used applications, and bar graphs for all mounted partitions showing the amount of space used.
[Edit: the update was big (1,609 MB) although that's to be expected because the version I installed is a year old now.]

Glad to hear that Mabox is working for you! Mabox is one of about 5-6 distros that I use on a regular basis. I have it multibooted on all my laptops.

unklar · 2024-01-16 12:36:40

my first steps with labwc on openbox (beardog) OMG!

Sector11 · 2024-01-16 13:29:30

unklar wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/oAI0u5xt.png my first steps with labwc on openbox (beardog) OMG!

Nice.... and from 1. Project Description

Labwc stands for Lab Wayland Compositor, where lab can mean any of the following:

sense of experimentation and treading new ground
inspired by BunsenLabs and ArchLabs
your favorite pet

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

bold italics mine

Sector11 · 2024-01-16 16:46:54

hhh wrote:

OMG, MY LAPTOP IS MELTING!!!! HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPP! GLURP GLurp glurp...

It's because you used:

rachel@tyrell-corp

which is ALMOST as good as:

alice@umbrella·corp

Rachael was awesome!

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