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Colonel Panic · 2024-01-16 19:49:24

Sector11 wrote:

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?

I might if I could understand it. It appears to be a whole set of configuration files (the page I linked to refers to "conkies") rather than just one configuration file like .conkyrc or conky.conf.

https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/new-conk … stredd/973

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-01-17 09:19:35)

PackRat · 2024-01-16 22:57:44

Colonel Panic wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
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?
I might if I could understand it. It appears to be a whole set of configuration files *the page I linked to refers to "conkies") rather than just one configuration file like .conkyrc or conky.conf.
https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/new-conk … stredd/973

I have them; booted mabox live and got the default setup.

Sector11 · 2024-01-17 01:11:21

Colonel Panic wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
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?
I might if I could understand it. It appears to be a whole set of configuration files *the page I linked to refers to "conkies") rather than just one configuration file like .conkyrc or conky.conf.
https://forum.maboxlinux.org/t/new-conk … stredd/973

That link has a link to get the 5 conkys in English, Spanish or Polish. I grabbed the English ones.
So I have them. Thank you.

hhh · 2024-01-17 04:37:31

Sector11 wrote:

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!

Currently rachael@tyrell-corp with the home folder rachel. Never change your desktop username, folks. Hilarity and chaos will ensue. I'm seriously considering an airplane ticket to Argentina, just to glare menacingly at Sector.

Sector11 · 2024-01-17 17:18:18

hhh wrote:

Currently rachael@tyrell-corp with the home folder rachel. Never change your desktop username, folks. Hilarity and chaos will ensue. I'm seriously considering an airplane ticket to Argentina, just to glare menacingly at Sector.

Mine is:
sector11@soxdog - But that doesn't show in my terminal.

 17 Jan 24 @ 14:03:07 ~
   $ uname -a
Linux SoxDog 6.1.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.69-1 (2023-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
 17 Jan 24 @ 14:03:09 ~
   $ cd /media/5/Conky
 
 17 Jan 24 @ 14:04:11 /media/5/Conky
   $

Come on down and find me!
I'll be in a restaurant at a corner somewhere inside the blue oval.
hahahahahaha

ututo · 2024-01-19 01:44:02

Sector11 wrote:

I'll be in a restaurant at a corner somewhere inside the blue oval.
hahahahahaha

there are some of the best places in the world to eat pizza and craft beer in there

Sector11 · 2024-01-19 13:15:29

ututo wrote:

there are some of the best places in the world to eat pizza and craft beer in there

YUP! Cannot deny that!

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-21 15:24:06

I recently installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I feel more comfortable with Leap, but felt I might as well try Tumbleweed as well to see how the two compare.

Well, in less than a week after the last Tumbleweed upgrade I had to download 804.9 MB of files to repeat the process. There's nothing much wrong with the distro, which works well with no reliability problems so far, but it obviously needs a fast internet connection.

So that's your choice really if you go with SUSE; a version with slightly out of date software but requiring lighter and less frequent updates (Leap), or one with more up to date software but requiring more frequent and heavier updates (Tumbleweed).

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-01-21 20:13:05)

Colonel Panic · 2024-01-29 08:09:57

Dobbie03 wrote:

So far it's going well. I haven't been bothered too much by watching walls of text roll by as everything builds.
I'll take a look at ExGent. Cheers.

Hi again Dobbie,

I've just given the latest version a try. It works OK once everything is up and running but downloading and installing any new packages is VERY slow; I had to leave Thunderbird to install overnight (and I'm not patient enough to try Libreoffice yet). I think this is a characteristic of Gentoo in general though and not just ExGent.

I also found it difficult to install any new browsers (the distro comes with Firefox already installed), because of a thing called "masking" which I really need to read up on before I go any further with Gentoo..

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Döbbie03 · 2024-01-30 04:16:58

Hey Colonel,

Yeah, as far as downloading packages, a lot of it will be based on your location, network speeds, and mirrors. Building those packages, all hardware dependent.

You can look at tweaking your configs to use more CPU cores to build, I haven't bothered. Maybe this article will help?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti … pile_times

As far as mirrors go, this may help.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect

Unmasking is a pain in the arse, but this Wiki article will help you through it.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_ … _a_package

Please don't consider me a point of knowledge on Gentoo, I very well could send you down the garden path, as I am still not quite sure how I managed to get a working system. I still have to access documentation on a daily basis on how to do things.

Saying that, happy to help wherever I can.

P.S. do you really need any other browser other than Firefox?

hhh · 2024-01-30 08:00:18

Dobbie03 wrote:

... as I am still not quite sure how I managed to get a working system.

Man, the number of times using ANY operating system or program or even a config where I've said "Wait... that WORKED??!!?"

el_koraco · 2024-01-30 21:56:09

This is not a distro hopping thing, but I haven't seen it posted here. Mozilla has an apt repo for Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/in … tributions

hhh · 2024-01-30 22:41:53

el_koraco wrote:

This is not a distro hopping thing, but I haven't seen it posted here. Mozilla has an apt repo for Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/in … tributions

It was in the "news" a week or so ago that Mozilla had a Linux deb file out, I was waiting for them to have a repo for it before I posted so one could just 'sudo apt update' to keep it current. Nice find!

Lol, that page doesn't have an edit date. Shame, Mozilla. Shame!

I need to edit my old "Use real Firefox instead of Iceweasel" tutorial and just post this link instead. After I eat something, it's dinnertime. Iceweasel, good times, great name (instead of Firefox, get it?)

Döbbie03 · 2024-01-31 03:41:22

hhh wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
... as I am still not quite sure how I managed to get a working system.
Man, the number of times using ANY operating system or program or even a config where I've said "Wait... that WORKED??!!?"

I have only really had that with Nix and Gentoo. I always felt completely in control with Arch/Labs etc.

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-01 15:25:10

Dobbie03 wrote:

Hey Colonel,
Yeah, as far as downloading packages, a lot of it will be based on your location, network speeds, and mirrors. Building those packages, all hardware dependent.
You can look at tweaking your configs to use more CPU cores to build, I haven't bothered. Maybe this article will help?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti … pile_times
As far as mirrors go, this may help.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect
Unmasking is a pain in the arse, but this Wiki article will help you through it.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_ … _a_package
Please don't consider me a point of knowledge on Gentoo, I very well could send you down the garden path, as I am still not quite sure how I managed to get a working system. I still have to access documentation on a daily basis on how to do things.
Saying that, happy to help wherever I can.
P.S. do you really need any other browser other than Firefox?

Thanks Dobbie. No I suppose I don't really need more than one browser, but I have more than one Twitter account (I refuse to call it X), and it's more convenient to have a browser for each one so I can just log in automatically.

Here's my last message from Gentoo when I tried to update it;

* IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.use/wpa_supplicant' needs updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.

* IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view new items.

Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 0

Doesn't exactly make it easy for you

What I did do though was add a line to my make.conf file, to make it accept licences automatically (I know this could be considered unprofessional, but most of us skim read those things before signing them off anyway).

ACCEPT LICENSE="*"

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johnraff · 2024-02-02 00:09:07

Colonel Panic wrote:

I suppose I don't really need more than one browser, but I have more than one Twitter account (I refuse to call it X), and it's more convenient to have a browser for each one so I can just log in automatically.

Have you tried multiple Firefox profiles? I think they should have separate cookies: 'firefox --ProfileManager'.

(I refuse to call Twitter eks too. )

r.chaffee53 · 2024-02-02 00:47:39

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … ontainers/

Bob

Döbbie03 · 2024-02-02 03:59:30

Colonel Panic wrote:

Dobbie03 wrote:
Hey Colonel,
Yeah, as far as downloading packages, a lot of it will be based on your location, network speeds, and mirrors. Building those packages, all hardware dependent.
You can look at tweaking your configs to use more CPU cores to build, I haven't bothered. Maybe this article will help?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti … pile_times
As far as mirrors go, this may help.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect
Unmasking is a pain in the arse, but this Wiki article will help you through it.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_ … _a_package
Please don't consider me a point of knowledge on Gentoo, I very well could send you down the garden path, as I am still not quite sure how I managed to get a working system. I still have to access documentation on a daily basis on how to do things.
Saying that, happy to help wherever I can.
P.S. do you really need any other browser other than Firefox?
Thanks Dobbie. No I suppose I don't really need more than one browser, but I have more than one Twitter account (I refuse to call it X), and it's more convenient to have a browser for each one so I can just log in automatically.
Here's my last message from Gentoo when I tried to update it;
* IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/package.use/wpa_supplicant' needs updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
* IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view new items.
Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 0
Doesn't exactly make it easy for you
What I did do though was add a line to my make.conf file, to make it accept licences automatically (I know this could be considered unprofessional, but most of us skim read those things before signing them off anyway).
ACCEPT LICENSE="*"

I have the same line in my make.conf as well. Just makes life easier. I do find a lot of the messages post-update helpful. I'm not used to reading any ouput once an update has completed so it took a little time to get into the swing of it all.

Jimbo_G · 2024-02-02 08:15:21

johnraff wrote:

Have you tried multiple Firefox profiles? I think they should have separate cookies: 'firefox --ProfileManager'.

This is what I do (multiple users on one PC) - create different Firefox profiles then they can simply be launched with 'firefox -p user1' 'firefox -p user2' etc.

Can confirm that all cookies, history, passwords, settings etc. are completely separate

Martin · 2024-02-02 08:39:56

Jimbo_G wrote:

johnraff wrote:
Have you tried multiple Firefox profiles? I think they should have separate cookies: 'firefox --ProfileManager'.
This is what I do (multiple users on one PC) - create different Firefox profiles then they can simply be launched with 'firefox -p user1' 'firefox -p user2' etc.
Can confirm that all cookies, history, passwords, settings etc. are completely separate

Cool, I didn't know this.

Can I have different plug-in settings (uBlock Origin, NoScript etc) too?

/Martin

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