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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!

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

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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).

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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??!!?"

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