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Jimbo_G · 2024-02-02 09:12:50

@Martin Yes, my users have different plug-ins and also different settings for the same plug-ins; as far as I know it doesn't cause any problems.

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-03 18:04:28

johnraff wrote:

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. )

Thanks for the tip, I'm definitely going to look into this. There's a Firefox add-on that enables you to switch Firefox profiles easily and on the fly, which I'm going to investigate too;

johnraff · 2024-02-04 02:20:59

You can run multiple firefox profiles side by side if you launch them with the --no-remote option:

firefox --no-remote -P <profilename>

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-04 09:09:47

johnraff wrote:

You can run multiple firefox profiles side by side if you launch them with the -no-remote option:
firefox --no-remote -P <profilename>

Thanks again!

unklar · 2024-02-08 10:34:24

siduction-noX --> openbox --> labwc --> BL-Lithium-Theme

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-09 10:27:05

I was installing and building Libreoffice in ExGent, and whilst it was going on (it's a lengthy process) something tripped a fuse in the fusebox and all the lights went out, all the power in the house went off etc. That was a result I wasn't expecting!

Still trying to work out whether I should call out a computer tech (who understands Linux) or an electrician.

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Sector11 · 2024-02-09 15:05:38

Colonel Panic wrote:

{snip snip} a computer tech (who understands Linux)

A rare breed indeed ....

Colonel Panic wrote:

{snip snip} or an electrician.

probably the best option for now.

{sharpening sissors} Good Luck!

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-09 18:31:07

Sector11 wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
{snip snip} a computer tech (who understands Linux)
A rare breed indeed ....
Colonel Panic wrote:
{snip snip} or an electrician.
probably the best option for now.
{sharpening sissors} Good Luck!

Thanks! By the way, the last thing I want to do is put people off trying Gentoo or ExGent and I hope my posts (especially that one) haven't had that effect.

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Sector11 · 2024-02-10 12:53:32

Colonel Panic wrote:

Thanks! By the way, the last thing I want to do is put people off trying Gentoo or ExGent and I hope my posts (especially that one) haven't had that effect.

Naaaa, been watching you and Dobbie03.

D03 seems quite pleased with Gentoo.

Döbbie03 · 2024-02-10 17:16:06

Sector11 wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Thanks! By the way, the last thing I want to do is put people off trying Gentoo or ExGent and I hope my posts (especially that one) haven't had that effect.
Naaaa, been watching you and Dobbie03.
D03 seems quite pleased with Gentoo.

Very pleased indeed. Like I said a few times elsewhere, I wish I had done this earlier.

unklar · 2024-02-11 12:39:58

When I was playing around with labwc, apt kept recommending installing sway.
I wanted to have it as mentioned by @cog and @PackRat, without Xwayland.

That's why I didn't use the labwc installation.
Again the noX was used and sway was installed on top of it.

Now the frustration begins.
In Thunar no partitions can be mounted with 'click'. What else is missing?

In the ~/.config/sway/config are entered:

# Autostart
exec /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 & 
exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY SWAYSOCK &

the polkit-agent says it is running for the user:

ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep polkit
polkitd      528       1  0 10:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
unklarer    1469       1  0 10:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

Looks like it's not being 'passed through'.

The sway's own bar and menu work.
fuzzel - (like plank - a wonderful menu) works;
waybar - does not work
vieb - does not work (see screen)
grim - works (also with area)
swayimg- works

Except for vieb everything is in the repo's.

PackRat · 2024-02-11 13:32:35

unklar wrote:

In Thunar no partitions can be mounted with 'click'. What else is missing?

I think you still need the gvfs packages installed.

unklar · 2024-02-11 16:23:17

Thank you, PackRat. Unfortunately.

Only gvfs-backend and gvfs-fuse were missing.
No improvement after that either.

That gave me the idea to run journalctl -af and the result is getting better and I also installed pkexec.
Anyway, I now have an error message.

journalctl -af
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway systemd[1418]: Started gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem service - Media Transfer Protocol monitor.
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway dbus-daemon[1446]: [session uid=1000 pid=1446] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gtk.vfs.Metadata' unit='gvfs-metadata.service' requested by ':1.19' (uid=1000 pid=2084 comm="thunar")
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway systemd[1418]: Starting gvfs-metadata.service - Virtual filesystem metadata service...
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway dbus-daemon[1446]: [session uid=1000 pid=1446] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Metadata'
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway systemd[1418]: Started gvfs-metadata.service - Virtual filesystem metadata service.
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway dbus-daemon[1446]: [session uid=1000 pid=1446] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1' unit='tumblerd.service' requested by ':1.19' (uid=1000 pid=2084 comm="thunar")
Feb 11 16:51:17 sway systemd[1418]: Starting tumblerd.service - Thumbnailing service...
Feb 11 16:51:18 sway dbus-daemon[1446]: [session uid=1000 pid=1446] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1'
Feb 11 16:51:18 sway systemd[1418]: Started tumblerd.service - Thumbnailing service.
Feb 11 16:51:31 sway systemd[1]: snapperd.service: Deactivated successfully.

Feb 11 16:51:43 sway kernel: polkit-gnome-au[1520]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007ffc3ba7b438 error 14 in polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1[5645e574e000+4000] likely on CPU 2 (core 2, socket 0)
Feb 11 16:51:43 sway kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
Feb 11 16:51:43 sway polkitd[528]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.23, object path /org/gnome/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale de_DE.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
Feb 11 16:51:43 sway polkit-agent-helper-1[2417]: pam_unix(polkit-1:auth): conversation failed
Feb 11 16:51:43 sway polkit-agent-helper-1[2417]: pam_unix(polkit-1:auth): auth could not identify password for [root]
Feb 11 16:51:43 sway polkitd[528]: Operator of unix-session:1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system for system-bus-name::1.26 [/usr/libexec/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor] (owned by unix-user:unklarer)

In the sway-wiki I had read something about pekexc...

unklar · 2024-02-11 19:13:29

As it happens, I didn't find anything about the problem in the wiki. But how to change the theme, mouse pointer and icons (lxappearance is no longer available)
So, BL-Litium is doing very well!

unklar · 2024-02-13 07:58:05

The problem is still unsolved, although I think I have worked through all the documentation and error messages.

So for the time being I can state:
- sway with Xwayland (a dependency in labwc) works
- sway with Wayland does not work (no PW query appears when mounting (click in Thunar) other partitions. Apparently the 'connection to the display' (?) is missing.

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-15 23:19:56

I installed Pop! 22.04 today and found that grub in it doesn't probe the hard drive for my other partitions, so I installed one of the newest spins on AntiX (the one with a variety of init systems available, including s6) as well, which does (still) probe the drive.

See the announcement here;

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic … ost-133386

It seems to work just fine with s6, as far as I can see; otherwise, it's standard AntiX except that they seem to have gotten rid of herbstluftwm or whatever it's called (the tiling manager).

As for Pop!, I liked the tiling feature but it seems to be less versatile than what you'd get from a fully fledged tiling manager such as dwm, i3 or spectrwm (or even herbstluftwm if I could understand it).

Edit: more acquaintance with Pop! proved disappointing. I couldn't find any way of launching more than one instance of the terminal when I was in tiling mode.

It's good that it eschews the use of snap, appimage or flatpak but if you want a Ubuntu-based distro with tiling, I think you'd be better off installing something like Mint and then one of the tiling managers I've mentioned (and then maybe a status bar such as polybar too.

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unklar · 2024-02-17 12:46:36

the advantage clearly lies with foot (left) and xfce4-terminal

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-17 20:00:39

Yes, that looks good.

Colonel Panic · 2024-02-26 13:05:12

Just finished updating Fedora 39 (Cinnamon) and then running the Ultramarine script, to install Ultramarine on top of Fedora. The whole process went without a hitch but I have to wait for Ultramarine until the kernel is udated again (which isn't a major problem for me because Fedora Cinnamon is a devcent distro in its own right).

shortarcflyer · 2024-02-26 19:33:26

I have pretty much switched over completely to Arch based distros on my main laptop for regular/normal/everyday use. Of the six distros I have multibooted, 4 are Arch based (EndeavourOS, ArcoLinux, Mabox, and Archbang), the other two are Void and PCLinuxOS. Debian based distros are pretty much a thing of the past for me.

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