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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I doubt it's at-spi2-core (Assisted Technology), that's an accessibility package for people with impairments. It can be removed, the warning is annoying but meaningless.

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cog

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

@unklar I’ve been collaborating a lot with another guy on our discord and am probably going to be replacing hyprland with mangowc.

https://mangowc.vercel.app/

It’s already in my repos now and quickshell is still being used.  I’ll let you know when the changes take place.  I’ll add your

env = ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT,auto

as it will be the same in mango.  Thanks for the info.  You can follow the configuration updates here:

https://github.com/troutcobbler/hatchery-quickshell

https://github.com/troutcobbler/hatchery-mango

It’ll basically be the same as hyprland but better performance and easier for me to maintain than hyprland and its many dependencies.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Back in Nobara, which I managed to mess up (mustn't swear here). All I can say is, don't mix up the toolkits; if you want to install Cinnamon (as I did), start with the Gnome version instead of the KDE one, it's easier.

Anyway, got it working again more or less but I can't access any terminal from the menu; need to fix that if I'm to carry on using it. Might just as well bin it though and start again with something else.

On its merits, it's a decent enough distro but it does need a fairly modern machine because it makes heavy demands on your system resources. With just six tabs open in Firefox I'm already using 4.2 GB of RAM (switching to Cinnamon was supposed to fix this, but it didn't).

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unklar

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I doubt it's at-spi2-core (Assisted Technology), that's an accessibility package for people with impairments. It can be removed, the warning is annoying but meaningless.

Thanks for your correction.
I hadn't checked what the package was for. Nevertheless, these are errors that irritate USERS, especially since this solution is over 10 years old and no one at Debian notices it.
Because the error message from “gtk3dialog” is gone! 

unklar

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

@cog,
Thank you very much for your hard work.

It’ll basically be the same as hyprland but better performance and easier for me to maintain than hyprland and its many dependencies.

I'm excited, although I admit that it's difficult to follow your pace of development. But that's exactly how I live my life.

Maybe you can still solve my problem with the screenshots. Why do the keyboard shortcuts only work with an empty png file while the commands in Terminal give a correct result?

unklar

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I've also tried round corners. Here, in the hyprland-config (unlike JaKooLith) only the corners at the top/bottom left and right/top/bottom are changed.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 12#p148612

^This additional script is not required. In 'hyprland.conf' there is the option to set round corners in the decoration section.

# https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Variables/#decoration
decoration {
    rounding = 0
    rounding_power = 2

This does the job on all 4 corners of the window. Sorry!

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Hatchery Linux.
Based on Debian trixie, mangowc default compositor on the latest iso release ( https://hatcherylinux.org/ )
Pretty minimal; firefox-esr, thunar, xfce4-terminal for gui, vim for editor.

3 terminals and firefox (workspace 2) open.
quickshell to create the panel.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Hot on the heels of the difficulties I've had in trying to install OpenSUSE Leap 16.0, I've also run into problems trying to install Fedora 43 (Cinnamon).

First of all, Fedora doesn't come woth gparted as standard so you can't partition the hard drive from the live disk to create a fresh partition before installation; but secondly, its installer insists on your having a separate /boot partition before it will proceed (I think this is because it has btrfs as its standard file system).

In the end I gave it up as a bad job, at least until I know a bit more about file systems and partitioning, although I think I'd still choose ext4 over btrfs if I was given the choice.

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PackRat

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

First of all, Fedora doesn't come woth gparted as standard so you can't partition the hard drive from the live disk

Does it include cfdisk? Easy to use partitioner from command line.

Can you install gparted in the live session before you begin the install? If you can't use a different live session like BL to prep the disk before booting and installing Fedora.

have a quick look through the docs for the version you're installing - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/

Edit - Fedora ships with the gnome disks utility; a gui app for partitioning and formatting. It's in the System submenu.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

First of all, Fedora doesn't come woth gparted as standard so you can't partition the hard drive from the live disk

Does it include cfdisk? Easy to use partitioner from command line.

Can you install gparted in the live session before you begin the install? If you can't use a different live session like BL to prep the disk before booting and installing Fedora.

have a quick look through the docs for the version you're installing - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/

Edit - Fedora ships with the gnome disks utility; a gui app for partitioning and formatting. It's in the System submenu.

Thanks, but it's a bit late now - I installed Slackel Openbox 8 instead

I probably will give Fedora another go, and soon - it's too good a distro and I've got too big a hard drive to fill not to.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

First of all, Fedora doesn't come woth gparted as standard so you can't partition the hard drive from the live disk

Does it include cfdisk? Easy to use partitioner from command line.

Can you install gparted in the live session before you begin the install? If you can't use a different live session like BL to prep the disk before booting and installing Fedora.

have a quick look through the docs for the version you're installing - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/

Edit - Fedora ships with the gnome disks utility; a gui app for partitioning and formatting. It's in the System submenu.

Thanks, but it's a bit late now - I installed Slackel Openbox 8 instead

I probably will give Fedora another go, and soon - it's too good a distro and I've got too big a hard drive to fill not to.

Ahh Slackel..isn't that based on Slackware? I might give a Slackware based distro a spin as Slack is where I got started with Linux way back in 1994.

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PackRat

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Does it include cfdisk? Easy to use partitioner from command line.

Can you install gparted in the live session before you begin the install? If you can't use a different live session like BL to prep the disk before booting and installing Fedora.

have a quick look through the docs for the version you're installing - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/docs/

Edit - Fedora ships with the gnome disks utility; a gui app for partitioning and formatting. It's in the System submenu.

Thanks, but it's a bit late now - I installed Slackel Openbox 8 instead

I probably will give Fedora another go, and soon - it's too good a distro and I've got too big a hard drive to fill not to.

Ahh Slackel..isn't that based on Slackware? I might give a Slackware based distro a spin as Slack is where I got started with Linux way back in 1994.

Slackel is based on Slackware-current. Sister project of Salix which is based on Slackware.

Salix, Slakel and Zenwalk (also slackware current) are all solid distros.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Ahh Slackel..isn't that based on Slackware? I might give a Slackware based distro a spin as Slack is where I got started with Linux way back in 1994.

Yes it is, it's a Greek distro. It has quite a good suite of software included as standard including LibreOffice (which Slackware itself doesn't have).

The only problem I've had with it so far is that the video display doesn't always refresh properly.

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Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

My FreeBSD saga continues.

I followed Robonuggie's suggestions for tuning FreeBSD for desktop use and found it resulted in reduced screen resolution. Strange as I find the same recommendations in several places. I undid all the changes (kept localization) and got my screen resolution back. I am now in the process of reintroducing the changes one-by-one. So far so good and I am none the wiser.

I have installed more applications (LaTeX, Gummi, LyX, Okular, baobab, btop) and set up orgmode 'my way'. So far everything has worked right out of the box. I have created PDFs both with LyX and emacs+orgmode+LaTeX.

One thing that does not work properly is localization. At least not in Thunar. Menus are in Swedish but if I want to create a new file Thunar does not see my templates unless that folder is named "Templates". On my Linux boxes (Debian) I can have Swedish names on the folders and it still works.

Enough for tonight.

/Martin

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I've just installed Besgnulinux again (hopefully third time lucky this time), which is a Turkish Debian-based distro with JWM as its window manager.

The last time I tried it the theming broke, the software I installed didn't always show up on the menu and the internet stopped working, but it's so pretty I decided to give it another chance.

It also has Brave as its default browser, which is an interesting and unusual choice.

In other news, I've updated Slackware using slackpkg and it all went without a hitch. Still not brave enough to try updating the kernel yet though (and not even sure I need to).

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Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

More fun with FreeBSD.

Today I made sound work. FreeBSD is clearly not desktop ready out of the box. Everything related to that needs to be activated or installed/activated/configured by hand. It is not challenging really as the handbook is good and there are several tutorials out there. I got sound on my first attempt.

Updating/upgrading is as exciting as in Debian. The command is "pkg" instead of "apt". Hence, "pkg update" followed by "pkg upgrade".

/Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

If I had a bigger disk drive I'd definitely give it a go.