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rg66 · Posted: Wed 12 Dec 2012, 15:23 Post subject:

Added elementary desktop icon theme amongst other things and did a custom rebuild. Booted into my new lite and it was showing the default Nuovo icons. Played around a bit and nothing.

Did another custom build and noticed it wasn't putting the /usr/local/lib/pixmaps folder in the adrive although the theme was there. Added it manually and rebuilt. Booted into my new new lite and the desktop was using the icons but the menu was using the default Nuovo icons. Played around a bit and nothing.

I manually removed the pixmap folder from the main sfs and the desktop was showing the proper icons again but the menu was showing grey square icons. After pulling out what was left of my hair, I manually removed the pixmaps folder and the Nuovo theme from the main sfs and replaced them with elementary. This finally fixed the problem.

For some unknown reason the menu was only using the pixmaps folder from the main sfs. Is this because the pixmaps and theme folders were on the adrive previously? Could this be a custom builder issue? Or is there some config file somewhere that I can't find?

Sorry for the long post.

Edit: After looking at the pictures again, shutdown, find etc....are using the proper icons, only the categories aren't.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 281 Location: SW Wisconsin

Attached is a pet for further testing. It eliminates the need for a custom mount command in the xfce4 panel mounter plugin. All the custom command did was make mount points for fixed disks in the system. The rules in udev handled the removable storage. It puts a tiny executable script in /root/Startup that makes mount points for all disks listed in fstab at boot. No conflict with the custom command or the pup-volume-monitor as they all check for existing mount points. It should simplify the maintenance of the panel mounter.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 372

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 372

rg66 · Posted: Thu 20 Dec 2012, 02:40 Post subject: uninstall pets

If you're like me and are always adding and removing pets, it can be a bit of a pain to wait for the package manager to update and then have to open the uninstall window.

To relieve my impatience I have created a pet that will open an uninstall window for fast and easy removal of user installed .pet packages. I've also added a few handy buttons. There will be a menu entry in system but creating a desktop shortcut or panel launcher is even better. Made for lina/lite but should work in Saluki (not tested). It even uninstalls itself!

Edit: I've changed the name and added a different icon so not to confuse it with a .pet package.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 372

'lina-lite-005 is now available. Please see the first post on this thread for the download link.

This version of lite contains bug fixes and a few script enhancements to work better with a wider variety of hardware.
It's also smaller than previous versions of lite.

The short range plan for lite is to continue to make it smaller. The long range plan is up in the air, but I've been considering the possibility of making an alternative version of lite down the road that consists of an adrive populated with very small versions of the basic packages found on most distros (browser, text editor, media player, etc.). I've been considering this in order to create a more newbie-friendly light weight puppy that makes use of the xfce window manager. However, I intend to keep lite (sans-packages) separate for those that wish to have a stripped-down base to build upon. But that's putting the cart before the horse. For now I'll be concentrating on making lite smaller while maintaining stability.

As always, suggestions are welcome.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4763 Location: GB

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Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 281 Location: SW Wisconsin

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4763 Location: GB

Works just fine, thanks. Subjective, but every time you reduce the resource requirement it seems faster.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1876 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a manual frugal install of linalite 005 to my emachines D620
laptop.
I added firefox and several other pets from ppm, and added vlc 2.0.5
and some other stuff.
It's working well.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5341 Location: Kentucky

Since smaller is good in an operating system for older hardware.......manual frugal install on my old Athlon XP box.Everything was working ootb, added a few pets and no problems yet.Looking good.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 372

I've added a new version of the custom-builder to the Carolina repository. It now gives you the option of whether or not you'd like to save your xfce settings, and also fixes a couple bugs.

In previous versions, when asked if you'd like to save your desktop icons, whether or not you chose yes or no it would save them. Also in previous versions, when asked if you'd like to save your personal settings, whether or not you chose yes or no the save personal settings dialog would appear. Both of these should now work as expected.