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OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1824 Location: London, England

Hello rg66,

Browsers are rather a challenge and largely a matter of personal preference. You have the Mozilla derivatives and the Chromium derivatives. Both are now very large and have frequent updates. For this reason it makes sense for a distro to contain only a small browser such as Dillo or Netsurf (which is quite nice and has some javascript support) and allow user to handle large browser selection, but some distro devs don't like this idea and I do sort of understand why.

In terms of Mozilla, there is still Seamonkey as an option. Palemoon offers a good compromise, but a few things are missing including WebRTC support for video chatting. Firefox can still be compiled for GTK-2 and alsa rather than using official builds. I believe the Slackware builds are still compiled this way so you can use those if you don't want to build your own.

Looking at Chromium derivatives, my personal favourite is Vivaldi. The devs seem to know what they are doing. It runs sweeter than any of the others in terminal although initial start-up may take a second or two longer. The UI is different but highly customisable. The 32bit Vivaldi was briefly dropped but re-introduced and it does not need GTK-3 whereas the 64bit version does.

Opera runs better in Slackware than it does in Ubuntu/Debian but keep an eye on it for processes running on after it has been closed (run from terminal to see). I suspect the updater is causing this but can't be sure. Most of these browsers do have "spam" brands in the default speed-dial but I don't think it is anything sinister. With all of these browsers I always modify the main binary with bbe to enable run-as-root and remove the --no-sandbox issue.

rg66 · Posted: Sat 29 Jul 2017, 19:11 Post subject:

Thanks for the response OscarT,

I do want X-Slacko to have basic functionality ootb so a decent browser is a must for me, especially since 4.x won't be updated anymore. So far Palemoon is the one but I'll have a look at Vivaldi as I do like the chromium derivitaves such as opera etc....

Just found with a quick google search that running slimjet with "--no-sandbox --test-type" removes the warning.

edit: Just tried Vivaldi, so far I like it.

rg66 · Posted: Sun 30 Jul 2017, 02:27 Post subject:

I've uploaded palemoon-27.4.0.sfs, slimjet-15.0.3.0.sfs and vivaldi-stable-1.10.867.48-1.i386.sfs to the repo.

edit: added firefox-45.9.0esr.sfs and gimp-2.8.22.sfs

http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/sfs/

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4380 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hallo, rg66. Need a bit of advice on a rather odd occurrence.

Basically, I've restored X-Slacko 232 from a back-up, after some experimentation which I just knew would 'break' things (it did).....and now 232 can't see any network interfaces of any kind. Even the in-built list of modules has gone AWOL.

I've tried this with half-a-dozen or so backups, taken at two-monthly intervals over the last year or so. 232 was working perfectly when each backup was made, yet they're all displaying the same behaviour.

See here for further details. Any ideas? TIA.

Mike. Wink

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: SW Wisconsin

Hi Mike,

Is this a frugal install? If it is, is there any chance that it is finding the zdrv from the (kernel juggling? IIRC? that broke it?) instead of the correct zdrv if that other zdrv is still about somewhere? That's a reach but it would explain all of the restores breaking in the same way. Maybe you could beef up the kernel params to limit the search. I was following the other thread and almost replied there but...

I thought I had the corner on oddities Very Happy

rg66 · Posted: Mon 07 Aug 2017, 23:52 Post subject:

Mike, what does this command output from terminal?

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4380 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Morning, rg.

Well, now; let's see.

I moved my 232 install last night, from sda11 to a directory inside sda10, which is one of my main data partitions (and has over 100 GB spare room).

Resulting from this, network functionality is all back again. The output from your code is as follows:-

rg66 · Posted: Tue 08 Aug 2017, 08:15 Post subject:

Mike, enable show hidden files in Thunar and go to /root/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml and move xfce4-desktop.xml somewhere like the Desktop. Restart X and see what happens.

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4380 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

MORE INFO re 'Missing Desktop'

Following another shufti around the web, I came across an article on the XFCE forums:-

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7793

Following the advice given here, I deleted /root/.cache/sessions, and restarted, via

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 930 Location: Mid-mitten

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4380 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

@rg66:-

rg66 · Posted: Fri 11 Aug 2017, 08:16 Post subject:

rg66 · Posted: Sun 13 Aug 2017, 03:39 Post subject:

X-slacko-4.3 is available for download

Barring any major bugs, this will be the last release of the 4.x series

Download ISO and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/

Download delta and md5
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso/delta/

Changelog
http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/change_log.txt

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: SW Wisconsin

First go of 4.3 is all good here. Frugal Grub4Dos install on my 'new Laughing

' i5 based laptop. Ran first without savefile, cleaned the savefile and updated from 4.2 to 4.3, first with the stock kernel and then swapping in the 4.1.31 I've used with the X- series for some time now. No glitches at all with display, sound, connection, suspends noted. Ran Palemoon but using Slimjet 15.0.4.0 shared with the other pups in the kennel.

System: Host: X-Slacko Kernel: 4.1.31 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4
Distro: Slacko Puppy 6.3.2
Machine: Device: laptop System: FUJITSU product: LIFEBOOK S761 serial: R1Y00453
Mobo: FUJITSU model: FJNB225
UEFI [Legacy]: FUJITSU // Phoenix v: Version 1.17 date: 03/14/2012
Battery CMB1: charge: 63.6 Wh 95.0% condition: 67.0/67.0 Wh (100%)
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-2520M (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
clock speeds: max: 2501 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 800 MHz 3: 800 MHz
4: 800 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.org 1.14.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.1.31
Network: Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: b0:99:28:cf:30:51
Card-2: Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
driver: ath9k
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: e0:ca:94:6f:ee:ee
Drives: HDD Total Size: 64.0GB (16.3% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_SSD_830 size: 64.0GB
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 270 Uptime: 12:46 Memory: 197.1/2854.3MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.7

Annie sez hi, hoorah, and thanks,

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1586

Hi rg66 & marv,

1) Wanted to ask, from trying repeatedly this morning before heading to work, it just me or does 4.3 have a problem/glitch in creating a "savefile" after frugally booting up? Tried ~4-5 times, with the ISO downloaded & verified twice to make sure it wasn't corrupt. It would go thru all screens and appearance of proper motions in creating the savefile, but go to boot it all back up, there is/was no savefile created in the frugal folder (and/or anywhere on the drive). So....???

2) Also, another issue: in the initial frugal bootup tests I did, Thunar grabbed random directories outside itself (I've external hard drives, thumbdrives and such) and when it mounted some of them, Thunar would randomly "lock" them whole, and/or randomly "lock" directories, refusing to give me root access no matter what I set in Thunar Advanced section (it even refused chmod commands). These external drives, thumbdrives, etc are currently swapped across many puppies and ddogs, and there is no problem like this, as they are all 'root'.

Thanks.