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SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1802

Not a biggie (I'm running out of actual bugs Wink

), but can we disable startup_notification in dunst?

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SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1802

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108

Trying 702rc on my retina Macbook and as older FD64 versions, works with similar issues (blacklist broadcom module, disable some gpe interrupts that hog the CPU, allow vaterry to run even if /proc/acpi/battery is empty, add a big cursor, adjust global and app-specific font sizes etc).
One issue I have is that I can not change the tray height adding "height=XX" in /etc/xdg/razor/razor-panel/panel.conf uder [panel] (or any other way I tried). Any hints?
Another little annoyance is that hfs+ (mac) volumes are mounted ro by default although all the tools are there for rw and you can do it with "-o force,rw". This means that FS files can not be saved in Mac partitions, which maybe wise but how do I change it if I feel risky? Shocked

As a general notion, a lot of FD specific apps do not scale well in high resolution screens or when you increase font size globally (because you need glasses change...). The FD control panel, Nathan wp setter, Wifi GUI etc are pretty bad. flSynclient is simply terrible since is ignoring global fond size too.
I guess not many high resolution screen machines will be using FD tomorrow, but 3-4 year down the road when they age enough and the windows registry will do its thing, they will. Wink

A couple more Mac specific issues, BT detected but failed to connect with magic mouse (and I did try). Adjusting the touchpad with flSysclent is a pain and never really works well.

Bottom line, is nice that I can boot FD in the Macbook but it looks much better running in a VM under OSX Very Happy

Gobbi · Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Posts: 255

step · Joined: 04 May 2012 Posts: 1352

OK, I started testing RC just minutes ago. So far so good, I'm running a split initrd as usual. Minor fix, /usr/bin/dir2pet line 106

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108

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SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1802

step · Joined: 04 May 2012 Posts: 1352

Is it just me or does anybody else see the same thing? pnmtojpeg used to work in 701

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

@mavrothal: "As a general notion, a lot of FD specific apps do not scale well in high resolution screens or when you increase font size globally (because you need glasses change...). The FD control panel, Nathan wp setter, Wifi GUI etc are pretty bad."

-> We discussed this earlier during FatdogArm running on XO.
A lot of these issues depend on the application authors; it's not a simple matter.
As Gobbi and others said, the most crude workaround is by setting the Xft.dpi parameter; but as you found out not all apps honours this setting.
It's also not a simple matter of just using larger-sized icons. I acknowledge that this is a problem, but something that will probably take a long time to address. We'll probably address this as we go, one (very little) step at at time Laughing

(Motivation is very low because I don't own those hi-dpi machines Laughing

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"Another little annoyance is that hfs+ (mac) volumes are mounted ro by default although all the tools are there for rw and you can do it with "-o force,rw"

-> Please run guess_fstype on the hfs+ partition. I tried creating an image with hfs+ and it is mounted as rw. guess_fstype on the image returns "hfsplus". If you can tell me whether or not your hfs+ is detected as "hfsplus" (output of guess_fstype from your Mac partition), then I can force it to be loaded as "rw" from initrd (and mount-helper) too.

"on the desktop gives a different menu than the panel menu!"

-> As Gobbi said - right-click comes from openbox. Panel menu comes razor-panel.

I agree the openbox right-click menu could be made better. smokey01 actually worked out to add decorations and icons to the openbox manu so that it looks more like the panel menu, but if I recall correctly it is done by hardcoding the menus so adding/removing apps to /usr/share/applications no longer has effect.

"BT detected but failed to connect with magic mouse"

-> This could be BT adapter not fully supported. What's the BT chip used in the Mac? Is it the infamous Broadcom? (If it is, forget it - I threw away my Broadcrap wifi+bt combo so that I don't have to deal with it).

"Also, how do you resize the quicklaunch icon size?"

-> Create a new file in /etc/control-panel-applets.dir, inside specify ICON_DISPLAY_SIZE="32 32" (change "32 32" to "48 48" or "128 128" as you wish). Beware that most of the icons are actually 48x48 so scaling larger than that makes the icon blurred.

@step: fixed. It's anyway just cosmetic because Fatdog doesn't have /etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy anyway.

"cant run pnmtojpeg" -> can't reproduce. You may have accidentally installed older pnmtojpeg from elsewhere.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3108

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1802

RE: HFS+

I just remembered that few months ago I created a HFS+ parition on SD card (to test something, can't even recall what was it, doesn't matter) and it was RW.
But not so long ago when I was trying to copy something there, it suddenly became RO.
Maybe it wasn't unmounted cleanly or something like that..?
I don't know if fsck.hfsplus is safe and reliable, but maybe it's worth a try (or maybe better natively under OSX).

In fact, I just recreated this by plugging the card out without unmounting it and on the next try I got: