EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020

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Reneetje · #1051 Post by **Reneetje** » Mon 15 Oct 2018, 18:19

http://bkhome.org/news/201810/chromium- ... roved.html

Works also fine in Quirky Beaver64 8.7.1

rufwoof · #1052 Post by **rufwoof** » Mon 15 Oct 2018, 19:39

easyos.org/forum seems down at present, so reporting here ... 0.9.7 if you change the main desktops wallpaper, choice icons, remove the console and www containers, add some icons, remove others ... the changes don't always get preserved across reboots.

BarryK · #1053 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 16 Oct 2018, 00:31

BarryK wrote:Regarding Chromium, got it sorted, see blog post:

http://bkhome.org/news/201810/chromium- ... roved.html

@belham2
Uninstall the PET, and install the new one, then it should be ok to "containerize'.

It gets better, that annoying message at top of browser window is now removed, see the "bk3" PET:

http://bkhome.org/news/201810/chromium- ... roved.html

BarryK · #1054 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 16 Oct 2018, 12:36

belham2 wrote:Only thing I changed is when the Container of Chromium was made, the icon that popped up on the desktop was the 16x16, with no purple-lock designating as a container item. Could barely see it, haha.

Thanks for reporting that. I have fixed the 'easy-containers' script so that it creates a correct icon on the desktop.

rufwoof · #1055 Post by **rufwoof** » Wed 17 Oct 2018, 15:27

rufwoof wrote:easyos.org/forum seems down at present, so reporting here ... 0.9.7 if you change the main desktops wallpaper, choice icons, remove the console and www containers, add some icons, remove others ... the changes don't always get preserved across reboots.

I think that may be due to how Puppy's implement jwm, rox pinboard backup's etc. and how in some cases pinboard changes can 'revert' apparently by itself.

Nice to have menus that update for changes, personally however I've tended to use jwm in a manually managed manner and encode everything into just the single .jwmrc file ... including startup commands etc.

rufwoof · #1056 Post by **rufwoof** » Wed 17 Oct 2018, 19:06

http://bkhome.org/news/201810/empty-and ... iners.html

I have in past encountered problems with rox not being compliant (old code that hasn't been updated in years) when using twm. Something like incomplete/inappropriate dbus signaling or simply just not been compliant. ???

dalderton · #1057 Post by **dalderton** » Sat 10 Nov 2018, 04:49

Same MeLe minpc as Barry. Followed install instruction. Turn on with esc key engaged,opens boot options,choose UEFI OS option ,Save and Exit, goes to Easyos menu,select boot, looks for drive, shows "mmcblk0" continuous perhaps 20 times then "boot drive not found" "cant access tty job controll turnd off"
EASY working fine from thumb drive and I have tried all boot options in the boot order without success.
I am no expert but can follow instructions, any assistance would be appreciated.
Regards Dennis

BarryK · #1058 Post by **BarryK** » Sun 11 Nov 2018, 01:31

belham2 wrote:Easy 0.9.7 installed via EasyDD onto USB stick.............................. (hey, I have to ask: did you know when one uses EasyDD from inside any running Easy OS version, that once you open EasyDD & choose the gz.file and pick the correct USB stick, and hit "Continue", that the EasyDD popup disappers with no dialog and/or install status box pops up, and you're left to wonder what is going on? g. No finish popup, no communication popup, nothing. Yet, EasyDD installs the .gz file IF you know enough to wait however long despite being in the dark what is going on. Perhaps a dialog box of what's going on and when EasyDD is finished would be nice )

I am going through the short-list, prior to releasing 0.9.8, including the above.

@belham2
I tested easydd in GUI mode, it puts up a window showing writing progress, right to completion.

I think that I read another post of yours, where you have removed rxvt/urxvt, replaced with roxterm?

There are many scripts that require xterm/rxvt/urxvt and will not work with others. In Easy, I have sakura, but still have to keep urxvt as sakura is not 100% commandline compatible -- the same goes for most other terminal emulators. That is why, just about all the distros keep xterm/rxvt/urxvt.

It seems, it is also why the final window is not appearing. easydd does a test for existence of rxvt or urxvt, will refuse to run if missing. If you have them as a symlink, to something else, easydd does run, but in your case, it seems, not properly.

In my test just now, got a rxvt terminal window, until the write completed, and then another window notifying that the write is complete.

belham2 · #1059 Post by **belham2** » Mon 12 Nov 2018, 13:09

BarryK wrote:
belham2 wrote:Easy 0.9.7 installed via EasyDD onto USB stick.............................. (hey, I have to ask: did you know when one uses EasyDD from inside any running Easy OS version, that once you open EasyDD & choose the gz.file and pick the correct USB stick, and hit "Continue", that the EasyDD popup disappers with no dialog and/or install status box pops up, and you're left to wonder what is going on? g. No finish popup, no communication popup, nothing. Yet, EasyDD installs the .gz file IF you know enough to wait however long despite being in the dark what is going on. Perhaps a dialog box of what's going on and when EasyDD is finished would be nice )
I am going through the short-list, prior to releasing 0.9.8, including the above.

@belham2
I tested easydd in GUI mode, it puts up a window showing writing progress, right to completion.

I think that I read another post of yours, where you have removed rxvt/urxvt, replaced with roxterm?

There are many scripts that require xterm/rxvt/urxvt and will not work with others. In Easy, I have sakura, but still have to keep urxvt as sakura is not 100% commandline compatible -- the same goes for most other terminal emulators. That is why, just about all the distros keep xterm/rxvt/urxvt.

It seems, it is also why the final window is not appearing. easydd does a test for existence of rxvt or urxvt, will refuse to run if missing. If you have them as a symlink, to something else, easydd does run, but in your case, it seems, not properly.

In my test just now, got a rxvt terminal window, until the write completed, and then another window notifying that the write is complete.

Ah hah, that makes 100% sense. I wasn't using rxvt or urxvt.

Thanks, Barry!

Over the years I have gotten a little exasperated with rxvt/urxvt because of (among a few things) I cannot highlight & copy and paste when using it. So I always used something like sakura, lxterminal and/or ROXterm. I'll remember from now on when using EasyDD to always do it through rxvt/urxvt.

BarryK · #1060 Post by **BarryK** » Wed 14 Nov 2018, 11:25

belham2 wrote:Over the years I have gotten a little exasperated with rxvt/urxvt because of (among a few things) I cannot highlight & copy and paste when using it. So I always used something like sakura, lxterminal and/or ROXterm. I'll remember from now on when using EasyDD to always do it through rxvt/urxvt.

I don't have any problem with copy and paste in rxvt/urxvt.

Drag the mouse pointer to highlight, then middle-click mouse button elsewhere to paste the highlighted text.

Or, highlight text anywhere else, then middle-click in rxvt to paste.

Can copy and paste with the rxvt terminal in the same way.

BarryK · #1061 Post by **BarryK** » Wed 14 Nov 2018, 11:30

Easy 0.9.8 is out:

http://bkhome.org/news/201811/easyos-098-released.html

New SFSget package installer, new NetworkManager.

The GUI for NetworkManager is currently only the text-mode GUI that comes with the NM package, named 'nmtui'.

I plan to convert that to a proper graphical app, maybe using gtkdialog ...or, has that already been done somewhere?

There is 'network-manager-applet' package, a gtk3 tray applet, but I don't like it, also too many deps.

FeodorF · #1062 Post by **FeodorF** » Wed 14 Nov 2018, 18:22

Boy you did a great job Barry!

Selecting a keyboard at first boot works. I used "12". Checked good too after Easy was up and running.

Screen driver "nouveau" works well too.

Internet via cable works at the desktop as well as in the container.

Had to use my sda1 and grub4DOS to boot into Easy. Guess my 10 year+ old Intel duo PC will never boot straight into the USB stick.

After closing Seamonkey in the container the wired connection went dead. Had to reconnect via the nmtui "Wired connection 1".

Greetings,
Feodor

add up: menu.lst looks like this

Code: Select all

title easy (/sdb1)
  find --set-root /initrd.q
  kernel /vmlinuz rootwait rw
  initrd /initrd.q

Billtoo · #1063 Post by **Billtoo** » Wed 14 Nov 2018, 20:34

I installed to a 32gb flash drive.

I running from seamonkey in Racy.
That's it so far,
Will look around and try things out.
Thanks.

FeodorF · #1064 Post by **FeodorF** » Thu 15 Nov 2018, 00:36

Correction right here.

I was using the locked Seamonkey browser not the browser in the container. Seamonkey in the container doesn't work for me at all - the other Seamonkies do.

Had to think hard how to close the container ... the MS$ key ... ALT+F4.

BarryK · #1065 Post by **BarryK** » Fri 16 Nov 2018, 11:53

FeodorF wrote:After closing Seamonkey in the container the wired connection went dead. Had to reconnect via the nmtui "Wired connection 1".

Yes, this is a bug! Killing any container, kills 'dhcpcd', which kills the Internet. There is a quick way to bring it back:

https://easyos.org/forum/index.php?topi ... 228#msg228

I think that I know how to fix it. Thanks for reporting it.

I am hoping to work through this and other "teething" problems, and 0.9.9 will have pretty much stabilized the underlying infrastructure. Then should be on the home-run to release 1.0 ...by Christmas?
Maybe sooner!

Billtoo · #1066 Post by **Billtoo** » Fri 16 Nov 2018, 18:33

I added the xenial container and was able to install and setup kodi.

That's nice

BarryK · #1067 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 17 Nov 2018, 09:42

Billtoo wrote:I added the xenial container and was able to install and setup kodi.

That's nice

Great!

One of the nice things about Xenialpup is that it has a collection of SFS packages, that can be installed via the "install" icon on the desktop.

I plan to offer some of these in the EasyOS SFS repo, I think LibreOffice, Krita and TeXstudio would be nice.

A couple of details to work out, hopefully will have it sorted tomorrow, then when you click on "sfsget" on the desktop, and go to path "puppy/ubuntu/xenial", you will be offered these extra SFSs.

Interesting thing about them, they won't have to run inside the "xenialpup" desktop container, though they could, but they can also run as inidividual apps on the main desktop.

...which is very interesting, apps of a different distro running just as though they are EasyOS apps.

BarryK · #1068 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 17 Nov 2018, 09:43

accidental duplicate post.

Billtoo · #1069 Post by **Billtoo** » Sun 18 Nov 2018, 23:07

I did a new EasyOS Pyro-0.9.8 install to 32gb usb-3.0 flash drive:

System: Host: puppypc Kernel: 4.14.79 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 Distro: xenialpup64 7.5
Machine: Device: desktop System: HP product: 260-p029 serial: CNV6240BWP
Mobo: HP model: 81B4 v: 01 serial: PFPSK0BWJ301LW UEFI [Legacy]: AMI v: F.04 date: 05/10/2016
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-6100T (-HT-MCP-) speed/max: 1447/3101 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 driver: N/A tty size: 160x28 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Card-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8723be
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1157.3GB (0.9% used)
Weather: Conditions: 32 F (0 C) - Overcast Time: November 18, 5:45 PM EST
Info: Processes: 15 Uptime: 1:37 Memory: 425.2/3873.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.8

Some applications must be started from the terminal (kodi,kpat,kshisen)
while firefox,smtube,vlc start by clicking on the their icon in the
tray.
The processor works harder than normal and gets warmer than it normally
does when running an application.

I will erase this and start again when 0.9.9 is released

Thanks

BarryK · #1070 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 24 Nov 2018, 05:17

Version 0.9.9 is out:

http://bkhome.org/news/201811/easyos-ve ... eased.html

Have fun!

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