alphaOS [closed]

[simargl]

SMPlayer http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats

Version: 0.8.4 released 2013-03-24, added to the repository.

[Scooby]

No idea why I dont get prompt in sakura terminal either?

Not sure, but can you start any program using keyboard shortcuts like

super+f for file manager and others (see conky)

super+f works

super+e doesnt. Message: "Cannot find file leafpad"

[Scooby]

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What userid did you use before on this forum?

[Scooby]

double post , Sry

[simargl]

No idea why I dont get prompt in sakura terminal either?

Not sure, but can you start any program using keyboard shortcuts like

super+f for file manager and others (see conky)

super+f works

super+e doesnt. Message: "Cannot find file leafpad"

super+e is wrong shortcut, it should start text-editor script that launches geany or l3afpad - what ever is installed, that will be fixed

I'd like to help but really have no idea why touchpad works for some one, and not for others

[Scooby]

No problem sim.

Just for me is little hard do try stuff when I dont have terminal.

Do you think if I unpack Alpha OS iso and replace touchpad stuff ( /etc/X11/xorg.conf )with my settings in ArchPup it will work?

[simargl]

No problem sim.

Just for me is little hard do try stuff when I dont have terminal.

Do you think if I unpack Alpha OS iso and replace touchpad stuff ( /etc/X11/xorg.conf )with my settings in ArchPup it will work?

That might work, although for me xorg.conf is almost empty. I think Xorg still reads that file only not write to it like in some older versions

[Scooby]

That might work, although for me xorg.conf is almost empty.

Do you have a lot of files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ?

[simargl]

Do you have a lot of files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ?

Strange.. I don't have that folder at all.

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Ok, I've fount it under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.

Two files: 10-evdev.conf and 50-synaptics.conf

...from 50-synaptics.conf...

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.

[zmr]

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What userid did you use before on this forum?

It's my first nick here.

[simargl]

VirtualBox Portable (VirtualBox-4.2.10-84104-Linux_x86.run)

alphaOS version 2.0, kernel 3.8.2

KolibriOS LiveCD image running inside VirtualBox


VirtualBox-4.2.10-84104-Linux_x86.run script automatically builds kernel module and
installs needed files to /opt/VirtualBox. Takes about 160 MB in save file, but later you can compress it as Sfs module

[john3voltas]

Today I finally installed alphaOS 2.0.
Unfortunately I couldn't configure a save file.
I usually set up a save file on the same partition that I have my puppies frugally installed.
Unfortunately alphaOS did not mount RW the partition where it is installed.
As a consequence I could not set up my save file.
Anyone else experiencing this issue?
Cheers

EDIT: After much testing I concluded that I am having trouble in setting up a save file on ANY ntfs partition and not only on the partition where I have alphaOS "installed".
Could it be that ntfs-3g is missing? native ntfs driver cannot write ntfs partitions...

[simargl]

I also noticed that ntfs partition is mounted read-only with command mount, and edited two scripts: one used for mounting by spacefm and second makepfile.sh for making save file to use command ntfs-3g if filesystem type is ntfs.

I have alphaOS files on /dev/sda6 that is ext4 partition, and if I click on ntfs partition in spacefm, now it is mounted read write. If alpha os is frugally installed on ntfs partition and on boot mounts it read- only then init script needs fixing, I didn't test that.

[simargl]

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program

It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.8.2 to GIMP 2.8.4
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/NEWS?h=gimp-2-8

Version 2.8.4 added to the repo. Install it using package manager gui, or type makesfs gimp.

[rcrsn51]

@simargl: I have been looking at printing in alphaOS. Here is a report:

CUPS 1.6 in alphaOS is broken. The key backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb segfaults. But even if this is fixed, CUPS 1.6 is a poor choice for alphaOS. The new versions of CUPS introduce too many complications into the mix.

AlphOS is missing the other required components of the Linux printing chain - Ghostscript, filters, etc. These need to be configured specifically for the version of CUPS. As I reported in ArchPup, just downloading them from a distro's repo is no guarantee of success.

As a replacement, I have built a 15 MB package that is a complete printing system for alphaOS. It is based on CUPS 1.4.8 and has everything required to print/scan. It includes some major driver packages like Gutenprint and HPLIP. It also has plug-and-play compatibility with many of the driver PETS here. And it has the infrastructure to work with several Peasy-apps.

Here is a proposal:

1. You remove CUPS 1.6 from your base system. Printing is not a high priority with alphaOS users and it is just taking up space. If you don't want to bother, my package will over-write it.

2. I will host my print/scan package somewhere. Users who want printing can download it themselves. It contains a PET-to-alphaOS utility for installing additional drivers.

FYI, you need to create a "messagebus" user in alphaOS. Otherwise, dbus does not work correctly.

[simargl]

Latest addition to spkg_gui, packages listed by category..

Every package must belong to one of 8 supported categories:
utilities development games graphics network multimedia office system

[simargl]

rcrsn51,

Thank you very much for that report.

Now, I cannot remove cups completely because it is required to compile some packages. Or it is optional dependency, but if it's not present at compile time then programs like evince for example would not be able to print.

gtk3 require cups newer than 1.2, I hope that 1.4 is not too old for any other package

Code: Select all

    if test $CUPS_API_MAJOR -gt 1 -o \
            $CUPS_API_MAJOR -eq 1 -a $CUPS_API_MINOR -lt 2; then
      as_fn_error $? "CUPS >= 1.2 not found" "$LINENO" 5
    fi

http://www.cups.org/software.php

I could compile older cups version 1.4.8 if you that it's better, what I like is that source size for that version is almost two times smaller than 1.6.

It's not problem because I planned to soon recompile everything, after adjusting package manager to leave locale files for every package in. That will increase size of the iso for 15-20 Mb but every program will have support for all languages.

[rcrsn51]

Rebuilding alphaOS from scratch with CUPS 1.4.8 would definitely help.

When my package replaces CUPS 1.6, it changes some things with gtk that require fixing. It works, but a native install of 1.4.8 would be better.

When you are ready to rebuild, send me a PM. I will give you my ./configure. It needs to be compatible with the other printing components.

[ojowinter]

I noticed lack of some scalable icons in alphaos's Faenza.

https://github.com/Valama/valama

Valama need three icons.

x status/changes-prevent-symbolic.svg
x action/edit-clear-all-symbolic.svg
o action/edit-find-symbolic.svg
x emblem/emblem-system-symbolic.svg

It seem to be edit-find-symbolic is ok.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1053962/arpha-2 ... 101338.png

PS: Perhaps cannot see treeview toggle switch in currently alpha's gtk theme.

[simargl]

x status/changes-prevent-symbolic.svg
x action/edit-clear-all-symbolic.svg
x emblem/emblem-system-symbolic.svg

I will add first one, other two are not in Faenza theme, but there are similar names:
edit-clear-symbolic.svg will link to edit-clear-all-symbolic.svg
emblem-system.svg will link to emblem-system-symbolic.svg