X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

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johnywhy · #646 Post by **johnywhy** » Sun 10 May 2015, 22:34

rg66 wrote:pProcess dl'ed from link, installed and running without errors. Sounds like something is broken.

hrm, here's my current package list. could one of these conflict?

fyi, all the libs and gst stuff are for claws.

rg66 · #647 Post by **rg66** » Mon 11 May 2015, 11:05

johnywhy wrote:
rg66 wrote:pProcess dl'ed from link, installed and running without errors. Sounds like something is broken.
hrm, here's my current package list. could one of these conflict?

fyi, all the libs and gst stuff are for claws.

My guess is PPM or corrupted .pets. I got a lot of those on an NTFS partition.

johnywhy · #648 Post by **johnywhy** » Tue 12 May 2015, 21:19

xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-i486-2 does not seem to work on my xSlacko, even tho downloaded from xSlacko ppm.

when i run it from whisker, i get

Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?

So i click 'run' and then i do not see the Notification Area Icon.

if i again run it from whisker, i again get

Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?

is my xslacko damaged?

thx!

rg66 · #649 Post by **rg66** » Wed 13 May 2015, 23:36

johnywhy wrote: xfce4-power-manager-1.2.0-i486-2 does not seem to work on my xSlacko, even tho downloaded from xSlacko ppm.

when i run it from whisker, i get
Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?
So i click 'run' and then i do not see the Notification Area Icon.

if i again run it from whisker, i again get
Xfce4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now?
is my xslacko damaged?

thx!

As I stated earlier, I get the same thing. I can compile it easily enough but it has never run in X-slacko. Not sure why, I can't track down the problem.

johnywhy · #650 Post by **johnywhy** » Thu 14 May 2015, 07:49

rg66 wrote:As I stated earlier, I get the same thing.

oops, sorry i missed that.

i'm using xslacko, and suddenly my desktop is in zoom mode. it's like when you change your resolution to a setting it cannot display, so you get a zoomed-in window, which auto-pans when you move your mouse around.

i must have hit some keyboard shortcut. not sure how to get out of it, but i like it! just want to know how to control it. maybe it's an xfce thing?

thx!

Geoffrey · #651 Post by **Geoffrey** » Thu 14 May 2015, 09:10

johnywhy wrote: my desktop is in zoom mode. it's like when you change your resolution to a setting it cannot display, so you get a zoomed-in window, which auto-pans when you move your mouse around.

i must have hit some keyboard shortcut. not sure how to get out of it, but i like it! just want to know how to control it.

Alt+mousewheel

johnywhy · #652 Post by **johnywhy** » Thu 14 May 2015, 15:21

Geoffrey wrote:
johnywhy wrote: my desktop is in zoom mode.
Alt+mousewheel

Sweet! Is that any relation to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70476

Sage · #653 Post by **Sage** » Thu 14 May 2015, 16:49

Alt+mousewheel

- but most k/b & mouse keys can be re-programmed on most OSes (yes, even 'doze). Not that I know how to do it, just that it can be done. Useful for those accursed laptops when the keys drop off. Unfortunately, I think it has to be done for every OS as I've not seen it in BIOS, although maybe it's there in a fully unlocked BIOS?

Geoffrey · #654 Post by **Geoffrey** » Thu 14 May 2015, 20:33

johnywhy wrote:
Geoffrey wrote:
johnywhy wrote: my desktop is in zoom mode.
Alt+mousewheel
Sweet! Is that any relation to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70476

Zoom and pan with the Alt + mouse wheel seems to be a default built in to xfce.

rg66 · #655 Post by **rg66** » Fri 15 May 2015, 10:20

Ctrl + mouse wheel will increase or decrease the folder icons size in thunar.

rg66 · #656 Post by **rg66** » Sat 16 May 2015, 06:35

Compiled Thunar-1.6.8, refresh issues seem to be sorted. DOC, DEV and NLS are seperate .pets.

Download: http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_packages-X-slacko

Sage · #657 Post by **Sage** » Sat 16 May 2015, 06:54

dealt with elsewhere, thanks.

rg66 · #658 Post by **rg66** » Tue 19 May 2015, 08:12

Sage wrote:dealt with elsewhere, thanks.

I've posted in that thread http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 447#846447

starhawk · #659 Post by **starhawk** » Thu 21 May 2015, 20:02

Attempted to run both X-Slacko 2.3.2n and 3b7 on a tiny desktop I just finished building. Both have issues.

With 2.3.2n on USB, the cursor is a square of corrupted data roughly I'd say 96px square. There is nothing that I can find that fixes this. Also the modesetting driver is not found upon initial boot, yet appears present later (albeit with the issue described).

With 3b7, in addition to the previously mentioned cursor issue (which is not resolved yet), the 'intel' driver is available as well as modesetting -- but the 'intel' driver requires a reboot. Not wanting to put a savefile on my USB testing stick, I installed this version (and not 2.3.2n) to the internal SSD, only to find that the drive would not boot (no onscreen errors; the boot process just hangs) upon reboot. ext4, boot flag is set. I'm using grub4dos as included in 3b7. Drive is an Intel X25-M, 80gb in size. This may or may not be a BIOS issue.

Hardware in question is as follows:
Axiomtek PICO820 motherboard (rebranded as iGoLogic i2820)
Intel Atom Z530 CPU
Intel US15W chipset
Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) integrated graphics
Integrated audio (Intel HD, I *think*)
Intel 80gb X-25M SATA2 SSD
Rosewill RNX-N180UBE Wireless Card (will need r8712u driver for this, if not available already -- I didn't get that far)
PS/2 keyboard and mouse, via USB-to-PS/2 adapter

starhawk · #660 Post by **starhawk** » Fri 22 May 2015, 23:08

X-Slacko 2.2 performs fine on an ext3 partition, when installed to the hardware described in my last post.

That's what it will run for now... although, rg, if you are interested in doing troubleshooting with 3b7 and whatever comes after the beta, I'm all ears

Finish resting up first, though... everybody deserves a vacation once in a while.

rg66 · #661 Post by **rg66** » Sun 24 May 2015, 07:15

@ starhawk

Finally have power after 2 days, Africa is a nice place to visit but .........

The closest thing I have to test with is an Asus Eeepc with an Intel Atom N570 and GMA 3150 graphics. 3b7 booted and worked like a charm off of a flash drive (vfat). Don't have an SSD drive to test with and don't want grub4dos on it. It has win7 and the wife and kids use it.

Maybe it is a BIOS or hardware issue, my 10 year old Acer lappy (which finally died last month

) had issues with a lot of puppies. ACPI was a serious problem as well as shutting down and sometimes even booting.

If you have a copy of Tahrpup you could try using that zdrive, just rename it zdrv_slacko_5.9.3.sfs, that's most likely the kernel I'm going to use for v3.0. (Although, "Starting with kernel 3.3.4 , the gma500_gfx driver works without adding any boot options." But I see lots of issue with that chipset and linux with a google search.)

Sorry if I'm rambling, I just woke up.

starhawk · #662 Post by **starhawk** » Mon 25 May 2015, 04:01

Might also be a thermal issue with my board. The heatsink is poorly designed at best -- it's held on with springloaded screws, so that the slightest vibration bounces the damn thing around like a balloon in a gale. Ugh >.<

Probably doesn't help that my heatsink paste of choice is the cheapest crap on the market outside of the grey goop that Dell (etc) uses -- mine is copper based (the eBay sellers who hawk it claim it's gold -- I don't think so, gold doesn't turn your fingernails green

). I only use it because it's one of those things where if you order ten pieces you get a quart bag of 'em... my local tech shop gets 'em that way. I'm great friends with the owner so I get what he can't use, free. Since he literally can't avoid ordering too much, I've a steady supply.

I've got some silver based stuff that he tossed me the last time I was over there, though (same source, double the price, he tells me -- but double almost nothing still ain't much!) and I might try it once I scrap off the plumbing dust that's there now. I'll probably notice a difference

I keep meaning to put some sort of cushion-y stuff under that heatsink to hold it better anyways -- the problem is more that it's got room to wiggle than anything else...

While I'm at it I'll re-download 3b7 -- I have the bad habit of downloading without checking MD5s and then coming up with problems later

rg66 · #663 Post by **rg66** » Wed 27 May 2015, 12:52

I've compiled and uploaded xfce4-appfinder-4.12 and the NLS pet as well.

Download from: http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/

I think I've had enough of a break and should start building X-slacko again soon.

starhawk · #664 Post by **starhawk** » Thu 28 May 2015, 01:13

Looking forward to the next version

rg66 · #665 Post by **rg66** » Thu 28 May 2015, 14:32

starhawk wrote:Looking forward to the next version

The next one will be v3.0, it's been running extremely stable since 3b7. Currently I'm using the Tahr 3.14.20-PAE kernel with the latest Xfce packages. I'd guess about a week or two (I'm in no real hurry, better to test and find bugs).

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