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[saintless]

Lumina Desktop for DebianDog and MintPup.

More information about Lumina read here, here, and here.





All i386 deb packages available for download here.
Information about the packages read here.

How to install:
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In DebianDog-Jessie, DebianDog-Wheezy, DebianDog-Squeeze and MintPup:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lumina-desktop-debdog

Click System --> Start Lumina for more information how to setup the system to auto-start Lumina desktop or read the same information here.

Lumina version included in each repository is:
DD-Jessie - latest version 0.8.7 (qt5).
MintPup - version 0.8.4 (qt5).
DD-Wheezy - version 0.7.2 (qt4).
DD-Squeeze - version 0.7.2 (qt4) - (lumina-fm and lumina-search not included - can't compile with QT4.6).

Different version in each repo is the safe choice and keeps sources.list untouched without need to upgrade qt5 version available at the moment in official repositories.

You can install safe any Lumina-qt5 version in DD-Wheezy after adding backports repo in /etc/apt/sources.list:

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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

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sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg -i /path-to-deb-package
sudo apt-get -f install

In MintPup to install lumina 0.8.5 and later you need to add Utopic repository but this will upgrade libc6 and fontconfig-config breaking compatibility with some packages from Trusty repo (not recommended).

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Porteus-boot needs logout menu to execute wmreboot and wmpoweroff commands to save the changes properly. As workaround in each package added logout-lumina script. You can create logout-lumina desktop icon as described here or use from the menu Logout-Lumina entry to reboot and shutdown with porteus-boot.

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Edit: DebianDog-Squeeze repo updated with lumina-desktop-debdog package compiled with QT4.6. Read above how to install it with apt-get. Also available for download here: lumina-desktop-debdog_0.7.2-0-squeeze-qt4_i386.deb
This deb has dependencies only from official Squeeze repo and will not break in any way the package manager.
Lumina-fm (file manager) and lumina-search not included here (I can't compile both with QT4.6). Change the default file manger to xfe or rox from Desktop Settings as described here (clicking System --> Start Lumina after installing the package will open the same text).



The changes in lumina-0.7.2 source code for compiling with QT4.6 available here.
It could be done much better with sure since I know nothing about QT programming but Lumina works well in DD-Squeeze and installing all dependenices + QT4.6 takes around 40Mb.
Readthe information about this package before installing in DD-Squeeze.

[fredx181]

Update:
Below doesn't work anymore for 32 bit Iceweasel/Firefox.
Probably because google-chrome has dropped 32 bit support.

How to run latest flashplayer in Iceweasel/Firefox on DebianDog/MintPup

Official flashplayer from Adobe for linux is at version 11
Google-Chrome has it's own flashplayer bundled (pepperflash) which is currently at version 19

To be able to use pepperflash on Iceweasel/Firefox you can install the 'freshplayerplugin'
See here:
https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

Install freshplayerplugin from terminal:

# Jessie (adds around 55 MB disk space, that is on a clean install of DebianDog)

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# Add the jessie-backports repository:
echo -e '\ndeb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

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# Wheezy (adds around 48 MB disk space, that is on a clean install of DebianDog)
As there's no freshplayerplugin available on wheezy, I've made my own package, compiled using instructions from github freshplayer page

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# First download freshplayerplugin:
wget --no-check-certificate https://googledrive.com/host/0ByBgCDlZZ8K5bUsxVnhCTkhoZDA/DebianDog/Extra/freshplayerplugin_0.0.1-ddwheezy+git20151121_i386.deb
# Add the wheezy-backports repository
echo -e '\ndeb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
# From terminal in directory where is inside downloaded 'freshplayerplugin_0.0.1-ddwheezy+git20151121_i386.deb'
dpkg -i freshplayerplugin_0.0.1-ddwheezy+git20151121_i386.deb
apt-get -f install

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# Mintpup (adds around 20 MB disk space, that is on a clean install of MintPup)

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# First download freshplayerplugin:
wget -r -e robots=off -nd -l1 -A "freshplayerplugin_*webupd8~trusty_i386.deb" http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu/pool/main/f/freshplayerplugin/
apt-get update # Might be required
# Is forgotten to add ca-certificates as dependency of pepperflashplugin-nonfree?
apt-get install ca-certificates
apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
dpkg -i freshplayerplugin_*webupd8~trusty_i386.deb
apt-get -f install

To be able to get updates for the freshplayerplugin (trusty) add to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu trusty main
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Inside /var/cache/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/ there's latest google-chrome .deb.
To clean up, just remove it, it's not needed anymore (unless you'd like to install google-chrome)

Fred

[saintless]

Usb-headphones problem solution from rufwoof shared here.

Another problem I'm experiencing in both Wheezy and Jessie is that firefox running youtubes has no sound. I use usb headphones that usually get allocated to card 2 in Tahr. With alsa settings all up and with mplayer set to gnetcom (the usb headphones) and after having set mplayer as the default player for mp4's then they play fine (video/sound ok). Load web page with some wav's and I can play those also. Go to youtube and load up a video - see the video ok, but no sound. Reading around it seems like firefox and youtubes are a problem. That equally applies to me whether using HTML5 or flash for viewing youtubes in firefox. I did also try the desktop gtk youtube player and that also had just video, but no sound. I suspect that's down to not being associated to the right card. Usually in alsa when you F6 to select the card it sets that card as the default, but I suspect that isn't holding true for DD. In Tahr I did code
options snd-usb-audio index=2
at the end of /etc/modprob.d/alsa_base.conf to ensure correct association, but don't know where to do likewise in DD.

SOLVED. Not quite sure what did the trick, but the changes I made were to run alsamixer and note the card number of my headphones (which were Card 1 in DD)

add/change
/root/.retrovol

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# Which soundcard to use
card=hw:1

/etc/asound.conf

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defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 0

/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

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options snd-usb-audio index=1

added after the last line

[rufwoof]

I use a 32" TV as my monitor. DD Jessie (OpenBox version) however booted to a default choice of 1024x768 resolution and didn't (at least for me) include the 1366x768 TV resolution by default.

So ...

In a terminal window run cvt for the desired resolution, in my case it was a 720p TV that supports 1366x768 at 60Hz

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root@jessie:~# cvt 1366 768 60
# 1368x768 59.88 Hz (CVT) hsync: 47.79 kHz; pclk: 85.25 MHz
Modeline "1368x768_60.00"   85.25  1368 1440 1576 1784  768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync

Its the 'modeline' that we're interested in here.

Also run xrandr

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DVI-I-1 connected 1368x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1368x768_60.00  59.88*+
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32    56.25  
   848x480       60.00  
   640x480       59.94  
DVI-I-2 connected 1368x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1920mm x 1080mm
   1368x768_60.00  59.88*+
   1920x1080     50.00 +
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x768      59.87  
   1024x768      75.08    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    60.00  
   720x400       70.08  

In my case I have a nvidia card and that shows it has two outputs, DVI-I-1 and DVI-I-2

With a record of those two we can now edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

If no xorg.conf currently exists then create one by exiting X and run the command

Xorg -configure

and then restart X again (startx). Note that's a big X. That will create a xorg.conf.new in your home directory (/root). In that there will likely already be a 'Monitor' section and you need to append the Modeline as produced by the cvt command earlier and perhaps change the 'Identifier' to match that shown by the xrandr command run earlier. In my case I have two so I created two Monitor sections in xorg.conf.new i.e. snippets taken out of my xorg.conf.new look like :

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Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "DVI-I-2"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
Modeline "1368x768_60.00"   85.25  1368 1440 1576 1784  768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1368x768_60.00"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "DVI-I-1"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
Modeline "1368x768_60.00"   85.25  1368 1440 1576 1784  768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1368x768_60.00"
EndSection

Save that /root/xorg.conf.new, then copy it into /etc/X11/xorg.conf (assuming one didn't exist before, otherwise you would directly edit that existing version), and you're ready to restart X (exit X and run 'startx' command).

Doesn't work and stays out at the command prompt? Then something was wrong with xorg.conf - simply
cd /etc/X11
and rename xorg.conf to something else
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.bad
and run the startx command again - which will startx up using system defaults. Edit and correct/repeat as necessary until it does work.

Once in X you can open a terminal and run lxrandr and that will show a window that looks something like the attached (image below).

EDIT : It would appear that using 1280/720 is a good choice. The TV can be set to either 4:3 (old square style TV mode) or 16:9 'widescreen'. 1280 is exactly 80 times 16 and 720 is exactly 80 times 9 i.e. a direct mapping with no remainder. With other (available) choices there's some rounding involved (scaling). Lower resolution - but more direct mapping - and to my eyes at least, clearer fonts/appearance. Accordingly I've use the modeline produced from cvt 1280 720 60 as the values used in xorg.conf.

[rufwoof]

Having got sound working properly and tweaked the resolution as per the last two posts, the only other thing I had to change was that the network icon in the tray wasn't working correctly for me. So I swapped that out for a alternative as per this posting http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 633#883633

[rufwoof]

In DD Jessie Openbox, right click the tray clock and select Properties and then you can choose from some preset formats, or use a custom format.

I personally like the %a %d %b %R custom format choice as that displays three character day of week, day of month, three character month and then the time

[rufwoof]

In DD jessie openbox/xfce the themes windows have a very narrow border of just 1 pixel width, which makes resizing a window using just the mouse a bit of a hit and miss affair (you can always use the alt-right mouse combination to resize a window, but that might mean having to pick up the keyboard if in laid-back mouse only mode ).

To widen the borders a little to make resizing that bit easier you need to change the theme. In the attached image I opted to change the Alpha theme for openbox, which is located in /usr/share/themes/Alpha/openbox-3/themerc. Changing the border width value from 1 to 4 is a reasonable choice IMO. After making and saving edits use the Menu, Applications, Settings, Customize look and feel (widget tab) to switch to the Alpha (or whatever) theme, Apply (to save) and I usually also restart X.

[rufwoof]

I've a nvidia card in my PC, but I'm using the inbuilt graphics acceleration rather than compiling and using the proprietary nvidia driver. With the nvidia choice when the PC boots the console fonts stay at a large/readable size. With the in-built nouveau however the console fonts reduce down to quite a small size and remain small i.e. if I exit X to the console (or use ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2 (ctrl-alt-F3 on mine returns to the desktop)).

After a bit of hunting around I found these instructions to change the console font size :

in a terminal window run

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

and select the UTF-8, then select combined latin, slavic,cyrillic,greek, then Terminus, and then I selected the 16x32 font size choice. Exit X and at the console command prompt run 'setupcon' and the console font size will be larger than before (16x32).

With that done on my PC the first part of bootup (BIOS) has large text size, then switches to small for a bit, and then adjusts to the above setting level, which stays at that size thereafter i.e. if I exit X to the console.

[rufwoof]

When I first installed Libre from Synaptic the menu text and icons were horrible, too small and blocky.

Having since used the menubar's Tools, Options choice, selected the View choice from the available options in the left hand window, and modified both the Scaling (that adjusts the size of the menubar text - I set mine to 145%) and picking the Large Icons choice, Libre now looks so much better (the attached scaled down image doesn't do it any justice as in practice it looks really sharp and polished).

[rufwoof]

A problem with only including free firmware as per Debian is that your hardware support might not be included. There is however a CD image you can download

Debian Link to firmware CD (non-free) http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unoff ... ch/iso-cd/ for the 'current' version.

To note - it was slow to download for me.

[rufwoof]

Installed Skype in DD Jessie 32bit pae openbox by following the instructions in https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA1212 ... -for-linux. Installed to /root and just ran it directly. I have mine set to load on bootup i.e. in /root/Startup I created a script containing

#!/bin/bash
apulse skype &

set that as executable, and in /usr/bin I created a symlink called skype to /root/skype-4.3.0.37/skype where its installed.

Note that you also need to install apulse (apt-get install apulse).

Had some problems with sound levels - which were resolved by : http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 886#884886

[rufwoof]

In my installation of DD Jessie Openbox/XFCE the Thunar Permissions tab doesn't cater for setting a file as being executable (the option is greyed out) .... so :

In Thunar - EDIT, CONFIGURE CUSTOM ACTIONS select the + choice to add a new custom action and on the BASIC tab give it a name such as "Make Executable" (without the quotes), and in the COMMAND section enter

chmod a+x %f

then select the APPEARANCE CONDITIONS tab and check/tick all of the choices. Then click OK to save that.

Thereafter when you select a file in Thunar you can right mouse click and click the Make Executable choice to make the file executable.

[rufwoof]

The onscreen display of kernel, cpu, memory ...etc i.e. conky is activated by default in DebianDog Jessie Openbox/XFCE. That does however eat some CPU time to run/maintain.

In /root/.config/openbox/autostart.sh if just after

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if [ -f /mnt/live/tmp/modules ]; then
conky -c ~/.conkyrc-port &
else
conky -c ~/.conkyrc-live &
fi
wait $!

you add

/opt/bin/conkytoggle.sh &

then conky will be toggled off by default upon startup. But can be toggled back on again by clicking the desktop conky icon.

[rufwoof]

install numlockx (as its not in the default DebianDog Jessie Openbox/XFCE)

apt-get install numlockx

and add a script in /root/Startup, I called mine numlock

#!/bin/bash
numlockx &

not forgetting to make it executable.

[rufwoof]

I like to boot the exact same version (factory fresh, with updates) of DD Jessie (openbox) using Porteus boot - each and every time I boot. So I use grub4dos to boot and have a menu.lst that looks like

color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
timeout 1
default 0

title Debian-Jessie 32bitpae openbox (sda3) save on EXIT
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/live/vmlinuz1 noauto from=/ changes=EXIT:/live/ init=/bin/systemd
initrd (hd0,2)/live/initrd1.gz
boot

That way I can boot, make changes etc. and either run save2flash at any time or select the save option when I shut down in order to preserve changes, or not run save2flash and select the NO save option at shutdown to not save any changes (my more usual choice).

A recent glibc update however hit problems (see here) where after running

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get clean

the subsequent save resulted in lockup with no saves actually being made (written to disk). The solution was to boot without the changes=EXIT:/live/ boot setting i.e. change that to changes=/live/ so that the changes were instantly preserved to disk.

A 'best practice' user-guide choice when running a Optional Persistence type choice is to boot (with the usual changes=EXIT:/live/ boot parameter optional persistence type choice). Check for any updates (running apt-get upgrade as above), verify/test those changes and if OK then reboot without saving, with that next boot using the changes=/live/ boot parameter choice (i.e. persistence with changes being instantly preserved as and when the changes are made), then re-run the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade/apt-get clean sequence and then reboot again - with that next boot being reverted to using the changes=EXIT:/live/ boot parameter setting again (i.e back to using optional persistence again).

[saintless]

In case you need to use wvdial and it fails to connect uninstall frisbee:

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sudo apt-get purge frisbee

And try to connect again with wvdial.

Thanks mpanek60:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 492#894492

Uninstalling Frisbee fixed usb modem communication with the browser, apt-get and so on.

Links to Debian howto wvdial instruction:
https://wiki.debian.org/Wvdial
https://wiki.debian.org/Modem/3G
https://wiki.debian.org/Huawei/E220

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[backi]

Hi fred !

How i managed to use E17 Enlightenment Desktop on
Debian Dog Jessie .

1. To download and make a E17 squashfile by using Apt2Sfs is quite simple .
(start apt2Sfs choose the filesystem you want to download it to .....type in e17 ......then the process starts .

Put the downloaded e17.squashfs into /live/base folder .
Important !! to make e17 work ...edit /root/.xsession
instead of :

~/startup &
exec jwm

replace it with :
~/startup &
exec enlightenment_start
and save .
Reboot
After reboot rightclick Desktop maybe do startx once or twice .

2.
But you can also download e17 directly via Synaptic .

If everything went fine you will login to e17 setup screen.
Maybe you have to restart once or twice with startx .
In case you want to go back to jwm Desktop ....change /root/.xsession
back to
~/startup &
exec jwm

Wouldn ‚t it be easier i do a remaster with a simple basic setup on E17 Desktop and everybody can download and experiment further ?
Because there where some quirks which i encountered configuring E17 .
I could circumvent it .
So everybody could avoid some annoying frustration during setup of E17 when using a little preconfigured
Desktop setting .
.
Its less work for me to do this remaster than to explain the whole show .

If you are interested ....is there a possibility to upload this basic E17 remastered Debian-Dog ?
I will put this information on the " How To Thread "

Keep me informed .
Cheers !

[rufwoof]

I installed e17 via Synaptic. Changed .xsession and boots great.

One problem however is file associations. Any file seems to have blank open with choices (no programs listed) and nothing seems to have any file associations, all empty. I guess EFM needs to have its mime's populated, completely empty as-is. I've no idea where/how to do that however, and it would be laborious to go through such associations one by one.

[backi]

Hi rufwoof !

Not quite sure what you mean... but i think you want to apply
Application either to Shell on a Ibar or as Favorite Application .....you want to select them ..apply them .....but tey are not there...empty .

I think i encountered same problem ......not quite sure...but as far i can remember ,if my memory serves me well .......

Try this ...go to... >Settings panel >Menu> click -Menu settings>Applications -click Dog(applications).. (instead Of Enlightenment )
click apply .
Restart desktop ....or better do startx once or twice look if items appear .If yes ...O.K if not save your session and rebootand check again.
Give me feedback .
But in case you are interested ....i can upload a small Remastered Iso with basic working configuration ...... i will give the link for download later for public access on my Google Drive. I have to do some testing first .

Cheers!

[rufwoof]

Try this ...go to... >Settings panel >Menu> click -Menu settings>Applications -click Dog(applications).. (instead Of Enlightenment )

I've no Dog (applications) choice, try some of the other available choices instead of Enlightenment, but still no good.

If for instance I create a test.txt desktop file using leafpad, and then click on that to activate it, it just presents a empty choose from list