PCLinuxOS-Light (Iced-Latte Edition) RC available

[longtom]

 OK explored the seamonkey idea and its a go go.

My proposed alternative is  to utilise part of an early pre-PCLinuxOS Hammer script I have that accepts given web url as an argument (a youtube video address for example), and then use this as a temporary work around until xxxterm is fixed for flash playing.

there are benefits to using this as it can then be used for "webapps"  like having a persistent gmail or gmxmail window open.

Will explore this tonight and post the script for testing.

Jase



 

You reckon this would be easier to implement and use than Jumanji?

edit:  Seamonkey is a drag - slower than any of the big 3 - at least on my P4.  Not an option for mine ....

[Hootiegibbon]

Longtom

Your findings are the same as mine

I have decided that the most economically sensible idea is to include Jumanji and surf, especially as surf works so much better as a browser in ratpoison, and will accept the web address as an argument from the command line

Its frustrating as xxxterm's performance has been fantastic up to now.

As much as I dislike repetition of applications within an iso, I think this is the best compromise for now and will show users there is more to browsing than FF ....

Jase

[longtom]

Never tried surf - is it a big learning curve?  Any manual that comes with it?

[Hootiegibbon]

Never tried surf - is it a big learning curve?  Any manual that comes with it?

man surf

when launched without argument it looks like a big grey window if you then use ctrl+g it opens an url bar at the top of the screen, by default it is very basic, and uses similar navigation to jumanji & xxxterm
its not as good as vimprobable2 (not in the repo's yet  - add it to my wishlist galen) but its very good for a non-tabbing basic browser

Jase

[Hootiegibbon]

Updated links in first post.

Iced Latte Release available

PCLinuxOS-Light (Iced-Latte Edition)

Iso size is 398.90megs

MD5sum 3daf1ab24f038307a45b7a388dbfef7a  PCLinuxOS-Light32.iso


Minimum Recommended Specifications Pentium 2 with 128 megs of RAM


No huge changes from the beta - I added in the oxygen molecule icons and tightend the configuration of a couple of the window managers

xxxterm serves as primary web browser - although due to issue's seated (I think) in webkit and flash and how xxxterm handles them under Linux I have disabled plugins in the .xxxterm.conf file  , as alternatives I have included Jumanji browser and Surf.

Jumanji browser is a tabbing modal web-browser that is very similar to xxxterm in many ways.

Surf is a minimal non-tabbing browser that has minimal features , but will take an url as an argument ( making it the ideal for ratpoison) man page included for its simple operation. (also good for viewing viewing youtube and other flash content )

Thanks for reading

Jase

[Neal ManBear]

Burning the RC to CD now.      

[Hootiegibbon]

posting this as assistance and as a reminder for final

post install please open a terminal and type the following

xdg_menu -v && update-menus -v

this will bring all the menu's up to date

Jase



EDIT: screenie

[LKJ]

Hey Jase,

first, nice job, trying it now. I have a question about Synaptic. I can't resize it or change the fonts, and there are no window buttons. any ideas?

thanks ahead of time.

edit: I forgot. AWN doesn't seem to recognize that xcompmgr is running. where do you start xcomp? thanks

[djohnston]

where do you start xcomp? thanks

In a terminal, or from a run menu, as regular user,

xcompmgr [options] &

To find the options, do xcompmgr -help. -help is an invalid switch, but it will show you the options.

[LKJ]

where do you start xcomp? thanks

In a terminal, or from a run menu, as regular user,

xcompmgr [options] &

To find the options, do xcompmgr -help. -help is an invalid switch, but it will show you the options.

thanks. I know the options, I was wondering which file he starts it in. sometimes if it isn't started in the right place it doesn't work so well. in this case, if I kill it in fluxbox AWN goes transparent as it should, if xcomp is running it's not. it's backwards somehow. Perhaps he's running cairo-compmgr. I didn't look yet.

[LKJ]

here's what I'm talking about...
with xcomp on

with xcomp off

[djohnston]

Ah, okay. Misunderstood the question. Sorry, I don't know if he's using cairo-compmgr or not.

[LKJ]

Ah, okay. Misunderstood the question. Sorry, I don't know if he's using cairo-compmgr or not.

not a problem. I looked, it's not installed nor is compiz. I'm not sure what the problem is.

[AndrzejL]

The problem is that the cairo is told to use opengl.

Try running cairo with the

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cairo-dock -c
switch. If that won't help - try other switches.

[andrzejl@wishmacer ~]$ cairo-dock -h
Usage:
  cairo-dock [OPTION...] Cairo-Dock

Help Options:
  -h, --help                Show help options

Application Options:
  -l, --log                 log verbosity (debug,message,warning,critical,error); default is warning
  -c, --cairo               use Cairo backend
  -o, --opengl              use OpenGL backend
  -O, --indirect-opengl     use OpenGL backend with indirect rendering. There are very few case where this option should be used.
  -i, --indirect            deprecated - see -O
  -a, --keep-above          keep the dock above other windows whatever
  -s, --no-sticky           don't make the dock appear on all desktops
  -e, --env                 force the dock to consider this environnement - use it with care.
  -d, --dir                 force the dock to load from this directory, instead of ~/.config/cairo-dock.
  -m, --maintenance         allow to edit the config before the dock is started and show the config panel on start
  -x, --exclude             exclude a given plug-in from activating (it is still loaded though)
  -f, --safe-mode           don't load any plug-ins
  -C, --capuccino           Cairo-Dock makes anything, including coffee !
  -v, --version             print version and quit.
  -M, --modules-dir         ask the dock to load additionnal modules contained in this directory (though it is unsafe for your dock to load unnofficial modules).
  -T, --testing             for debugging purpose only. The crash manager will not be started to hunt down the bugs.
  -E, --easter-eggs         for debugging purpose only. Some hidden and still unstable options will be activated.
  -S, --server              address of a server containing additional themes. This will overwrite the default server address.
  -k, --locked              lock the dock so that any modification is impossible for users.

[andrzejl@wishmacer ~]$

Andy

[LKJ]

I'm not running cairo-dock. I am trying to run AWN i.e. Avant Window Navigator

edit: apparently there is another problem with AWN. Logout won't logout with AWN running. You have to quit AWN manually first. Maybe I should forget about AWN