PCLinuxOS Openbox 11.11

[melodie]

Hi Melodie,
I tried in vbox the new openbox, it seems very good lots of useful apps squeezed in, just a suggestion maybe a couple of token small games?
Best wishes,
OnlyHuman

Hi,

I would like very much to produce both Openbox versions : English and French with the same applications. I could not last time, because Libreoffice with the locales, + locales for the rest was making the Fr version 725 MB large. Now, with the same set of apps as in the English version, and thanks to mylivecd that compresses more than it did before, I have it at 699 MB.

I suggest something : would you want to make a DVD ?

Regards,
Mélodie

[menotu]

Also wondering if the NEW Gimp 2.7 or 2.8 could be added as could not find it in repository
Colin

Just had a quick look for when Gimp 2.8 is being released - the last target date was 25-Nov-2011. Just checked the tasktaste site and it appears there are a few things to do, but of course there is no way of knowing how big/time intensive they may be so that date may slip by......

http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8

[kamicota]

Thank you Meotu

Looking forward to Nov 25 and see what new gimp looks like and how it performs

Cheers for years
Colin

[OnlyHuman]

Personally melodie, I prefer an iso 700mbs or under, though realise dvd's are probably a similar price.

[melodie]

Personally melodie, I prefer an iso 700mbs or under, though realise dvd's are probably a similar price.

Hi,
What are the games you like ? I would probably not choose the same as you would ? And what about a project "All games" ? (A DVD for the end of the year ? I would not have enough time for this, but maybe someone else would like to give it a try ?)

[OnlyHuman]

A gamers dvd could be good melodie, I'm not much of a gamer, but like to see a game or two even if its just a solitaire card game.
I feel sure there are some here who are keen gamers, who could advise much better on a good choice of games.

[Yankee]

A gamers dvd could be good melodie, I'm not much of a gamer, but like to see a game or two even if its just a solitaire card game.
I feel sure there are some here who are keen gamers, who could advise much better on a good choice of games.

Alien Blaster, even on a netbook.   Tried 3 chess games but none of them work.
The terminal doesn't say which dependency is missing.   Have to do it the hard
way or play chess in old dosbox.

[Dragynn]

Gnome-games is a good selection of basic time-wasters, like 50 different solitaire games, minesweeper, mahjong,  it even has a decent chess program that works well.

[melodie]

Gnome-games is a good selection of basic time-wasters, like 50 different solitaire games, minesweeper, mahjong,  it even has a decent chess program that works well.

I have always liked Gnome Games. I might not want to add it to Openbox full though, because I fear the disk image would become too big.

[Yankee]

Gnome-games is a good selection of basic time-wasters, like 50 different solitaire games, minesweeper, mahjong,  it even has a decent chess program that works well.

I have always liked Gnome Games. I might not want to add it to Openbox full though, because I fear the disk image would become too big.

+1 gnome-games    Half of them I don't even know how to play yet.
If someone has time to install them I wonder if the dependencies
listed for install are complete for OpenBox.   There is a list with the install
package in Synaptic about that.

Have a good one.

FF

[djohnston]

Just a few things to report. Installed it in VirtualBox. Selecting shutdown from the menu when booting from the CD does not shut down the VM. But, after installation, booting from the hard drive works fine.

Installed guest additions from the host side, as VBox has some weird bug about displaying the plymouth shutdown screen (see below). The plymouth boot screen looks fine. The shutdown screen is correct after guest additions are installed.



I set my host PC's DVD writer as VBox's CD/DVD drive with passthrough enabled. Try as I might, I could not get Graveman to recognize the device, after repeated fiddling with the preferences. This may be different on bare hardware. I installed GnomeBaker, and the device was automatically recognized.

As to GnomeBaker's dependencies, it has only one: gstreamer0.10-flac. Installing Xfburn would also install exo, libburn4, libexo-0.3_0, libgladeui1_9, libisofs6, libxfce4util, libxfcegui4, thunar, thunar-volman, xfce4-panel and xconf. I don't know that one application has any advantage over the other, other than the number of additional packages to be installed.

[AS]

Just a few things to report. Installed it in VirtualBox. Selecting shutdown from the menu when booting from the CD does not shut down the VM. But, after installation, booting from the hard drive works fine.

Hi djohnston,

It seems to me to have experienced something that look similar, using a KDE in vbox, apparently it's waiting for <ENTER> without displaying "Remove the LiveCD and press ENTER to shutdown the system". May be your issue is similar.

Installed guest additions from the host side, as VBox has some weird bug about displaying the plymouth shutdown screen (see below). The plymouth boot screen looks fine. The shutdown screen is correct after guest additions are installed.

I have a similar distortion when shutdown my KDE machine, I'm reporting about just for info, because it appear to be not strictly related to Openbox. I'm not 100% sure but it seems to me that both issues started when vbox 4.1.6 was released/installed.

AS

[djohnston]

Just a few things to report. Installed it in VirtualBox. Selecting shutdown from the menu when booting from the CD does not shut down the VM. But, after installation, booting from the hard drive works fine.

Hi djohnston,

It seems to me to have experienced something that look similar, using a KDE in vbox, apparently it's waiting for <ENTER> without displaying "Remove the LiveCD and press ENTER to shutdown the system". May be your issue is similar.

Hello as,

You're right. Same weirdness with VirtualBox. The iso was waiting for an ENTER press, but VirtualBox wasn't displaying the screen properly. So, there's nothing wrong with the iso in that regard.

[melodie]

Hi,
I also get this strange screen in Virtualbox at shutdow. (Since some time I think).

[AS]

Hi,
I also get this strange screen in Virtualbox at shutdow. (Since some time I think).

I have got fixed the screen corruption at shutdown by installing the updated guest additions 4.1.6 directly from VirtualBox.
(Those available on PClinuxOS repos are version 4.1.4) 

Beside, using the guest additions provided from VirtualBox will provide better mouse integration, automatically switching when enter/exit the vbox window.

AS