EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

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EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:02 am

Testers wanted!

I haven't built on Debian Stable for a while, that's why I do not officially call it "Release". If you are really brave, you can try and install it with "sudo bbqinstaller". Again: do only install it on a system you can fix and where no important data is stored!

After installation, reboot, log in as root with password root, and then immediatey run

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setup-bbq
Notes:
- sysvinit
- kernel 3.16.04 (no overlay support, this is still using aufs, so no warranty for remastering)
- no GTK
- CLI tools only in a populated 9menu
- xterm, tmux, xosd, alsamixer, weechat, suckless-tools, links, ceni, mc, ncdu, mpg123 and BBQ tools included
- evilwm from the repos
- alt-d opens dmenu, alt-z opens 9menu, alt-o opens an OSD, alt-t opens tmux
- by default, Ctrl-Alt-Return spawns a terminal in evilwm

Good luck, and please report back here. There might be rough edges, you have been warned.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... erimental/

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by Theo » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:15 am

Count me in. I've never touched EvilWM, but I like a good adventure :)

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:18 am

^ cool, thanks in advance. I'm not a big fan of it (using the binary) because of three things -- you will probably notice these too :D
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by Snap » Fri Jan 15, 2016 11:42 am

Me neither. evilwm virgin. Downloading whatsoever.

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:20 pm

A stable release! Exciting! I'm gonna be pretty busy for the next few days, but I'll try to give it a spin as well... probably be reporting back sometime around Monday or Tues :)
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:25 pm

^^/^ Thanks, and for anyone who reports back, please let me know if you tested

[ ] live from ISO
[ ] installed
[ ] live in VBox/VM
[ ] installed in VBox/VM
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by ChefIronBelly » Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:31 pm

Will do sometime today ;) and thanks.

EDIT: SF out to lunch may have to revisit over the weekend.
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by pidsley » Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:47 pm

Thanks bacon. sourceforge is being stupid right now, but I will download and test this later today or tomorrow.

I love evilwm; it is my favorite light stacker. One thing I don't like about it is the middle-mouse-resize behavior (the middle mouse button on my wireless mouse does not work well for this.) There is no config option to change the mouse button, but it's easy to fix with a simple edit to the source, or using the patch from here.

If anyone wants to change this and needs more instructions, I can write a how-to topic later.

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:01 pm

^ I use the patch and works smoothly. ;)

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:28 pm

pidsley, thanks - yes, that's the 3rd thing I didn't really like about evilwm. You get the Bronze Medal :)

(originally I wanted to keep evilwm as is, this is also the reason I didn't build from source, apart from the added build dependencies -- OTOH I don't think I will switch to evilwm in the near future. If somebody wants to hack away on it, it is easy enough to git the sources or change the sources.list and get them from the repos)
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by vic » Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:17 pm

A quickie from here, live and installation in vbox worked smoothly. Looks cool, but evilwm is not for me, I am too much of a pussi ;D
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jan 15, 2016 7:55 pm

Thank you for reporting back, vic ;) Well, simply download mate-desktop on top of it :D
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by pidsley » Fri Jan 15, 2016 11:52 pm

Finally got it to download. Runs live fine, installs and runs fine. Thank you for the "setup-bbq" script.

There is a bug in the /usr/local/bin/env-info script in this install. I am not sure how this happened, or how long it has been there. Probably my fault somewhere.

In the "print-disk" function, this line:

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disk=$(df -h / | awk 'NR==2 {total=$2; used=$2; print used" / "total}')
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disk=$(df -h / | awk 'NR==2 {total=$2; used=$3; print used" / "total}')
("used" is field 3 in the df output, not field 2); I apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you very much for this release. I usually put a stable netinstall on sda1 of all my test machines to control grub and give me a stable place to boot and mess with test installs when necessary. Using this spin will make this much easier.

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by rust collector » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:16 am

@@@@@@pidsley

I think I remember something about the output of df changing, maybe last year?
ANyway, I remember that I had to change your script, after df got upgraded some time ago.

#env-info #df #pony



My Kocsonya seems to work fine, as far as I can see. Both live from an sd card, and installed.
Nice neat little install, thanks!

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:55 am

pidsley, I did change the RAM line but not the disk line in env-info. honestly, I simply didn't pay attention to disk
it was just obvious for me when it showed a RAM usage over 150MB, then I remembered the change in "free" (proc-ng package). didn't know that df also needs a change (coreutils package, which apparently is also newer in sid than in jessie).

thanks for the reports so far!
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by Snap » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:21 am

Tested both live and installed in Virtualbox. All smooth.

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by Theo » Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:39 pm

Perhaps boring, but on my virtualbox live and installed, there wasn't any problem. If everything goes well today I'll give it a try on bare metal (there must be a sempron 2200+ somewhere).

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:07 pm

^ thank you. By all means back up your data first
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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by ChefIronBelly » Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:41 pm

Downloading again.

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Re: EVILWM: Kocsonya (586) Development Notes

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Jan 16, 2016 7:02 pm

When it starts downloading, it shows:

Problems with the download? Please use this direct link, or try another mirror.


Click on the "another mirror" link and pick something closer to your location ;)
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