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I have compiled p7zip in OpenEmbedded, and added it to the EasyOS package-list, so it will be builtin. I also fixed the mime-handling, so if click on a .7z file it will open in Xarchive, or right-click on a .7z file then Xarchive will be offered in the menu. Rox will also display .7z files with a suitable icon.

Here are the woofQ github commits:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/837b633428279780d6f32282f3597247a31ccb5f

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/b133b1e94ea0f48bcb1a76a323f36ffda3ea63ed

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/e0b0d43d4ae5d2ae88622188fa74f0c0899869a5

Tags: easy

download_file rewritten

December 05, 2023 — BarryK

This has been on the to-do list for a very long time, and is going to please a lot of people.

PKGget, and other scripts, call /usr/bin/download_file to download a file from the Internet. The complaint is that the download window is in all virtual desktops, and is always on-top of other windows. This makes it difficult to do other work while a download is in progress.

The download_file script goes back a long way. It started life in 2010 and had input from various people, and has remained essentially the same up to now. I was curious about it's status in woof-CE:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/blob/testing/woof-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/sbin/download_file

Looking at the changes committed over the years; just details, it has remained essentially the same as my original version. Here are the woof-CE commits:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/commits/testing/woof-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/sbin/download_file

Essentially the same; there has been some deviation. I added an abort button in 2015; that was two years after leaving managing the Puppy project, so that button is not in the woof-CE version.

I have now rewritten it so that it is now a normal window, that does not force itself to always be "on top", nor does it appear in all virtual desktops:

...notice also, the progress-bar, instead of rows of dots.

Here is the commit to woofQ on github:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/3144062d29cb95bbbcf1cfe04729a0077161fd11

So many changes; it might be more meaningful to view the complete new file:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/blob/main/easyos/easy-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/bin/download_file

This could also be used in woof-CE, except that I have dropped all of the PUPMODE handling code. Which would be easy to add back in if required. It does require gtkdialog be compiled with vte (virtual terminal) support, which may not be the case with some pups.

Tags: easy

Rox Customise Menu entry removed

December 03, 2023 — BarryK

The problem is discussed here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=105008#p105008

I have solved the problem by removing "Customise Menu..." entry from the right-click menu. Commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-kirkstone/commit/950738c3dfe609da827a31f4928b49676da450c6

Tags: easy

Fix abort loading NVIDIA SFS in initrd

December 03, 2023 — BarryK

This mechanism was posted about in this blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202311/abort-load-nvidia-sfs-if-gpu-missing.html

This is in Easy 5.6.4; however, it doesn't work. All NVIDIA SFSs get rejected. The test should be:

lspci | grep -qF 'Class 0300: 10de:'

The fix is in this commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/0aefc2bade7cc88419c2e082db50db4be0a52e90

Now, with the next release of Easy, the NVIDIA SFS will not load if there is no NVIDIA GPU detected, otherwise will load. This is for booting a USB flash stick on different computers.

Tags: easy

usr-merge fix for kirkstone container

December 03, 2023 — BarryK

On my Lenovo desktop PC, I have been updating the EasyOS installation from before the change to usr-merge folder hierarchy.

Running Easy after having updated to 5.6.4, clicked on the "kirkstone" icon and got the desktop in a container, except a couple of broken icons and the wallaper didn't display.

One problem was /mnt/wkg/containers/kirkstone/.session/usr/sbin was an actual folder, created from before usr-merge. The 'globicons' file had a path "/usr/sbin" whereas it should now be "/usr/bin". These issues are now fixed, see commit:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/0aefc2bade7cc88419c2e082db50db4be0a52e90

So, after 5.6.5 is released, you will click on "kirkstone" and get a correct desktop.

Tags: easy

Global IP TV Panel 2023MK6

December 02, 2023 — BarryK

I have updated ETP's streaming TV PET, to 2023MK6. See forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=689

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