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newsOrange-ball menu entries install bug
Alfons reported this. The Network menu category has an "orange-ball" menu entry for AnyDesk. He installed AnyDesk, and the menu entry changed accordingly, with the icon for the app. OK, except after reboot the menu entry had disappeared. This happens to all the orange-ball menu entries.
The AnyDesk menu entry and the concept of orange-ball menu entries is explained here:
- AnyDesk orange-ball menu entry — December 12, 2024
I found the cause of the problem; it is at line 167 in script /usr/local/orange/orange.install:
sed -i -e "s%^Exec=.*%^Exec=${EN}%" ${DT}
...remove the second "^"
What that bug does, is causes this in /usr/share/applications/anydesk.desktop:
^Exec=anydesk
...which is invalid and will cause anydesk.desktop to get deleted
at next bootup.
Tags: easy
EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.5.3
The companion Daedalus-series has also reached 6.5.3:
- EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.5.3 released — December 28, 2024
If you are new to EasyOS, you will find the 6.5 announcement has useful extra information:
- EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.5 released — December 03, 2024
Scarthgap 6.5.3 highlights:
Release notes:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.5.3/release-notes.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/scarthgap/2024/6.5.3/
Feedback is welcome at the forum:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=138915#p138915
Have fun!
Tags: easy
EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.5.3 released
A New Year present!
If you are new to EasyOS, you might find it informative to read the 6.5 annoucement:
- EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.5 released — December 03, 2024
For newcomers, I recommend the Scarthgap-series, which has also just now reached version 6.5.3. Here is the Scarthgap 6.5 announcement:
- EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.5 released — December 03, 2024
Here are the highlights of Daedalus 6.5.3 relative to the previous release 6.5.1.1:
Release notes:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2024/6.5.3/release-notes.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/daedalus/2024/6.5.3/
Feedback is welcome at the forum:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=138913#p138913
Have fun!
Tags: easy
Meld file and folder difference app fixed
I received a message from Steve, that Meld, a file and folder
difference GUI app, in the 'noarch' repository, installed via
PKGget, does not work.
Yes, the PET has a path /usr/lib/python3.8, whereas Scarthgap has
path /usr/lib/python3.11. However, Scarthgap has /usr/lib/python3
a symlink to python3.11, and PKGget will follow the symlink if the
PET has files in /usr/lib/python3
Just checked Daedalus, it has /usr/lib/python3 which is a folder, not a symlink. Hmmm, presume the python will still find the Meld files.
I have fixed the PET, with /usr/lib/python3, so should be ok in both Scarthgap and Daedalus. Also bumped to the latest, version 3.22.2. Project homepage:
The new PET has been uploaded, but you will have to update the database in PKGget. Or get it direct:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/noarch/packages/pet/pet_packages-noarch/
...all dependencies are builtin.
Tags: easy
Remove Daedalus pkg db files from Scarthgap
Forum member tallboy reported this:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=138812#p138812
I remember, that was an experiment. Abandoned, but forgot to
remove the /root/.packages/Packages-devuan-daedalus-* package
database files. Fixed.
Tags: easy
Set Color Temperature utility enhanced
I posted about the Dcontrol app now builtin to Easy:
- New Dcontrol PET — December 24, 2024
The problem, though, is it requires an enhanced 'sct' utility, whereas Easy has an older version of 'sct'. Roger (radky) sent me a message; reproducing part of it:
If I understand correctly you are using a modified version of
a Dcontrol-EasyOS-2.1.pet provided by forum member Sofiya. Based
on timestamps it seems the dcontrol files in this pet were
extracted from the current JWMDesk-3.6. Apparently, the only
modified file is the main dcontrol file and the only change is
the increase in version from 1.4 to 2.1.
...
If I understand correctly, you will use the sct binary
already included in EasyOS. I don't know the source of that
binary but you might consider the following excerpt from the
JWMdesk release notes:
Note-3: The original release of the sct utility by Ted Unangst has a singular function - to change the screen color temperature via the RandR X window system protocol. However, Display Control requires an updated version of sct (with code from the mgudemann, faf0 and mfachal forks). Specifically, this updated version of sct adds (1) screen brightness control and (2) multi-monitor support and (3) baseline adjustment of color temperatures in smooth 100K increments rather than the original coarse 500K increments.
Importantly, the enhanced sct binary of dcontrol supports a
single command line for simultaneous software modulation of
screen brightness and color temperature. This is independent of
the hardware backlight option of dcontrol.
Roger also sent me a link that explains the concept of color temperature:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=89052#p89052
I have uploaded Roger's enhanced sct source here:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/source/alphabetical/s/
Also, compiled the new sct for both Scarthgap and Daedalus and
created PETs. These will be in the next releases, and Dcontrol
will then work properly.
Tags: easy
Fixed bug Daedalus container in Easy Daedalus
This bug should have been glaringly obvious, before Easy Daedalus 6.5 got released. But somehow missed it. This is partly due to Easy Daedalus being new, and my attention is divided between Scarthgap and Daedalus (and mostly I'm working on Scarthgap).
When the host system is Easy Daedalus, and you click on the "daedalus" desktop icon, Daedalus then starts up in a container. However, what I saw today, glaringly obvious but overlooked, was the container icons were still on the desktop. They should not be there, as cannot run a container within a container.
Inside the container, you will see /.control/easy.run-once-top and /.control/daedalus.run-once-top-flag -- the latter is a flag that the former has run. However, there is a logic problem, and the former has not actually run. The former cleans up Daedalus in the container, including remove the desktop container icons.
The fix is here:
https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/5dd28a8a9a85ff365e3921bf69686025d28692b6
I'm annoyed that I didn't spot that earlier. Oh well.
I had actually built Easy 6.5.2 and was about to upload it. Easy Scarthgap 6.5.2 has already been uploaded; which is ok, not affected by that bug. However, there is something else that affects Scarthgap, so I will probably build both of them as 6.5.2.1 and upload, probably tomorrow.
If you already have run the Daedalus container in Easy Daedalus
host system, I recommend apply this fix:
Go to /mnt/wkg/containers/daedalus/.session/.control (without the
container running) and delete file 'daedalus.run-once-top-flag'
Then after updating to 6.5.2.1, click on the "daedalus" desktop
icon and this time 'easy.run-once-top' should
execute.
Tags: easy
New Dcontrol PET
I decided to include Roger's (radky in forum) Dcontrol screen tint and brightness control GUI app in Easy. See discussion thread here:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13345
The Dcontrol PET was provided by Sofiya:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=106439
See also here, post by geo_c:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8958
James (jamesbond) has also contributed part of it.
I modified the PET provided by Sofiya. Easy already has the 'sct'
utility. A few other mods, including translations for
'dcontrol.desktop'. It will be an entry in the "Setup" menu
category.
Tags: easy