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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-05-28 23:36, Israel skrev:
> On 05/27/2015 11:57 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Den 2015-05-27 14:35, Israel skrev:
>>> ..
>> Hi Israel,
>>
>> The iso file is not changed. What is the best way to test things?
>>
>> Should I install a plain system (no tweaking) from the current
>> ToriOS-beta.iso, boot into then installed system and then
>> update/dist-upgrade it?
>>
>> Or is there some other method?
>>
>> Would it be possible for you to provide a tarball with exactly the
>> properties you want us to test (That you upload such a tarball)?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
> Hi Nio,
> I will rebuild and let you know.  I have been busy with real life things
> the past few days, and I have been improving my battery applet.  It has
> a fancy drop down menu and a battery information screen.  I almost have
> it fully working the way I want.  Plus it uses HALF the memory of
> xfce4-power-manager and looks roughly the same.  There are no real
> configurations, but as a simple indicator that works (and can suspend or
> hibernate the computer from its menu) I am quite pleased with it.
> I may rewrite the shutdown dialog to be incorporated with this program,
> as I am writing it in C and using the UPower API, rather than shell
> script dbus commands from c++ using system().  That said I have had some
> issues building the package for it.... I have tested it on two laptops
> (by manually installing and compiling) and it monitors the battery very
> well!!
> 

Hi Israel,

I found today that there is a new iso file dated May 29. I was alerted
about it by Ali's blog post. (I must have missed your alert about it.)


*Live*

ToriOS seems to work well in the live session.

The network and the nm-applet work :-)

The menus work as far as I can understand :-)


*Installing*

It seems that update-grub is not running during installation, because
'the other installed systems' are not available after installation at
the advanced OBI level. They appear after running

sudo update-grub

after booting into the installed system. Is this by intention or a
regression (that we must run update-grub in the installed system)?


*Installed*

The network and the nm-applet work :-)

Batteri works mostly :-)

- the battery status is displayed when hovering

- suspend works

- but it seems hibernate causes shutdown: the computer starts without
the opened apps. Maybe because I have too small swap space (less than
RAM). I can check with a bigger swap partition later on.

I updated/upgraded and installed the HWE stack (with the trusty kernel),
and noticed there is a new batteri icon. Hovering no longer displays the
battery status but I can get an information window with a lot a data.


*Issues*

1. There are issues with the menus

1.1 mkusb is 9.1.5 in the installed system while it is 9.1.6 in the live
system.

1.2 Nothing happens when you select ImageMagick from the menu.

1.3 In pcmanfm - applications:

- Only some of the apps in Others have icons.

What about replacing this misery with a symbolic link

ln -s /usr/share/applications /Desktop

It will bring a link on the desktop which opens pcmanfm with icons for
all apps. I don't mind having them all in the same window without
separation into categories. I even prefer it like that :-)


2. ztweaks is not available in the installed system. I would be happy if
you make it part of the installed ToriOS system (the tarball).

2.1 I think ztweaks helps with language settings for non-English
speakers and for quick switching between the default US keyboard and the
local keyboard.

2.2 Many people (including me) have problems with the touchpad when
using laptops and netbooks. The simple on-off touchpad management in
ztweaks makes it convenient to fix that, particularly when ztweaks is
autostarted.

-o-

I have not yet tried to make a tarball in this system and later on
trying to install that system (to test if the network will work in the
final system).


Best regards
Nio