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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
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Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-02-06 kl. 17:21, skrev Israel:
> Hi Nio,
> (inlines)
> On 02/06/2016 02:30 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> In the previous version I had this problem with the progress window, but
>> it works correctly for me in this version. I'm testing in my Toshiba (so
>> a real computer).
> Well, we will have to investigate why this occasionally doesn't work.
> It may be some virtual box settings, perhaps, since the code looks at
> the output of xrandr.
> Via:
> xrandr|grep '*'|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'
> 
> @Jack
> Could you post the output of that command back here for us to see?
>>>> 2) Tick box to confirm final media to install to (pop-up with all the
>>>> red in) is not visible but present (I believe Nio has mentioned this
>>>> before).
>>> True, this is either GTK or Numix bug.  I have not gotten any response
>>> on G+ I will try on github
>> The modified texts helps getting around this bug.
> But this bug may be fixed soon!!! :D
> The Numix guys respond very quickly on github!
>>>> 3) Tick area for setting keyboard map once installed (in my case from
>>>> 'us' to 'gb') is not visible but present.
>>> But you now can configure your locale, and does it work persistently??
>> Yes, I can use the new feature to configure the locale, and it works,
>> but it is very slow to scroll to Swedish with the down arrow. I found no
>> quick scroll or hotkey method (page down helped a little). Please advice
>> to to manage this window in an efficient way!
> Not sure about this one.  I suppose making the window larger would help
> right?
> At least the bug is fixed.... now UX improvement, which is not a bug but
> a 'feature request'
> This is not a show stopper, so I think if everything else is good to go
> we can release this ISO.
> Of course there are other minor things to work on, so if we fix this
> before release all the better!
>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> JackT.
>>>>
>>> There is a bug in firstrun, that should be fixed in the upstream.  I
>>> will wait to rebuild the baseOS again until we have all the kinks out,
>>> as using export XZ_OPT=${XZ_OPT-"-e9"} takes a looooooong time to
>>> compress... but it obviously was worth it, as well as the xz compression
>>> (instead of gz) for the squashfs.
>>> I think this would make the precise version somewhere around 500MiB
>>> (since it is the pre systemd version)
>> Great that you find an effient compression method and made the iso file
>> within CD size :-)
>>
>> I think you need a good number-crunching computer for this task. If I
>> remember correctly, xz can use only one thread/processor, so you need a
>> fast processor.
> I don't have a nice computer, I only have old computers.  I get the hand
> me downs from my family that are 'too old' to be usable.
> This computer I am using is from 07, so it is slow going, but effective :D

Until you get a faster computer, you can plan for overnight tasks :-)

>> -----
>>
>> *1. But I found a bug in the OBI-installer*
>>
>> It works well to install the PAE kernel. The non-pae kernel is kept, and
>> can be booted. Previous operating systems are detected and can be booted
>> too.
> Great!
>> It works twice. The first time at the basic OBI level, and once at the
>> advanced OBI level. But next time (at the advanced OBI level) I install
>> into another ext4 partition, the previous operating systems are not
>> detected and will not be available in the grub menu. I tried several
>> times, and it just refuses to work. (It makes no difference if I install
>> the PAE kernel or not, and no difference if I select autologin or not.)
> Is this within the same session?  Or are you rebooting and trying again?
> Not sure why this could happen.

I'm rebooting and testing (in the same computer) between each attempt. I
have tried cold boot too.

>> As usual the previous operating systems are found when I run
>>
>> sudo update-grub
>>
>> when booted into the installed system.
> At least you can boot

Yes.

>> *2. And I know of a bug in mkusb*
>>
>> mkusb can make live-only [USB] drives, but must be changed in order to
>> create persistent live drives of ToriOS-debian. I understand that I have
>> to do it, but I don't know when there will be enough time for me to
>> focus on that programming effort, maybe sooner, maybe later.
>> -----
> If you give me a quick run down of what you think needs to happen then I
> can look into it if I get a chance.
> 

I have been thinking about it, and given some time it should not be too
hard to do the programming. I hope to do it within a few days - faster,
if it is as easy as I think now.

-o-

*Finally a question about multimedia support*

Have you tested how well ToriOS-Debian performs various multimedia tasks
compared to ToriOS-Precise? What about the meta-package

'restricted Extras' in firstrun? Is it similar to

lubuntu-restricted-extras

This is something that I have not spent time testing, but I think many
end users want it to work well. (At least some years ago, Ubuntu based
systems were easier than the other linux distros with non-free software.)

Best regards
Nio