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[Cinque Port Computers <jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
I followed your instructions for getting yad etc.  Looks impressive.  Great work.  :)
Cheers,JackT.


> To: torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:51:25 -0600
> Subject: [Torios-dev] Jessie progress...
> 
> Hey everyone,
> I successfully replaced xfce4-power-manager and volumeicon-alsa with yad
> programs.
> I also installed dunst and we have the same disk usage (du -h shows 1.5
> Gig as before)
> The main hog now is network-manager.  Replacing that with scripts will
> be quite an undertaking, but should be doable, or at least it will be an
> educational undertaking.  It is not something that I will concentrate on
> prior to release.  But so far, I have successfully shrunk our footprint
> further and added more functionality.  I will be rebuilding the ISO
> again soon.  This will change things, and I would like everyone to test
> our new indicators.  The volume icon now will automatically use
> pavucontrol if it is installed, or fallback to alsamixer.  There are
> possibly some issues remaining and some things I need to add (the ralink
> firmware and pm-utils perhaps).  But I think going forward this will be
> a much nicer.
> 
> These indicators are fairly tested by myself.  I have been using the
> battery indicator for quite some time, and it works well on my laptop to
> control suspend.  I am going to further tweak and refine it a bit more,
> but would like people to test them.
> 
> In the mean time, you can test things by installing yad and updating
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
> sed "s/jessie/trusty/g" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8*
> (or you can look up the actual filename and use sudo nano or vi or whatever)
> 
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yad
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> cp /etc/skel/.jwmrc ~/.jwmrc
> 
> Then logout and log back in again.
> To test everything
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> 
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