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[Cinque Port Computers <jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,


Updated Debian in VB to v83...


1) Rt-click on desktop and clicking on 'Add new items to Desktop'  did nothing.

2) Clicking on 'Desktop Preferences' from App -> Settings did nothing.


Cheers,

JackT.


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From: Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 15 November 2016 00:37
To: Cinque Port Computers; Nio Wiklund
Cc: torios- dev
Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] JSM 2 update (as well as minor ToriOS stuff update)

On 11/13/2016 03:03 AM, Cinque Port Computers wrote:


Good questions Nio, I was wondering which variant to start with too [??]

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From: Torios-dev <torios-dev-bounces+jackdtrice=outlook.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx><mailto:torios-dev-bounces+jackdtrice=outlook.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx><mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 13 November 2016 07:14
To: Israel; torios- dev
Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] JSM 2 update (as well as minor ToriOS stuff update)

Den 2016-11-12 kl. 22:54, skrev Israel:
> On 11/10/2016 11:38 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Den 2016-11-11 kl. 02:55, skrev Israel:
>>> ...
>>>
>>
>> Hi Israel,
>>
>> I'm happy to see you active again :-)
>>
>> Please advice detailed steps how to get this version: where to start
>> and which command lines to run.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
> Hi Nio!
> It is nice to have things stabilizing again!
> I just updated the code and will be rebuilding again.  I fixed a few
> minor annoyances in the themes section.
>
> So... to update to this version you must add the unstable testing PPA.
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:israeldahl/torios
>
> This will add my PPA.  Then simply
>
> sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
>
> Or... feel free to simply
>
> sudo apt install jwm-settings-manager
>
> This should update you to the 2.0 branch.
>
> The area needing the most attention currently is the 'Panel' section, so
> there will be missing features and bugs.  Hopefully nothing too major
> will be there.
>
> There is some highly experimental stuff (the recent Includes bit) that
> will require a bunch of manual labour, and possibly crash the program
> (completely untested).
>
> But I will test that out before giving instructions on how to do it, as
> I would like to limit the damage to others as much as possible here.
>
>
> But, test everything else.
>
> Desktop
>
> Windows
>
> Keyboard
>
> Themes
>
> Fonts
>
> Autostart
>
>
> The Icons thing is still really basic (only listing the filenames), and
> I will re-enable the 'icon theme' portion as soon as I nail down why it
> wasn't working
>
> The Touchpad/Mouse section should be tested on Mouse Only (no touchpad
> on the computer) AND touchpad computers... my laptop has a touchpad and
> it worked great to get it setup nicely
>
> I hope that covers everything :D
>
>

Thanks for these details, Israel :-)

I have another question too (very basic about where to start).

Can I start with (which would you expect to work)

- ToriOS 1.0 live
- ToriOS 1.0 installed
- ToriOS daily live (debian)
- ToriOS daily installed (debian)
- Debian Jessie (stable)
- Debian Stretch (testing)
- Debian Sid (unstable)
- Ubuntu 14.04.1 (trusty kernel)
- Ubuntu 14.04.5 (xenial kernel)
- Ubuntu 16.04.1 (xenial kernel)

and where is it best to start testing (what will be best for testing
what you want us to test)?

Best regards
Nio

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Hey all,

I discovered some serious issues in the autostart program.  Things were not working correctly, but I have since fixed them, and it should work fine now.

This will be in revision 83.

I have gotten to the point where I have all the backend code to make the XDG portion work, HOWEVER.... I need to learn about pkexec and make pkexec launch desktop-file-editor in order to edit desktop files.  This is needed because the files are owned by root and require administrator access to edit them.

This is something for later down the line somewhere around 2.1.0

But for now regular JWM autostart works well, and reliably.

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