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["Jack T." <jackt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:33 pm, Israel wrote:
> Hi All!
> (inlines)
> On 09/06/2014 07:50 AM, Jack T. wrote:
>
>> On Sat, September 6, 2014 12:19 pm, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>
>>> Den 2014-09-06 09:45, Jack T. skrev:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi everybody, I'm testing ToriOS-alpha-rc1.iso in my IBM Thinkpad
>>> with Pentium M. The live system installed nicely and runs well in the
>>> desktop (with the non-pae kernel 3.2.0-68-generic) The network is OK,
>>>  not only the IP numbers, but also names are resolved now :-) And the
>>>  installer works / the tarball's name is still ball :-)
> Yes, I will rename the tarball when I get a tarball of a more fixed and
> current version of ToriOS
>
>>> -o- The installation was good. We know that the installed system is
>>> lagging behind, there are bugs to be squashed and features to be
>>> tweaked, but it works. -o- A comment about style:
> Yay!
>
>>> The borders of the xterm windows are not different enough from the
>>> background, it is hard to tell two overlapping windows apart.
> Ok, I will look into this and change one or the other...  I suppose
> changing the window border to match the Panel will be fine.
>>> A general comment: Congratulations to good progress Israel :-) Best
>>> regards Nio ps/ I tested the bleeding edge mkusb version 9.0 via sudo
>>> add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get
>>> install mkusb and it works (except that the font is bigger, so the
>>> Welcome and Warning window must be made slightly wider).
>>>
> The desktop file for mkusb comes from your ppa so when that is updated
> and I build the iso (or update the current one) it will be updated to
> whatever version you have that is current. The same goes to the Numix
> theme, as well as my program.  I also have JWM in a PPA, but I am not
> entirely sure that will need to be updated soon.
>
> The installed system will also have those things as well, so this is how
> we can ensure an up-to-date supported LTS system.
>
>>> The desktop file is hardcoded in the live session, so you should
>>> start the new one with rox /usr/share/applications/mkusb.desktop
>>> otherwise the old desktop will be used. The shellscript mkusb 9.0 will
>>> run in both cases, but the console windows will be different. This
>>> should be no problem in an installed system with a working network,
>>> but I wanted to test it here to find out if the new version of mkusb
>>> works with ToriOS. /ds
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> Finally got WiFi working inside VB on the installed system...
>>
>>
>> I went into wicd manager preferences and changed the network interfaces
>>  names to 'wlan1' and 'eth1'...and bingo WiFi connected and tested
>> using Midori...phew...
>>
>>
>> JackT.
>>
>>
> Awesome!  I will check that out Jack!  Thanks both of you for testing
> this so thoroughly!
>
> LOCALE update:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale
> Languages are installed via language-pack-*
>
>
> So to change something you can run something like
>
>
> update-locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
>
> So, I have begun working on a little script to do this, I haven't gotten
> very far yet... but I am going to use VAR=$(locale -a)
> CHOICE=$(zenity --list --title="Locale" --column="Choose" ${VAR})
> and the use some thing like: update-locale LANG=$VAR LC_CTYPE="$VAR"
> LC_NUMERIC="$VAR" LC_TIME="$VAR"
> LC_COLLATE="$VAR" LC_MONETARY="$VAR" LC_MESSAGES="$VAR" LC_PAPER="$VAR"
> LC_NAME="$VAR" LC_ADDRESS="$VAR" LC_TELEPHONE="$VAR"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="$VAR" LC_IDENTIFICATION="$VAR"
>
>
> I'll need to also figure out how to list other locales that aren't
> installed, and allow them to be installed... Unless someone knows of any
> programs that do this? It seems like someone else would have already done
> this.
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
>
Hi Israel,

I also noted that when installed the Shutdown and Restart buttons seemed
not to do anything...Logout worked.

JackT.