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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/06/2014 11:18 AM, Jack T. wrote:
> 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.
>
Hi Jack
Hmm... that is odd.
I'll check it out


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