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

On Mon, December 29, 2014 4:51 am, Israel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> here is another update... my brain is a little jumbled form reading so much
> about Xsessions... but I will try to keep this coherent :P
>
> I have totally modified the way torios starts now.  I use a startup
> script called 'starttorios'  which can be called from a terminal... this
> should integrate into any display manager fairly well... it also should
> NOT interfere with other DE.  Basically I have an xinitrc
> (etc...) in a directory /usr/share/ToriOS/share  not the best name I
> know..... I'm open to ideas...) and these get called by the script (unless
> the user has a custom .xinitrc) This way any one can (hopefully) install
> torios on an existing system without muddling up the home directory...
> execpt when it comes to the icon theme.  Sorry I am still figuring this
> all out :)
>
> I have also (finally) looked into the puppy networking program (a.k.a
> frisbee) and it requires gtkdialog  which is not available in Ubuntu (why
> not???)
>
> if anyone is interested in learning to package (Ali????) I would love for
> someone to package this for testing.
>
> I am not entirely sure if NetworkManager will work yet, but I am totally
> rebuilding the base OS to rebuild an ISO to test and possibly release to
> others for testing (if it works decently in VM and on metal).
>
> The whole process is much nicer now for installing torios on existing
> systems... but it may not work.  If there is a brave soul who wants to test
> this, I think we would all be very grateful.  As I am too busy doing lots
> of other bits and pieces I will (most likely) not have time to test this.
>
> You have been updated :D
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
> -Israel
> ToriOS Team
>
>
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I'm IN as a tester...JackT.