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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nio!

On 01/01/2015 06:35 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> ...

> Hi Israel and Jack,
>
> I assume it helps to have the tarball, and to make it easy to install
> it, to have a working installer as a compressed image file.
>
> sudo mkusb-nox dd_OBI-precise-mini-4GB.img.xz
>
> Run OBI-precise-mini and use the tarball
>
> prec-Tori-Flux.tar.xz
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> OBI-precise-mini:       # Both users work
>
> login:    guru
> password: changeme
> login: myself
> password: 123456
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> prec-Tori-Flux:
>
> login:    guru          # (Fluxbox works, but not ToriOS)
> password: changeme
> login:    tester        # ToriOS works only with tester
> password: 123456
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I made and uploaded them to Phill's server at
>
> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/2014-12/
>
> Best regards
> Nio
Hi,
I wonder if instead of starting fluxbox, we could start torios via
starttorios...
How were you starting it?

I was thinking the way the session starts was the issue.  Basically
starttorios uses a bunch of files that take the place of /etc/skel so
the user's Home doesn't need to have those things.  Of course if the
home has an .xinitrc (etc...) it will use the home version.

I have made a recent commit to the config package, and will need to test
it out.  I think we are all working on the same thing... how to start
ToriOS in a way that starts whatever is needed to start ToriOS :P

starttoriOS by starting starttoriOS  it is almost like GNU is Not Unix  :)

I am not entirely sure if this will work fully... :)  However... I would
like to think these endless mind-bending hours of looking at lightdm
code, and startxfce4 and startlubuntu (or whatever it is called) have
produced something useable.  I know this script is a LOT better than
just trying to run JWM from SLiM.  And it is better than having to use a
bunch of stuff in the user's $HOME in order for things to work, and
breaking if it isn't there.

This new iteration should also make sure the user has menus and that
they are up to date.

Thanks SO MUCH TESTERS!!!  You two are indespensible!!!  This confirms
my suspicions and also confirms that I was right to work on this whole
starttorios file.  The old version has errors in it, and problems...
This new version doesn't have errors (well... it doesn't have serious
shellcheck errors... just the "yeah yeah I know... it is supposed to be
like that" kind)

So the new version will be
torios-core (0.83.1ubuntu5)
All the sub-packages have the same version number.  so... torios-desktop
and live will both have the 0.83.1ubuntu5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1 at the end
eventually I will need to clean up the recipe versioning numbers...

Anyhow... once this is built can you update Nio/Jack and try using ONLY
starttorios instead of the fluxbox method.
I *think* this should get us pretty close to fixing it... if not... I
will look into some more things...
If SLiM is the issue we will have to go back to something else... maybe
a simple dialog program?  isn't there a dialog display manager somewhere?

Anyhow... I will look more into your work soon...  I am downloading it
now.  I will just use the ToriOS live system to boot it, so I don't
download two things from Phill and use his bandwidth heavily... I also
need to finish fixing up OBI as well... which I may have done... I don't
remember I have been going back and forth between so many things :)

C++ then Bash, then reading someone else's python code then C then ( you
understand)

P.S. happy new year!

-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team