[ANN] MLED is back

DaiWu Jones · 04-23-2015, 07:08 AM

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gegechris99 · 04-23-2015, 04:59 PM

Hello kikinovak,

I've just made a full installation of MLED 64bit. It went smoothly and I mostly followed the HOW-TO (I used a custom-made initial installation not the tagfiles and I skipped the installation of multilib libraries).

I noticed the following:

- I had to manually make /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager executable in order to be able to configure the network in XFCE. At console level, a "ifconfig eth0 up" followed by "dhcpcd eth0" did the trick for network setup during the installation phase with an ethernet connection.
If I remember correctly, it's not a MLED issue as I had to do the same thing on my Slackware machine. I guess a footnote in the HOW-TO would be helpful.

- I can't figure out how to turn on automatically the numlock at the gdm login screen (I have to turn it on manually after every boot). Any pointer?

kikinovak · 04-23-2015, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gegechris99

- I had to manually make /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager executable in order to be able to configure the network in XFCE. At console level, a "ifconfig eth0 up" followed by "dhcpcd eth0" did the trick for network setup during the installation phase with an ethernet connection.
If I remember correctly, it's not a MLED issue as I had to do the same thing on my Slackware machine. I guess a footnote in the HOW-TO would be helpful.

- I can't figure out how to turn on automatically the numlock at the gdm login screen (I have to turn it on manually after every boot). Any pointer?

Hi gegechris99,

1. Yes, users are expected to have some basic Slackware administration knowledge. I'll ponder your suggestion of a footnote though.

2. I just poked around in the GDM settings (# gdmsetup as root), but I'm surprised I can't find the Numlock activation either. I'll investigate this problem, though for the moment it's low priority, since I haven't finished upgrading my server repos yet.

Cheers,

Niki

phenixia2003 · 04-24-2015, 01:49 AM

Hello,

Quote:

Originally Posted by kikinovak

Hi gegechris99,
2. I just poked around in the GDM settings (# gdmsetup as root), but I'm surprised I can't find the Numlock activation either. I'll investigate this problem, though for the moment it's low priority, since I haven't finished upgrading my server repos yet.

I guess this should do the trick. Requires numlockx.

--
SeB

kikinovak · 04-24-2015, 03:16 AM

Right, here goes.

MLED 14.1 32-bit:

Code:

Fri Apr 24 09:19:51 CEST 2015
numlockx-1.2-i486-1_microlinux.txz: Added.
  Upon request by gegechris99 from LQ. 
gdm-2.20.11-i486-2_microlinux.txz: Rebuilt.
  Patched to activate NumLock automatically on startup if NumLockX is
	installed. Thanks to phenixia2003 on LQ.
+--------------------------+

MLED 14.1 64-bit:

Code:

Fri Apr 24 09:47:51 CEST 2015
numlockx-1.2-x86_64-1_microlinux.txz: Added.
  Upon request by gegechris99 from LQ. 
gdm-2.20.11-x86_64-2_microlinux.txz: Rebuilt.
  Patched to activate NumLock automatically on startup if NumLockX is
	installed. Thanks to phenixia2003 on LQ.
+--------------------------+

Cheers,

Niki

gegechris99 · 04-24-2015, 12:02 PM

Thanks phenixia2003 for the pointer to the solution

Thanks kikinovak for the new/updated packages

I confirm that it works for me.

kikinovak · 04-28-2015, 04:02 AM

MLED is now officially mirrored by slackware.org.uk.

https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/2015...ckware-org-uk/

fsLeg · 04-28-2015, 05:27 AM

Speaking of a mirror. Are there any other means to mirror your repo besides http?

kikinovak · 04-28-2015, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fsLeg

Speaking of a mirror. Are there any other means to mirror your repo besides http?

Well, you can always mirror the SlackBuilds.org mirror via FTP or rsync. But then, this is probably overkill, since MLED is not exactly Ubuntu.

vivanguarda · 04-29-2015, 12:33 PM

kikinovak, Good afternoon!!!

I am afraid I am some degree in the past... But, do you have kde packages in your MLED project yet? Is it smooth to change XFCE-KDE in MLED or are you using special compilation to it?

kikinovak · 04-29-2015, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vivanguarda

kikinovak, Good afternoon!!!

I am afraid I am some degree in the past... But, do you have kde packages in your MLED project yet? Is it smooth to change XFCE-KDE in MLED or are you using special compilation to it?

MLED is focused on Xfce 4.12.

kikinovak · 05-01-2015, 04:00 AM

A little update for all MLED users. The new Xfce4 Notes Plugin does misbehave a little bit with the new Xfce 4.12. Well, it's still usable, but I'm not as satisfied as I was with the previous version running under Xfce 4.10.

I've done a little experimenting, and I'm considering replacing it with Gnote. Now I've already had Gnote about a year ago in an older version of MLED, but this one didn't run very well either. I've tested various versions, and curiously enough, version 0.8.4 seems to be the most polished one and runs rather nicely. Gnote had a version bump after 0.9, and versions 3.x all seem to have incomplete translations and all sorts of weird bugs.

Take a peek in the testing-* repositories, which also provide one additional dependency: gtkmm3.

I'll leave it in testing for a couple of weeks, and if everything works as expected, I'll eventually move it to the main repository.

Cheers,

Niki

kikinovak · 05-01-2015, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vivanguarda

kikinovak, Good afternoon!!!

I am afraid I am some degree in the past...

According to a guy from my old neighborhood called Sigmund Freud, we are all to some degree in the past.

Quercus ruber · 05-01-2015, 12:42 PM

Hi,

being also to some degree in the past, I was just wondering if my pre-centOS mled (Jan or Feb this year) can be maintained, or do I have to reinstall? I have to admit that I don't particularly want to reinstall it unless I really have to. Can I not alter the mirrors in slackpkgplus.conf, or are the changes too fundamental?

Ros

kikinovak · 05-01-2015, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quercus ruber

Hi,

being also to some degree in the past, I was just wondering if my pre-centOS mled (Jan or Feb this year) can be maintained, or do I have to reinstall? I have to admit that I don't particularly want to reinstall it unless I really have to. Can I not alter the mirrors in slackpkgplus.conf, or are the changes too fundamental?

Ros

Yes, you can. I've written a Migration-HOWTO for this kind of situation.

http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/...TION-HOWTO.txt

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I wandered off a bit on my quest for perfection.

Have fun,

Niki