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- Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:20 am
- Forum: Package Requests/Status - MX-19
- Topic: PyPar2
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1250
Re: PyPar2
I would not encourage you to "roll the dice and find out" whether the forDebian9 package is suitable for use in debian10. Post #7 in this topic provides step-by-step howto grab the source code and self-compile on your native system. No coding skills necessary, and the process takes probabl...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 3:19 pm
- Forum: Package Requests/Status - MX-19
- Topic: PyPar2
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1250
Re: PyPar2
I suspect the same old vte package (or whatever name is used in Debian) from Stretch might kind of work since its just old gtk2 stuff. It absolutely does still work and I do wish its package would be hosted as an available offering from the MX 19(stable) repo. Although I had refrained from arguing ...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 10:52 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: <SOLVED>Can anyone recommend a good Bash tutorial for people familiar with scripting and programming ??
- Replies: 2
- Views: 572
Re: Can anyone recommend a good Bash tutorial for people familiar with scripting and programming ??
Here's a bookmark-worthy page containing a curated list Bash learning resources: https://github.com/awesome-lists/awesome-bash FYI, on a typical linux distribution, gobs of helpdocs are preinstalled. When you're grasping to know whatall external commands are available, type apropos thing_or_phrase_r...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Best practices for tmpfs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2226
Re: Best practices for tmpfs
FYI, you could "preserve the SSD" entirely, by booting from liveUSB and choosing dynamic persistence ~~ allowing the persistent data to reside on the liveUSB. If you have installed the O/S to disk, choosing (via firefox preferences) a tmpfs -resident parent directory for the browser's disk...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 5:06 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to display git branch on the terminal prompt?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 810
Re: How to display git branch on the terminal prompt?
Are you checking the prompt output from within a repository directory, and the repository does in fact have alternate branches? cd /tmp git clone https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist cd /tmp/mx-packageinstaller-pkglist git branch stretch Immediately after the above, the prompt doe...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to display git branch on the terminal prompt?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 810
Re: How to display git branch on the terminal prompt?
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Various terminal emulator applications use different wording for setting "login shell" preference.
If you are using xfce4-terminal:
Various terminal emulator applications use different wording for setting "login shell" preference.
If you are using xfce4-terminal:
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:46 am
- Forum: Package Requests/Status - MX-19
- Topic: PyPar2
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1250
Re: PyPar2
re " tried to build python-vte a few months ago for another package but " On antiX 19, I had previously built the debian stretch source package for vte_0.28.2 (which generates the libvte-common, libvte9, python-vte , and libvte-doc packages) Tonight, I rechecked, using MX-19_November_x64.i...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Should the MX User Manual be replace by living docs ??
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3192
Re: Should the MX User Manual be replace by living docs ??
Speaking of people rushing in to help out with documentation. We can use help with the help system in the legacy live-usb bootloader. ("Press F1 for help"). Both here and at antixforum.com, within the betatesting topics I had posted to suggest F1 helptext revisions and additions. Those po...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: General Resolution started about Init Systems & systemd
- Replies: 97
- Views: 8335
Re: General Resolution started about Init Systems & systemd
At last, please, do not consider Devuan as an alternative solution which will survive any outcome of this vote. Jaromil? In his own words, devuan was intended as (part of) a social experiment. His commitment regarding its permanence was never promised. https://i.vgy.me/FsCFQW.png https://i.vgy.me/Y...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Optional Program for Attachments and Effects
- Replies: 2
- Views: 414