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kalternatives can break REMASTERcc

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yop
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kalternatives can break REMASTERcc

#1 Post by yop »

KDE-MX users might be tempted to run

sudo kcmshell4 kalternatives

and set the XTERM to Konsole instead of xfce.wrapper.

A rude awakening will follow when you try to remaster , which will break. You either have to unchange the kalternative or change the
line 370 of /usr/local/bin/live-remaster from

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           sleep 1        
        done

to

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            sleep 600         ## 600 sec hardcoded  works in konsole, else break in second loop
        done
the 600 sec value must be longer than your remaster usually takes to finish.

One still ends up with a workable linuxfs.tmp, however. rename it to linuxfs.new and reboot. all is fine.

a proper fix would be to test for the proper terminal in the remaster script, or at least call xfce-terminal directly.

lesson: the simple way works better. :fox:

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