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Clarity wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:39 pm

Does this occur when you run the 64bit 250101 version?

I have remained at S15Pup64-250101, and it does not have the problem.
Today I tried S15Pup64-250301, and found that the same problem occurs.

Hello.
It seems that, on S15Pup32 (release 250301), palemoon and firefox can't play videos in h264/mp4 format.
Those browsers depend on ffmpeg to play h264/mp4 videos, and I suspect that something is wrong with it.

The problem does not occur on the release 250101.

gychang wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 4:43 am

BW32 screen goes blank after all the *.sfs files are loaded.

See this post:
viewtopic.php?p=138183#p138183

It seems that you have the same issue.
Or rather, BW32 seems to have a problem with some intel video chips.

tallboy wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 1:31 am

Re. missing gftprc

Thanks, tallboy, but anyway I don't think this kind of thing is what users should operate.
gFTP has to start out of the box.

@grenouille

Before you type "xwin," you will have to run "xorgwizard."

Run the command:
# xorgwizard
and set the video driver as "intel."

And then run the command:
# xwin

Thanks for the updated version.

On Easy Daedalus 6.5.1.1, however, gFTP still does not start.

Creating an empty file /usr/share/gftp/gftprc will fix the problem.

peebee wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:44 am

The build is using:
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... -2.1.1.pet

I have confirmed that the build 241201 has grub2config 2.0.1, not 2.1.1.
Am I mistaken in any way?

Hello.

I wonder why the version of grub2config remains old.
I hope it will be updated in the next release.

Hello.
This is a smartmontools package I have compiled on Kirkstone.

smartmontools-7.4-amd64.pet
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVGCM7 ... drive_link
md5sum 981c8f363065e51d790ca327c8771845

The executable is:
/usr/local/sbin/smartctl

Federico wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 11:21 am

as already stated on my previous post, the packages mesa-utils and mesa-utils-bin need to be installed, even if they are shown as already installed.

Thanks.
Sorry for overlooking the detail of your post.

Since the executables exist in the system, I have created links to them for the time being.

Hello.

The commands glxinfo and glxgears are not found, and they are named glxinfo.x86_64-linux-gnu and glxgears.x86_64-linux-gnu respectively.

So, hardinfo cannot display the information about OpenGL.

I have created a Japanese language pack for easy daedalus.
It includes a Japanese input system, a few Japanese fonts, and translations of apps.

It also includes a script to restore the settings of the Japanese input system when /root/.xinitrc is initialized after sfs layer changes.

The topic in ...

Yes, the simplest solution is just run "chromium.bin" to run as root.

You can make this permanent by editing /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser and "Exec" line in /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop

And you will probably have to add "--no-sandbox"


Thanks.
/usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser is ...

Hello.

I have updated easy daedalus to 6.4.1.
It seems that the login and security manager still doesn't work properly.
I can't switch chromium from non-root to root.

I am not so worried, because I run chromium as root by hitting the executable directly.
The login and security manager of Kirkstone ...

Thanks for the updated version.

I am glad that the Japanese locale can be selected out of the box.
Did you translate the messages of the network manager into Japanese? (Automatic translation ?)

The same can be said about Daedalus, too. Thanks a lot.

Can you supply a pdf that won't render properly without poppler-data package?


Poppler-data is mainly needed by CJK languages. Kirkstone includes it, and I was a little bit surprised and pleased.
I uploaded an example file to an online storage, since it is too large to attach.

sp_support_guide ...

About evince

poppler-data (/usr/share/poppler) is missing. Without it, it is impossible to display text in some pdf files.

I updated to 6.3.92.
Thanks for the development of EasyOS Daedalus.

Still, the login and security manager does not work. I haven't been able to switch Firefox from non-root to root.

I use these commands to run Firefox as root:
# /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr (the one included in the easy.sfs ...

BarryK wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 7:14 am

To run firefox as root, just do this in a terminal:

# firefox.bin

Thanks.
Actually, I run Firefox by hitting the executable directly for the time being.
But the behavior of login and security manager has to be corrected, doesn't it?

Would that mean the same commands sans sudo will work to update some(?) packages in EasyOS?


Do you mean that you have installed some .deb packages onto EasyOS?
Some .deb packages may work and others may not work on EasyOS that is based on other distributions than debian.
Apt manages packages in ...

thinkpadfreak wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:27 pm

It does not seem that Korean characters can be displayed.

I confused Scarthgap with Kirkstone. Scarthgap displays Korean characters, and Kirkstone doesn't.
Sorry for having posted the wrong information.

Hello.

It is known that a Japanese input system doesn't work with apps run as non-root.
So I tried to switch Firefox from non-root to root with the login and security manager, but this operation does not work.

There doesn't seem to exist an intel vaapi driver in the repo. (Scarthgap already has one.)
So I compiled one for kirkstone.

intel-vaapi-driver-2.4.1-amd64.pet
https://sakurapup.com/forum1/viewtopic.php?p=29376#p29376

Somehow, it doesn't function with the Firefox included in the iso.
I updated ...

Note that Easy 6.3.1 already displays Japanese characters. I visited the Japanese forum that you linked to, and the text looks like it is displaying correctly.
Easy 6.3.1 has "Droid Sans Fallback" font, that has Chinese, Japanese ...don't know about Korean.


Thank you for telling me.
When the ...

Hello.

I have created a Japanese language pack for the version 6.3.1.
It includes a Japanese input system (ibus-anthy), some Japanese fonts, and translations of apps.

The topic in the Japanese forum
https://sakurapup.com/forum1/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3719

At first, I could not figure out why ja_JP ...

Hello.

I have created a Japanese language pack for the version 5.8.4.
It includes a Japanese input system (scim-anthy), some Japanese fonts, and translations of apps.

The topic in the Japanese forum
https://sakurapup.com/forum1/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3708

Note for translators:
The addition of the strings in 'frugalpup-installers' are the only changes from v41, that should be needed.


Thanks.
The Japanese translation has been updated to suit the version 43.

The topic "Frugalpup" in the Japanese forum
https://sakurapup.com/forum1/viewtopic.php?f ...

I wonder if you added settings to use ibus in /root/.xinitrc.

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -drx

If you haven't, put these lines just before the line beginning with CURRENTWM=...

I hope it wiill help.

Edit:
One thing I forgot to ...

I tried running Edge as spot on fossapup64 9.6 (F96-CE).
I started it in the terminal like this:
# run-as-spot microsoft-edge-stable

I used an sfs package of Edge.

edge-stable_126.0.2592.56-1_x64.sfs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BPwvmt-e1-HsrXHApRvrjlOSQy07KfIO/view?usp=sharing
md5sum ...

cumaron wrote: Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:58 pm

it appears that the Edge browser does not run without root privileges

Strange.
I run Edge as spot. It runs without the --no-sandbox option.

How did you install Edge? Where did you get the software package from?