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oliverjames

The elephant in the room is UEFI. Copying the files to an Internal drive is relatively straightforward. Editing the Fat32 uefi boot folder to boot the installed system is not obvious.

oliverjames

The only way that I can think that the 'files', 'releases' and '.session' folders would lose their encryption is if you made copies of them and are now using the copies. The copy of any of those folders will not be encrypted.

What I posted earlier, will confirm that 'releases' folder no longer ...

oliverjames

Maybe helpful ...
I know a similar issue when printing inside a firefox-container
" ... print ... destination ... CUPS-PDF" - no file ever seen again!
But:
"... print ... destination ... save-to-pdf"
allows me to choose the file-name and the destination properly

I assume you know these ...

oliverjames

Are you able to bootup and use without having entered a password?

If so, look at /mnt/wkg/, without entering a password if it asks, are folders 'files' and 'releases' all fully readable, nothing encrypted?

If the answer is yes, then you have lost encryption of the folders.

The init script in ...

oliverjames

@pp4mnklinux

Yes, that's what I get on boot.

Can I get back to the initial password entry situation; I imagine that the password also unlocks encryption?

oliverjames

Very strange.
Has something gone wrong with this file:

/mnt/${WKG_DEV}/${WKG_DIR}sfs/settings/initrd/CONFIG

My 'CONFIG' file has:

KEYMAP='us'
ALLOW_ASK_PW='yes'
KB_HW_PROFILE='LenovoLenovoCalliopeUSBKeyboard'

Most importantly, ALLOW_ASK_PW='yes' is read by the 'init' script in the initrd ...

oliverjames

Having rolled back to Daedalus 6.5.5 ver. 6.5.7 the system boots to a screen giving number 1-5 boot options, without asking for the password entry.

Is there a way to fix this please?

oliverjames

Hi, @oliverjames .

Please have a look at:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Open the log file with geany and search for the term:
1920x1080 +1920+0

I guess you will find it in the '..Output HDMI..' section of the log file.

'+1920+0' will tell the system to create a '3840x1080 virtual' screen splitting the ...

oliverjames

@oliverjames ,

yes, you can add it to the Zarfy script.
#!/bin/sh
#to handle multiple monitors.
#make HDMI-1 the primary screen
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --primary
#the "-l" option loads the configuration and exits.
[ -d "/root/.zarfy" ] && zarfy -l

I'm not sure what happened but I can no ...

oliverjames

FeodorF wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:43 pm
@oliverjames ,

try the folder /files/shared.

Hello Feodorf,
There was nothing in /files/shared but subsequently on another installation I did find the Tor download there.

Thank you

oliverjames

As I understand things Tor is running in a container, which is good for security. However I cannot save a download. The Tor browser is set to download to /files/downloads, and it appears that is where the download goes, but when I open the folder the download is not visible.

Running Tor in MX or ...

oliverjames

Hi @oliverjames ,

use:
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --primary

This will set the HDMI screen into primary mode but only for the session.
After a shutdown of the laptop you'll have to revoke it again.

To read the primary status you can use:
xrandr --current

Thank you. Running xrandr --output ...

oliverjames

Thank you for your reply.

Hello @oliverjames .

Would you mind to post the output of 'xrandr / xrandr --verbose'. See below:

When you plug in your HDMI monitor to your laptop does it mirror the laptop screen or do you have to use '# xrandr --output HDMI-1 --auto' ? My hdmi monitor is plugged in ...

oliverjames

Having studied a few sites dealing with setting up xrandr I determined my screen names by issuing xrandr in a terminal, and came up with this:

xrandr --output HDMI-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --output eDP-1 --mode 1920x1080 --left-of HDMI-1

However running it in a terminal gives no result so I ...

oliverjames

I'd like my panel and launchers to display on the external monitor rather than on the laptop screen. Please can you tell me how this can be done? I'm loving this OS as my daily driver but my eyes are old and the icons / text on my laptops small high resolution screen are hard to see.

Thank you ...

oliverjames

@pp4mnklinux

Thanks for your reply.
No that doesn't do it, I've used Zarfly to add my external monitor but it doesn't have a script for changing the monitor status. I took a look at xorg.conf but could not find the answer there, or I may have missed something.

oliverjames

I'd like my panel and launchers to display on the external monitor rather than on the laptop screen. Please can you tell me how this can be done? I'm loving this OS as my daily driver but my eyes are old and the icons / text on my laptops small high resolution screen are hard to see.

Thank you.

oliverjames

bugnaw333 wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:38 pm
Just press Ctrl A to select all files.

Yes, and then as with Thunar for example one can then use ctl-mouse click to de-select files.

oliverjames

What works for me is the select the start file with the "up" "down" arrows. When the start file is outlined, I press the space bar to select that file. Pressing space bar again will select the next on down...

oliverjames

Thanks, but I prefer to use the default included EasyOS BackUp utilities.

Now I must test if they make errors.

Have a nice day.

CHEERS.

Hello, The App you show seems to be for making custom versions of the installed system. The App Snap2 appears to be destined for making backup images. My ...

oliverjames

@oliverjames I had some problems with daedalus too...

I’ve also had some issues with Daedalus. The latest and most critical one forced me to reinstall the entire operating system, as there was no way to restore it; it kept saying there was a kernel inconsistency error.

Given my past experience ...

oliverjames

Now that I have Daedalus set to Grub boot from it's dedicated ssd partition I booted up (very fast) this morning to note that the sound icon (with mixer ans MSCW) was absent. Reloading jwm didn't solve that so I tried a roll-back to a snapshot made a couple of days ago.

Not only did the snapshot ...

oliverjames

Hello,
I created a Daedalus container from within Scarthgap. However I cannot get access to the mounted partitions and files that are accessible from Daedalus. Is there a fix for this please?

Thank you.

oliverjames

For example gnome-disk-utility (available in the Daedalus repository) can create and restore disk and partition images. Maybe you could try creating a partition image of the ext4 partition on the stick and restoring it to the ssd partition and see if that works?

Thank you. That's a good idea ...

oliverjames

cloning has different meaning to different people. cloning can mean to duplicate a disk image to a different disk, and if this is what you want to do then you may have problems if you boot from your USB on a machine that has the same disk image on an internal drive.

I think tho, that you are ...

oliverjames

Hello, I have a nice functional EasyOS installation on a usb key that I would like to clone this to a newly created partition on my laptop (ssd, gpt, EFI vfat boot partition) Please can you advise the best way to do this?

Reading https://easyos.org/install/how-to-install-easyos-on-your-hard-drive ...

oliverjames

All new releases announced, and the difference between Scarthgap and Daedalus explained, on my blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/tag_easy.html

Yes, I saw that and it does the job perfectly well.

The Distrowatch site announces downloads for ver 6.5; it's true that by drilling down on the free ...

oliverjames

In Easy Scarthgap, I installed Tor as a container (depending of dunfell) via SFSget.

In Easy Container (section Files of the menu), I selected tor (in the middle part of the window), then in the expert tab I unchecked the network box of the namespaces section. The message dissappeared ...

oliverjames

Hi, @oliverjames !

Installing the Brave browser Flatpak will solve your problem.

Desktop: Pkg -> Flapi -> Network -> Brave -> Install
Tor_browser.png

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't. I thought that maybe it would bring a needed dependency, but no, Still the same error ...

oliverjames

Hello, I installed Tor sfs and all appeared to go well. However when I open it I get this error message.

: Screenshot.png (22.66 KiB) Viewed 294 times

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thank you.

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