EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.5

[BarryK]

Putting together a to-do list:

1. As Caramel mentioned, clipboard in and out of container works via the button to exit and icon to flip in, but not for alt-f6 to exit or tray to enter.

2. Fix Xpad. tallboy reported this causes a crash in daedalus. It's a gtk3 tray app ...I wonder if an older gtk2 version exists, we could try that.

3. That button in centre of container desktop; have an option to move it into the tray.

4. Bump Limine version.

5. Kodi flatpak does not work, due to /run symlink. Scarthgap has flatpak 1.15.8, looking at changelog it seems there might be a fix in the latest 1.15.11

[tammi806]

Putting together a to-do list:

1. As Caramel mentioned, clipboard in and out of container works via the button to exit and icon to flip in, but not for alt-f6 to exit or tray to enter.

2.

3. That button in centre of container desktop; have an option to move it into the tray.

4.

The alt-f6 button in the center is a good thing imo as it lets users know they are working inside of a container.

That may not be important for some but it's a plus for users as myself as I miss stuff sometimes so having it as an option to opt in would be cool.

Just a thought.

Thanks.

[bradhamilton]

I have installed this on a USB stick - the ease of setup beats MX Linux hollow. In less than five minutes, I now have a portable persistent USB stick - something which took much longer, and with much more effort using MX Linux.

I'm now going off to DistroWatch to post a review! Keep up the good work!

[BarryK]

Thanks to JJM (@esmourguit forum name), French translations updated, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202412/easyos-f ... dated.html

[Chiaseed]

Hi,

Nice Os. Please Keep the Good work going.

1. How to install *.ttf files in EASYOS?

2. Can you please add OPERA Browser in the normal download.

Regards

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi @Chiaseed , download the font (if compressed extract it) and move it to fonts directory (usr, share, fonts) and that's all.

It is possible u must put it into the TTF fonts folder, but I never need to do this.

I hope it works, have a nice day.

CHEERS

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Related to OPERA, meanwhile you can use the portable version.-

download, unpack and put it the folder u want.- LAUNCH file to start. Hope it helps.

CHEERS.- https://www.mediafire.com/file/39f1mj0m ... ar.xz/file

[BarryK]

Putting together a to-do list:

1. As Caramel mentioned, clipboard in and out of container works via the button to exit and icon to flip in, but not for alt-f6 to exit or tray to enter.

2. Fix Xpad. tallboy reported this causes a crash in daedalus. It's a gtk3 tray app ...I wonder if an older gtk2 version exists, we could try that.

3. That button in centre of container desktop; have an option to move it into the tray.

4. Bump Limine version.

5. Kodi flatpak does not work, due to /run symlink. Scarthgap has flatpak 1.15.8, looking at changelog it seems there might be a fix in the latest 1.15.11

For number-3, solution:

https://bkhome.org/news/202412/flip-out ... -tray.html

For number-1, might treat that as a feature, not a bug.

[BarryK]

Kodi flatpak does not work. Blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202412/kodi-fla ... -work.html

However, kodi flatpak would have originally worked. That was probably done in Easy Kirkstone, which has an older version of flatpak.

It looks like the flatpak developers, in trying to fix the problem, have actually broken it for EasyOS.

Easy Scarthgap has flatpak 1.15.6, the latest is 1.15.11; I wonder if the latest has a fix?

Kodi flatpak fix:

https://bkhome.org/news/202412/fix-for- ... atpak.html

[BarryK]

2. Can you please add OPERA Browser in the normal download.

@Chiaseed
Done, see blog post:

"Download latest Opera browser"
https://bkhome.org/news/202412/download ... owser.html

[szept]

Guys,

Just wanted to report that somewhere in-between updates from version 5 (I think it might have been 5.7) to version 6 (I believe it was 6.3 or maybe from 6.3 to 6.4) my desktop settings have changed (I had this centered menu bar on the bottom of the screen and after update I'm back to the full width bottom menu bar) as well as I've lost Audacity. I don't care about the menu bar - not important right now, but I'd like to get Audacity back.

I haven't notice it straight away, cuz I'm not using Audacity very often, but I wanted to run it few days ago and it didn't run at all (when I clicked it in the start menu). I had my Audacity from the AppImage Installer and when I went there it was ticked. I uninstalled it (tick in the AppImage Installer dissapeard as well as Audacity icon in the start menu) and reinstalled. What was new is an Audacity icon appeared on my bottom menu bar as well as in the start menu, but still didn't do anything when I clicked on it (menu bar icon and start menu icon). I uninstalled it again - tick in the AppImage Installer is gone, Audacity's icon in the start menu too, but not the Audacity icon on the menu bar on the bottom of the screen...

So now 2 questions:

1. How to get rid of an icon (not necessarily Audacity, but any icon in general - something for future) on the bar menu?

2. How to get Audacity working again?

Cheers!
Damian

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi @szept

2 questions:

How to get rid of an icon (not necessarily Audacity, but any icon in general - something for future) on the bar menu?

viewtopic.php?p=137596#p137596

How to get Audacity working again?

I am using it as portable, you can download it from....

https://www.protopage.com/pp4mnkt3am#Pu ... _PORTABLES (multimedia - audacity portable)

Hope it helps.

[BarryK]

Alfons requested AnyDesk.
It will be in the next release of Easy Scarthgap, version 6.5.1, as an "orange-ball" menu entry.

Blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202412/anydesk- ... entry.html

Testers will be welcome to find out if it actually works.

[szept]

How to get rid of an icon (not necessarily Audacity, but any icon in general - something for future) on the bar menu?

viewtopic.php?p=137596#p137596

Uhmm, not sure if I get it right, but I'm not looking for a way to remove an entry from a start menu, but an icon from the menu bar (I think that's how it's called, but maybe not, so I'll take a picture to avoid confusion)

How to get Audacity working again?

I am using it as portable, you can download it from....
https://www.protopage.com/pp4mnkt3am#Pu ... _PORTABLES (multimedia - audacity portable)

Ok... so another website with apps, so I can feel even more lost:P
So far I have:
https://www.appimagehub.com
https://smokey01.com/norgo/slacko/slc64/slc64.php
https://flathub.org
Which one would be the best solution and why?
Also, there's Audacity in StarMenu => Setup => Flatpack installer
To be honest, I've got Flameshot and Shotcut as Appimages and I like that there's no need for installation, just a file I click when I want to use a program. Is portable a same/similar thing? If it's similar why is portable better than appimage?

Thanks,
Damian

[BarryK]

Uhmm, not sure if I get it right, but I'm not looking for a way to remove an entry from a start menu, but an icon from the menu bar (I think that's how it's called, but maybe not, so I'll take a picture to avoid confusion)

It looks like you are in icon-free desktop mode.

Switch back to icons-on-desktop, and right-click on the audacity icon and delete it.

Then switch back to icon-free desktop mode.

My memory of what is going on might not be correct. If above doesn't work, let me know.

Note, best to call it the "tray" rather than "menu bar". When you posted earlier, I didn't know what you meant by menu bar.

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi @szept , you want to delete icons from the task bar, and it is really easy.

viewtopic.php?t=12435#p136148

Find the hidden file root/.jwmrc-tray and delete the reference (line) to the icon you don't want.

Restart X and ... DONE!

About Audacity, direct link, click, download, extract and LAUNCH

https://mega.nz/folder/WOgFTSoT#QNq35acU2GiA33Z-vx7VzA

Hope it helps.