QuickPup64 24.01 RC 19

[Clarity]

1. Saved session and rebooted via SG2D.

2. Took QP64's boot-menu's default selection (top one)

3. Booting found its prior Session automatically

4. Problem2, earlier, is not present now???

5. The following allows me to set the system time fixing the problem reported during pristine usage:

   

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Observation

• I am not sure, but a pristine boot "may" not (I say may because I am not sure if this is accurate as I haven't tested) provide normal behaviors until AFTER a session+reboot has been saved.

• OR

• Menu-Applications>Setup>QuickSetup App may have been a contributor to the 2 problems reported.

Again, this observation is speculation!!! as this WoofCE distro does NOT pristine boot to opening the Quick Setup App as the other WoofCE distros do.

[Clarity]

Next bare-metal test is also successful. Here, the ISO file is launched from Ventoy taking the GRUB2 option to QP64's boot-Menu. Edit the top-most stanza adding psave=Persistence:/Session/

The distro boots to desktop using the QP64save in the Sessions folder on the disk labeled Persistence.

It is behaving exactly the same as booting and finding the session when ISO file is launched from SG2D.

All is well.

[mistfire]

QuickPup64 24.01 RC18 released

Changes:
* Added Wayland support (upstream experimental). It includes labwc wayland compositor. To enable Wayland session, boot QuickPup64 using this boot parameter:

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psession=wayland

It will starts like a normal XFCE desktop but in wayland session

NOTE: Wayland session will persist on next boot upon the creation of save file or existing savefile is loaded even the psession boot parameter is not defined. Not all apps on XFCE components works on Wayland for now. To revert back to X11 session use this boot parameter:

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psession=x11

* XFCE 4.20 (With initial wayland support)
* Linux kernel 6.12.4
* Fixed CUPS printing issues
* Breeze replaced Matcha as the default theme
* More core puppy bugfixes.

Download: https://1drv.ms/u/c/349c4d7a5f9d78cd/EV ... w?e=bKcrtZ
MD5 Checksum: c102172b2c6e3ac5cc47ec9e90e827d0

[Clarity]

For 2025, @mistfire , you "may" want to start a new thread where wayland is a base thread for your "Wayland" WoofCE PUP offerings. The problems members encounter-report with X11 should NOT be conflated with problems of Wayland desktop. Otherwise you may be pulling your hair out attempting to help members.

Pipewire-Wayland, is now ubiquitous in the Linux world among all of the major Linux distros, today. Performance is outstanding and products have reached stability as improvements continue.

As KDE has taken an enormous desktop lead toward user friendliness, all of the other DE are racing to catch-up. Thus 2025 will see major improvements in the applications we have used in the past as they expand their functionalities as well as taking advantage of the subsystems and DE advancements.

Thanks as you continue to modernize your Linux solution(s) you present to us on the forum.
AND your boot-time refinement have not gone unnoticed!

[Clarity]

Preliminary report

• Scenario
  Booted system via Ventoy selection (GRUB2). PSAVE parm set to point to Persistence partition's Sessions folder

• Problems
  QuickSetup utility has 2 issues of concern

  • Clicking UTC and setting timezone is NOT setting my local time on the system taskbar

  • Display Graphics Driver is showing modesetting, while Hardinfo2 is showing noveau

    • This is a pristine boot on a PC whose ONLY video adapter is nvidia.

  PrtScrn key is not working

Further test will be done when I return on Tuesday.

[mistfire]

QuickPup64 24.01 RC 19 released

Changes:
* linux kernel 6.12.6-lxpup64
* clutter and cogl fixes
* dbus fixes
* user id and group id fixes

Download: https://1drv.ms/u/c/349c4d7a5f9d78cd/EZ ... w?e=BOMXvw
MD5 Checksum: 449e13809782feaf2d4eb1b3a7255f8f

[Clarity]

Hello @mistfire

Persistence
There are 2 QPsaves within the Sessions folder on my Persistence drive.

Testing bare-metal nvidia adapter only via Ventoy GRUB2 selection to launch vRC19: There are 3 Menu Stanza paths tested.
ALL stanzas have PSAVE=Persistence:/Sessions/ added to the linux line.

1. Default path

   • This path 'hangs' immediately after editing the stanza and hitting F10 key to start the boot; thus the only thing visible is the initial GRUB2 PUPPY image. Question: could the presence of the 2 QPsaves be a cause of this hang?

2. RAM menu path

   • This path boots to desktop. And, as expected, this is a pristine system operation for vRC19. New session saved on shutdown.

3. Wayland menu path

   • This path boots to issues starting with it opening a request for keyboard, then automatically without any keyboard action, taking off to hang at screen below. This hang is the same (secondary attempt) if I edit PFIX parm from NOX to RAM.

     

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Observations
The default path and the Wayland path exhibit distinctly different issues on booting. This is easily repeatable on your end to validate.

Testing via Ventoy launching the ISO file is suspended until you have a chance to review.

[Clarity]

Booting bare-metal SG2D. Launching vRC19. PSAVE=Persistence:/Sessions/ is UNNECESSARY because there is a SAVESPEC file present which the distro respects when ISO file boots via SG2D or via DVD drive. So, in no case is a menu stanza changed to support proper session management booting .
Default Menu

• No issue to report as all prior PUP boot expectations occur.

  

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Problems

• Same desktop issues reported in V17. printscreen key and video driver reports.

• New discovered. Directional keys dont work, and home-end keys too. Thus keyboarding issues for those non-numeric, non-alpha keys.

[Clarity]

There are boot menu differences depending if the ISO is launched from SG2D or from Ventoy: Thus Wayland path could NOT be tested via SG2D:
Ventoy

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SG2D

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