Some success with Clementine... solved.

[oliverjames]

I found that I can load my favourite Clementine music manager in the Daedalus version. After install there was a menu entry for it, but that has now gone, not sure why. Can you please tell me how to create a launcher in the menu.
For the time being I found the App in /home and dragged it to the desktop, which appears to have made a link. I can start the App this way but would like to know how to restore the menu.

In addition there is a missing dependency (see attached screenshot). With Mint or MX I'd search with Synaptic. How can I resolve this with EasyOS?

Thank you for this brilliant approach. It's very interesting and a great performer.

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi @oliverjames :

For sure, this is not the most professional explanation about "Can you please tell me how to create a launcher in the menu." but it is the easier, for sure, haha.

In your menu, desktop, EasyJWM configure user JWM go to MENU LABEL and choose ITEM EDITOR, there you can decide what you wanna show or not at the menu.

If the file doesn't appears, add it to the applications folder in user, share, applications and that is.

I can edit the .desktop file, but I think this is the easier and most simple way to do this modificacions.

Hope it helps u.

CHEERS

(test and try

[oliverjames]

Hello pp4mnklinux,

Thank you for your reply. There is no clementine entry in /usr/share/applications. Tried adding a relative lnk from the clementine app in /home but that doesn't show up as a choice to add to the audio apps. Can you tell me how to fix this please.

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi again @oliverjames

It is not really difficult, you only need to edit a hidden file.

It is called .jwmrc in home folder.

You can edit it the way u want to include or delete the files you need.

Edition is simple and you only need to follow this order...

<Program label="THE NAME YOU WANNA USE TO IDENTIFY THIS PROGRAM BY PP4MNK" icon="pathtoyouricon">"theprogram"</Program>

Hope it helps.

Have a nice day.

CHEERS.

pd.- don't forget to make a security copy of the original .jwmrc file JUST IN CASE haha.

[MochiMoppel]

It is not really difficult, you only need to edit a hidden file.
It is called .jwmrc in home folder.
You can edit it the way u want to include or delete the files you need.

He surely can, but he shouldn't. Did you read the third line of this file? Starts with IMPORTANT. This is not decoration. It is there to protect people from doing what you are proposing

[oliverjames]

It is not really difficult, you only need to edit a hidden file.
It is called .jwmrc in home folder.
You can edit it the way u want to include or delete the files you need.

He surely can, but he shouldn't. Did you read the third line of this file? Starts with IMPORTANT. This is not decoration. It is there to protect people from doing what you are proposing

Yes, I was about to reply concerning that warning "<!-- IMPORTANT, ONLY EDIT /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc -->" I'm a retired engineer who's fascinated and not fazed by computers or software, but I'm not a coder. @pp4mnklinux I'm sure your knowledge allows you to do this, but I'm not sure. I've made a bkp of .jwmrc but will I break something by editing the original?

I see that, having installed GIMP from PKGget, that has put "gimp.desktop" in /usr/share/applications/.

Thank you.

[pp4mnklinux]

Thanks a lot for your observation and comment, @MochiMoppel, I read it, but I don't know what are the neccessities of @oliverjames .

It is possible this limitations or supposed problems will only appear to programmers like you or to very specific people.-

I edited it (at my own risk) and I didn't find any problems, so I suggest it to Oliver, because he hasn't got any other answer, so he can test and try.

If he save a security copy of this file (as I suggested) it is possible he find no problem... I don't know.

I think interesting advanced users like you help him telling him what he must do instead of what he musn't.

Thanks again for your comment, for sure it will teach a lot of easyos users about how to proceed (me included, of course)

Have a nice day, and be happy, my friend,-

Cheers, good luck with your plans.

[Caramel]

...

In addition there is a missing dependency (see attached screenshot). With Mint or MX I'd search with Synaptic. How can I resolve this with EasyOS?

...

It is a quirk of Debian packages.

These packages do not exist but are "provided" by others packages

https://pkgs.org/search/?q=qtbase-abi-5 ... n=provides
https://pkgs.org/search/?q=vlc-plugin-a ... n=provides

There is nothing to resolve

...
There is no clementine entry in /usr/share/applications.
...

The entry is named org.clementine_player.Clementine.desktop

[oliverjames]

It is a quirk of Debian packages.

These packages do not exist but are "provided" by others packages

https://pkgs.org/search/?q=qtbase-abi-5 ... n=provides
https://pkgs.org/search/?q=vlc-plugin-a ... n=provides

There is nothing to resolve

...
There is no clementine entry in /usr/share/applications.
...

The entry is named org.clementine_player.Clementine.desktop

@Caramel - thank you for the info regarding packages. It's true that Clementine is running pretty well. Apart from the disappearing menu entry the only other issue I've encountered is when trying to play a radio stream; Clementine advises "Error Your GStreamer installation is missing a plugin"
When I check GStreamer1.0 plugins-base/good/ugly with the PKGget dependency app the message received is that all's good, any suggestion for how to diagnose this?

There is no org.clementine_player.Clementine.desktop entry in /usr/share/applications.

[Caramel]

...Apart from the disappearing menu entry the only other issue I've encountered is when trying to play a radio stream; Clementine advises "Error Your GStreamer installation is missing a plugin"
When I check GStreamer1.0 plugins-base/good/ugly with the PKGget dependency app the message received is that all's good, any suggestion for how to diagnose this?

Verify that libgstreamer and libgstreamer-plugins-base are installed.

There is no org.clementine_player.Clementine.desktop entry in /usr/share/applications.

Uninstall and then reinstall clementine

or

use

org.clementine_player.Clementine.desktop.gz

(8.65 KiB) Downloaded 14 times

Remove the fake .gz extension.
After copy in /usr/share/applications, execute

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fixmenus
jwm -reload

[BarryK]

Verify that libgstreamer and libgstreamer-plugins-base are installed.

And you must be running Daedalus 6.5.5, which fixed the bug Caramel reported, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/fix-desc ... kg-db.html

[oliverjames]

...Apart from the disappearing menu entry the only other issue I've encountered is when trying to play a radio stream; Clementine advises "Error Your GStreamer installation is missing a plugin"
When I check GStreamer1.0 plugins-base/good/ugly with the PKGget dependency app the message received is that all's good, any suggestion for how to diagnose this?

Verify that libgstreamer and libgstreamer-plugins-base are installed.

There is no org.clementine_player.Clementine.desktop entry in /usr/share/applications.

Uninstall and then reinstall clementine

libgstreamer and libgstreamer-plugins-base are installed. I uninstalled / reinstalled Clementine (thank you for the fixmenus option) and it's back in the mnenu list. However the Radio stream is still not playing; same message about a missing GStreamer plugin.

[oliverjames]

Verify that libgstreamer and libgstreamer-plugins-base are installed.

And you must be running Daedalus 6.5.5, which fixed the bug Caramel reported, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/fix-desc ... kg-db.html

I am running Daedalus 6.5.5. Maybe related to your blog post, when installing a package with multiple dependencies the install window remains active after install of all elements.

Thank you for the update procedure, very satisfying to use.

[Caramel]

...
. However the Radio stream is still not playing; same message about a missing GStreamer plugin.

Launch clementine in terminal with the verbose option :

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clementine --verbose

Maybe there will be a more complete error message.

EDIT : Some radios need the package gstreamer1.0-libav

EDIT2 : A relaunch of clementine could be necessary after the installation of new plugins/codecs

[oliverjames]

Launch clementine in terminal with the verbose option :

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clementine --verbose

Maybe there will be a more complete error message.

EDIT : Some radios need the package gstreamer1.0-libav

EDIT2 : A relaunch of clementine could be necessary after the installation of new plugins/codecs

gstreamer1.0-libav_1.22.0-3 is installed. Launching clementine in terminal with the verbose option doesn't result in any messages.

Still the same message about GStreamer missing a plugin, however that only happens with BBC radio (my English roots ) ; FIP, France Info... all play without issue. Since bloody Brexit les anglais sont devenus trop renfermés!

I'll start by asking the Clementine forum. Their application streams these BBC stations on Mint, on MX and on Fedora so they might be able to identify the missing plugin.

[Caramel]

...

Still the same message about GStreamer missing a plugin, however that only happens with BBC radio

...

The package gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad provides the plugin tsdemux that was missing.

[oliverjames]

The package gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad provides the plugin tsdemux that was missing.

Brilliant, thank you. Clementine now working perfectly.