Easy Daedalus 6.5.3

[BarryK]

pRun application launcher has been updated, see blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/prun-app ... dated.html

[tallboy]

Dell E6400 Latitude, bios A27, 4Gb Ram. Limine boot loader.
Updated Daedalus 6.5 to 6.5.3
Updated Scarthgap 6.5 to 6.5.3
No issues with any of them.

BarryK, I really enjoy the Daedalus, it gives me the same feeling as the classic Puppys did/do. I am not yet very comfortable with the use of containers, Flatpacks and Appimages, but the Daedalus gives me the opportunity to choose whether to use them or not, that option is the main advantage for me. Thank you!

tallboy

[BarryK]

Alfons reported that X11 apps do not start in containers.
This includes ycalc and rubix.

The error message is "cannot load font".
The Xephyr nested server cannot find the .pcf fonts.
I have posted about this to the blog, with a fix:

https://bkhome.org/news/202501/fix-run- ... iners.html

Interestingly, lite-xl text editor also fails to start in a container.
It uses SDL, but needs to load a .pcf font.

Alfons reported this a few weeks ago.
Sometimes it takes me awhile to get around to implementing a fix.

[tallboy]

I have to correct my last post; LibreOffice Writer has collapsed after update to Daedalus 6.5.3, the other LibreOffice sections seem to work. Writer opens an empty window, no menus, no nothing. Is there a Writer config file somewhere? I have difficulties finding one.

I have lots of old .abw files, so I would have preferred to have good old Abiword, but installing it demands a zillion dependencies, and fill up 61Mb of otherwise useful space.

Question: In /usr/share/ModemManager/ there is a file 'mm-foxconn-t77w968-carrier-mapping', what is that doing?

talllboy

[BarryK]

I have to correct my last post; LibreOffice Writer has collapsed after update to Daedalus 6.5.3, the other LibreOffice sections seem to work. Writer opens an empty window, no menus, no nothing. Is there a Writer config file somewhere? I have difficulties finding one.

I am running Daedalus right now, updated from 6.5 to 6.5.3, and LO Writer is running OK.

Try start in a terminal, see if any messages:

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# swriter

[tallboy]

BarryK, thank you! I don't know what kind of magic wand you swung from a place on the other side of the world, but now LO Writer open and run as it should. I have no idea why it did no start after several attempts earlier, I have done nothing. Maybe test running the rest of LO functions triggered something.
I also installed Abiword, and it runs as intended. The simpler Abi format suits me better, LibreOffice is a bit overwhelming in it's complexity, when I only need a tad more options than I get in Geany.
Do you have any idea about purpose of that strange file in /usr/share/ModemManager/?

tallboy

[BarryK]

Do you have any idea about purpose of that strange file in /usr/share/ModemManager/?

No idea.

[George]

@BarryK
I just installed Calibre in Daedalus container 6.5.1.1 but couldn't open any .epub file, getting instead this error:
qt.core.plugin.loader: In /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqvnc.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library (5.15.0)
Calibre works well in Scarthcap main OS.
Thanks for all your work