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MX linux on raspberry pi

I've been trying out mx linux on my raspberry pi b+ board
using mx linux
Installed mx linux on raspberry pi --->
because it has bluetooth installed as default -- very easy to set up.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/fluxbox-raspbe ... gout-beta/
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I noticed the following when using scripts written for puppy linux...

1) Xdialog is not installed

2) gtkdialog scripts need to use the bash shell rather than sh

So I change first line of scripts...
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don570 wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:05 pm

2) gtkdialog scripts need to use the bash shell rather than sh

So I change first line of scripts...

In Puppy sh is a symbolic link to bash.
Why not just doing a symbolic link?

don570 wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:05 pm

MX linux on raspberry pi

I've been trying out mx linux on my raspberry pi b+ board
using mx linux
Installed mx linux on raspberry pi --->
because it has bluetooth installed as default -- very easy to set up.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/fluxbox-raspbe ... gout-beta/
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I noticed the following when using scripts written for puppy linux...

1) Xdialog is not installed

2) gtkdialog scripts need to use the bash shell rather than sh

So I change first line of scripts...
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1) You can install Xdialog, it has some Gtk+ 1.2 dependancies.
GTK+ 1.2 toolkit is unmaintained for a very long time.
Xdialog has issues on MX linux, it's impossible to double click on a dialog if I remember correctly
Though it worked fine on Debian Jessie though and I used that to see how an old idesktool script works so I can rewrite it to use yad instead of Xdialog
They picked up from there and now they call it mx-idesktool. It's a script that manages icons on idesk.

If you want to try Xdialog on MX, these are the packages:

https://snapshot.debian.org/package/gli ... _1.2.10-20
libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-20_amd64.deb 2009
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/gtk ... .2.10-18.1
libgtk1.2-common_1.2.10-18.1_all.deb 2012
libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1_amd64.deb 2012
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/xdialog/2.3.1-2/
xdialog_2.3.1-2_amd64.deb 2012

First install libgtk1.2-common then libglib1.2ldbl, libgtk1.2 and finally xdialog.
That's for 64bit. For 32bit install i386 deb packages.

P.S. You will have to recompile them for ARM architecture.

2) You can install William's fork gtkwialog which is gtkdialog that uses bash by default.

YAD , gtkdialog , xmesage is installed by default.

don570 wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:18 pm

YAD , gtkdialog , xmesage is installed by default.

Well, if it doesn't use bash as default system shell, then it wouldn't be enough to change first line of some/many Puppy bash_gtkdialog scripts to #!/bin/bash. You would indeed need to make /bin/sh itself a symlink to bash, as taersh suggests (i.e. make bash the system shell). That's because traditional gtkdialog itself will always use /bin/sh for its underlying/internal system() calls no matter what the shell script itself uses as the hash bang header. Of course if sh already bash then all will be fine out-of-the-box.