Refracta Development, Scripts, etc.
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meandean

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:10 am

i think in /usr/share/applications/repsit.desktop
Terminal=true
should be
Terminal=false
I have ripped out a lot of stuff and been tweaking and playing with this install so I could of messed something up, but I did have to change that for repsit to run
fsmithred

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:08 am

Repsit runs ok here with Terminal set to true or false.
Ran into another problem. I made the changes that were listed above, then made a new iso - final size is 702mb. Something has to go. Yeah, it'll probably burn to CD ok, at least in most cases, but I set a limit of 700, and I want to stick to that. Taking nominations for the axe now.
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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:13 am

What i have seen (live and in Virtualbox) all is good with the beta3.
Need to wait a few days, so that i can buy raw CDs.
Anyway: i am quite confident, all looks good.
the axe? let me check.
nadir

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:29 am

> the axe? let me check.

If the purpose is to be a live-CD which offers all one expects on a usual environment, i am happy the way it is. Perhaps the vnc server is pointless, but that might be me (Been ages i fooled with vnc at all).
Else i for one am not very keen on the office apps (abiword and gnumeric), a graphical archiver, and some more, but i forgot it again (let me check again). All of those are expected to be part of a live CD (as far i can tell).
Did you try deborphan and aptitude purge ~c already? I guess the answer is: yes.
dzz

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:04 pm

Re the keyboard: This is not a major annoyance but a better way would be nice.
I know how to change in xfce settings, the issue is the multiple clicking and scrolling to get there. It is preset to "use system defaults", you first have to change that.
Whatever I do, including installed console-data, dpkg-reconfigure of console-data, console-setup, keyboard-configuration locales - the keyboard defaults to US, even doing all that with GDM stopped and cycling through init 1 to restart most services. I also checked /etc/default/keyboard.
I'm mystified from where X/xfce gets (or fails to get) the "system default" The console does use the one I set up.
What does work also is (example with multiple layouts)
setxkbmap gb,us,de
You get a drop-down menu in th panel switcher (but that does not stick if gdm is restarted)
As-is, the file ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xf-perchannel-xml/keyboard-layout.xml does not exist. If you change to use xfce settings it gets created something like this:

Code:
  `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <channel name="keyboard-layout" version="1.0">
  <property name="Default" type="empty">
  <property name="XkbDisable" type="bool" value="false"/>
  <property name="XkbLayout" type="string" value="gb,us,de"/>
  <property name="XkbVariant" type="string" value=""/>
  </property>
  </channel>`

dzz

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:24 pm

> Taking nominations for the axe now.

Code:
  `dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size;10}\t${Package}\n' | sort -k1,1n`

gnome-user-guide? samba?
apt-get autoremove -s and deborphan show nothing
Wishlist for inclusion: mc
meandean

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:19 pm

> fsmithred wrote:Repsit runs ok here with Terminal set to true or false.

It is probably just me then, will check when I have a fresh install.

> Taking nominations for the axe now.

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I have been working on a refracta-diet script for my personal use but it removes probably 1/4 of the system and I am not sure most would like it.
few quick nominations:
rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio debian-faq telnet apt-listchanges doc-debian installation-report lp-solve
wamerican and whiptail if not needed by something else
fsmithred

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:03 pm

These are gone, and thanks, I didn't know they were there:
> rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio debian-faq apt-listchanges installation-report wamerican
These are still present.
whiptail - needed for pppoeconf
telnet - needed to get into router
lp-solve - for gnumeric
doc-debian - will go if I need more space.
mc might get added, if I can make enough space for it. It wants 6.6mb.
I have zero experience messing with other keyboard layouts. I added gp, de and es to the panel applet, and when I went to keyboard settings through the settings manager, "use system default" was not checked. I wanted to add fr, but it looks like it only takes four layouts - the "Add" button goes grey.
OK, I have to stop mid-thought and go pick up a sick kid from school. Was just about to look at Settings Editor to see what it does.
dzz

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:40 pm

Same here, only 4 keyboard layouts are possible, whether using xfce settings or setxkbmap. I can't work out what setxkbmap does or where it writes to, the man page says nothing about that.
I was looking into configuring keyboard and locale from the boot prompt using live-config, only limited success so far, I can't get X to use the system defaults.
fsmithred

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## Re: 606_beta3 observations

Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:26 pm

Removed gnome-user-guide and libelf1 and got the iso size down to 702545920. The size on beta3 was 726339584. Did anyone burn that to CD?
Tested the isohybrid on usb flash drive with the last build, and it works.
Updated refractasnapshot with changes to the excludes list. New deb for refractasnapshot-base is in the github repo. The gui package is unchanged.
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