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## Another wheezy build

Stuff that has not yet gone into the official build.
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### Re: Another wheezy build

by nadir » Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:29 am

Booting from a live-CD, like said.
Let me make some notes here.
1) xserver-xorg-video-intel is not installed
2) addblock-plus or something like that is a must-have (best is freedombox-privoxy )
3) xchat should be configured to come with bigger fonts when first started.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by fsmithred » Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:49 am

xserver-xorg-video-* don't get automatically installed with xorg. Seems to me that they did in the past, but I could be wrong. All the video drivers are now installed, and I'm uploading the new snapshot now. Still calling it beta1 - the "0902" in the filename means September 2.
I added NoScript. That'll block the most obnoxious ads.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/testing/
refracta-wheezy-beta1-20120902_0026.iso
I also replaced refractainstaller-yad with a later version (Aug. 17, same as the last gist.)

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by nadir » Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:38 pm

Doesn't seem to boot in VirtualBox.
Am investigating if it might be me.
Same problem with Deans lates build (wheezy-live)-
and one sec later:
I had to enable PAE in system->CPU.
Oh my.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by meandean » Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:31 am

not tested it yet as my laptop blew up...as soon as I get a system going...

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by meandean » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:01 am

I am still waiting for a fan and hoping that is all that went belly up with the laptop. I have about decided I have better things to fool with than computers.

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by meandean » Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:20 am

> fsmithred wrote:http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/testing/
> refracta-wheezy-beta1-20120902_0026.iso

so far so good...
except...
gtk3 apps theme looks like crap
wireless-tools not installed
yad installer looks nice, would be better without the terminal window behind it though
works fine on simple mode

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by fsmithred » Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:29 am

wireless-tools: oops. I left wicd out because of bugs and didn't think to add wireless-tools. Will do.
gtk3 theme: Which one is that? The desktop theme? It's gray, like the last one, only different. I'm open to suggestions, but please don't ask for blue.
terminal in the yad-based installer: I'll have to run it again, because I'm not sure that the terminal is needed. I think I added some code to launch xterm when the user needs to input something, because it wasn't showing up in the main terminal. Should be a one-line change in the .desktop file to fix it.
Will also activate lightdm in the next one. I've got a 64-bit build that's ready, and lightdm is working ok, except for the language-chooser. You can still change the language at the isolinux boot prompt (live-cd). I'm not clear on how to do that at the grub menu, but there must be a way.
Glad to see you're up and running again.

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by meandean » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:50 am

Talking about the gnome(gtk3) apps like gthumb I think it was and abiword maybe. The menus look crappy as they dont match the other (gtk2) apps like geany and iceweasel.
Maybe drop any gnome(gtk3) apps or find a theme that supports gtk2 and gtk3. I doubt the xfce appearance tool supports setting the gtk3 theme, so some way to set the gtk3 theme (maybe lxappearance) or set it and hope the user leaves the themes alone. Dunno as it is really a mess...
The replacement fan feels like a cheap knockoff piece of crap (and it is noisy already) so probably have to do it again in six months. Oh well. I think I will start searching ebay for a quality replacement part. Maybe even something from the upscale laptop models that will still fit into mine.

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by fsmithred » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:00 pm

Now that you mention it, I see a difference in the menus and window appearance (the title bar and the menu bar). But I probably wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out. Abiword and gthumb look similar to the theme in the previous version of refracta (Xfce-4.4-custom1). If you're seeing something much different, I'd like to see a screenshot.
Adding lxappearance didn't make a difference. It gives me the same choices as the regular xfce settings. Changing to some non-murrine themes makes the gtk2 and gtk3 apps look the same. (Albatross and greybird).

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### Re: Another wheezy build

by meandean » Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:37 pm

I retract my doubt, you are correct, the xfce appearance tool does seem to support setting the gtk3 theme. Greybird and albatross aren't my favorite themes but if they keep everything looking good then so be it.
So....looks great...carry on....
I haven't found anything else really, some stray info in interfaces and resolv.conf, that is about all I see.
will play some more and report back

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