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V.T. Eric Layton, on 02 August 2012 - 12:22 AM, said:

I might have to walk away for a few days. It's starting to aggravate me a bit.

Understood

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Yet, due to my anal-compulsive nature, it's difficult for me to walk away sometimes. I'm in here again today tweaking and hacking.

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V.T. Eric Layton, on 02 August 2012 - 11:33 AM, said:

Yet, due to my anal-compulsive nature, it's difficult for me to walk away sometimes. I'm in here again today tweaking and hacking.

Yeah I was going to suggest that you keep hacking at it as most of my breakthroughs have been after many days into a project.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I'm whittling away...

ISSUES (main, laptop, and shop systems)

• Thunar displaying unmounted volumes - active
  
• no auto-mounting of removable media - active
  
• corrupted Xfce main menu - fixed
  
  • edited .desktop files in /usr/share/applications to add "NoDisplay=1" at bottom of text file for each menu entry to hide
• segmentation fault when running gpa --> file manager - fixed
  
  • there is a documented bug in gpa v0.9.2
    
  • reverted to Slack 13.37 version of gpa (v0.7.5)
• no ftp from main --> laptop - active
  
  • discovered this yesterday - requires more testing
• unused applications - fixed
  
  • ran slackpkg clean-system to remove HAL, older Xfce version, and other miscellaneous obsolete/unused apps
• power management - fixed
  
  • switched from xscreensaver power manager to Xfce power manager

I've done all this on the main system. only. I'm going to ssh into the laptop and the shop to fix what I can in there right now.

[securitybreach]

Well you definitely got a great start!!

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Or I just make really good-looking bulleted posts.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

***UPDATES***

ISSUES (main, laptop, and shop systems)

• Thunar displaying unmounted volumes - low priority
  
  • this is still an issue, but I'm putting it on hold for the time being
• no auto-mounting of removable media - low priority
  
  • same for this... on hold for the time being
• corrupted Xfce main menu - fixed
  
  • edited .desktop files in /usr/share/applications to add "NoDisplay=1" at bottom of text file for each menu entry to hide
• segmentation fault when running gpa --> file manager - fixed
  
  • there is a documented bug in gpa v0.9.2
    
  • reverted to Slack 13.37 version of gpa (v0.7.5)
• no ftp from main --> laptop - fixed
  
  • it was just a stupid mistake on my part - had gftp set to ftp instead of sshd
• unused applications - fixed
  
  • ran slackpkg clean-system to remove HAL, older Xfce version, and other miscellaneous obsolete/unused apps
• power management - fixed
  
  • switched from xscreensaver power manager to Xfce power manager

So basically, all is well in my Slackworld. The issue with Thunar displaying unmounted volumes and my loss of automounting is being temporarily set aside due mostly to the fact that I installed a neat little file manager called Xfe (X File Explorer). It ain't as pretty as Thunar, but it doesn't show my unmounted volumes and it has the next best thing to automounting... one click mounting. It's pretty cool. Lots of other neat features too. I could get to like this little app.

NEW ISSUE

• I wanted to take a screenie for you, but just found out my xfce4-screenshooter not working (it was earlier today)
  
  • it returns this error from the command line --> error while loading shared libraries: libxfce4util.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    
  • I checked... no lib called that. I have a libxfce4util.so.6, though.
    
  • I have a feeling that installing Xfe modified this lib somehow - more debugging.

I'm finished for now, though.

[securitybreach]

Try scrot instead, its CLI and has lots of good features like delay and countdown.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

No need. I fixed it.

I checked the /usr/lib64 directory and found there were two symlinks to libxfce4util.so.6.0.0. One sym was libxfce4util.so and the other was libxfce4util.so.6. Unfortunately, xfce4-screenshooter was looking for libxfce4util.so.4, so I gave it one. I created a symlink to the actual libxfce4util.so.6.0.0 file called libxfce4util.so.4. Simple solutions actually work sometimes. This one did.

So, here's that screenie of Xfe:



Here's one of Thunar with all the unmounted volumes showing in the treeview on the left pane:

[sunrat]

I have Dolphin set to show all volumes and kinda like it that way. There are several that I access only occasionally which I just have to click on in the panel to mount (if permissions allow). Then I don't have quite as many as you.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Here's what everyone's been waiting for...


https://noctslackv1....-i-upgrade-now/

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Here you go, I signed up for a github account today...

https://github.com/d...urrent-0812.odt

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V.T. Eric Layton, on 03 August 2012 - 08:01 PM, said:

Here you go, I signed up for a github account today...

https://github.com/d...urrent-0812.odt

Welcome to the club

https://github.com/s...breach/Cerberus

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I'm not geeky enough to figure out how to use that place properly, I don't think. Something else to research when I have the time.

[securitybreach]

This should help: https://help.github....cles/set-up-git

[V.T. Eric Layton]

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Anyway, I'm goin' in...

I'm going to attempt to rebuild/fix or remove permanently my malfunctioning apps in Slackware on all three systems. It's hot in the shop, so I'll ssh into that baby and do it first.

Off I go...

[V.T. Eric Layton]

securitybreach, on 04 August 2012 - 02:01 PM, said:

This should help: https://help.github....cles/set-up-git

COOL! Already have git in Slack (Arch too, probably). I'll set it up when I have a mo... thanks!

[securitybreach]

No problem

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Well, I got distracted a bit...

First, I had to figure out how to enable x forwarding while sshing. No prob... found an old tut from Alien Bob at LinuxQ.org. Worked great! Then I got distracted making a little step ladder thing so my old kitty (14) Patches could jump up in her favorite shelf in the windows above the washer and dryer in the back porch.

NOW, I'm going to do some Slack fixin'...

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Fixed or found alternatives to all the issues. Yay! Me happy Slacker again.

Updated github doc --> http://cloud.github....812-updated.odt