Porteus in E17 uniform

New features which should be implemented in Porteus; suggestions are welcome. All questions or problems with testing releases (alpha, beta, or rc) should go in their relevant thread here, rather than the Bug Reports section.
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Porteus in E17 uniform

Post#1 by r004 » 11 Oct 2014, 11:29

Hello;
I'm a fan of porteus. it is a good tool for a sysadmin and has all the toys ones need to set a system and enjoy it. but I like to try porteus with desktop. It is very nice if you add E17 to list of available desktops in your image builder page.
But in the meantime I was looking for any material to tell me how to cook my own Porteus with E17 and couple of tweaks.
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Re: Porteus in E17 uniform

Post#2 by Ed_P » 11 Oct 2014, 12:20

Have you tried the Porteus RazorQT desktop?
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Re: Porteus in E17 uniform

Post#3 by r004 » 11 Oct 2014, 12:36

Yes; I tried it on several linux distros of course. I was one of the first wave of people when it came to life to use it. but I prefer E17.
it would be nice if I could build my own porteus .img (usb image) file or iso file.

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Re: Porteus in E17 uniform

Post#4 by brokenman » 11 Oct 2014, 18:48

Porteus devs are stretched to the limit at the moment. This would need to be added firstly as a community project and if it sticks it could be adopted.

Assuming you are currently booting into lxde.
1) Create slackware package of E17 and convert to a porteus module (txz2xzm).
2) Place module in optional folder and use load=e17 noload=lxde 3 in order to boot into your E17 desktop in text mode.
3) Run startx 2>/tmp/dump.log and if desktop fails check the logs for what deps you are missing.
4) Add deps and start again.

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Re: Porteus in E17 uniform

Post#5 by tome » 11 Oct 2014, 19:43

I have tried e17 or e16 via USM and it started but for me much better is lxde made by Porteus developers.
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Re: Porteus in E17 uniform

Post#6 by francois » 11 Oct 2014, 20:04

And what can one say about lxqt that will replace razor and lxde. Really good looking, see:
http://lxqt.org/
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