Porteus

Google chrome will stay to an older version, google-chrome-101.0.4951.54-x86_64-en-US, though I have inserted the most recent vesion. The module is not in my module folder. However the most recent version is there. There is only one occurence found by mlocate: root@porteus:updatedb root@porteus:/hom...

Bumping as very useful to me.

What is fanthom real name?

So what do you want now?

This thread was just a way to underline the great work of Patrick Volkerding, maintainer of slackware over which porteus is built. and of the making of slackware. Volkerding was the first to build a desktop https://www.maketecheasier.com/history-of-linux-distros/ Slackware came out in 1992. Then Ope...

I had to reinstall the brother printer. There is no need to start avahi with: root@porteus:/home/guest# [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd ] && /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd start Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD DNS Server Configuration Daemon: /usr/sbin/avahi-dnsconfd -D root@porteus:/home/guest# You just hav...

@kulle:
Clearly it does not work anyway. Neither in guest mode.

I will use donald's procedure.

Thanks.

It seems that Kulle proposition to run a script from thunar does not work no more: root@porteus:/home/guest# xfconf-query --channel thunar --property /misc-exec-shell-scripts-by-default --create --type bool --set true Failed to init libxfconf: The connection is closed. root@porteus:/home/guest# What...

zbar module production: root@porteus:/home/guest# getmod -m zbar Uses: 1) To get the signification of any qr code on your screen: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hw0crd/oneliner_to_read_onscreen_qr_codes/ root@porteus:/home/guest# import -silent -window root bmp:- | zbarimg - 2) If the qr co...

Lately I wanted to use a qr code reader on my porteus installation. After a lenghty reasearch I found a working one which is available thru getmod: zbar. What is yours?

please provide the results of the following:

On lxde, here is a simple solution using; https://livingthelinuxlifestyle.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/how-to-change-the-screen-brightness-on-an-lxde-desktop/ lxde menu > preferences > power management > general tab Make sure that these two features are on: handle display brightness key system tray icon...

Probably you have to install the guest additions and use what is called the shared folders. Google vbox shared folders francois porteus. There is no drag and drop from vbox to porteus to my knowledge.

https://linuxhint.com/display_brightness_commandline/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/backli ... ne_options

Very good news: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/sboui-ncurses-based-ui-for-sbo-package-managers-call-for-testers-4175602521/page17.html Sboui could be used as an interface for slpkg, meaning that ponce and alien repo and many other repo sbo could be available. Thanks to risitis.