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Let's fix that XFCE4 zoom-in keybinding! I wanted a more user friendly experience, so I changed the keybindings to be operationally similar - dropping the need for the SHIFT key when zooming in. So instead of using the + key, in reality I changed it to the = key. CTRL = (zoom in) CTRL - (zoom out) ...

Just a quick tip about the terminal keybindings in Always Fresh mode: If you need to scale your terminal fonts up or down, the following keybindings work - at least in the XFCE4 version: CTRL SHIFT + CTRL - (note no shift) Quite a bit faster than going into the terminal preferences, and clicking awa...

Missing Dependencies I ran usm -d and it reported that I was missing 31 dependencies. I'm assuming some like Python 2.7 are just flukes since we've transitioned to 3 etc etc : Missing dependencies: 31 libcdio.so.18 libcelt0.so.2 libclangAST.so.8 libclangAnalysis.so.8 libclangBasic.so.8 libclangCode...

USM segmentation fault: XFCE4: Trying to USM > Update > Update All > From the gui ends with a segmentation fault. It seems to go normally at first, checking files, optimizing manifest and so forth. But what is seen is before it segfaults, it is as if someone is rapidly hitting a return/enter key (n...

How could I forget the Unix reference in Wayne's World?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjjydz40rNI

What Porteus has turned me into.

Sluggish Mount detective work ... Aha! It seems that the sluggish filesystem mounts of up to 20 seconds on my XFCE4 RC1 may be due to permissions. When I boot up with the noauto cheatcode, the system comes right up - bang! HOWEVER, if I try to immediately mount one of the filesystems by right click...

Thanks for working on that! I enjoyed Dillo, but I don't think there's *ever* going to be a release beyond 3.05, even though work on it has continued for years. I even donated a bit, but I don't see any further release happening. Maybe it's a perfectionist thing - dunno'. Still - I used it for years...

Thanks for looking into this stuff guys - and even though I'm not running an ssd (yet), those notes AcnapyxoB absolutely rock! That went straight into the Porteus notebook. Now I feel confident enough to get one. Live-USB tool - I absolutely love that utility, so that's why I cried when it threw up ...

Porteus Updater via Settings Centre Hi - me again. :) This is only RC, but the following may not be a good idea right now... Porteus Updater > Porteus Settings Centre > Update Porteus Now icon For me, this results in 001-core-xzm and 002-core.xzm being candidates for update. If you allow the update...

Porteus Modules inactive in XFCE4

Running System > Porteus Modules and then authenticating as toor results in nothing happening.

I'm not picking on anyone, just hitting up the low-hanging stuff.

USM GUI - Duplicate Ponce settings / conflict XFCE4 here - noticed that when you run the USM gui, i noticed TWO setups for editing the Ponce repo. USM > Settings > Edit Ponce Mirror The first one is correct, but the second Ponce entry points to Slackonly. You don't want to comment that out, since i...

XFCE4 - sluggish external volume mounting Noticed that after boot, if an sda device like a vfat usb stick is inserted into the system, XFCE4 recognizes the device, but will take up to 20 seconds or so to actually mount it once your initiate a mount with a right click. Also noticed that this non-boo...

..snip.. @nanZor you can invoke a su GUI by using pkexec. Even better use our own script. /opt/porteus-scripts/org/psu /usr/bin/gparted (psu is porteus su) ..snip.. Oops - the script for the live-usb complains with: "Error: Illegal ISO File" when I try to burn the 5.0 RC1 iso to a usb stick. Maybe ...

Busybox VI editor bugs / solution Ok, so not truly a Porteus bug, BUT since we rely on the vi editor from it - the latest version of BB 1.31.0 has fixed a few bugs in the vi editor (amongst other utils). While widescale adoption of the latest BB may not be in the cards, one can pick off the latest ...

Intel Atom cpu idle states .. More of a non-bug! Formerly with earlier kernels, I had to use the cheatcode intel_idle.max_cstate=0/1 to prevent a frequent system lockup at boot. Not any more. System boots stable and that cheatcode isn't necessary - just a tip for Intel Atom users who have this chea...