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Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

Posted: 20 Nov 2014, 22:31
by brokenman
mate 32bit
Downloaded imagemagick via USM. No problem using display command.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfbl2ekjxscjf ... k.png?dl=0

Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

Posted: 20 Nov 2014, 23:27
by Bogomips
brokenman wrote:So it must be a difference in packages.
Correct. Just checked KDE usm packages requirement. Hasn't changed. Ran on KDE

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loop3     7:3    0    66M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-kde.xzm
loop4     7:4    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm
loop5     7:5    0     5M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.411-i3
loop6     7:6    0  35.9M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/VLC_191014.xzm
loop7     7:7    0    60K  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/gtk-ch_161014.xzm
loop8     7:8    0  16.3M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/Kate_211014.xzm
loop9     7:9    0  29.6M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/ImM_180914.xzm

guest@porteus:~$ display
display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
Got same error when running KDE xzm :sorry: under Mate. Documented in previous post.

Edit: Also ran KDE xzm under lxqt and xfce with display displaying. :) (Both usm one and very latest version from Arch worked.)

Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 05:23
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:are you up to the challenge for a second one? if yes then please try to do this item next (should be quite easy):

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- make syslinux bootsplash color scheme compatible with current background as "Porteus 3.1rc2" is barely visible
i'm talking about color scheme included in porteus.cfg
OK, found a way to test this but don't see the problem in LXQt i486 version. I also don't see the quoted text, I see "Porteus-v3.1 32bit". Need more information to continue testing.

Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 09:38
by fanthom
@sean
Hoping to have it finished Friday sometime, I hope that's okay?
we still have two weeks to final so even late fixes are ok

I'm duplicating as close as possible the panel main menu, so the right-click menu should be identical to going through the main menu.
it wont be possible to create this menu 'on the fly' upon desktop startup? i prefer to have it dynamic but if this is not an option then static is also ok.

If time permits me, I may add a few immediate (one click) choices from the right-click menu. On my own system I have one click access to a Terminal, PCManFM, and Geany text editor. Then I have a sub-heading "For Experts Only" (really as though I'm one :-), there I have a Super User Mode Terminal, PCManFM, and Editor.
sounds good

Clicking on the main menu/System Tools/Super User Mode - PCManFM brings up a dbus-launch dialog box asking for the root password, I enter toor, the dialog box vanishes and that's it.
worked here but only once. must be related to that 'dbus' command - will double check

thanks for provided menu.xml - will merge it with a tree over the weekend and check if it works.

@Ed_P
must have mixed up something on my side. downloaded ISO from porteus server and color scheme is perfectly ok. we can cross this one off from the list.

thanks

Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 17:25
by Ed_P
fanthom wrote:@Ed_P
must have mixed up something on my side. downloaded ISO from porteus server and color scheme is perfectly ok. we can cross this one off from the list.
Ok.

FWIW The color ff00ff is transparent in a webpage, that may hold true for Linux also. If so the "menu color title" line in the porteus.cfg file might work well with "#ffF6FF00 #ffff00ff none" or "ffF6FF00 #00000000 none" rather than the current "#ffF6FF00 #30003f07 none".

Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 19:03
by Bogomips
Mate 32 bit

ImageMagick
  • USM

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     The following packages are required. 
    fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz [2812K] [not installed]
    gcc-4.8.2-i486-1.txz [13056K] [not installed]
    imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz [5668K] [not installed]
    lcms2-2.4-i486-1.txz [2540K] [not installed]
    libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2.txz [80K] [not installed]
    
    Total size: 24 MB
    
     Multiple packages were detected.
     Would you like to merge the packages into one module? [y/n]
    
     Press [r] to remove packages, [q] to quit, or enter to start downloading.
    
     Updates are available. 
     Program update:   not required 
     Database update:  available 
     Please run:  usm -u all  and/or  usm -u usm 
     This message can be disabled in /etc/usm/usm.conf
     ############################### 
    Downloading: fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz  DONE
    Downloading: gcc-4.8.2-i486-1.txz  DONE
    Downloading: imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz  DONE
    lcms2-2.4-i486-1.txz already exists
    Downloading: libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2.txz  DONE
    fftw-3.3.3-i486-1: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West                 [14M] 
    gcc-4.8.2-i486-1: Base GCC package with C support                        [46M] 
    imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1: a robust collection of image processing too [17M] 
    lcms2-2.4-i486-1: little cms engine, version 2                           [3.1M]
    libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2: Multiple Precision Complex Library                  [280K]
    Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
    Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/usm/imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm, block size 262144.
    [=============================================================|] 2065/2065 100%
    
    Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
    	compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
    	duplicates are removed
    Filesystem size 27028.75 Kbytes (26.40 Mbytes)
    • No Display

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      guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
      total 0
      drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
      drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
      drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
      drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Oct 16 13:32 003-mate.xzm/
      drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  83 Nov 21 19:23 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm/
      drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
      guest@porteus:~$ display
      display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
      
    :wall:

    Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

    Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 20:28
    by brokenman
    Thanks. Getting closer. Please try again with the 05-devel.xzm module activated. Here is my output which works ok.

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    root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -g imagemagick
    
     The following items were found.
     Choose an number to confirm. 
     ctrl+c to quit
    
    1) imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz
    #? 1
    
    Processing:   imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz 
    Ignored libraries: 
    
    Libraries required:  71
    Libraries found in system: 60
    Libraries to resolve: 11
    
    ...... processing
    
    
     The following packages are required. 
    fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz [2812K] [not installed]
    ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1.txz [124K] [not installed]
    imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz [5668K] [not installed]
    jasper-1.900.1-i486-3.txz [148K] [not installed]
    lcms2-2.4-i486-1.txz [2540K] [not installed]
    openexr-1.7.1-i486-1.txz [2972K] [not installed]
    
    Total size: 14 MB
    
     Multiple packages were detected.
     Would you like to merge the packages into one module? [y/n]

    Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

    Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 20:58
    by fanthom
    @Ed_P
    will go with "ffF6FF00 #00000000 none" which looks better than pink :)
    if you have other suggestions - please post.

    thanks

    Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

    Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 23:56
    by Bogomips
    AF

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    guest@porteus:~$ grep command /var/log/dmesg 
    [    0.000000] Kernel command line: quiet copy2ram ramsize=30% noauto timezone=Europe/London volume=60%
    brokenman wrote:Please try again with the 05-devel.xzm module activated.
    Both KDE and Mate (05-devel.xzm module) USM: nogo

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     The following packages are required. 
    fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz [2812K] [not installed]
    ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1.txz [124K] [not installed]
    imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz [5668K] [not installed]
    jasper-1.900.1-i486-3.txz [148K] [not installed]
    openexr-1.7.1-i486-1.txz [2972K] [not installed]
    
    Total size: 11 MB
    
     Multiple packages were detected.
     Would you like to merge the packages into one module? [y/n]
    
     Press [r] to remove packages, [q] to quit, or enter to start downloading.
    fftw-3.3.3-i486-1.txz already exists
    Downloading: ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1.txz  DONE
    imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1.txz already exists
    Downloading: jasper-1.900.1-i486-3.txz  DONE
    Downloading: openexr-1.7.1-i486-1.txz  DONE
    fftw-3.3.3-i486-1: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West                 [14M] 
    ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1: Industrial Light & Magic base libraries            [1000K]
    imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1: a robust collection of image processing too [17M] 
    jasper-1.900.1-i486-3: free implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard     [510K]
    openexr-1.7.1-i486-1: HDR Image File Format & Library                    [4.1M]
    Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
    Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/usm/imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm, block size 262144.
    [=========================================================================\] 1693/1693 100%
    
    Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
            compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
            duplicates are removed
    Filesystem size 12162.81 Kbytes (11.88 Mbytes)
    guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
    drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
    drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
    drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 130 Nov 15 19:22 003-kde.xzm/
    drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  95 Nov 15 20:14 05-devel.xzm/
    drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  60 Nov 21 22:16 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm/
    drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
    guest@porteus:~$ display
    display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
    
    However LXQT and XFCE (No 05-devel.xzm module) are Go!
    • LXQT

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      loop0     7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
      loop1     7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
      loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
      loop3     7:3    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xz
      loop4     7:4    0  35.3M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-lxqt.xzm
      loop5     7:5    0  29.6M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/ImM_180914.xzm
      guest@porteus:~$ display
      root@porteus:/home/guest# deactivate ImM_180914.xzm 
      Updating shared library links:  /sbin/ldconfig
      loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
      loop3     7:3    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xz
      loop4     7:4    0  35.3M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-lxqt.xzm
      
      • XFCE

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        MATE BUNDLE
        guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
        total 0
        drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
        drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Nov 16 12:08 003-xfce.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  83 Nov 21 19:23 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle_m.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
        guest@porteus:~$ display
        display: error while loading shared libraries: libjasper.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
        KDE BUNDLE (05-devel activated)
        guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
        total 0
        drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
        drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Nov 16 12:08 003-xfce.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  60 Nov 21 22:16 imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
        guest@porteus:~$ display
        display: error while loading shared libraries: liblcms2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
        LONG STANDING KDE BUNDLE
        guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/
        total 0
        drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  83 Dec 11  2013 000-kernel.xzm/
        drwxrwxrwx 19 root root 280 Nov 12 23:56 001-core.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 106 Nov 12 23:57 002-xorg.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 142 Nov 16 12:08 003-xfce.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  71 Nov  1 00:49 ImM_180914.xzm/
        drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  48 Jul 12 23:42 sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm/
        guest@porteus:~$ display
        root@porteus:/home/guest# deactivate ImM_180914.xzm 
        ImM_180914.xzm: The module can't be removed, because it's busy (used).
        
        • LONG STANDING KDE BUNDLE

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              root@porteus:/home/guest# sh p10/Por/xzmod.sh -q p10/Por/ImMagick/ImM_180914.txt . /mnt/sda4/mods
              Default Module Name: ImM_180914.xzm
          
              Installing to Fakeroot Directory
          
              libmpc-0.8.2-i486-2: Multiple Precision Complex Library                  [280K]
              gcc-4.8.2-i486-1: Base GCC package with C support                        [46M]
              fftw-3.3.3-i486-1: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West                 [14M]
              jasper-1.900.1-i486-3: free implementation of the JPEG-2000 standard     [510K]
              openexr-1.7.1-i486-1: HDR Image File Format & Library                    [4.1M]
              ilmbase-1.0.3-i486-1: Industrial Light & Magic base libraries            [1000K]
              imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-1: a robust collection of image processing too [17M]
              lcms2-2.4-i486-1: little cms engine, version 2                           [3.1M]
          
              Creating Module ImM_180914.xzm
          
              Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor
              Creating 4.0 filesystem on /mnt/sda4/mods/ImM_180914.xzm, block size 262144.
              [=========================================================================/] 2272/2272 100%
          
              Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
                      compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, compressed xattrs
                      duplicates are removed
              Filesystem size 30264.23 Kbytes (29.55 Mbytes)
        UPDATE: Clean Slate

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        guest@porteus:~$ grep command /var/log/dmesg 
        [    0.000000] Kernel command line: quiet copy2ram ramsize=30% noauto timezone=Europe/London volume=60% norootcopy
        guest@porteus:~$ lsblk
        loop0     7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
        loop1     7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
        loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
        loop3     7:3    0    66M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-kde.xzm
        loop4     7:4    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm
        loop5     7:5    0  29.6M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/ImM_180914.xzm
        guest@porteus:~$ display
        display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
        loop0     7:0    0    16M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/000-kernel.xzm
        loop1     7:1    0    46M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/001-core.xzm
        loop2     7:2    0  43.7M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/002-xorg.xzm
        loop3     7:3    0    66M  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/003-kde.xzm
        loop4     7:4    0   528K  0 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/sudo-1.8.9p5-i486-1.xzm
        loop5     7:5    0  72.2M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/05-devel.xzm
        loop6     7:6    0  11.9M  1 loop /mnt/live/memory/images/imagemagick-6.8.6_10-i486-bundle.x
        guest@porteus:~$ display
        display: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': Success @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064.
        
        brokenman, you experienced same problem before
        brokenman wrote:Indeed. It worked for me under xfce and lxqt (didn't try mate) but failed under KDE.

        Here is the offending code in the source xwindow.c:

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         3056  /*
        3057  Set border color.
        3058  */
        3059  (void) XParseColor(display,colormap,(char *) BorderColor,
        3060  &pixel->border_color);
        3061  status=XParseColor(display,colormap,resource_info->border_color,
        3062  &pixel->border_color);
        3063  if (status == False)
        3064  ThrowXWindowException(XServerError,"ColorIsNotKnownToServer",
        3065  resource_info->border_color);
        3066  pixel->border_color.pixel=XStandardPixel(map_info,&pixel->border_color);
        3067  pixel->border_color.flags=(char) (DoRed | DoGreen | DoBlue);
        It appears to be directly related to drawing the window border. The border color is set on line 3059 then the window exception is thrown on 3064.

        I tried changing theme (sometimes the oxzgen theme is responsible for snags) but to no avail. Ran out of time.
        There must have been something that's changed for it to disappear for you on KDE.

        Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

        Posted: 22 Nov 2014, 01:04
        by brokenman
        Found it!

        In mate 32bit fresh mode I loaded only the following modules: fftw, lcms2 and imagemagick
        I then copied only the file /usr/bin/cpp from the package: gcc-4.8.2-i486-1

        Now you need to logout and log back in and it works.

        So essentially after using USM to download the required modules, you will need to logout and back in for it to work.

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        root@porteus:/tmp/un# ls -1 /mnt/live/memory/images/
        000-kernel.xzm/
        001-core.xzm/
        002-xorg.xzm/
        003-mate.xzm/
        04-firefox.xzm/
        Please try for KDE.

        Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

        Posted: 22 Nov 2014, 04:15
        by r004
        Hello;
        the is a problem while installing to usb flash drive.
        Type 'ok' to continue or press Ctrl+c to exit.
        ok
        Flushing filesystem buffers...

        Installation failed with error code '2'.
        Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: www.porteus.org/forum
        and provide the information from /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/debug.txt

        Exiting now...
        Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.

        cat: /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/syslinux/lilo.menu: No such file or direct

        Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

        Posted: 22 Nov 2014, 04:35
        by Ed_P
        r004 wrote:
        Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: http://www.porteus.org/forum
        and provide the information from /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/debug.txt
        "and provide the information from /run/media/r004/Porteus/boot/debug.txt"

        :unknown:

        Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

        Posted: 22 Nov 2014, 08:26
        by fanthom
        @r004
        this is a known bug with udisks2 which protects MBR of the stick somehow. you have to mount the stick manually and not through the udisk2:

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        mkdir /tmp/usb
        mount /dev/sdXY /tmp/usb
        cd /tmp/usb/boot
        sh Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
        that should work

        Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

        Posted: 22 Nov 2014, 19:14
        by sean
        RE: LXQt-32bit, Porteus 3.1-rc2

        @fanthom

        You said: "it wont be possible to create this menu 'on the fly' upon desktop startup? i prefer to have it dynamic but if this is not an option then static is also ok."

        fanthom, "dynamic" is way over my head, sorry. Actually, to this date, no distro, to my knowledge, has been able to make such a process "dynamic" in any "lxde" distribution. I will continue to be installing as many current LXQt based distro's as possible in the very near future, in my effort to analyze and assist you and the Porteus developers.

        I see there is still some time, and if it permits me, I can add those extra single click apps to the menu.xml.

        @brokenman

        RE: Mate-32bit, Porteus 3.1-rc2

        Do you wish to have each of these under Applications/Accessories?:

        Find files & directories
        Search for files

        Then also, "galculator" in not opening:

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        guest@porteus:~$ galculator
        galculator: error while loading shared libraries: libquadmath.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
        @ncmprhnsbl

        Thanks for the kind comment about the menu :-)

        @Ed_P (off topic)

        How much snow have you shovelled thus far :-) :-( ?

        Sean

        Re: Porteus 3.1rc feedback

        Posted: 22 Nov 2014, 20:18
        by Ed_P
        sean wrote:@Ed_P (off topic)

        How much snow have you shovelled thus far :-) :-( ?
        :D Actually not that much. 2" at most, so far. And today it's raining.


        (on topic)

        I really like the 3.1 boot cfg wallpaper. And it looks really nice with LXQt. Booting to LXQt with a version of it without the banner on the bottom as the wallpaper would be very impressive imo. You guys should consider it.