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by psherma1
June 10th, 2023, 8:16 am
Forum: Updates
Topic: File manager/ Desktop updates
Replies: 0
Views: 5177

File manager/ Desktop updates

I updated ROX-Filer (arox on Absolute). Uses pinboard for Desktop, put back in drag-n-drop to "SendTo" and set icons. (Because it really doesn't use XDG) Changes to icewm include 2 major startup ones in startup. /home/.icewm/startup qtfm-t5ray is out, arox pinboard is in: #if [ -x /usr/bin...
by psherma1
June 3rd, 2023, 6:23 pm
Forum: Updates
Topic: Updating/changes soon
Replies: 0
Views: 4499

Updating/changes soon

Streamling Dumping QTFM, expanding use of arox (ROX-Filer) to include pinboard (desktop icons/shortcuts/background.) Mounting devices to udiskie and notifications in icewm taskbar.Started from scratch adapting code for ROX-Filer, using most jun7 updates in github through to this year. Functional/lay...
by psherma1
November 20th, 2022, 9:06 pm
Forum: Updates
Topic: Snapshot Release 20221120
Replies: 0
Views: 5316

Snapshot Release 20221120

No real "structural" changes, but there have been a lot of library.app updates since the last release. Gritty details below :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- absolute64-20221120 Snapshot released -- Sunday, 11/20/2022 -------------------------------------...
by psherma1
August 1st, 2022, 1:38 am
Forum: Updates
Topic: Release of new LIVE version
Replies: 0
Views: 5631

Release of new LIVE version

08/01/2022

https://www.absolutelinux.org/LiveUSB__gen.html



Initial login for LIVE USB:
User "root"
password "root"
by psherma1
July 27th, 2022, 12:41 am
Forum: Updates
Topic: Snapshot release 07/24/2022
Replies: 0
Views: 5370

Snapshot release 07/24/2022

Absolute64-20220724 released Sunday, 07/24/2022 Some fixes... cleaned up Vivaldi installer a little, fixed a bunch of my image manipulation scripts to work properly with switch from imagemagick to graphicsmagick. Heavily edited idesktool to manipulate desktop/icons. Stripped down the installer for t...
by psherma1
July 21st, 2022, 10:46 pm
Forum: Updates
Topic: Updates 07/21/2022
Replies: 0
Views: 5373

Updates 07/21/2022

Nice interface addition of using idesktool (heavily modified for Absolute) to create/edit idesk and desktop icons. Thursday, 07/21/2022 xap/screenshots-20220721-noarch-1AL.txz Corrected for change from imagemagick to graphicsmagick xap/idesk-0.7.8-x86_64-2AL.txz Instituted configuration via idesktoo...
by psherma1
July 5th, 2022, 7:49 am
Forum: Updates
Topic: snapshot release - 20220701 ISO
Replies: 2
Views: 3931

Re: snapshot release - 20220701 ISO

You can, but you have to install all the /xfce packages from Slacware64-current,
and tweak startup.

Honestly, however,
if you want xfce you shouldn't bother with Absolute.
Slackware with xfce if perfectly fine and fairly lightweight.
by psherma1
July 5th, 2022, 7:43 am
Forum: Updates
Topic: 20220705
Replies: 0
Views: 5278

20220705

Tuesday, 07/05/2022 a/kernel-huge-5.18.9-x86_64-1.txz a/kernel-modules-5.18.9-x86_64-1.txz ap/dmidecode-3.4-x86_64-1.txz ap/mpg123-1.30.0-x86_64-1.txz d/git-2.37.0-x86_64-1.txz d/kernel-headers-5.18.9-x86-1.txz k/kernel-source-5.18.9-noarch-1.txz l/harfbuzz-4.4.1-x86_64-1.txz l/libidn-1.41-x86_64-1....
by psherma1
July 4th, 2022, 7:00 pm
Forum: Updates
Topic: snapshot release - 20220701 ISO
Replies: 2
Views: 3931

snapshot release - 20220701 ISO

Absolute64-20220701 released Monday, 07/04/2022 Vivaldi is the default browser, but Firefox still installed. Kind-of UN-UNIXy... but what can I do? I want the speed and customization of Vivaldi, but I want old and slow, Mr dependable to hang around. I let Vivaldi block trackers internally but use ub...
by psherma1
May 9th, 2022, 1:08 am
Forum: Updates
Topic: updates 05/09/2022
Replies: 0
Views: 5570

updates 05/09/2022

Quite a large update, if using gslapt, make sure to run update, mark all updates, AND view what is available to make sure you get the new ADDED packages. Monday, 05/09/2022 l/Imath-3.1.5-x86_64-1.txz Added l/python3-alabaster-0.7.12-x86_64-1AL.txz Added l/python3-babel-2.10.1-x86_64-1AL.txz Added l/...