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« Reply #15 on Apr 7, 2012, 7:51pm »

Thanks for the suggestion. I've just tried Parole with the xv TRUE option. Works much better. The laptop CPU is staying at minimum frequency and the overall load is staying much lower.

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« Reply #16 on Apr 7, 2012, 8:55pm »

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« Reply #17 on Apr 7, 2012, 10:39pm »

I get an error message:
richard@CORE2SOS:/mnt/data/Videos$ parole --xv NatGeo-Hackers.mp4
Unknown option -xv

I'm up-to-date. Is there an update or is it just my system?

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Re: Packages on 2.0 Images
« Reply #18 on Apr 7, 2012, 10:55pm »

The command itself changes the configuration file, so every time you use parole in the future it will have xv enabled. What you need to run is 'parole --xv TRUE' and then run parole NatGeo-Hackers.mp4

Hopefully everything is sorted out upstream and I can ship Parole as is, with xv support enabled in 2.0. If nothing else I can apply a work around myself, to check if xv support is present on the system and configure Parole accordingly.

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« Reply #19 on Apr 7, 2012, 11:05pm »

Thanks. Hadn't thought of that.

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« Reply #20 on Apr 10, 2012, 2:37pm »

I played with Parole little more, and it seems that problem is with copy protected DVD's. Normal DVD's are playing well.

When I turned on xv in Parole, I get randomly this error: Could not initialise Xv output

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« Reply #21 on Apr 19, 2012, 6:37pm »

QT? really? I use peazip (I have a ton of arc files) but the latest stable 4.5 gtk version would not install so I was forced to use the qt version and lo and behold it works fine. Can't even tell the dif. I personally see no problem using aps which rely on it. To me they are no better or worse than aps which use gtk. Though I actually do prefer gtk if only because I am more familiar with it and it's themes.
For video I use totem. Parole seems slower with some of my files and has no options to speak of, but then again the latest nvidia drivers are only 24bit depth and the 30bit are experimental. I had one ap, virtual box, complain about not having 32bit depth and that I should enable it on the host. I guess It can't distinguish between a windows host and a linux one.

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« Reply #22 on Apr 27, 2012, 5:18pm »

It seems to me that (for purposes of this discussion) there are three types of packages in SalineOS: things the system needs in order to function (all those libraries, screen managers, GTK, QT, python stuff), utilities that let me do relatively low level stuff (xterm, vi, thunar), and applications (vlc, audacity, iceweasel). One of the reasons I'm here is that you know what works well, reliably, fast, and with a small footprint -- anything you supply that I don't know how to use I can figure out (and thunar looks very powerful). As far as applications are concerned, I'll probably install and use the ones I'm currently comfortable with -- I have enough disk space to store the (often bloated) dependencies and they only take up RAM when I run them.
For instance, every couple of months I need to do some low-level ebook edits. I use whatever archive manager the system provides to break out the files that need work, bring up gedit and epiphany in windows on one screen, make changes to the files' html with gedit and let epiphany render it. When I'm done, I use Sigil to validate the html and reassemble all the files into an ePub. I'll continue this workflow with SalineOS. The point is that I know how to get the software I need -- and I think most SalineOS users will have no problem finding and installing deb packages on their own. Judging from forum posts just about everybody here knows more than I do.

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« Reply #23 on Jun 18, 2012, 8:48pm »

One more thing -- I'd appreciate seeing dwww included in 2.0. I just spent about 4 hours trying to find an application to read documentation in /usr/share/doc. (I remembered having one years ago in a SuSe system). I found yelp (of course), didn't like it; found doc-central, which looked in the wrong directories (though doc-base got it right); finally found dwww, which just works. I'd understand if you didn't want to use up the space that apache takes, but working through the documentation in a Debian release without some sort of an indexing reader is a daunting task.

I'm also using geany with the devhelp plugin for my laughable attempts at programming, but at least I know where to find those . . .

And thank you for the huge amount of work you're doing to make a better 2.0 for us.

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Re: Packages on 2.0 Images
« Reply #24 on Jun 28, 2012, 1:04pm »

I'd like mc, mpg123 & mplayer (-nox), (perhaps even fbi & sc), as I like to work at the command line when I am just going to listen to music or play a movie.

I seldom use an office suite, & only really use gimp to resize pictures. I do use X when I go online, & when I view my photos.

Just my peculiarities.

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