What would be the workaround until the bugfix hits the next Salix release? The MATE system monitor shows multiple "salix-update-notifier" and corresponding(?) "sleep" processes active. Now, would it be safe to kill the superfluous ones?

I recommend you use fakeroot, like this: fakeroot name.Slackbuild 2>&1 | tee build-name.log so you can also have a build log. In that case, you should specify makepkg with a full path in the Slackbuild: /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n ... Using fakeroot has the huge advantage that if something tries to...

Thanks, I wasn't aware that sox does spectrograms!

Note to self - to prepare spectrograms for all the files (*.flac) in the directory do:

After your first reply, I looked to see if there are any hidden/system files on the memory-stick, but there were none... Later, when I manage to transfer all the data (~32GB) from my current USB-memory I'll reformat it to see if that changes the icon. But now as this does not appear to be a bug, I'm...

Spek helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.

Homepage: http://spek.cc/
Source: https://spek.googlecode.com/files/spek-0.8.2.tar.xz
Screenshot:

If it's a new usb stick, it's probably because of all the crapware that manufacturers put on them. The fact is that MATE reads the icon file from the device itself, if one is set for it. If there is none set, it uses a generic icon (the one you're looking for). This seems reasonable - I found my fi...

That is a problem with your usb stick and it is definitely not a bug with salix. It has probably been infected by a windows virus which changes the icon so it shows up as a document. If you showed the contents of the usb drive, then we could probably find the offender. This is a new USB stick that ...

When mounting a USB memory-stick, it is shown on the desktop as a generic document icon [1], while it would be great if the shortcut gets a dedicated one, for example like the one from the Tango icon set [2]. [1]: http://i.imgur.com/qluFghB.png [2]: http://i.imgur.com/Qs0KNdm.png Edit: Marked post a...

I just decided to take it for a drive (switching from the XFCE flavor) and I find it amazing!

Keep up the good work!!!

@Retriever No problem requesting a package - that's what this board is for. As it happens, Chromium is quite a tricky one to do, and since Alien Bob's package is easily available, that seemed the best suggestion. Then the discussion drifted, as can happen. I felt it was important to respond to the ...