Does this help?
Thanks for replying. Doesn't help :), but I neglected to mention in my original post I had already checked that.

After I finally tripped across appropriate key words for searching, I discovered this quirk is a corner case rabbit hole bug , existing for many years . The problem is ...

I'm looking at a really weird needle in the haystack glitch.

Last year I installed Salix and KDE for a family member. Other than this glitch all is working fine and the user is content. The Salix system is fully updated.

* Login using KDE/X11.
* Launch K3B.
* In the K3B center folder/file pane ...

I'll look into creating an online repo and adding to /etc/slapt-get. The idea of file manager context menus sounds tempting.

Thanks.

I was hoping for a GUI solution. I installed Salix for a long-distance person, all working fine, but a pointy-clicky person. The person can use the terminal but I prefer to avoid that. I installed some of my own shell scripts and I want to update those remotely for the person. I thought a local ...

Try the following in a terminal window:

export LS_OPTIONS=" -F -b -T 0 -l -a -h --group-directories-first --color=auto"

Then try the ls command.

If that provides a more helpful ls command then welcome to the rabbit hole of customizing the command.

Does slapt-get/gslapt support installing/updating a single local package that is not part of an upstream repo? Or do the parent Slackware tools installpkg/upgradepkg need to be used?

Thanks.

Does LightDM support similar functions to the RebootCommand and HaltCommand options provided in sddm (and the predecessor KDM)?

I scoured the web but found nothing or my search terms are not in sync with what I seek.

Thanks.

Thanks for replying.

A quick test here finds that installing the adwaita icon theme seems to resolve various icon display issues. In this quick test no editing of index.theme files was required. I did need to reboot.

I'll consider the thread as resolved. Thanks!

Thank you for your effort and time. A quick check indicates the panel icon now displays correctly.

Also mentioned in this thread (I can open a new thread) is the gslapt icons are not displaying correctly when not using Qogir.

The Summary dialog list window "expand" widgets do not show for the ...

Thank you for your effort and time. A quick check indicates the panel icon now displays correctly.

Also mentioned in this thread (I can open a new thread) is the gslapt icons are not displaying correctly when not using Qogir.

The Summary dialog list window "expand" widgets do not show for the ...