Salix Xfce 15.0alpha2

[djemos]

I definitely don't have this. Maybe it's related to your keyboard settings? Anyone else?

I also do not have this problem.

[laprjns]

Hostname change, maybe this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/206 ... -dont-open

[mimosa]

About vim, I have a problem I was also seeing with Slackware, but not previously in Salix 14.2. If I run vim inside screen, I need to press Esc twice to get out of insert mode.

I definitely don't have this. Maybe it's related to your keyboard settings? Anyone else?

My keyboard is dvorak (from the options given during installation) but in X I use us -variant dvp (programmer dvorak). This behaviour occurs with both - I tested it in a tty.

Everything else is totally vanilla, except this, which is obviously not relevant:

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mimosa[~]$ cat .bash_aliases
 alias ls='ls --color=auto'
 alias pine='alpine'

I am not using Ratpoison in the alpha, no custom .vimrc or .screenrc, or .bashrc; my terminal emulator is whatever the default is. Vim behaves correctly if not called within screen.

It looks like the first esc is sent to screen, and only the second one to vim. The problem showed up immediately I began using Slackware 15. It's only a minor inconvenience, but it shouldn't be like that!

[djemos]

Hi, mimosa.
I set keyboard to dvorak and found the keys i had to press. They have changed for my keyboard. e.g x-> q , shift+z -> : , .->v, g->i
Then typed .g -> vi and type some strings then press one time esc key then shift+z->: and xa! and vi exited
No need to press esc twice.
It is not the keyboard, it is something else in your system.

[ibka]

Yes, ibka, that's what I have determined as well. I don't know why it happens on your systems but not on mine, but on yours, changes to /etc/HOSTNAME are picked up automatically. But it should go back to working again if you run:

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sudo hostname oldhostname

as I have suggested before. Have you tried that?

Yes, and it didn't work
Today i did a fresh installation and only did a update with Gslapt, and then i open a xfce4-terminal so i can do the

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sudo hostname oldhostname

I then changed the host name with gtkhostsetup and after that i executed the

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sudo hostname oldhostname

command.
Now i could start applications, but when i closed the teminal i could not start applications

[mimosa]

Hi, mimosa.
I set keyboard to dvorak and found the keys i had to press. They have changed for my keyboard. e.g x-> q , shift+z -> : , .->v, g->i
Then typed .g -> vi and type some strings then press one time esc key then shift+z->: and xa! and vi exited
No need to press esc twice.
It is not the keyboard, it is something else in your system.

So we have excluded that. Before, with Slackware15, I thought it was probablysome modification I made ... but my Salix Alpha installation is untweaked.

Also with the same hardware, in Salix 14.2, I did not see this behaviour.

[djemos]

So we have excluded that. Before, with Slackware15, I thought it was probablysome modification I made ... but my Salix Alpha installation is untweaked.

Also with the same hardware, in Salix 14.2, I did not see this behaviour.

Because i work with slackel and slackware current, i have faced a lot of problems when slackware went to elogint and wayland because of kde plasma. This caused a lot of problems. For example the problem with change hostname because of MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1. I took a look what happened in ubuntu if i change hostname. There the X clients work but because of the systemd. hostnamectl is used which is native in systemd while hostnamectl do not exist on slackware. There are used rules under /etc/polkit-1/ which cannot used in slackware because it is not a systemd, elogind is used.
For changing the hostname, the solution is to change the host name and logout and login again. It is not a big deal.
"elogind is the systemd project's logind, extracted to a standalone package. It's designed for users who prefer a non-systemd init system, but still want to use popular software such as KDE/Wayland or GNOME that otherwise hard-depends on systemd."

Edit: On antix if change the hostname then cannot run apps. Same behavior.

[mimosa]

Libreoffice won't start, either from the menu or like this:

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mimosa[~]$ lowriter
Unspecified Application Error

A little box briefly appears (saying 'LibreOffice: Community') as if it were launching, but then it flicks out of existence.

[djemos]

Libreoffice won't start, either from the menu or like this:

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mimosa[~]$ lowriter
Unspecified Application Error

A little box briefly appears (saying 'LibreOffice: Community') as if it were launching, but then it flicks out of existence.

lowriter open libreoffice writer and libreoffice writer start from menus also . Salix64-xfce-15.0 installed on vmware.

[gapan]

mimosa is that on 32bit or 64bit?

edit: nevermind. I'm experiencing the same. I think some upgrade broke it. I'll compile new packages anyway.