Testing live persistence

[dolphin_oracle]

Persistence seems to be working fine. I do miss the auto-save (for dynamic persistence) from antix, but the use case is a different for mx so not that big a deal. Just got to remember to save...

[Adrian]

Persistence seems to be working fine. I do miss the auto-save (for dynamic persistence) from antix, but the use case is a different for mx so not that big a deal. Just got to remember to save...

Can we hack the shutdown scripts to save automatically?

[Jerry3904]

Persistence seems to be working fine. I do miss the auto-save (for dynamic persistence) from antix, but the use case is a different for mx so not that big a deal. Just got to remember to save...

Can we hack the shutdown scripts to save automatically?

If not, needs to be added to the Doc on "Persistence" (not that anybody reads them...)

[dolphin_oracle]

Persistence seems to be working fine. I do miss the auto-save (for dynamic persistence) from antix, but the use case is a different for mx so not that big a deal. Just got to remember to save...

Can we hack the shutdown scripts to save automatically?

it only is an issue with the "dynamic" persistence option. the static version saves as you go.

[BitJam]

Persistence seems to be working fine. I do miss the auto-save (for dynamic persistence) from antix, but the use case is a different for mx so not that big a deal. Just got to remember to save...

Good catch.

I think there may be an easy way to do this. Running MX-14-beta-2 live in virtualbox I see that /usr/local/bin is the first directory on the path. Also, the xfce4-session-logout.desktop file does not specify an absolute path to xfce4-session-logout so you can intercept the logout process with a script at /usr/local/bin/xfce4-session-logout.

For example, (as root) edit a file at that location and add:

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#!/usr/bin

yad --text="No logout for you\!"

Then (as root) run:

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chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/xfce4-session-logout

Then when you hit the logout button, you will get our silly dialog instead of the logout dialog. If you want to really logout then either delete the script or from a terminal run /usr/bin/xfce4-session-logout.

This will be slightly different from what happens in antiX because here you will do the persist-save before you choose which logout option you want. I don't know which way will be better for users but I think they both will work. If this works then we should disable the /usr/local/bin script upon install.

D.O. I will get you a script to test ASAP (or at least real soon now).

[loco]

thanks guys ,

4gig cruzer here, installed opera along with gimp-basic 2.8.10 .

found that i couldn't use fat32? it wouldn't copy all the files/folders. i tried three times twice with toram and once from cd/dvd only, ext2 worked perfectly.
easy...

i've been laid up for a couple of weeks. rehabbing from a supposedly minimal surgery and it feels good to be semi mobile again .

[BitJam]

found that i couldn't use fat32? it wouldn't copy all the files/folders. i tried three times twice with toram and once from cd/dvd only, ext2 worked perfectly.

I'm sorry for being dense. What exactly could you not use fat32 for?

I hope your recovering continues apace.

[loco]

thank you sir,

as one of the options to format the usb drive.
thanks again

no, me cave man :).

[anticapitalista]

loco is that using unetbootin or the antix2usb app?

[loco]

big guy,

i tried to follow your post/instructions to the letter. found the iso on my sdb5 partition with live-usb, yes antiX.

thanks