Re: MX-23 Rpi Respin -- Beta testing

[fehlix]

Printer:
Just done this:

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sudo nala install cups system-config-printer

Next clicked on Printer Settings in the Whisker Menu,
and Brother J5320DW got driver-less AVAHI-discovered
and the testpage send was printed nicely in correct A4 papersize.
Something of about 50 MB diskspace was reported during install.
At least something to consider to get added.

[fehlix]

@fehlix keeping in mind that the pi uses systemd do we have any issues with missing sockets this way.

The socket /run/user/$UID/keyring/control used by gnome-keyring's secrets
seems to get created by gnome-keyring-daemon itself, if not exists.
Not sure why systemd thinks to need all and every socket created by it's own.

Ok good

OTOH, the masks are only needed to make the keyring get unlocked at the first boot of the new user ,
so you could unmask both service and socket after first boot. ( i.e. after first login - either auto-login or after login with password)

[dolphin_oracle]

got the machine-id sorted and the keyring changes work on a fresh setup with no pre-existing home folder.

[Jerry3904]

Nice!

[fehlix]

got the machine-id sorted and the keyring changes work on a fresh setup with no pre-existing home folder.

Good. Not sure to get the hook figured out to let tunefs adjust/add new fs-UUID to the ext4 partition.
Anyway..
* Suggest the get latest nala 0.14.0 onto the release image
As I'm running this new version more than a month w/o any issues, suggest to get the version moved from testrepo to main, if possible. Thanks @timkb4cq

* MX Package Installer may have a small minor issue, when testrepo got temporary enabled, b/c it would lock for both arm64 and armhf architectures. Send a PR, with adjustments.

[Jerry3904]

I would love to see nala as default, have also been using test version with no problems. It's much more user friendly..

[fehlix]

I would love to see nala as default, have also been using test version with no problems. It's much more user friendly..

Maybe we add to package mx-apps-rpi (or somehere else )
the conf file
/etc/apt-notifier/apt-notifier.conf
with this content:

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[MX]
# enable nala
use_nala=true

which would make nala the default for mx-updater.
@dolphin_oracle

[Jerry3904]

Here's a working first draft of my interest in rc-gui. It uses the existing desktop file "Raspberry Pi Config" but changes the exec to launch a new rpi-config-choice. Advantages: single menu entry, differentiation between the two choices. Don't want time put into it if it's not of any interest.

rpi-config-choice.png

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#!/bin/bash

# Give choice of level for Raspberry Pi Configuration: basic or advanced
# Written by MX Devs 
# Released under GPLv3

TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale 
export TEXTDOMAIN="mx-goodies"

#Confirmation Window
MESSAGE1=$"\n\n<i>Please choose how you want to proceed:</i> \n\n
      
      <b>BASIC: use a desktop app for common tasks</b> \n\n
      <b>ADVANCED: use a root terminal for system settings</b>"

TITLE=$"Raspberry Pi Configuration"
CLASS=mx-goodies


BUTTON1=$"Basic"
BUTTON2=$"Advanced"
BUTTON3=$"Cancel"

ICON=/usr/share/icons/Papirus/48x48/apps/rpi.svg
yad --title=$"$TITLE" --window-icon=$ICON --class=$CLASS --text-align=center \
--width=500  --height=200 --center \
--text="\n<b>$MESSAGE1</b>" \
--button="<b>$BUTTON1</b>":1 \
--button="<b>$BUTTON2</b>":2 \
--button="<b>$BUTTON3</b>":3  

case $? in


1 )

######
#BASIC
######

rc_gui

;;

 
2 )

#####
#ADVANCED
#####
    
sudo raspi-config

;;
    
3 )

    exit 0

esac

[dolphin_oracle]

I would love to see nala as default, have also been using test version with no problems. It's much more user friendly..

Maybe we add to package mx-apps-rpi (or somehere else )
the conf file
/etc/apt-notifier/apt-notifier.conf
with this content:

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[MX]
# enable nala
use_nala=true

which would make nala the default for mx-updater.
@dolphin_oracle

We can set that up for updater if that’s what people want to do. I have a package called desktop-defaults-rpi-extras that this could be pushed out in. However we must consider that this may conflict with future packages.


I could do a user level default in desktop-defaults-xfce-mx-desktop-rpi which conflicts with the existing desktop-defaults-xfce-mx-desktop. But this could cause futur conflicts with the non-xfce desktop-defaults packages.

Might be easier to add the file manually to the rpi respin as a test. I’m not convinced that nala is suitable for scripting.

[fehlix]

I would love to see nala as default, have also been using test version with no problems. It's much more user friendly..

Maybe we add to package mx-apps-rpi (or somehere else )
the conf file
/etc/apt-notifier/apt-notifier.conf
with this content:

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[MX]
# enable nala
use_nala=true

which would make nala the default for mx-updater.
@dolphin_oracle

We can set that up for updater if that’s what people want to do. I have a package called desktop-defaults-rpi-extras that this could be pushed out in. However we must consider that this may conflict with future packages.


I could do a user level default in desktop-defaults-xfce-mx-desktop-rpi which conflicts with the existing desktop-defaults-xfce-mx-desktop. But this could cause futur conflicts with the non-xfce desktop-defaults packages.

Might be easier to add the file manually to the rpi respin as a test. I’m not convinced that nala is suitable for scripting.

The user level default in ~/.config/MX-Linux/apt-notifier.conf
will be re-generated by the updater if this one was missing or deleted by the user.
So place the additional conf within either of those packages preferable at /etc/apt-notifier/apt-notifier.conf.
There are other conf-directories, which are considered to look for conf-files:
Those file/patterns in that order and alphabetical would could be used

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/usr/share/apt-notifier/conf/apt-notifier.conf.d/*.conf
/etc/apt-notifier/apt-notifier.conf
/etc/apt-notifier/apt-notifier.conf.d/*.conf
/usr/local/share/apt-notifier/conf/apt-notifier.conf
/usr/local/share/apt-notifier/conf/apt-notifier.conf.d/*.conf

to overlay the system-wide default config of the apt-notifier packages itself:

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/usr/share/apt-notifier/conf/apt-notifier.conf.d/01_apt-notifier.conf