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fadi wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:34 pm Hello mxlinux team. I come from mageia linux which is famous for having an excellent control center. mx tools is on bar with it , however it lacks a tool to enable and disable services .

https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/images/6/ ... ces-en.png

Mageia also makes great use of meta packages , one of them is task-lamp. I know there are tutorials how to install lamp in mx, but meta packages make life much easier and I don't think they require much effort from the developers to create .


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fadi wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:34 pm Hello mxlinux team. I come from mageia linux which is famous for having an excellent control center. mx tools is on bar with it , however it lacks a tool to enable and disable services .

https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/images/6/ ... ces-en.png

CharlesV wrote: Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:41 am

fadi wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:34 pm Hello mxlinux team. I come from mageia linux which is famous for having an excellent control center. mx tools is on bar with it , however it lacks a tool to enable and disable services .

https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/images/6/ ... ces-en.png

Mageia also makes great use of meta packages , one of them is task-lamp. I know there are tutorials how to install lamp in mx, but meta packages make life much easier and I don't think they require much effort from the developers to create .


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There is a program named stacer in the repos, which does have a great gui for service management that I use and like.

Adrian wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:42 pm There's a sysv-rc-conf CLI tool. Frankly, I won't do a GUI for sysV since it doesn't look it has a bright future ahead, more and more apps are systemd only. Yeah, sure, t's possible to do the GUI interface to be agnostic what system is running under it but right now it's not my top priority. I mean there's not something I have to do every day, starting and stopping services and that can be done very well in CLI. Not to mention that you can break stuff if you don't know what you turn off, so dumbing down the interface for potentially dangerous tasks doesn't sound like a winning proposition to me.

sudo sysv-rc-conf

Adrian wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:51 am

CharlesV wrote: Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:41 am

fadi wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:34 pm Hello mxlinux team. I come from mageia linux which is famous for having an excellent control center. mx tools is on bar with it , however it lacks a tool to enable and disable services .

https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/images/6/ ... ces-en.png

Mageia also makes great use of meta packages , one of them is task-lamp. I know there are tutorials how to install lamp in mx, but meta packages make life much easier and I don't think they require much effort from the developers to create .


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There is a program named stacer in the repos, which does have a great gui for service management that I use and like.

Stacer looks nice, it's actually Qt, I should probably learn a thing or two from it. But unfortunately it seem it was discontinued and the bigger problem is that it actually doesn't support sysvinit, it uses systemd commands. I checked the code: https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer/b ... e_tool.cpp and unfortunately it gives the impression that the command completed successfully when if you run the command "systemctl enable ___" in console you get a message that the system was not booted with systemd.

If I get bored I might start to work on a service manager... not sure.

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 11:29 am I bet it would be pretty simple to make a yad app from that for at least short-term use

fadi wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:34 pm Hello mxlinux team. I come from mageia linux which is famous for having an excellent control center. mx tools is on bar with it , however it lacks a tool to enable and disable services .

Adrian wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:58 pm

fadi wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:34 pm Hello mxlinux team. I come from mageia linux which is famous for having an excellent control center. mx tools is on bar with it , however it lacks a tool to enable and disable services .

What about something like this https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-service- ... _amd64.deb
This is just a preview of a new tool, it's in no way finished. It lacks icon, translations, the interface might change, we might not release it anyway....

Adrian wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 6:33 pm Yeah, I probably messed up the .desktop file, I will update that. Again, it's just a "draft"...

Adrian wrote: Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:39 am That's a nice tool, it doesn't show services in sysvinit though.

fadi wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:33 am I love the new mx service manager . However it should show the service description . This can be achieved by showing a tool tip when you hover over the name of the service. Mageia service manager, which inspired this great tool, does this.

fadi wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:12 pm But I posted a request about mx service manager in my last post . Should I post it somewhere else.

I closed your task lamp meta package topic. Didn't see an MX service manager request in that.

fadi wrote: Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:51 pm I always boot in systemd and no service description on hover.

Adrian wrote: Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:16 pm
New update show have a tooltip on hover, it took me a while to add this without impacting the performance (I don't want to read all the descriptions when loading the list of services regardless if users will hover or not over the item, the tooltip is generate each time you hover on an item -- it should be reasonable fast doing that).
I also eliminated some service duplication and some services that were listed even if they were marked as "not-found".