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2008-08-09
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Might as well post it for everyone.
The easy-chroot filesystem tarball can be downloaded here.
You mount your partition, cd to the folder you mounted it to, and then (as root) use "tar xjvf /path-to-tarball/debian-final.tar.bz2" to extract it into your partition. If your version of tar doesn't work, use the one from the easy-chroot... /home/user/img-install/tar
It is really a lot better than the image file, in terms of speed and space.
Last edited by qole; 2008-09-29 at 17:12. Reason: Updated link to new tarball
The easy-chroot filesystem tarball can be downloaded here.
You mount your partition, cd to the folder you mounted it to, and then (as root) use "tar xjvf /path-to-tarball/debian-final.tar.bz2" to extract it into your partition. If your version of tar doesn't work, use the one from the easy-chroot... /home/user/img-install/tar
It is really a lot better than the image file, in terms of speed and space.
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Last edited by qole; 2008-09-29 at 17:12. Reason: Updated link to new tarball
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2008-08-09
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One last* question.
Can you change what WM is used from IceWM to XFCE, for example?
I edited /home/user/img-install/xpice and changed those two lines to:
This, obviously was after I had installed xfce, but it doesn't work. Running 'sudo debian xpice' gives this:
And a Xephyr window comes up with the IceWM background but nothing else.
Typing 'xfce4-session' at a Debian prompt loads xfce, but in Hildon, so you get like half xfce half Hildon. Looks strange but not to functional...
Thanks in advance.
*=We hope.
Can you change what WM is used from IceWM to XFCE, for example?
I edited /home/user/img-install/xpice and changed those two lines to:
Code:
export WMNAME="XFCE" export WMEXEC="xfce4-session"
Code:
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/Nokia-N800-23-14:1_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list! icewm-session: using /home/user/.icewm for private configuration files IceWM: using /home/user/.icewm for private configuration files icewmtray: using /home/user/.icewm for private configuration files icewmbg: using /home/user/.icewm for private configuration files
Typing 'xfce4-session' at a Debian prompt loads xfce, but in Hildon, so you get like half xfce half Hildon. Looks strange but not to functional...
Thanks in advance.
*=We hope.
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2008-08-09
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Hi BrentDC,
Maybe you did this and you didn't mention it, but you need to copy the xpice script that you found in img-install into /debian/usr/bin and then run it from there... Also, in order to get the window with the icon, you need to edit the /usr/share/applications/hildon/debwm.desktop to point to your new script.
I would suggest making copies of these two files; change xpice to xephce4 or something.
Maybe you did this and you didn't mention it, but you need to copy the xpice script that you found in img-install into /debian/usr/bin and then run it from there... Also, in order to get the window with the icon, you need to edit the /usr/share/applications/hildon/debwm.desktop to point to your new script.
I would suggest making copies of these two files; change xpice to xephce4 or something.
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2008-08-09
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No, I hadn't copied /home/user/xpice to /debian/usr/bin
I just did that (but renamed xpice to xpice4 per your recommendation), but when I run /usr/bin/hostwin XFCE4 'sudo debian xpice4' in XTerm, the hostwin window opens up, and I see that little X in the middle of the screen, but then it exits.
Terminal output:
I'm confused 
I just did that (but renamed xpice to xpice4 per your recommendation), but when I run /usr/bin/hostwin XFCE4 'sudo debian xpice4' in XTerm, the hostwin window opens up, and I see that little X in the middle of the screen, but then it exits.
Terminal output:
Code:
hostwin[1662]: GLIB CRITICAL ** default - file default/src/hostwin.c: line 151: uncaught error: Failed to open file '/usr/share/pixmaps/xfce4.png': No such file or directory hostwin[1662]: GLIB WARNING ** Gtk - gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -24 and height 0
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2008-08-09
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it's trying to open a png file with the same name as the window apparently...
ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps | grep ice
see if you find a file like icewm.png or similar..
then cp /usr/share/pixmaps/icewm.png /usr/share/pixmaps/xfce4.png
and try again
ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps | grep ice
see if you find a file like icewm.png or similar..
then cp /usr/share/pixmaps/icewm.png /usr/share/pixmaps/xfce4.png
and try again
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2008-08-09
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I seemed to always remember it throwing the icon error, but I did as suggested, and it still doesn't work. It's something else...
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2008-08-09
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A few more Q's.
When installing or uninstalled anything with Synaptic, it always gives some error about hal, but everything seems to work fine. Normal?
Also, anyone having a problem with Epiphany (Webkit) version 2.22.3 segmentation faulting when loading any semi-large page? It didn't do that with Johnx's Debian, so I'm wondering why it does that now (because it is really fast -- faster than MicroB).
Thanks.
When installing or uninstalled anything with Synaptic, it always gives some error about hal, but everything seems to work fine. Normal?
Also, anyone having a problem with Epiphany (Webkit) version 2.22.3 segmentation faulting when loading any semi-large page? It didn't do that with Johnx's Debian, so I'm wondering why it does that now (because it is really fast -- faster than MicroB).
Thanks.
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2008-08-09
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Your method should work. The X in the middle of the screen is Xephyr starting up. That means it is starting the Xephyr X-server, but not starting xfce4-session. This might be because you made the mistake of running xfce4 as root. This hoses your permissions, so it can't start right as user.
Do this as root, see if it helps:
After those commands, at the root Debian prompt, try "xpice4" and post errors here.
As for the Epiphany segfaults, it could be a few things. Perhaps it is trying to use the iceweasel plugins (java and flash) but it is having problems with one of them (since the engine is webkit not gecko). The other thing is that everything in Debian sid is flaky; it might work, it might not. Wait two weeks, do an apt-get upgrade, and it will probably work. Another two weeks, another apt-get upgrade, and it will be broken again ;-)
Oh, and I give the hal fix in a few places, most recently here.
Last edited by qole; 2008-08-09 at 22:16. Reason: webserver?! X-server!
Do this as root, see if it helps:
Code:
chown user:users /home/user/.ICEauthority chown user:users /home/user/.cache chown user:users /home/user/.dbus/session-bus
As for the Epiphany segfaults, it could be a few things. Perhaps it is trying to use the iceweasel plugins (java and flash) but it is having problems with one of them (since the engine is webkit not gecko). The other thing is that everything in Debian sid is flaky; it might work, it might not. Wait two weeks, do an apt-get upgrade, and it will probably work. Another two weeks, another apt-get upgrade, and it will be broken again ;-)
Oh, and I give the hal fix in a few places, most recently here.
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2008-08-10
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Wow, XFCE is chroot/Tablet unfriendly. 
It doesn't go fullscreen and there is no icon on the side in OS2008, so if you lose your window, you're dead. Also, inside xfce there is no taskbar...not that I can see anyway (it's probably being covered by OS2008). As for fullscreen, wouldn't this line in xpice4 make it fullscreen?:
Thanks for all the help, guys. As you can probably tell, I'm fairly new to Linux (the Tablet was my first Linux device, and I got that in ~April), so the help is very much appreciated.
It doesn't go fullscreen and there is no icon on the side in OS2008, so if you lose your window, you're dead. Also, inside xfce there is no taskbar...not that I can see anyway (it's probably being covered by OS2008). As for fullscreen, wouldn't this line in xpice4 make it fullscreen?:
Code:
wmctrl -i -r $PARWIN -b toggle,fullscreen
Thanks for all the help, guys. As you can probably tell, I'm fairly new to Linux (the Tablet was my first Linux device, and I got that in ~April), so the help is very much appreciated.
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