Posts by melodie

melodie · Help & Support (Testing/Unstable)

Random Access wrote:

I didn't delete anything from your post Melodie. I am not a moderator--I just joined. I deleted the stuff I posted about polkit, because I felt it only confused the original issue discussed in this thread.

Oh, ok.

One thing I am wondering, but I suppose you have already checked is whether you have support installed for the type of file system on the partitions you are trying to access?

I haven't given it the slightest thought, because they are all Ext4 partitions. smile

melodie · Help & Support (Testing/Unstable)

Hi,

To Random Access: I have no idea what you removed from my post, but it seems you left the important part. This file does not exist in distributions because it's up to the user to create it or not to create it.

I use several distributions, one is a recent install of Jessie, performed from a testing ISO (multi arch 32/64 bits), neither from a USB stick nor from a CD : instead I used the "poor man install" method, using hd-media files to initiate the boot to ISO.

What I use in Jessie:
PCManFM, (last version available in sid, because the install is meant to test a few programs coming from sid), gnome-polkit/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 (not lxpolkit), gvfs and gvfs-backends.

Random User wrote:

yet my udisks2 works OK.

I don't know what works ok for you, in my Jessie install I could not have an access to my internal partitions (I have two other Debian installs, one which is a clone of Jessie and a Wheezy, as well as an Ubuntu home made with Openbox).

The different internal partitions could not be accessed normally, I wasn't even prompted for a password. Sometimes I dive in that kind of stuff to make it work with a password only, other times I only want to gain an access as simple user just by a click on the icon and name of the partition in the pcmanfm sidebar (my main file manager).

I think it is the post #3 of your's which made me think about talking of udisks2 here. The added custom file under the /etc/polkit-1 section solved it directly.

The file I am still using nowadays is a deprecated method, but which is still simple (add authorisations, add a user or a group, and if it is a group, be in that group : I chose sudo because it exists and added my user to it).

The new method used in Archlinux (another distro I use currently) uses javascript! (Always moving to new things… )

Conclusion: use a custom.plka file or not if you don't want to, if in need it gets very handy. (And it doesn't break anything, so it should not be a bad advice. smile )

melodie · Help & Support (Testing/Unstable)

Hi,
I am seeking for the best recipe for all kinds of permissions in Debian testing/jessie and saw the thread here. In the file 55-storage.pkla you mention, the lines relate to udisks. In Jessie which I installed yesterday, there is no udisks, it is udisks2 by default. Perhaps changing all "udisks" in the lines of the file, to "udisks2" could fix at least part of the access issues some met with?

melodie · CrunchBang Talk

pidsley wrote:

What version of #! did you install? I think the newest version (waldorf) uses consolekit. Here is part of the cb-exit from waldorf:

I installed the not testing one : The download section says : "Testing images for CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" are available now!".

Is the cb-exit being updated for the stable version ?

melodie · CrunchBang Talk

Hi,

I have installed Crunchbang to see what it looks like these days and I have been surprised to see the cb-xxx python file which generates the shutdown/reboot/hibernate/suspend menu because it contains the command lines using Hal as a background.

I would just like to ask this question : HAL being deprecated, wouldn't Crunchbang want to use Upower and ConsoleKit now ?

Here is what I use in my menu.xml (under Archlinux and other distributions as well):

        <item label="Restart">
            <action name="Execute">
                <execute>dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart</execute>
            </action>
          </item>      
        <item label="Shutdown">
            <action name="Execute">
                <execute>dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop</execute>
            </action>
          </item>    
          <separator />
        <item label="Sleep">
            <action name="Execute">
                <execute>dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend</execute>
                </action>
        </item>
                    <item label="Hibernate">
            <action name="Execute">
                <execute>dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate</execute>
                </action>
        </item>

I would also like to point to this program which I find quite nice, "pygtk-shutdown" which is a fork of the former "shutdown-dialog.py", which was not maintained anymore by his author.
https://github.com/doorknob60/pygtk-shutdown

Here is what the button looks like:

Regards,
melodie

melodie · WM/DE Talk

Hi,

From the #crunchbang chan:

<hypn0> melodie, does it scan system and sticks all programs into menu?
... a few persons talking in between...
<melodie> hypn0, it refreshes the menu entries and for that uses the desktop files. How it knows I don't know (I don't code) but it does it well
<melodie> and automatically as soon as a new program is installed or removed
<hypn0> so you should backup you menu file first melodie
<melodie> hypn0, right
<melodie> no
<melodie> I explain:
<melodie> before using it the first time you backup your current ~/.config/openbox directory
<melodie> instead of it you install the files I have provided for Ubuntu/Debian, here:
<melodie> http://meets.free.fr/debian/
<melodie> the name is "openbox-menu-configuration" and contains a directory having for name openbox that you can copy to .config as is
<melodie> then you start openbox-menu (once installed you can logout/login for example)
<melodie> then you look to what it looks like, then you tweak your main menu as you like (menu.xml) then you don't have anything else to do:
<melodie> only the first upper menu content will be changed : "Applications"
<melodie> the menu.xml itself will never be changed
<melodie> the content of menu>Applications is located under .cache/menus
<melodie> in files that you can remove if you wish : it will be recreated on the fly as soon as you right-click to "Applications"
<hypn0> maybe you should paste that into forum too :-) not much detail there

More questions and comments welcome ! smile

melodie · WM/DE Talk

corenominal wrote:

Nice work, Mélodie, and thanks for sharing

Thank you for your welcome, and at my mail too. smile

Cheers,
Mélodie

melodie · WM/DE Talk

Hi,

I have put up a deb package for the program openbox-menu. It is written in C, is light, has few depends. Here is an Applications menu displayed by the program:

It's been a long time since last time I tried Crunchbang. I have since learned to put Openbox as standalone environment in all my desktops. (I multiboot with several distros). Lately, thinking of a little project I would like to do in the future, I decided to learn how to package for Debian, in order to have openbox-menu ready to go for all who use deb packages. One more thing to learn, and share the program which curiously is not so well known among the Openbox users (although I was told it has been downloaded many times since it came out).

I let you read and look at it all through a few links:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/ … 00088.html

http://mentors.debian.net/package/openbox-menu

http://meets.free.fr/debian

All comments and feedback welcome. :-)

Thanks,
Mélodie

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