Waldorf development images ready for testing

SabreWolfy · 2012-05-28 14:28:41

^ Xorg was using the most CPU, jumping up to a few % every now and then -- that was all; which doesn't make sense because something else must have been using enough CPU to keep the machine at around 0.66 load when idle.

I've since removed #! Wheezy from that machine and installed Wheezy NetInstall with XFCE added afterwards. IIRC, idling load was < 0.10. Is anyone else getting high CPU usage on 32-bit #! Wheezy, even when idling?

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vk · 2012-05-28 17:47:02

I have just registered at #! though I have been using Statler for more than 5 to 6 months now and I am quite happy with it smile

I tried Waldorf for 3 days. First thing I noticed is scrollbar on google-chrome was too thin, which I had to disable extension to get normal scrollbar. Second thing is my laptop was getting too hot. On Statler my laptop does not get so hot unless I open many heavy applications. But on Waldorf, I noticed it was getting hot very quickly. So I removed Waldorf and re installed Statler.

Herpy · 2012-05-28 18:00:40

Few bugs here and there but I like it so far!

SabreWolfy · 2012-05-28 19:17:44

vk wrote:

I have just registered at #! though I have been using Statler for more than 5 to 6 months now and I am quite happy with it
I tried Waldorf for 3 days. First thing I noticed is scrollbar on google-chrome was too thin, which I had to disable extension to get normal scrollbar. Second thing is my laptop was getting too hot. On Statler my laptop does not get so hot unless I open many heavy applications. But on Waldorf, I noticed it was getting hot very quickly. So I removed Waldorf and re installed Statler.

Did you look at the load average on your laptop? I've removed Waldorf from my netbook because it was idling at 0.66 load average.

vk · 2012-05-29 06:52:20

SabreWolfy wrote:

Did you look at the load average on your laptop? I've removed Waldorf from my netbook because it was idling at 0.66 load average.

No, I did not know that one can measure load average. I just searched on Google after reading your comment and learned about it.

kdb · 2012-05-31 18:54:04

ok... the 701 eeepc don`t like the new #!...
i installed #!10... runs nice...
with other words i have given up...
just problems with the xorg...
the init stops @ the "startx" order and gives a shell...
now running statler i386 non bpo

have a nice day... iam out

greetz kdb AKA trustabug

vicshrike · 2012-06-01 12:24:13

Have made another Waldorf install, upgraded to sid. So far everything looks sweet. Installer hung of course at detect network hardware, did as last time, left it for 20 minutes or so and when I came back it had continued. Am too lazy to investigate since it works. Did this only out of curiosity, will keep it for a while and try/check out a couple of things. Have yet not installed Waldorf on my eeepc though, will wait til after the freeze or maybe when there is a second dev release of Waldorf. Off topic;Installed on a hd where I had Debian Wheezy Gnome. Have followed the new Gnome to see it`s development. Were tired of it now, so wiped it and smile . Admit that I have trouble getting used to the new Gnome stuff.It feels so awkward, or is it just me who have been too much #!ed? wink

Vali · 2012-06-01 13:41:33

I tried to install #! 11 on Acer ao532h on usb but can not be installed ... I did stick with UNetbootin ... I'm sorry ... I had not moved from #! 10-11 or Kubuntu if I had problems with geany. What possibilities do I have? sad

zhogan85 · 2012-06-01 13:47:23

Vali wrote:

I tried to install #! 11 on Acer ao532h on usb but can not be installed ... I did stick with UNetbootin ...

Try making a bootable stick with dd, like the wiki details here. Be sure to leave the digit off the usb location too, ie, sdb NOT sdb1.

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Vali · 2012-06-01 18:07:17

thanks! works cool

machinebacon · 2012-06-01 18:39:09

vicshrike wrote:

Admit that I have trouble getting used to the new Gnome stuff.It feels so awkward, or is it just me who have been too much #!ed?

The "best" thing about Gnome 3 are the contributed extensions ( http://extensions.gnome.org )

SabreWolfy · 2012-06-02 06:46:55

^ Do you use GNOME3?

vicshrike · 2012-06-02 09:23:34

^^Thanks for the link MB, it will come in handy next time...will probably try out Gnome 3 when Wheezy goes stable. I always keep one stable Debian Gnome install for storage which I do not tinker with, just do some personal configuration changes. The funny thing is that when I started to really love Gnome 2, they changed it...boy, now I am going off topic again..next please, take us back to #!

uke-eda · 2012-06-04 19:52:37

Root-Thunar

Did anybody mention it before that when you start thunar as root there is no waste basket and drives? Probably because dbus isn't launched with thunar?

I experience this on my arch system too.

That's the command I use (works with crunchbang waldorf):
sudo dbus-launch --autolaunch <machine ID> --exit-with-session thunar

Here are some other methods described as well:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 69#p913869

This works fine too I realized just now after some reading (unfortunately not with crunchbang waldorf):
sudo -H thunar /somewhere

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ivanovnegro · 2012-06-04 20:44:18

uke-eda wrote:

Did anybody mention it before that when you start thunar as root there is no waste basket and drives? Probably because dbus isn't launched with thunar?

That's true but I usually do not need that functionality.

DancesWithWords · 2012-06-08 04:09:27

Is anyone testing this on an Asus EEE PC? I've got a 901 and I loved to know that that it will work including all the "fn" keys.

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machinebacon · 2012-06-08 04:11:44

@DWW: Give it a try in live mode. That's the easiest way to find out. If it works in Live mode, it works installed, too. If it worked in Statler, it quite surely will work in Waldorf.

Reference (for Statler) http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/i … e_pc_1000h

Kelley · 2012-06-11 00:43:31

Just downloaded Waldorf on my Acer Aspire One (AO751h) and I don't have any of the graphics issues that I was having with Statler (choppy video, incorrect resolution, etc..) Also, I had no download issues whatsoever. This release is fantastic smile

merelyjim · 2012-06-11 01:24:55

I've had really good luck with compatability in both the Acer laptop and netbook I own, not just with #!, but with all versions of Linux. Something to consider the next time I buy hardware...

incogn1to · 2012-06-11 04:51:23

corenominal wrote:

Compton replaces xcompmgr and Cairo Composite Manager. Compton provides a stable compositing solution and for the first time, compositing is enabled by default.
PulseAudio is now installed by default.

Is it really necessary? IMHO this kind of stuff doesn't go together with speed.

orionthehunter · 2012-06-11 04:55:11

^ Its easy to disable. That said, it works remarkably well on some of my older hardware, and pitifully on others. It's totally dependent on your graphics card.

VastOne · 2012-06-11 04:56:34

^^ It does well with out of the box functionality though, balancing the scales.

incogn1to · 2012-06-11 07:37:02

orionthehunter wrote:

^ Its easy to disable. That said, it works remarkably well on some of my older hardware, and pitifully on others. It's totally dependent on your graphics card.

It's easy to enable them as well. This kind of software is very painful on netbooks and low level hardware, which are this distributive target audience. Otherwise there is no reason why we are not using KDE and other fat DEs. IMHO

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SabreWolfy · 2012-06-11 07:40:10

FWIW, I don't believe that netbooks and low-level hardware are the specific target audience of #!. I use it on a variety of machines, only one of which is a netbook. Compton works much better than xcompmgr/cairo and is not heavy. If it were, I'm sure corenominal would not have selected it. I imagine that most users of #! would be happy with the compositor running, so fewer people will have to disable than enable it. We all customize our systems after installation. I'm not sure why there is such strong opposition to the defaults.

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orionthehunter · 2012-06-11 11:34:53

Well, from what I understand there's no problem in voicing your opinion about what you think the default should be and why, as long as you understand that the ultimate decision is Corenominal's. He definitely has a vision for the distro, and certainly that is influenced by the users to some extent, but it's a vision already.

In this case, some people don't see the need for any aesthetic configuration at all, I would say Corenominal definitely does, otherwise compositors wouldn't even be included, nor would there be a rather stylistic and non-standard color theme. There's definitely a lot to say about visual impact and it infuenced me greatly in coming to #!.

If you want to build a perfect distro for your own use, use debian netinstall, arch, or just remastersys (or whatever it's current incarnation is).

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