amxkp | anyone have any experience with evilwm? I am simply trying to change the default terminal from xterm to stterm (st) in devuan | 02:43 |
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amxkp | man evilwm says you can create a file that is supposed to overwrite any default settings, but it isn't working? | 02:43 |
GoatAvenger | amxkp, from the man page, it looks like you'd just do $HOME/.evilwmrc with a line in that file reading (term stterm) | 02:52 |
GoatAvenger | you could check permissions of your config file, make sure everything is solid there.. | 02:52 |
GoatAvenger | or, find the script that launches evilwm and put what needs to be put there.. | 02:53 |
amxkp | my goodness, I was interpreting the /.evil-wmrc literally... | 02:53 |
amxkp | that was one of my problems was I don't seem to have a .xinitrc file to launch any desktop environment | 02:55 |
amxkp | i created one and it didn't seem to have any effect | 02:55 |
amxkp | thanks anyways goat | 02:55 |
amxkp | I have to restart X. i'll tell you how it goes! | 02:58 |
amxkp | it worked perfectly. I was putting .evil-wmrc instead of .evilwmrc. thanks goat | 03:04 |
GoatAvenger | amxkp, heh, np, glad it was an easy fix.. | 03:07 |
* GoatAvenger gets a bit curious to try out evilwm, now.. | 03:08 | |
cws6969 | I clicked on the synaptic icon, but it didn't start synaptic. The system is unresponsive. Can only restart the system | 10:54 |
cws6969 | Is it lack of dependency? | 10:55 |
gnarface | shouldn't be, if you used stable and followed the rules | 10:55 |
gnarface | more likely a configuration issue, perhaps network or sources | 10:55 |
cws6969 | At the command line “ sudo synaptic“ isok | 10:56 |
gnarface | oh, could be a permission problem then perhaps | 10:56 |
gnarface | maybe that could be caused by a missing package after all | 10:57 |
gnarface | did you omit dbus or something? | 10:57 |
gnarface | are you using a graphical login? | 10:58 |
gnarface | two things i could think of are using the wrong permissions backend for a graphical login, or not launching xorg suid root without it (something not all graphics drivers can even do) | 10:59 |
cws6969 | yes graphical login “startx“ | 10:59 |
gnarface | since the previous release, the drivers that don't need to launch with suid root xorg binary, won't | 10:59 |
gnarface | so that means xorg in that case would be running as your user | 10:59 |
gnarface | which means it wouldn't be able to call synaptic as root without gksudo or something like that | 11:00 |
gnarface | it isn't very secure, you're better off using the terminal honestly | 11:00 |
gnarface | but i bet it is simple to fix too | 11:00 |
gnarface | but yea maybe adding a package might possibly work, but i seem to remember gksudo got pulled, i'm not sure what you'd use instead | 11:02 |
gnarface | you could alternately still probably launch it suid root but there might be more steps to it than that | 11:03 |
cws6969 | yes , i can't find gksudo | 11:03 |
gnarface | and that wouldn't fix the security issue | 11:03 |
cws6969 | Well, in the future I can only open synaptic on the command line and use "sudo synaptic" | 11:09 |
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