Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread dev1fanboy
I think generally it will appeal to experienced users, and some non admin types coming over. I mostly had in mind people sitting on the sidelines who weren't sure how to migrate but are unhappy with the systemd situation. Still, I'll likely cut out some of the more obvious things for brevity lat

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:34:20 - "dev1fanboy" wrote: > hey Florian, > > I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too > boring for everyone else. > > I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time, > because it has it's own session script It's kind of funn

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI writes: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:16 +0100 > Florian Zieboll wrote: > >> > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc >> >> I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then >> it's not unlikely to break things when using this kind of >> redirectio

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread dev1fanboy
hey Florian, I do try to include the inexperienced, hopefully that's not too boring for everyone else. I think I should probably change startx to startxfce4 this time, because it has it's own session script On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 11:30 AM, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 0

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Mitt Green
Svante Signell wrote: > What about: (saves a copy of the old file): > blah-blah-blah Why not simply check .xinitrc first and put "startxfce4" or whatever inside with a text editor? By the way, I have "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch." My two eurocents, Mitt__

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:36:03 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:22 +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300 > > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the > > existing .xinitrc.

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:22 +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300 > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > > Simple enough to change this into: > > > > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc   > > > Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the existing .

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Simple enough to change this into: > > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the existing .xinitrc. Florian ___ Dng maili

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Ron
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:30:16 +0100 Florian Zieboll wrote: > > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc > > I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especially then it's not > unlikely to break things when using this kind of redirection, as a .xinitrc > might already exist.

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:52:27 - "dev1fanboy" wrote: > https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/Minimal-XFCE4-install Hallo Chillfan, A quote from the guide: > user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" > ~/.xinitrc I already noticed this in your upgrade guide – and especiall