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Topic: ReMastering HOWTO for DSL, Also for newbies and other enthusiasts

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meo

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Posted: May 02 2008,11:01

Hi again guys!

This time I just have a little tip (but a good one!) when you make a remaster of DSL. If you are planning of using gtk2 this tip is really worth the effort. I have read the info file of gtk+-2.12.9 by Jason W and there he suggests that a .fonts dir is made in home/dsl containing Truetype fonts. I added this dir to the remaster (my contains 38+ MB of TTF) by copying it to: source/etc/skel. If doing so it will appear in home/dsl when you boot your remaster. Then all that has to be done is documented in the previously mentioned info-file. I'm using it now, with my firefox-2.0.0.14.uci extension and it really is a joy to surf the web since it now is using really good looking fonts. The only drawback is that the gtk+-2.12.9.uci extension seems to affect other extensions causing them not to work but firefox, gimp, xmms and openoffice are not affected and those are the programs I usually use. So if it is the same with you, just get on with it!

Have fun out there wherever you may be,
meo

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Jason W

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Posted: May 05 2008,00:21

Hi meo!
I am afraid I made the fonts issue more of a hassle than it needs to be with the gtk+-2.12.9 extension. If you place the fonts in /usr/share/fonts, or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, as well as in ~/.fonts, you do not need to issue /opt/gtk+-2.12.9/bin/fc-cache at all. The fonts will be used when you launch a gtk2 program. With a remaster I would just put the fonts in a system directory to not take up RAM. I am presently reworking the gtk2 extension, one thing is symlinking the /etc and /var directories to a writable area. Then you can add other font directories if you want. That cannot be done now, but with next submission. I will update the info file, too.

Also, an interactive menu script to set up gtk2 will be present. As well as a non-interactive one that can be called on in a start up script. Hopefully will make things less tedious whether the extension is auto-loaded or not.

Oh, and may I ask which extensions are not working with this one? I know some of the ones in the gtk2 section do not work with gtk+-2.12.9, due to some missing X libraries that the extensions depend on or some other things. If there are any others, especially non-gtk2 extensions, that get messed up by this one I would like to know and try to remedy it.
Thanks, and have a good day.
JW

meo

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Posted: May 17 2008,03:28

Hi again Jason,

If there is anything I can do to help you when it comes to remastering just let me know and I will do my utmost to help you. So if there is anything don't hesitate to ask but I don't think you'll need any help, I just wanted to post this anyway.

Have a lot of fun remastering DSL,
meo

PS As you can see, what I thought would happen really did so and that makes me sure that I took the right decision in the matter DS

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meo

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Posted: May 18 2008,09:44

Hi all remastering fans!

Just a couple of tweaks this time. If you are using DSL 4.something and like to use fluxbox this might interest you. If you don't want to use a lot of bootcodes to get fluxbox to start from the beginning just save home/dsl/.desktop in your backup after booting DSL with fluxbox. Then DSL will start with fluxbox automatically the next time. If you started with noicons before saving the file in question in your backup it will also start without icons automatically (that's what I do because I don't want any icons on my desktop). Another tweak is with the fluxbox menu. If you (like me) want to have the MyDSL menu item at the top (As it was in the 3.xx versions) instead of Apps you can do the following: open the menu file found in home/dsl/.fluxbox (to see it you can click on the H-button in the left hand corner of emelfm and then just open the .fluxbox directory by clicking on it right click on menu and click on view) and scroll down until you see this line, [include](/opt/.mydsl_menu/fluxbox/menu) and cut it out and paste it just under [begin] (DSL) at the top of the menu and save. Just be sure that you align the beginning of this line with the line below it, [submenu] (Apps) {}. It should lock like this:

[include](/opt/.mydsl_menu/fluxbox/menu)
[submenu] (Apps) {}

If you have trouble finding the mydsl line it's located just before the games. Be very careful doing this or, in the worst case, you will end up with a useless fluxbox menu because the effects take place immediately. So better check that it's allright before you add it to the filetool.lst and make a new backup.

Keep on having fun guys,
meo

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meo

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Posted: May 18 2008,17:43

Hi again guys!

I just made a remaster of DSL 4.2.5 trying to compile in GNU debugger into it by the book (using the -prefix option so that it would be installed in the opt directory). But I almost got a heart attack when it had started and grabbed almost a 100 MB of ram. So whatever you do don't do that. Compiling it in the standard way usually takes less than a third part of that amount of ram using the 4.xx series of DSL . So I quickly went back to my remaster of 4.3 and I'm using it now. Just a little warning so you don't have to repeat my mistake. Obviously it takes a little more tweaking to do it "by the book".

Have fun out there with DSL in cyberspace,
meo

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