CRUX: a tiny gem of a distro
Posted: 2022-12-20 Filed under: misc | Tags: 3.7, CRUX, pkg-get, pkgadd, pkgmk, pkgrm, pkgutils, prt-get, review, yapo Leave a commentCRUX (https://crux.nu/) is a slim, highly-customisable Linux distribution, designed with simplicity in mind. It usually stays out of the spotlights and scores below 100 in DistroWatch’s popularity rating (not that this means much). Nevertheless, the project is over 20 years old, mature, and provides a clean, transparent and elegantly laid out system. This review aims to cover some of its concepts.
Managing git
Posted: 2023-02-28 Filed under: system | Tags: git, github 3 CommentsI appreciate git’s power, but I still find it unnecessarily complicated. I am not going to whine or complain here about that. Instead, I decided to outline a few steps about setting up keys and some basic commands. I am using GitHub as an example.
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.xprofile settings
Posted: 2023-01-31 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, lxdm, slim, xprofile Leave a commentBefore discovering Slim I usually just used lxdm, which is nice and feature rich. However, login managers like lxdm (and I hear this applies to GDM, LightDM, and more…) do not obey any settings I put in, for example, ~/.xinitrc
. Therefore, ~/.xprofile
seems to be the solution for such graphical login.
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CRUX ports added to portdb
Posted: 2022-12-30 Filed under: misc | Tags: CRUX, portdb, ports, repo Leave a commentMy collection of CRUX ports has been just added to the portdb section at CRUX’s web-site, as ppetrov. I also maintain Xfce 4.12 for CRUX 3.7, but decided that it will not be of much interest, so it’s not there. Anyway, both repos are available at GitHub.
Viber won’t start
Posted: 2022-12-08 Filed under: misc | Tags: keyboard, layout, phonetic, viber, xkb Leave a commentRecently, I upgraded Viber (for Linux desktop) to version 18.2.0.2. However, it simply would not start, although dependencies were satisfied. Therefore, I searched for a fix.
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