@verdantppc If you want a nice little update notifier:
Code:
sudo apt install package-update-indicator
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Thanks. BTW is there a battery applet that can be installed in the panel alongside the network activity applet?
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Check this post and the one directly below it for 2 solutions: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lubuntu-16-04-remix.2204742/page-7?post=27915811#post-27915811
Also (at least on my ubuntu installs) if you add pmu_battery to /etc/modules and reboot, lxde comes with, and will use, it's battery indicator applet *if* it finds a battery (hence adding pmu_battery).
Cheers
Also (at least on my ubuntu installs) if you add pmu_battery to /etc/modules and reboot, lxde comes with, and will use, it's battery indicator applet *if* it finds a battery (hence adding pmu_battery).
Cheers
The battery applet will not be shown, even with pmu_battery module loaded in sid. The solution has always been staring in my face though. I used xfce4-power-manager to see the battery status. What I did not know until now is to go to preferences and then activate System tray icon and Status notifications. This works.
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@wicknix Thanks for your info. I tried the solution provided by @swamprock but libgtk2-perl is no longer available in Debian sid.
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@wicknix Thanks for your info. I tried the solution provided by @swamprock but libgtk2-perl is no longer available in Debian sid.
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Yes, xfce4-power-manager works on the Pismo G3 to display the battery status (and the display brightness) in the panel,
BTW to tidy up the Pismo G3 Mint Start menu, how can I remove the icon for the icon for the non-functioning (Mint?) Software Manager package which appears be not actually installed?
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To remove Software Manager from the menu, I would have to dig into mint-lxde-default-settings. I can have a look at it, software manager is very bloated anyway and is only useful on G5 probably. There is Synaptic package manager which does the same. I can make the decision to completely remove it. Let me think about it please. I will let you know how to manually remove the option in the menu.
At your convenience is fine, thanks. Yes, that is why I installed Synaptic Package Manager, as it works well on the Pismo G3.
Go to your home folder in a shell.
make it look like this (remove software manager part):
CTRL-X and y
Code:
cd .config/lxpanel/Mint-LXDE/panels
nano panel
Code:
Plugin {
type=menu
Config {
image=/usr/share/icons/Mint-X/places/48/start-here.svg
system {
}
item {
image=gnome-logout
command=logout
}
}
}I just built mintinstall 8.0.2 from the Linux Mint Debbie source repo. Mintinstall still depends on libgtk2-perl, which is no longer available in Debian sid. I read that Debian will no longer be supporting this old version. I will make a new version of mint-lxde-default-settings with mintinstall (Software Manager) taken out.
Thanks for info on how to remove the Software Manager icon - I presume you mean ^o and ^x to exit editing panel - anyhow I have successfully removed the Software Manager icon.
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Works beautifully on my PowerBook G4 hi res. The only thing it’s missing is keyboard controls for screen and keyboard brightness.
Not that I know of, I mean not of the recent one. There are plenty of videos of MintPPC 11.
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1. On my Pismo G3 with MintPPC, since touchpad 1 tap and 2 taps to select and to open folders / apps respectively (but not multitouch actions/gestures, which AFAIK are not supported by the touchpad) work without out either or both the config files (mentioned below) present in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, I am not certain that having the current versions of touchpad.conf
and synaptics.conf
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d are working to set 'no tap' mode, which I would like to set, but cannot remember how I did it with MintPPC 11 on the Pismo G3.
2. Another issue I have not been able to figure out so far, is that right-clicking on the taskbar panel using the CTRL + Click action (which functions fine for right-clicking elsewhere on the Desktop, folders etc.) as the touchpad right-click mode as per OS X on Apple laptops with one-button touchpads does not work to bring up the LXDE taskbar, panel, and taskbar app settings windows as expected.
Again, I cannot remember how I did it with MintPPC 11 on the Pismo G3.
Currently, I can only do this using a connected USB mouse right-click button, which is affect my convenient mobile use of the Pismo.
Code:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "libinput"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "Tapping" "off"
Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
EndSection
Code:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Touchpad"
MatchIsTouchpad "yes"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.0"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.25"
Option "LeftEdge" "0"
Option "RightEdge" "950"
Option "TopEdge" "0"
Option "BottomEdge" "645"
Option "FingerLow" "3"
Option "FingerHigh" "7"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
Option "LockedDrags" "1"
EndSection2. Another issue I have not been able to figure out so far, is that right-clicking on the taskbar panel using the CTRL + Click action (which functions fine for right-clicking elsewhere on the Desktop, folders etc.) as the touchpad right-click mode as per OS X on Apple laptops with one-button touchpads does not work to bring up the LXDE taskbar, panel, and taskbar app settings windows as expected.
Again, I cannot remember how I did it with MintPPC 11 on the Pismo G3.
Currently, I can only do this using a connected USB mouse right-click button, which is affect my convenient mobile use of the Pismo.
Wow - I though that all the useful early MintPPC forum info was lost when your old web sites went down......!
Thanks, I will look through this info. as soon as I have some free time.
Issue 1.
No tapping solution for G3 and any Apple laptop without a multitouch trackpad:
touchpad.conf and/or synaptics.conf not required and if you have put them in, they can be deleted from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.
The Linux/PPC kernel has an in-built utility called trackpad for configuring how the trackpad functions, which can only be run as root.
Its options are:
1. For tapping, dragging, and drag lock:
# trackpad drag lock
2. To switch off all trackpad functions except tapping:
# trackpad tap
3. To switch off all trackpad functions except moving pointer:
# trackpad notap
Issue 2.
Still to be solved if possible....
While any software maintenance projects targeting PPC are nice, I'm wondering if we may have a better environment than LXDE. I've built Gentoo for my Quad and while everything works great gnome-shell 2.30+ does not start. So, I ended up with XFCE (and it's lightning fast on this machine), but I would really like to have more modern Gnome UX.
I would like to set up a startup script so that the root command
# trackpad notap
is executed at boot and on sleep wake-up for the ADB trackpad on my Pismo G3 laptop.
My understanding is that using rc.local is deprecated in favour of using systemd?
Or, should init.d be used?
# trackpad notap
is executed at boot and on sleep wake-up for the ADB trackpad on my Pismo G3 laptop.
My understanding is that using rc.local is deprecated in favour of using systemd?
Or, should init.d be used?