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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #43 on: February 12, 2018, 07:38:39 PM »
 

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It is stuttering when first played but if stopped and then started again it doesn't stutter.
The next song played also would not then stutter, have you heard of this before ?

Keep in mind that it's a VM so some things might not work the way they do in a real machine. I really never install many apps in my VMs, at least not the ones I used in my real pc. I mostly play with customizations and stuff like that. For instance, I installed 3 different desktops in Arch; XFCE, LXDE and LXQT and been checking resource usage and customizations posibilities. While doing that I learnt that resource usage is almost the same for the 3 of them, but when it comes to customization posibilities XFCE beats them all, so yeah, if I loved it before now I do even more  ;D   

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Today I learned how to edit the background of Grub, and also the Grub Menu foreground and background/highlight colours

Really nice work @bitsnpcs keep it up! :)
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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #42 on: February 12, 2018, 07:22:36 PM »
 

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@RandomBoy Thank You :)

Each time I try and do just the smallest bits, it makes me realize more the massive amount of time and work that has gone, and continues to, go in to making Linux Lite such a smooth to use and refined distro.
 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #41 on: February 12, 2018, 07:09:16 PM »
 

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Anyone who is willing to tackle making their own "distro" has my respect!  Maybe most of us can "customize" an existing distro, or build a mixture from a "minimal" installation, but to do what you're doing is super-geeky-cool.  My respects!

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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #40 on: February 12, 2018, 07:04:47 PM »
 

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Today I learned how to edit the background of Grub, and also the Grub Menu foreground and background/highlight colours.

 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #39 on: February 12, 2018, 06:58:05 PM »
 

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It is stuttering when first played but if stopped and then started again it doesn't stutter.
The next song played also would not then stutter, have you heard of this before ?

I will add a video in a few minutes just uploading it to YouTube.

« Last Edit: February 12, 2018, 07:00:51 PM by bitsnpcs »
 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #38 on: February 12, 2018, 12:25:34 PM »
 

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Hello @Moltke

it is working now Thank You  :) 8)

I typed in the first command, it said they were already installed, I chose Y to reinstall, then it worked in VLC player.
Maybe one of these was not installed, or not how it needed to be installed and the command has fixed it ?

Do I still need to use the second command now it is working ?

I am so happy about this help,  :) you gave me, I like music a lot.

You're welcome @bitsnpcs  Maybe you only needed to install qt4 for the GUI. Since it is working I don't think you need to do anything else but play and listen to your music. Glad it worked! :)
« Last Edit: February 12, 2018, 12:27:26 PM by Moltke »
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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #37 on: February 12, 2018, 12:20:00 PM »
 

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Hello @Moltke

it is working now Thank You  :) 8)

I typed in the first command, it said they were already installed, I chose Y to reinstall, then it worked in VLC player.
Maybe one of these was not installed, or not how it needed to be installed and the command has fixed it ?

Do I still need to use the second command now it is working ?

I am so happy about this help,  :) you gave me, I like music a lot.
 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #36 on: February 12, 2018, 11:53:05 AM »
 

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I try to take care of myself  :)

I like Linux Lite too, it is my only installed distro, I use it daily. :)

I am trying to learn more Linux, so I may be able to be of use in the community in the future, many areas of Linux I do not understand at all yet.
It is likely many areas I have not even heard about yet, don't know they exist.

Doing projects or following a tutorial with an outcome is the best way that I learn.
I was using the Linux Bible but have gotten stuck as I cannot get the menus to appear when right clicking the panels as the book says, I joined Fedora forum to ask about it but nobody has answered yet, so I got bored.
As I was trying to learn then I felt I will start something else to learn for now.
I realize then it will take me a time to get back in to the Linux Bible, or start doing it again, it is disruptive to the learning my getting that way.
So I thought this project seemed a good way to sort of carry on in a similar kind of area, so I don't lose learning momentum.
I didn't understand the partitioning and formatting and have never tried it, I had like zero knowledge of it, in relation to a install of Linux Lite, and had not tried any of it. So the project helped me to be able to try this out, and begin to learn about it /try and start to understand it.
When I have seen threads on this forum about partitioning I couldn't learn from it because it was too advanced for me, and I didn't want to mess up my LL install, once I realized I could learn partitioning in VirtualBox and do a little project I thought it was a good way to start in that area.
So now although not good at this at all, I might be able to follow those threads, and learn some more about that area.

Also other things like the grub, splash screen, display manager, as I do more in the project, I will begin to know a little bit about them, and then I can follow those threads on the forum a bit better, and also maybe have a better idea of how/what to search to learn extra, idea being eventually in the future I might be able to help in those areas, not at the very advanced levels but maybe at some level, but I have to begin to learn it first.
Plus of course I enjoy learning :)
 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2018, 11:02:49 AM »
 

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I have not managed to get VLC working either it is installed and the codecs Arch says it needs, clicking its icon doesn't open the program, and right context menu choosing vlc on an mp3 doesnt play it, says it needs mp3 decoder, but that decoder needed on reading and trying to install is already installed.Although I have tried removing and reinstalling that.
I have managed to get mp3 to play from right context menu using Mplayer, but it has no GUI appearing to control it.
So the MP3 playing I need to find more on trying to solve.
I have seen a nice looking mp3 player, I want to try out at a later time.

You need to install these packages for vlc to work:
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$ sudo pacman -S qt4 pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pavucontrol
qt4 fro vlc GUI, pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa for sound and pavucontrol to manage system/apps volume. To start pulseaudio service type in the terminal
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pulseaudio --start
« Last Edit: February 12, 2018, 11:51:24 AM by Moltke »
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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #34 on: February 12, 2018, 10:03:47 AM »
 

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@bitsnpcs been trialling Gnome Software on my 18.04 test box. It's quite buggy, and requires Snap as a dependency.
That would also bring the total to 3 of software installers on LL. 2 is enough on a light system so one would have to go. I'm going to pass on it for now. Cheers.
@Jerry Thank you for trialling it :)
 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2018, 08:45:20 AM »
 

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Prologue, from an assumed Nerd/Geek with social aptitudes:
I'm not "diagnosed" but after doing some reading on the subject and having talks with a specialist (originally for my kids), seems I'm a 'functional' Asperger too.  Things that changed though, I was a workaholic/perfectionist but with the kids it gives you a kick somewhere and changes your focus. ;) . Also learned that my mother is a lot more Asperger than me, which explained a lot.

@bitsnpcs and @Moltke
Grats Bits and keep up the hard work, but don't forget to take care of yourself.
Moltke, don't forget to get some sleep sometimes too ;)

Anyways, I just read the full thread. Quite educational you two.

Since I didn't have the Linux knowledge, I focused more on finding the perfect distro.
After about fifty different ones installed in Virtual Machine, like a lot of people in these here forums, I settled to Linux Lite as my main distro and Linux Mint for some friends/family (only for language reasons). I just have to do minor configurations/preferences to get it to where I need to.

Also want to send a general "Thank you!" to the Linux community / distro makers. I do this has a hobby and voluntary work, but I don't know how many hours I saved installing Linux instead of another "mainstream" OS.
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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2018, 01:19:27 AM »
 

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@bitsnpcs been trialling Gnome Software on my 18.04 test box. It's quite buggy, and requires Snap as a dependency.
That would also bring the total to 3 of software installers on LL. 2 is enough on a light system so one would have to go. I'm going to pass on it for now. Cheers.
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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #31 on: February 11, 2018, 05:51:58 PM »
 

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@Moltke  ;D I like it.





 

Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #30 on: February 11, 2018, 04:26:40 PM »
 

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I had not learned/heard of the

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pacman -Su

Yes, you had, you just didn't know  ;) "pacman -Syu= pacman -Sy+pacman -Su. I just prefer to run both commands each at a time. One could also do "pacman -Sy &&  pacman -Su", but people simply do pacman -Syu which is of course preferable being shorter and since you can do it that way the extra-typing makes no sense. 
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Re: my first try making a distro
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2018, 03:51:17 PM »
 

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@Moltke

yes I have already done the mirrors during set up, and to recheck it every few weeks/month, although slightly differently by using the Arch website tool for this, discovering the fastest and nearest mirrors, it was 8 mirrors, then added them in by editing and updating.

I have also run the

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sudo pacman -Syy
and also

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sudo pacman -Syu
I had not learned/heard of the

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pacman -Su
command until your post, Thank You :)
I have just ran this it had 1 update of 2.5MB for man-db.
I will need to begin a book/pad for all these new (to me) commands I am coming across, until I learn them over time.
I'll begin it this week.

I have not managed to get VLC working either it is installed and the codecs Arch says it needs, clicking its icon doesn't open the program, and right context menu choosing vlc on an mp3 doesnt play it, says it needs mp3 decoder, but that decoder needed on reading and trying to install is already installed.Although I have tried removing and reinstalling that.
I have managed to get mp3 to play from right context menu using Mplayer, but it has no GUI appearing to control it.
So the MP3 playing I need to find more on trying to solve.
I have seen a nice looking mp3 player, I want to try out at a later time.
 

 

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