About Hangout, a few months ago I was in your Jitsi session, but nobody more was there. Furthermore, when you connected the youtube transmission, Jitsi cat the videocall and I only could see and ear, but don't participate
2018-06-07 18:58 GMT+02:00 Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com>: > liberamenso10...@gmail.com writes: > > > About contributions to Hurd, I like to help in desktop bugs. I found > many bugs or not implemented tasks, that I desire to solve. > > > > - Add support to other desktop manager than xdm: Currently, the only > functional DM is xdm. Lightdm is installed by default during > > Xfce installation, but don't runs. I would like to solve this. > > > > - Add support to change tty after xorg start: Currently, when you starts > xorg, you can't to return to tty, which causes many > > bizzarres situations, as close xorg... From xorg, or stop the DM from > the DE terminal emulator (it is so bizarre, and use to cause > > problems). I will like to solve this also. > > > > - Enable polkit support: when the DE starts, this don't have permissions > to shutdown the system from graphical environment. The > > most standard solution to this is to use polkit to allow actions to > users. I found that Hurd has polkit installed, but feels that > > It isn't used. May be interesting enable it. > > > > Other interesting thing can be recover the hard shutdown (shutdown > machine, not only the system), but It feels so difficult. > > These would be some awesome bugs to fix!!! > > > > > My knowledge is so limited. I have experience with bash scripting and > GNU/Linux administration. I have also knowledge of C++ and > > basic C. In classroom I learn a bit about POSIX process management, with > fork(), execl(), fifos, pipes and message queue. But I > > never touched the deep of a OS. > > > > Now I'm searching a Pentium 4 computer to try Hurd installation in real > machine. Previously I got a successfully installation in a > > 2000's AMD computer, but this PC is so slow to run the DE correctly. > > I would actually recommend that you just run the Hurd in qemu. Most, if > not all, of the main Hurd developers just run the Hurd inside qemu. > > Also a cool idea! I believe I read somewhere that it possible to have > the Hurd running in qemu, but make the X server run in Linux. This is > apparently a really stable way to run the Hurd. > > Also, maybe you and I could try to start up a GNU/Hurd hangout session. > Kind of like the Emacs hangouts. > > > > > If you are in Facebook's GNU/Hurd group, you can to read about my > experiments with Hurd in Virtualbox and in the real PC. I was > > talking with Thomas Schwindge in this group. > > > > Now I have to study my exams, but someday I would to contribute to Hurd > project > > > > El Jueves 7 de junio de 2018, Samuel Thibault escribió: > >> Joshua Branson, le jeu. 07 juin 2018 09:56:31 -0400, a ecrit: > >> > P.S. Samuel feel free to let me know if this email sounded too > presumptuous. > >> > >> It doesn't sound so to me. Thanks for writing it :) > >> > >> (I just doubt that much business can be done with the Hurd, but who > >> knows :) ) > >> > >> Samuel > >> > >> > >
