Re: [DNG] Windowmaker: was Proposals for an xfce-desktop-lite

2015-12-31 Thread John Rigg
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:51:47AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > What's needed is a > good document to really explain the Windowmaker philosophy, how to do > things in Windowmaker, how to configure it so you don't need to > create a million menus to drill down, and how you set a hotkey to > perform an

Re: [DNG] Windowmaker: was Proposals for an xfce-desktop-lite

2015-12-31 Thread John Rigg
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 06:11:15PM +, John Rigg wrote: > Right click on icon in top right corner to show launch menu for WindowMaker > graphical configuration tool. Launch tool. Scroll sideways to section you > want. Configure. Save. Forgot to add there's an online user

Re: [DNG] Ummmm, no

2016-01-01 Thread John Rigg
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 05:26:01PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2015 31 Dec 14:53 -0600, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Can you say "kdbus?" > > That doesn't worry me much at this stage as unlike at the higher layers > where SD support seems to result in support for certain other APIs being >

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-01 Thread John Rigg
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 12:26:41PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > If / is formatted ext4, it can be mounted directly by a kernel with ext4 > drivers, no initramfs needed. Wasn't the original reason for having an initrd that the boot loader, probably LILO at the time, couldn't handle a kernel image abo

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-01 Thread John Rigg
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 06:32:34PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > John Rigg writes: > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 12:26:41PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > >> If / is formatted ext4, it can be mounted directly by a kernel with ext4 > >> drivers, no initramfs needed. > &g

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-01 Thread John Rigg
On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 08:02:42PM +0100, richard lucassen wrote: > And after all I would certainly not give up a seperate /boot fs. A > separate /boot fs is very handy when running multi Linux system sharing > the same /boot (e.g. in my case, the lilo.conf is there and is > symlinked from all /etc