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* Fixes for SDDM and X keyboard mapping. Eric Hameleers2016-01-101-0/+18
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* BIOS (syslinux) and UEFI (grub2) boot: enhance the experience. Eric Hameleers2016-01-109-422/+165
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - generate the grub fonts (.pf2) ourselves instead of using the Slackware-provided grub font file. - expand the help text about the boot parameters. - show the liveslak version number in the boot menu. - remove the 'boot any OS' menu item in Grub because it never worked for me. - add a bit of Grub help text at the bottom of the screen. NOTES: - I do not like the way how I had to implement the Grub2 help menu, it is ugly. Perhaps the text artefacts and understrikes are caused by the fact that the grub console has to paint on top of the graphical boot menu? - In any case, the grub console (the black rectangle in the middle) has its coordinates hard-coded in the grub2 source so it is not configurable. - the grub fonts look better than in Beta3 but I am still not happy with them. Research on Grub boot menu enhancements done by Didier Spaier.
* Fix X keyboard configuration if no custom layout was chosen at boot. Eric Hameleers2016-01-101-10/+12
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* Added support for separate configuration of X keyboard layout/variant. Eric Hameleers2016-01-053-27/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New parameter for the boot commandline: xkb=[language],variant Examples: # Only specify a Xkbvariant, and inherit the console keyboard layout in X: kbd=nl xkb=,sundeadkeys # Define a 'french swiss' layout in X, independent of the console: xkb=ch,fr Two new keyboard/language choices have been added which use this functionality: - german swiss - french swiss (requested by Niki Kovacs). New: if a non-US keyboard layout is selected, the US layout will be added as a secondary layout. Toggling between the two layouts is possible using the Shift-LeftAlt key combo. Also new: the RightAlt key is now defined as the Compose Key in X. Meaning, the combo <RightAlt><"><e> will generate a 'ë character'.
* XFCE: libevent is a new dependency for the links package. Eric Hameleers2016-01-041-0/+1
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* Use more compatible isohybrid commandline parameters. Eric Hameleers2016-01-011-16/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | This modifies Didier's original patch with a simpler set of parameters. His recommendations are based on these threads: http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-February/023256.html http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-May/023455.html http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-July/022538.html The new parameters allow the big ISOs to be booted in VBox. Patch proposed by Didier Spaier.
* Generate our own Grub font files, to fix the bad font rendering at UEFI boot. Eric Hameleers2016-01-014-5/+15
| | | | | Slackware's shipped Grub font is 19 point in size which does not scale well. Research and proposed patch by Didier Spaier.
* Updated skeleton files for populating the 'live' user's homedirectory.Beta3 Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+0
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* Updated package lists for non-Slackware and custom configurations. Eric Hameleers2015-12-245-159/+174
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* In XDM's Xresources file, try to handle varying screen sizes better. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-7/+7
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* Clear the syslinux menu from the screen when booting the OS. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+1
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* Add a themed GRUB2 menu for UEFI boot, these are the actual files used. Eric Hameleers2015-12-248-210/+98
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* Much enhanced iso2usb script. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-37/+88
| | | | | | | | | Two new parameters '--force' and '--persistence'. Read "usb2iso.sh --help". Size of the EFI partition was reduced from 200 to 100 MB. The wait-for-root time in the initrd.img file is changed for both BIOS and UEFI boot; this should make boot work out of the box for most computers. More robustness was added in handling race conditions. Only make the USB stick UEFI-bootable if the ISO file is capable of the same.
* Add themed GRUB2 configuration for UEFI boot. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-20/+99
| | | | | | | The GRUB2 theme is similar to the Syslinux theme used for BIOS boot. However, the GRUB menu also allows the user to select a timezone, whereas due to the limitations of syslinux, you'll have to edit the syslinux commandline to change your timezone there.
* Add Mate repository info if we are adding slackpkg+. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-3/+4
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* Start Konsole with a login shell. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+9
| | | | However... does not seem to work for non-US language choices.
* Stamp a VERSION number in the ISO, and to the USB partition. Eric Hameleers2015-12-242-8/+20
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* Make the init more robust. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-10/+38
| | | | | | | The computer may have other partitions which contain a Live image, we need to choose one. Alternatively, use "livemedia=/dev/sdX" to point init to the Live device we want to boot.
* Delete ALSA state file, the Live OS may be booted on different computers. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+3
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* Some small tweaks. Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-2/+3
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* This marker is no longer used. Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-2/+6
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* Add a softvol pre-amp to ALSA - some computers have too low audio volume. Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-0/+16
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* Enable NFS client support if possible: Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-0/+3
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* Copy our skeleton configuration correctly to the live user's $HOME. Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-1/+5
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* Let Xscreensaver show a blank screen only. Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-0/+4
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* liveinit: add debug code for development (disabled by default). Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-0/+21
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* Packages with directories in /tmp will cause the script to abort during cleanup. Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-0/+2
| | | | | This will catch accidental source configuration issues, happens with KDE from time to time.
* Set ownership of SDDM homedirectory recursively. Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-1/+1
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* Make the configuration of the Live environment less verbose. Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-3/+3
| | | | There is no added value in seeing all the executed commands scroll by.
* Mount a RAM based filesystem on /var/tmp to prevent wear of the USB medium. Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-0/+1
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* Make the marker used for finding the Slackware Live files configurable. Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-4/+12
| | | | Configured in variable MARKER, the default value is "SLACKWARELIVE".
* Add the liveslak scripts to the Live OS ISO. Eric Hameleers2015-12-161-0/+4
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* Use terminus font 'ter-i16v.psf' as the syslinux console font. Eric Hameleers2015-12-072-3/+14
| | | | Patch proposed by Didier Spaier.
* pkglists/xbase.lst: add missing gnome-keyring plus gcr depencency. Eric Hameleers2015-12-071-0/+2
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* Make the isohybrid command more compatible with older BIOS. Eric Hameleers2015-12-041-3/+21
| | | | | | Specifying heads and sectors also eliminates the warnings about using more than 1024 cylinders. Patch submitted by Didier Spaier.
* Explicitly mount /tmp on a tmpfs, this is better for the USB stick's health. Eric Hameleers2015-12-041-4/+7
| | | | | | | Not an issue for a Live Edition running exclusively in RAM, but things are different when you create a USB stick with persistence. The /tmp would then be created on the USB stick and the continuous writes will degrade the flash medium.
* Fix the broken implementation of custom default runlevel. Eric Hameleers2015-12-021-5/+10
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* Fix for the looping XDM when trying to start a Mate or Cinnamon X session. Eric Hameleers2015-12-021-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Evidence in ~live/.xsession-errors: XDM authorization key matches an existing client! cinnamon-session: Cannot open display: . Rationale copied from the page where I found the fix - http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re-ports-154502-x11-xdm-authorization-failure-when-used-with-E17-window-manager-td5819660.html The cause is that the implementation of XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 is broken if applications execve or unload/reload libX11/libxcb between connections to the X server. More information can be found in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486606 Since it is unclear whether XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 will be fixed and if so, where, I think it is best to disable it in xdm. It looks like adding --disable-xdm-auth to xdm's configure flags will do this but I have not tested it. I think the security impact is minimal; gdm does not use XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 either.
* Add support for creating a Cinnamon Live ISO. Eric Hameleers2015-12-025-7/+72
| | | | | Thanks to Willy Sudiarto Raharjo for the repository. Also, renamed Willy's 'MSB' Live Edition to 'MATE'.
* Add Portuguese language support to Plasma 5 Live. Eric Hameleers2015-12-021-0/+1
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* Add support for alternative directorynames of 'persistence' and 'liveslak'. Eric Hameleers2015-12-022-10/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | The persistence directory on USB is called 'persistence' by default but can now be re-defined when running 'make_slackware_live.sh' to create the ISO. Additionally it can be changed dynamically on boot of the Live OS by adding a 'persistence=<dirname>' parameter to the boot. The Live OS main directory is called 'liveslak' by default but can now be re-defined when running 'make_slackware_live.sh' to create the ISO. Additionally it can be changed dynamically on boot of the Live OS by adding a 'livemain=<dirname>' parameter to the boot.
* Add Portuguese language support to the base KDE4 ISO and to the bootmenu. Eric Hameleers2015-12-022-1/+3
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* Add working UEFI support to the Live ISO. Eric Hameleers2015-12-018-2/+726
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* make_slackware_live.sh: add support for Mate SlackBuild (MSB) Eric Hameleers2015-12-013-10/+91
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* Make the 'iso2usb.sh' script sudo-friendly. Eric Hameleers2015-11-292-29/+29
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* Adapt xdm configuration to target architecture. Eric Hameleers2015-11-292-9/+11
| | | | Patch submitted by Manfred Mueller.
* Add missing '/' which fixes custom hostname configuration. Eric Hameleers2015-11-291-2/+2
| | | | Patch submitted by Manfred Mueller.
* Make the 'livemain' directory name configurable in make_slackware_live.sh Eric Hameleers2015-11-292-7/+9
| | | | | This allows customizations for derivative Live OSes. Patch submitted by Manfred Mueller.
* iso2usb.sh: fix a minor typo. Eric Hameleers2015-11-291-1/+1
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* Added the missing 'skel.tgz' archive. Eric Hameleers2015-11-281-0/+0
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