Xamine and Xperience - Xenial Kubuntu 16.04

[NoWorries]

Calamares: https://calamares.io/about/
KDE Visual Design Group/Calamares Design Project: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual...Design_Project
Kubuntu forums - Introducing a new graphical installer: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ical-installer

Thanks for the references as I had also come across them when oshunluvr mentioned calamares. I guess its operation is similar to calamari in that each one is slightly different but are all combined on the same plate.

It will be handy for different distributions to have a common installer. It will be interesting to see how many distributions adopt it including SABDFL's favourite?

[vinnywright]

O on a side note ,,,,,,,for the past 3-4 weeks my Xenial net upgraded from 15.10 was telling me a lot of KDE was going to be removed whenever I did my usual "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" .

after seeing this a few times and aborting I quit thinking it was just a bad set of packages in the repo and would get fixed soon and started investigating .

it turned out that the wily backports wear still being read from ,,sources.list.d ,,,,,,,,,,

I spent some time getting it sorted but in the end I think I am back on track ........

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Do we remember the text based installers ,,,,,,,,,,,just what was wrong with that .

Aaaaaa the good old days ,,,,,

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

I can't remember the last time there was a release when Ubiquity worked at the alpha/beta stage. I even skipped 10.10 because could never get it to work even after the full release. Besides, I really like the idea of a uniform installer that all distros can use. While our distros use different display managers, desktop environments, packaging systems, etc. they all still need a way for the user to get all that onto the hard drive. So why not have one installer we are all familiar with that we can use from any distro? I think distro independence might make it more stable while easing the workload to distro makers. They would need only comply with a set of requirements from the Calamares team and not have to write their own.

[LinkBot]

Calamares: https://calamares.io/about/
KDE Visual Design Group/Calamares Design Project: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual...Design_Project
Kubuntu forums - Introducing a new graphical installer: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ical-installer

[NoWorries]

I suspect they might have a lot more testers if they would fix Ubiquity or just switch to Calamares already, geeze...

I like your sense of humour. My understanding is that Calamares is the plural of calamari which is squid served as food. So enjoy your calamari as you test Xenial.

[oshunluvr]

Well, finally got it to install. Using the 01-28-2016 daily ISO, I found this solution on launchpad and sightly modified it. Grab the 01-28 ISO if you want to try it out.Boot to the Live Image, then before launching the installer, open a terminal and enter this one one-liner:

sudo sed -i '344 s/^/#/; 347 s/^/#/; 348 s/^/#/' /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-prepare.py

This fixes a secure boot key error when trying to install to a Vbox machine. I don't know if you need it for a bare metal install.

[oshunluvr]

I suspect they might have a lot more testers if they would fix Ubiquity or just switch to Calamares already, geeze...

[NoWorries]

Alpha 2?

I could not help but notice the report on Phoronix about Alpha releases being questioned. Tomorrow is the official release of Alpha 2 and I will be interested to see if there are significant updates in addition to the stack that come down each day.

The phoronix report did say that:

"Ubuntu derivatives such as Kubuntu and Xubuntu have long been pushing out alpha releases to help with testing by the community. However, for lack of people stepping up to manage these releases, it's looking like they may not happen or with fewer alpha releases."

So far I am finding this distribution very reliable and never cease to be impressed with it.

I will be very interested to see if Kubuntu follows SABDFL in his desire to introduce snappy into 16.04. I just hope that it will not be wrought with problems like when MIR was first introduced.

I do look forward to Wayland making strong headway and that MIR will .

[NoWorries]

Samsung Galaxy Hotspot, Tethering and File Access

I am now pleased to report that after updates on Wily and Xenial, there have been improvements in USB Tethering for Wiley, and Mobile Hotspot for Xenial.

Xenial now works for both Mobile Hotspot and USB Tethering, so 2 out of 2.
Wiley now works only for USB Tethering, so it is now 1 out of 2.

With the improvements in Xenial at this early stage, I am increasingly tempted to replace Wily by Xenial on my Laptop. I remember being told a LONG time ago not to yield to temptation, so I will let you know when I yield.

Throughout this process, I have also been trying to get pictures off the Samsung Mobile. I kept getting the message that "The process for the mtp protocol died unexpectedly". After much searching I installed anything that was related to mtp, such as: mtp-service, libmtp-runtime, libmtp9, libmtpservice1, kio-mtp, libmtp-common, gmtp, gvfs-backends.

These all failed to solve the problem and it was only when I installed jmtpfs that it all worked.

[NoWorries]

OK new quirk @hear ,,,,,,,,,system tray ,,,,, trying to change what the system tray shows using "system tray settings" dose not stick ,,,, and dose nothing.

you can change the settings and click apply ,,,,but nothing happens and when you open the "system tray settings" again it is back to default.

VINNY

Hi Vinny,

Just got back from a 1 week break and was greeted with 460 upgraded and new packages. While I was away, I could not connect my Wily Laptop to the internet using my Wife's mobile as a Hotspot or USB Tethering. Previously on a trip last September it worked fine. I will investigate that later and check on all my different systems.

I have just tried clicking on the three bars at the RHS of the system tray and selected "More Settings . . ". I then tried options such as "Windows can cover" and that changed for me and held. It was still in that setting when I checked later. I assume that this is the area that you were wanting to change, or was it to change or add more widgets on the system tray?

I should mention that I have been using Pre-release and Unsupported updates for some time now without any problems.

Edit:

With a Samsung Galaxy S3:

Mobile hotspot works on Xenial
USB tethering DOES NOT WORK on Xenial

At least Xenial gets a score of 1 out of 2
Wily gets a score of 0 out of 2
Trusty gets a score of 2 out of 2

[vinnywright]

OK new quirk @hear ,,,,,,,,,system tray ,,,,, trying to change what the system tray shows using "system tray settings" dose not stick ,,,, and dose nothing.

you can change the settings and click apply ,,,,but nothing happens and when you open the "system tray settings" again it is back to default.

VINNY

[vinnywright]

That's awesome Vinny! Nice share...

what got me was how dang easy it is on the CLI ,,,,,hears a link to a more detailed example ,,,,,, https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...1-ProjectM-gif

I'll be trying one for a animated wallpaper next for my 16.04 net upgrade from 15.10 .

when the wifey gives me time

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

That's awesome Vinny! Nice share...

[vinnywright]

But then I have not done much but web browse and some image extraction from video and creation of .gif's from the images ,,,,,,and well some Amarok and ProjectM

VINNY

so speaking about .gif creating ,,,,,,,,,,,I have a SUPER easy way I found .

just obtain some images sequentially named and place them in a folder

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~/Templates/test3$ ls
gif1.jpeg  gif2.jpeg  gif3.jpeg

and run

convert -delay 300 -loop 0 *.jpeg test.gif

the convert command is from the imagemagick program so you must have it installed for this to work.
-loop 0 is an infinite loop ,,,,a 1,2,3 is that many times it will run through it ,,,,,,delay is the time between frames

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~/Templates/test3$ ls
gif1.jpeg  gif2.jpeg  gif3.jpeg  test.gif

and the result of using 3 screen shots for it




I have a cute one I made of my Grandson by shooting some video then using this

avconv -i foo.avi -r 3 -s 1280x720 -f image2 foo-%03d.jpeg

to extract 3 frames a second(-r 3) at a size of 1280x720(-s 1280x720) from a mp4 video.
of course you must use the actual name of the video file in place of "foo.avi" .



VINNY