I recently installed Fedora 24 XFCE on my brand new Entroware Apollo, a Linux friendly laptop. Here is a list of problems I encountered during my first week of use. While most of these problems had a solution with a bit of googling, non-tech savvy person would have severe problems solving them.
PAINS
- System completely hangs when I connect a second monitor. Unresolved.
- Could not see any WiFi networks because the interface was not managed. Had to make it managed in NetworkManager.conf manually.
- At some point, XFCE panel would not show up anymore and I got an error message on startup asking me to start the panel. Solved it by deleting .config folder. What the hell?
- No login prompt when laptop comes out of suspend, even though I have both option in power management and session settings turned on. Unresolved.
- Adding programs to favorites in Whiskers menu sometimes does not persist across reboots. I think esepcially when I did a hard reset due to issue #1.
- My Nexus 4 would not automount in Thunar over USB. After an hour of Googling and installing random packages I got it to work, I think?
GAINS
- Numix theme on XFCE is extremely nice, I love it. There is just one small bug so far in Volume widget, the selection color hides the slider completely.
- My FreeNAS was automatically detected by Thunar while the old Gnome-files setup would not show it and even refuse to mount it sometimes manually. A nice surprise.
- I like how you can fully customize XFCE panels. The only thing I actually couldn't do is completely hide the panel (there is like a 3px grey bar when the panel is hidden). Other than that it's super nice.
- Fedy is super nice. Props to it's maintainers, it all just works.
So basically, everything kinda works now but it was a bumpy road to achieve this. Hopefully I get some feedback on issue #1 in Fedora bug tracker because it's really severe.
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Bnetdocs
Finally after years and years of screwing around with building StormLib or BNCSUtil everytime you moved your ghost bots to another server is finally over. As of today, I am hosting both libraries in apt and rpm repositories. In the process I also discovered that StormLib managed to get into Debian Testing (https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/stormlib) so let's hope it'll be included in the next stable release!
I also pushed CPack generator code into both repositories, so you can build these packages yourself. BNCSUtil was forked and cleaned especially.
DEB based distros
- To /etc/apt/sources.list add:
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#apt.xpam.pl deb https://apt.xpam.pl/ jessie main |
- Add GPG key:
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wget -qO - https://apt.xpam.pl/xpam.pl-pubkey.asc | sudo apt-key add - |
- Update and install:
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sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install stormlib bncsutil |
RPM based distros
- In
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpm.xpam.pl.repo add
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[rpm.xpam.pl] name = rpm.xpam.pl baseurl = https://rpm.xpam.pl |
or, with dnf on Fedora:
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dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.xpam.pl |
- If using dnf, make sure to import the public key:
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rpm --import https://rpm.xpam.pl/rpm-pubkey.asc |
- Update and install:
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yum update && yum install stormlib bncsutil |
or dnf equivalent.
This was a nice project to spend a few weekends on but there are more plans in 2016 to clean and tidy up the bnet tools we all use and love:
-add CMake and CPack support to our own bots, link against upstream StormLib and release a cleaned up ghost code, ease the setup process via repo installs with full dependency resolution (mysql, boost, storm and bncsutil). Provide precompiled binaries for Windows.
-provide patches to some other popular ghost forks to work with upstream StormLib.
-package PvPGN?
-provide pkgng packages for FreeBSD. This will probably involve writing pkgng generator for CMake's CPack which could be an interesting side project in itself.
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Lagabuse.com
Bnetdocs
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