There is an update of Sparky XTerm 0.2.0 available in our repository. Sparky XTerm is a tool which choose a x-terminal-emulator for sparky tools. It was choosing a desktop related emulator before, but due to some problems I changed to xterm only, which works fine but… need something much spicy. I reconfigured sparky-xterm to use … Read more
Call for translating & testing: Sparky Backup Sys 20180327. Sparky Backup Sys is a Yad based GUI to Sparky Backup Core tool. The Sparky Backup Core provides scripts to make a bootable iso image of your Sparky installation and the Advanced Installer as well. All Sparky Backup related tools have been localized (English and Polish … Read more
There is a new version of ‘sparky-polkit’ 0.2.x availabe in Sparky repos. What is Sparky-Polkit? The ‘sparky-polkit’ tool chooses a PolicyKit authentication agent (lxpolkit or gnome policykit), and is targeted to all window managers supported by Sparky. As desktop environments use their own polkits; window managers don’t have and don’t use any as default. How … Read more
Call for testing: a new, testing version of sparky-remsu 0.2.0-beta1 package. The ‘sparky-remsu’ tool provides a centralizied mechanism which gives root/sudo privileges to all Sparky tools which need it. The tool was using before: gksu, lxqt-sudo; and before, before: gksudo and kdesudo. To make it more flexible, depends of many different desktops and its own … Read more
There is a new appliacation available for Sparkers: Webmin. From the project web site: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets … Read more