SparkyLinux 3.1 “Annagerman” LXDE, Ultra and CLI is out. New iso images of SparkyLinux 3.1 providing a few changes and system improvements, such as: – Linux kernel 3.10-3 (3.10.11-1) – all packages have been updated from Debian testing repositories as of 2013/09/27 – added Teamviewer client for remote controling other machines – added Sparky APTus … Read more
Lxpolkit has been automatically removed after this week system upgrading. But it’s still available as a part of new version of Lxsession package. If you have a problem with root privileges (mounting patitions, network cards management, etc.), add a new option to your system startup: /usr/bin/lxpolkit It can happen at SparkyLinux editions: e17, LXDE, … Read more
SparkyLinux 3.0.2 “Annagerman” has been released. Sparky 3.0.2 provides a few important changes, such as: – sparky-installer bug has been fixed. It did not let to make installation on USB disks before (the final version of Sparky 3.0 “Annagerman”) and did not show any disk (hard/USB) if an USB disk was connected to the … Read more
This is an update of SparkyLinux 3.0.1 Ultra Edition ready for download. The last system upgrade from Debian “testing” repositories caused an error of “marchobmenu”, which is pre-installed as default with Openbox desktop. The problematic package of the situation was “python-xdg” – its update from version 0.19-5 to 0.25-3 resulted losing compatibility with the “marchobmenu” … Read more
The marchobmenu doesn’t want to work in Sparky 3.0 with different locales then English. It happend between packages updating from RC to the final version. In this moment I suggest to change the marchobmenu into Debian menu. Edit file “/home/you/.config/openbox/menu.xml” and remove the line: <menu label=”Applications” id=”mom-applications” execute=”/usr/lib/marchobmenu/mom-daemon.py show”> and put a new one … Read more