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wattOS R8 / Re: WattOS R8 64 bit MATE--Menu: Time and Date menu item broken
« on: September 03, 2014, 01:55:23 PM »
thanks for your reply
According to some memory usage testings, MATE desktop uses about 56 Mb of memory resources, compared to 96 Mb of XFCE4. Its menus are better looking and has an easy to use menu editor.

A dozen of applet can be added to its panel, similar to XFCE's panel applet.
As a bonus, even Mint-Menu can be added as an applet, to use as a main menu.

I am not the fan of he attached packages (caja, pluma, etc....), prefer to use a lighter  pacmanfm and leafpad (from LXDE)

WATTOS is a very promising distro, -- I have tried many Debian based (point Linux, seduction, crunchbang, sparky, etc...)-- and WATTOS turned out to be one of the best one.

I only tried the  MATE version, and as you said, this still needs a little bit of ironing.
Keep up a good work and looking forward to try out a next release !

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wattOS R8 / WattOS R8 64 bit MATE-_-CAJA-Move-to-Trash-nothing in Trash
« on: September 02, 2014, 01:22:08 AM »
The so called file manager in MATE, caja, does not even have a "DELETE" function----it has a "move-to-trash" option.
However, the desktop's TRASH bin always shows empty, when checked Properties, it says: Contents:nothing
Of course, this is all wrong, the files "moved-to-trash" still exist in some hidden cache location.

After downloading,installing  and running "bleachbit", these "moved-to-flash" files were finally deleted.
(verified with "df" before and after !

I think this is WATTOS related problem, since MATE 1.8.0 is used by many other distros, (ubuntu, mint) and I can not imagine that they have this issue too.

Any suggestion how to fix it ?

Thanks!

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wattOS R8 / Re: root: Authentication failure ! + Authentication token manipulation error !
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:38:26 PM »
I am familiar with :

gksu-properties and then change su back to sudo

and already done it

an original debian installation creates two accounts:

1)a "root" account with  a "root" password
2)   "user"  account  with "user" password

in WATTOS, the "su, sudo, gksu" gives  an "user"  root  privileges temporarily
it seems like, there is no "root" account set up or its broken


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wattOS R8 / Re: WattOS R8 64 bit MATE--Menu: Time and Date menu item broken
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:24:40 PM »
Well, I found the solution!
needed to install "mate-system-tools-common" package......some reason, it was not done automatically !
now "Time and Date" has an icon in the menu, it opens but no changes can be made
used "Edit Menu" to modify its command line to "gksu mate-time-admin"
now it is working as it suppose to be
another WATTOS-R8 -MATE1.8.0 problem fixed

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wattOS R8 / Re: Cannot even get wired connection
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:12:37 PM »
as MAROMAN said:do "lspci" and look for "Ethernet Controller" on the list

then google search to find out what linux package contains driver for that uncommon device dell used
download its "debian" package, get it into your dell  and use "gdebi" to install it

for your wifi model, look for "Network Controller" in the "lspci" output




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wattOS R8 / WattOS R8 64 bit MATE--Menu: Time and Date menu item broken
« on: September 01, 2014, 08:58:53 PM »
When I go to MENU--ADMINISTRATION-TIME AND DATE and click on it, --nothing happens !
Manually executed a command for this menu item:

root@lenovo:/home/abcd# mate-time-admin

** (mate-time-admin:26596): ERROR **: Could not load /usr/share/mate-system-tools/ui/common.ui

Trace/breakpoint trap

Any suggestion, how to fix this broken menu item ?

Thanks!

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wattOS R8 / Re: WattOS R8 64 bit MATE--menuedit and mozo broken
« on: September 01, 2014, 08:52:57 PM »
After reading more about this problem, found a related post dated back to May 18, 2014 on this forum. :-[
Followed the link, downloaded and installed "unofficial mozo" and now menuedit works . :)
Interesting, that this is a well known problem for more than 90 days and still no fix has applied to WattOS. :(

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wattOS R8 / root: Authentication failure ! + Authentication token manipulation error !
« on: September 01, 2014, 08:37:28 PM »
WattOS R8 64 bit MATE desktop , I am having problem with ROOT/PASSWORD access

root@lenovo:/home/abcd# su
su: Authentication failure
(Ignored)
root@lenovo:/home/abcd# whoami
root

root@lenovo:/home/abcd# sudo su
su: Authentication failure
(Ignored)
root@lenovo:/home/abcd# whoami
root
root@lenovo:/home/jeno#


It gives me root access, but what is that error message ?

When I try to create/change a password for "root", this is what happens:

root@lenovo:/home/abcd# passwd root
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged

Something wrong going on here for sure !

Thanks!





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wattOS R8 / WattOS R8 64 bit MATE--menuedit and mozo broken
« on: September 01, 2014, 08:28:34 PM »
In a freshly installed WattOS R8, 64 bit with MATE DE, the "Edit Menu" function is not working.
Tried to run "MOZO" as a root, and this is what I got:

root@lenovo:/home/abcd# mozo

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mozo", line 22, in <module>
    from Mozo.MainWindow import MainWindow
ImportError: No module named Mozo.MainWindow

Any suggestion how to fix this?

Thanks




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