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Re: [BL] Opera with BL 3.40 Re: BL3.40 pkg "invalid tar magic"

From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] Opera with BL 3.40 Re: BL3.40 pkg "invalid tar magic"
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:13:06 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

sindi keesan wrote:

alias pico='e3pi'
works in console mode but not in an rxvt,

Works for me in both.

nor does your alias copy.

Works for me. I wonder if you have a path problem.
Try using the full pathnames in your aliases. Does
that fix the problem?

As David pointed out, if I use the icewm menu to make an rxvt the alieases work. My friend does not need to use aliases, just use the rxvt to type his single-letter scripts to dial, etc. My partner will use the icewm menu. I will type e3pi. But I will try the full pathnames some time.

I tried symlinking e3pi to pico and when I type pico I get
a pico that works in WS mode and gives WS help screen.

e3 behaves like the name with which it is invoked. If you
symlink it to e3pi, it will behave like pico. If you symlink
it to e3ws, it will behave like wordstar. It you symlink it
to pico, it doesn't recognize that so it defaults to WS behavior.

I don't understand. Do I put into my o script:
cd /opera
. opera?

Is opera the name of the start script for opera?

it 'cannot find opera'.

Obviously not.

Do you know of any way to set things up so I can invoke opera in an rxvt without '. o', when opera is started by the wrapper script? (assuming opera can even be made to work). Not terribly important.

Hopefully by typing one letter, or g plus h symlinked to
hotlist.html somehow.

g followed by . [ENTER] gives you the current directory.
If hotlist.html is in that directory, you can click on it.

I made a symlink ln -s /root/hotlist.html /hotlist/websites.html.
I added to 'l' (for starting links2 -g) the line cd /hotlist.
Now if he types g and . he sees a blue link that he can arrow down to and hit Enter to get hotlist back on the screen. (He could also type g and then websites.html but he types with one finger).

I could not get this to work even by adding <html>

It works if you use the full pathname to hotlist.html
(or if you are currently in the directory where hotlist.html resides)

Yes, that works, but he does not type well. I will suggest it.

Putting startx in /etc/profile does indeed automatically start X,
but then if I try to use another workspace or open another rxvt
it crashes out of X.

Ah, I see. Every shell (even a rxvt shell) runs /etc/profile
when it's invoked. Messy. Here's a better suggestion:

edit /etc/inittab
---------------------------------
tty1::askfirst:-/bin/sh -c startx
---------------------------------
Then only tty1 will run X. Sorry I didn't suggest this first.

Is there some way to send BL3 into X using runlevels

No, BL3 doesn't have runlevels.

Does the inittab 'askfirst' for each tty produce
Please press Enter......
and if so can I remove it from tty1 line to bypass it?

Yes. See 'man init' in BL3 for explanation how.
You might also find "man sh" useful.

I did this already and changed askfirst to respawn so it goes straight into BL3, and now adding -c startx puts him right into X. Turn on computer, it goes into X (much faster than windows used to before it died). Type d to dial, l for links, q to quit.

I can't find a way to type anything shorter than reboot for rebooting. Apparently you cannot symlink to busybox functions, it just gives a busybox message if you try. This way he won't accidentally reboot if he has to type it out.

He can't exit X, it just goes straight back in.

The rxvt -title worked well. Why do I want an & at the end? It works fine without it. I put a short menu at the top, and m=menu, so if he types m he gets more information on what each thing means. He can't possibly lose this menu on his desktop. Maybe I will write on his monitor Alt-F4 quit links or opera, m for menu.

My partner insists that I download and try Opera 8 in case
it works with BL3 where 7.23 did not.

I'm currently running Opera 8 on BL2. It works fine there.
I've not yet tried it on BL3.

8 did not help at all in BL3.40.

Please could you try it soon so we can get our friend back browsing with a javascript browser? He has been going to the library.

Cheers,
Steven

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