Oolite Bulletins

Disclaimer: don't use a joystick/gamepad too often, and didn't test this. Google-fu for "linux joystick button mapping app", returns AntiMicroX (https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox), which seems to cover to some extent what the Logitech app is capable of. One caveat (might or might no...

[...] you can install a shortcut to the font to save space but not sure if that would speed up boot times. [...] Yes, even with font shortcuts, Windows would have to manage a "font cache" file (not sure where it resides in the later versions). Unlike the Linux counterpart, this cannot be ...

My approach would be: - zip-up the whole content of the fonts folder - remove/uninstall most of the fonts (if possible leave only windows out-of-the-box fonts, and those you're really into at this time) - restart - keep the zip file handy -- when you need to use a document with fonts not installed, ...

[...] Are you familiar with git/github? Could you prepare a change? I am familiar a bit with git, but not at all with github. I don't think though the change is that complicated where the 32 bit and 64 bit of libgnustep-base.so.1.20 are retired (deleted), and libgnustep-base.so.1.28 versions added....

[...] Number 2 may have additional caveats as I understand it. I gave a spin to an attempt to rebuild gnustep-base-1.20 in my current Slackware 15.0 version, and it won't work. I tweaked some configuration options (by excluding e.g. objc-api.h, and enforcing the linker to look into /usr/lib64), and...

From what I can tell, there are two obvious options: 1) provide libgnustep-base.so.1.28 instead of libgnustep-base.so.1.20 as a Linux dependency 2) continue building with libgnustep-base.so.1.20 and use it as a runtime dependecy Number 2 above might require an environment with an Obj-C compiler that...

[...] I wonder why since nowhere in the script I see something that would distinguish whether it was started from terminal or GUI. [...] Where do you get a "Run in terminal" checkbox? [...] Interesting. Yes, with such a line the notification also appears on my system. But why would the sc...

I tested, similarly, in a VM on xubuntu 22.04 live iso. True, no reaction while trying to start it from the GUI. One notice/correction though, the (original) startup script doesn't remain stuck (together with its shell and cat command) when started from GUI. It seems that the "interactive"...

In Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 we have Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the most "inconvenient" journalist (reporter) of them all (there are some more around, yes).

This notify-send: /home/demo/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite-trunk/oolite-deps/lib/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16) would certainly require to run the notify-send this way LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64 notify-send --app-name=Oolite --urgency=criti...

Replacing this sequence (starting at line 66 from what I can tell from your github link above): if [ $? != 0 ] then echo echo "Erk. It looks like Oolite${TRUNK} died with an error. When making an error" echo "report, please copy + paste the log above into the report." echo echo &...

[...] Is that idea instead or on top of my draft? Instead. The current single script will have to suppress the input command (cat or replace it with read) part when the "desktop" parameter is passed, and allow it only when run without. In the same script you'll have to also implement the ...

You can always do with a command line parameter for a single script in the .desktop file, that only sends the notification and bypasses the input request when it's used, and does both when it's not.

[...] Would it not make sense to use notify-send to show a graphical message? [...] Never too late to learn something (first time I hear about this command). I was going to argue that notify-send might be a desktop environment specific command, and I'm not yet 100% it's not, but it covers xfce and ...

From what I can tell, the " cat " command is used as a sort of " pause " command prompt batch file. Instead of advising to press " Ctrl-C to continue ", and use " cat ", we can advise to press " any key to continue " and use (e.g.) read -r -s -N 1 ju...