El 25 dic. 2016 5:07 PM, "William Dudley" <[email protected]> escribió:

Hi,

This has been "amusing", as I'm retired so the waste of time
hasn't cost me much, but this really needs a LOT of work if
you expect any but the most dedicated types to stay with it.

This is a fresh install of GoboLinux 016.

I tried replacing your comically large terminal program with xterm,
because I couldn't figure out which of the 50 command line arguments in the
rc.lua invocation of urxvt would change the font size and window size.


The manual for urxvt tells you that you can change the don't through the
command line (as options) or modifying the .Xresources file. A quick search
in Google wold tell you.

Also the guys who develop awesome maintain a really nice wiki where they
explain how to do that kind of things (a much more).

Nothing to see with gobolinux though, In any distro using awesome it will
be the same (I have been running awesome in slackware for long time)


So I replaced that invocation with:

local terminal = "xterm -fg green -bg black"

That sort of works, except when running 'vi', the screen doesn't paint
correctly.
So that experiment failed.


again this is related to the awesome config that you want to achieve.
awesome it's not like gnome or kde. You really need to read the awesome doc
to tune it.


Next, I read the wiki, wondering how to install software and do upgrades
to existing software.

The wiki says, to do upgrades, to run "Manager".

zsh: command not found: Manager.
blah blah,try
   InstallPackage Manager

OK, I try that.

Result: Package for Manager not found.

I also tried to install the following: mplayer, audacious, deluge, kicad,
xine,
OpenSCAD, and audacity.  All "not found".  One helpful suggestion
that popped up was "did I mean Xpdf".  I like that program, so I installed
it.
That, amazingly, worked.

But xpdf does not appear in the menu system, and it's not clear how to
add it.  I looked in rc.lua for a clue; found references to Audacious and
MPlayer,
which *don't* appear in the menu, but do, apparently, exist in some
alternate
GoboUniverse.


more about awesome config, dont blame gobo for this please, again read the
awesome config it's really good.


So, I'm done.  GoboLinux needs major work if you expect more than a handful
of users.


I agree that some things needs to be improved, onviously the average user
of gobo it's an advance user confident with Linux.


Good luck on the project.
Bill Dudley

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