Sync Update for Week 38, 2023

bubba66

Kde online accounts for gdrive is now working again - nice 👍 (Yeah I know Google are the big overlords blah blah blah blah).

ReillyBrogan

bubba66 Yeah, that working was a side effect of me modifying signon-ui to use qt5-webengine instead of qt5-webkit. Honestly I didn't even realize it didn't work before but I'm glad it's working now. Thanks for noticing that it's been fixed!

Solarmass

Nice to have duf and amdgpu_top in the repo 👍️

Axios

I just like watching people do updates.
(Mine are still broke on my 2 computers)

brent

Axios it's bizarre that Mate on two computers has pipe problems. I remember that long thread of troubleshooting. All I can think of now is what are you doing the same on both? vpn package? or a DIY set of iptable rules? the other thing two computers with broken the same way would be the isp...I don't remember two in that thread so...

anyways just wondering if you have to go back to W7?

brent

anyone have any first impressions of btop yet? I haven't got around to it and I like htop. Curious, thanks.

WetGeek

brent anyone have any first impressions of btop yet?

I think I'm in love. The processes don't bounce all around; just their values change.

Solarmass

brent anyone have any first impressions of btop yet? I haven't got around to it and I like htop. Curious, thanks.

My first impression was is that it looks too busy..
I am using htop

brent

no bounce!! that makes it so much easier to kill a process, sleek. thank you

elfprince

I tend to agree with @Solarmass , looks a bit cluttered. I prefer glances and htop myself.

brent

elfprince yeah, looks very busy but in HTOP navigating the bottom menu to search for the process to kill then navigating that bottom menu again for the right F-Command then putting your eyes back to the jumpy middle output to see what text got highlighted then looking down again to see the F command hasn't timed out...HTOP makes killing processes un-necessarilty cumbersome.

@WetGeek have you tried killing a process in btop? easy peasy?

WetGeek

brent have you tried killing a process in btop? easy peasy?

I haven't needed to do that so far, but I'm sure it will be WAY easier than in htop. The only way I could do it in htop was to try to spot and memorize the process ID, and then go to the terminal to issue a kill command. I never even tried to do it in htop with everything boucing around. Sometimes it wasn't even easy to find the process to kill.

That's why I said it was love at first sight when I saw btop.

Solarmass

brent yea, same experience with killing processes in htop

There should be a more efficient way to do it I guess, never had time to explore it more 😃

elfprince

brent I haven't used btop and do not have a need at this time, since I used others quite happily, I might add. 😄 In glances the processes jump every 5 seconds or so, so it is not bad. I am certain that you can set the 'jump interval', if you check the man pages for glances, htop and perhaps even btop. Just makes sense. I also use ps aux where things stay still, like a snapshot of the system. Then, if I am looking for a certain item, I do grep the output.

brent

Solarmass you are right. if I could find a frozen process with the terminal and learn how to kill it in the terminal (I still don't know the diff betweenkill andkillall)--in what @WetGeek up there described as a 2-part/2-app process and make it a one-part process in terminal--- then I could use htop for better things. I've used this program for many years, still like it, but kill-a-process is a pita in it..no worries, apps don't freeze that often.

penny-farthing

Usually I use System Monitor, then Process to kill a frozen application (this happens to me sometimes with Firefox).
I just did a test with btop by selecting Firefox, then typing k to kill the application, which happened indeed after validating the confirmation. When I restarted Firefox, the application window displayed the tabs already open before launching the command.
Interesting.

brent

elfprince

eopkg info glances
glances package is not installed
Package found in Solus repository:
Name                : glances, version: 3.4.0.3, release: 42
Summary             : Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python
Description         : Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large
                      amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The
                      information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface.
Licenses            : LGPL-3.0-or-later
Component           : system.utils
Dependencies        : python-bottle python-defusedxml python-future python-packaging python-psutil
                      python-ujson 
Distribution        : Solus, Dist. Release: 1
Architecture        : x86_64, Installed Size: 2.52 MB, Package Size: 534.00 KB
Reverse Dependencies:

installing now! thanks for the info

edit: my output looks ridiculously colored and unreadable on my end but it was justeopkg info glances

elfprince

brent Yes, that happens sometimes with other posters as well. I just highlight with my mouse. 😁

brent

elfprince It's bizarre. I'm at work now and I can see my output in blue ^ just fine more or less. And home it's just a bunch of dark blue unreadable mud that cannot be rescued by highlighting the text with a mouse.
....looks like someone needs a new big screen monitor🙂.

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