rox on ubuntu 12.10

Installed rox and it runs, but...

1. it can only be started from the command line
   (e.g. rox -n &)
   I've tried numerous suggestions as to how to launch it from
   the Unity launcher or gnome desktop launcher, or a backdrop
   icon. None work.

2. as rox-filer is running as a detached process it produces
   (rox:14926): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment 
with non-zero page size is deprecated

3. curiously, when running rox from sudo su root session
   it is not necessary to use the "-n" option on the
   command line, but when running as another user, I have
   to use "rox -n" otherwise nothing happens.

4. Ideally, I'd have rox-filer as the default file manager
   but the procedure someone published for changing the
   default filer from nautilus to some other filer didn't
   work for rox-filer.

5. I found the installation pages on the web site very
   confusing and could not get them to work. In the end
   I used "apt-get install rox-filer" and it worked. Perhaps
   its time to update the web pages, which iirc mentioned
   Rox-All 1.3 and when I followed the links to download
   it lead me to Archive 2.3 (and not Rox-All).

Any answers/pointers would be welcome

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Better "select by name" behavior

So, currently (rox-2.10), when you MINI_SELECT_BY_NAME (. command), it
defaults to the "*." glob -- i.e. it assumes we want to select by a
certain file extension. I found that I usually wasn't searching by file
extension, but rather by keywords within filenames, and often found
myself having to backspace. So, I think it would be better to not have
that initial default glob.

Also, when matches were found, although they were selected, the window
wouldn't scroll to them (if they weren't visible -- ie. in a folder
with many files.) I think the window should jump to the first match,
much like the current MINI_PATH does. This little patch here does
something like that, although I'm not sure if it's the best way :P --
it will move the window and the non-highlighted-selected entry down one
each time a new glob is matched.

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ROXtone, etc

Hi,

I've just added another rox application (ROXtone) to my software page at
http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/software/index.html

This follows on from ROXscope, so I can now use my machines as a combined
signal source and scope/fft-analyser for audio tests.

I'm wondering if anyone might like to mention/link the applications or page
on the main ROX pages that list applications, etc.

Slainte,

Jim

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ROX web-site hacked

I got an email today from Google to say that the ROX web-site
contained spammy links. On investigation, I found some suspicious
files on the server (a .htaccess which redirected things to
"image.php", which contained a load of obfuscated PHP). The oldest
ctime was Nov 11, 2012.

This isn't very surprising; Drupal has regular security
vulnerabilities and I don't have time at the moment to keep it
properly patched. I have therefore exported the whole site to static
HTML (using httrack). I also moved it back to sourceforge.net since,
being static, database performance is no longer an issue:

  http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/

There should be no risk of anyone having installed malicious software
from the site, since 0install always ensures the GPG signatures are
correct when downloading software (and the signing key is not on the
server).

I will probably move ROX-Filer over to github at some point, along
with anything else that needs updating in the future.

Hopefully that's the end of it, but let me know if you spot anything suspicious.

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MIME issue

A while ago the arduino project changed from using the .pde extension to .ino

For some reason, ven though the file content is identical ROX thinks .ino is a
text file so I can't get it to run the arduino app when clicking on such a file
without it then deciding to attempt to run all text files through this app.

Any suggestions as to how I can get round this.

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ROX-Filer, NFS and .DirIcon problem

Hello everyone,

I just encountered the following problem: after copying several
images (each named ".DirIcon") into different directories on a
NFS mount, my ROX-Filer (2.11) Window does, as expected, show
some of them instead of the default folder icon, but not all.

I discovered that for ROX-Filer to show the new icons, both the
directory (on the NFS mount) AND the corresponding .DirIcon
must be owned by myself. This is a bit surprising, since both
directories and .DirIcons are world readable.
This can be reproduced: as soon as the directory or the
.DirIcon are not owned by myself, the Filer displays the
default folder icon.

I copied the directories onto a local ext4 filesystem and
played with the ownerships. Everything's allright, ROX Filer
always shows the .DirIcon images.

I am not at all sure that this would be a ROX Filer problem,
may also be related to NFS or something completely different.
However, as both the directory and the .DirIcon are readable,
the filer should IMO display the new icon.

Any hints?

Regards,
Thilo

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DVB apps

Just to let anyone who may be interested know that I've just put a couple
of simple ROX apps for using a DVB tuner up on the web at

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/software/index.html

At present they are stuck down at the bottom of the page. But I may tweak
that when I add another app to record a complete mux.

As usual, if anyone finds them useful or wants to change/improve them, feel
free. 

Slainte,

Jim

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Archive app

I'm just finishing off a set of ROX apps for use with a DVB tuner. And I
intend to put tars of these on the web. However I've run into an odd
problem that I recall encountering in the past...

When I try to use the versions of the Archive rox-app that I have, they
keep repeatedly calling 'zero install' whilst working. Yet older versions I
used to use didn't do this. So I'd like to avoid this distracting 'call
home' behaviour. (The app works, regardless, even when used on a machine
disconnected from the net. So contact with zero install clearly isn't
needed.)

I thought I'd try getting a fresh copy of the archived app itself. But I
now can't find one that I can download, extract with tar, and use *without*
the calls to zero install.

I looked on the

http://roscidus.com/desktop/

page which led me to the

http://roscidus.com/desktop/software

page.

This shows me a link for the Archive app (apparently). However the
'download' link on that page actually takes me to one that has archives of
rox-filer, not the Archive rox-app.

So where/how do I find a simple tar file of the Archive rox-app that will
work without trying to use zero-install?

Cheers,

Jim

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Removable Media Access

I've been using Devtray (0.4.1) for ages. I'm concerned that this is getting
rather long in the tooth now, with no signs of any development - is it that
perfect? :)

I tried Media instead at one point but could never get it to work.

Is there any other removable media program that anyone can recommend, and that
will play nice with Rox? 

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