An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

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Chickpea · Post by **Chickpea** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:37 pm

From the homepage of qingy:

What is qingy?
qingy is a replacement of getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, ...).

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:49 pm

Just got qingy fully installed and configured and WOW! It's cool! I made three themes so far. You can find them on my site (under themes)

http://www.roguelazer.com/linux.html#themes

robotben · Post by **robotben** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:09 am

when quingy loads it's green and the color looks wrong.

After X loads and I look at the pic of the ant in the default directory its the background is black and everything looks right.

is my color bit depth not set right some place?

thanks

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 10:40 am

Does your framebuffer work for other things?

christsong84 · Post by **christsong84** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:35 pm

http://www.thecodemonks.com/linux/frag.tar.gz

A theme I just threw together...for your fragging fun!

the image is from
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub- ... s/frag.jpg

robotben · Post by **robotben** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:54 pm

ah yes framebuffer, does it work for other things... how can I tell?

the only things I have as far as framebuffer support compiled are "VESA VGA graphics console" and "Advanced Low Level Drivers"

do I need to add my vid card here?

what is a frame buffer anyways?

thanks

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:59 pm

Chickpea wrote: I totally agree..x11-misc not a good choice. You dont need X to install it.

I think it should go in one of the sys-apps categories....

I'm with sys-apps too. Maybe I shall post a bug about it...

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:03 pm

Roguelazer wrote:Just got qingy fully installed and configured and WOW! It's cool! I made three themes so far. You can find them on my site (under themes)

http://www.roguelazer.com/linux.html#themes

I looked at your themes and I like them all

I would like to put together a theme package for qingy (and maybe an ebuild to accompany it...) and would like to add yours, too, if you have nothing against it. Credits would go to you, of course...

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:08 pm

christsong84 wrote:http://www.thecodemonks.com/linux/frag.tar.gz

A theme I just threw together...for your fragging fun!

the image is from
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub- ... s/frag.jpg

I would like to add your theme, too.
See my previous post...

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:16 pm

Noberasco wrote: I'm with sys-apps too. Maybe I shall post a bug about it...

Quoting myself

Posted a bug report: see
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29594

If somebody reading is willing to add his own comment to that bug, maybe qingy will get moved (many voices are better than one)...

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:21 pm

robotben wrote:ah yes framebuffer, does it work for other things... how can I tell?

the only things I have as far as framebuffer support compiled are "VESA VGA graphics console" and "Advanced Low Level Drivers"

do I need to add my vid card here?

what is a frame buffer anyways?

thanks

You do not need "Advanced Low Level Drivers"
And vesa VGA should work well for most video adapters... You can check wether a driver specific for your own exists...

BTW, what card do you have?

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:26 pm

Don't use the nvidia driver (called "rivafb"). The DirectFB site gives it a 10% supported level for good reason. If it's compiled in, the kernel refuses to boot at all. As a module, well, it's still pretty bad, but at least you can boot before you load it and crash the kernel.

Noberasco: I'd be very glad to let you use them. I'll be making more as soon as I get this pesky report done.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:52 am

Roguelazer wrote: Noberasco: I'd be very glad to let you use them. I'll be making more as soon as I get this pesky report done.

Thank you!
I'll upload them on SourceForge as a themepack when I release next version of qingy.

BTW, here is what I have in CVS:
- Starting X sessions for users with a shell other than bash
should no longer fail with strange errors
(this occurred at least with tcsh)
- addded support for selecting a random theme
at startup (just use 'random' as theme name)
- added support for screen savers
- added a screen saver: pixel
- added option to select which framebuffer device to use
- updated text mode login for increased security
- no longer necessary to create a /etc/directfbrc file:
now qingy creates automatically file /etc/directfbrc.qingy
(thus other DirectFB apps are unaffected) with
hopefully the proper resolution already detected.
Note: you need the 'fbset' program for this.

christsong84 · Post by **christsong84** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:02 pm

Noberasco wrote:
christsong84 wrote:http://www.thecodemonks.com/linux/frag.tar.gz

A theme I just threw together...for your fragging fun!

the image is from
http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub- ... s/frag.jpg
I would like to add your theme, too.
See my previous post...

wow...first thing I've actually contributed to the OSS community...

go for it!

I'm glad I could contribute in some way.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 4:04 pm

christsong84 wrote: wow...first thing I've actually contributed to the OSS community...

go for it! I'm glad I could contribute in some way.

Roguelazer wrote: Noberasco: I'd be very glad to let you use them. I'll be making more as soon as I get this pesky report done.

Thank you!
I'll create the themepack for the next release of qingy...

totoffe · Post by **totoffe** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 12:58 pm

I installed it yestarday, looks cool, but has few bugs:
-doesn't like when you logout with ctrl+alt+del
-crashes computer somitimes when fex xsessions are opened

tonyg_2 · Post by **tonyg_2** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:53 pm

kickass proggie, man. I just installed, and I love it. Any idea when it will be part of the official portage?

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 6:52 pm

There are some bugs... If you login to text console, then leave it runnign for 4+ hours, then try to switch to qingy, you get lots of errors. Other consoles started at the getty's, the current console and X all work, though. It's probably a framebuffer thing.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:02 am

tonyg_2 wrote:kickass proggie, man. I just installed, and I love it. Any idea when it will be part of the official portage?

It is. Under x11-misc/qingy

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:09 am

totoffe wrote: I installed it yestarday, looks cool, but has few bugs:
-doesn't like when you logout with ctrl+alt+del

This is not a bug. You may call it a missing feature. I will make it parse /etc/inittab to decide what to do when someone pressed the combo.

totoffe wrote: -crashes computer somitimes when fex xsessions are opened

That probably is a DirectFB problem. Can you try logging into your 'frozen' system via ssh and 'killall -9 qingy'?

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:11 am

Roguelazer wrote:There are some bugs... If you login to text console, then leave it runnign for 4+ hours, then try to switch to qingy, you get lots of errors. Other consoles started at the getty's, the current console and X all work, though. It's probably a framebuffer thing.

Noticed this, but on all machines I tested it fails to load qingy, than retries and invariably succed. If it is the same on your setup, then it is not so big a problem...

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:20 am

It doesn't do it anymore in 0.2.2. However, it gave me a kernel panic sometimes before. I think it tried to reload without having the "spawned too fast, waiting 5 minutes" error for some reason and reloaded too fast to keep the kernel alive. But it works now! Now where's those theme tarballs I made...

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:47 pm

Roguelazer wrote:It doesn't do it anymore in 0.2.2. However, it gave me a kernel panic sometimes before. I think it tried to reload without having the "spawned too fast, waiting 5 minutes" error for some reason and reloaded too fast to keep the kernel alive. But it works now! Now where's those theme tarballs I made...

I'm glad you no longer have the problem... As both DirectFB and qingy advance, such thinks should happen less and less frequently. If it does happen again, though, please e-mail me and I'll try to see trough it.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:51 pm

Roguelazer wrote:It doesn't do it anymore in 0.2.2. However, it gave me a kernel panic sometimes before. I think it tried to reload without having the "spawned too fast, waiting 5 minutes" error for some reason and reloaded too fast to keep the kernel alive. But it works now! Now where's those theme tarballs I made...

I'm glad you no longer have the problem... As both DirectFB and qingy advance, such thinks should happen less and less frequently. If it does happen again, though, please e-mail me and I'll try to see trough it.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 6:46 pm

Roguelazer wrote:It doesn't do it anymore in 0.2.2. However, it gave me a kernel panic sometimes before. I think it tried to reload without having the "spawned too fast, waiting 5 minutes" error for some reason and reloaded too fast to keep the kernel alive. But it works now! Now where's those theme tarballs I made...

I'm glad you no longer have the problem... As both DirectFB and qingy advance, such thinks should happen less and less frequently. If it does happen again, though, please e-mail me and I'll try to see trough it.

An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

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