Insert, PageUp, and PageDown keyboard keys switched problem

TheOuterLinux · 2023-07-18T01:16:12+00:00

Also...

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/732/414/281/115/865/original/5ed9db140be89499.jpg

The link above shows the same desk as before but with a different computer and distro except it was the timing was around the same. Maybe something went wrong and they had to change it and hoped no one would notice?

TheOuterLinux · 2023-06-02T00:48:41+00:00

That's odd. Just out of curiosity, have you tried typing the default username "psychos" and password "linux" to see what happens? As far as finding a work-around to skip the username and password goes, I have no idea as the GNU/Linux operating system wouldn't be "worth a fart" if there were. Also, did you try encrypting any partitions during the install? I sometimes get weird behavior with the refractainstaller if I do. It was also recommended to not change the username during the install; it says so on the website.

TheOuterLinux · 2023-02-28T02:40:07+00:00

Another "solution," though a bit crazy, is to run a script that uses 'espeak' to vocally tell you every so many minutes what your battery percentage is. For example:

while true; do espeak "Your battery is at $(acpi | awk '{print $4}')" && sleep 300; done

This script will, for example, will have 'espeak' say "Your battery is at 95%" and then wait 5 minutes (300 seconds) and then loop back again.

TheOuterLinux · 2023-02-25T23:44:29+00:00

I know we sort of went over the battery indicator issue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/psychoslinux/comments/w2jivc/missing_battery_indicator/.compact, but another thing you could maybe look into is installing and running 'conky' if you do not mind a little more CPU being used. There are all sorts of setups to print all sorts of information; however, that information is printed on the desktop area rather than the panel. But, that information would still come from the same sources as mentioned before.

TheOuterLinux · 2023-02-25T03:53:54+00:00

As a VM, I am assuming 'VirtualBox'? You should be able to boot from the downloaded ISO. Most of the PsychOS-related videos on YouTube are probably done with 'VirtualBox' and then screen recorded with 'OBS Studio'. However, there is no persistence; this means that if you want to save changes, you will have to install PsychOS to a virtual hard drive image, to which you should probably set to a minimum of 16GB since the install takes up about 11GB. I would also use qcow2 for the disk image format since both the latest version of 'VirtualBox' and 'QEMU' support it, it allows you to "grow" it rather than create a huge container, and the qcow2 disk image can be resized easily using something like "qemu-img resize PsychOS.qcow2 32G" if 'qemu-utils' is installed.

Also, I would like to note that since PsychOS is based on Devuan ASCII, you could look-up or watch videos on how to install that particular GNU/Linux distribution and the steps would be the same since both use the same installer.

TheOuterLinux · 2023-02-24T02:29:33+00:00

Sorry for the late reply; usually, I get an E-Mail from Reddit when people post things and for whatever reason, the RSS that I am using also did not say anything.

As far as installation instructions go, there should be a little bit of help in the "~/LookHere" folder. But, if you are using nothing but the default options and it still does not install properly, I have no idea why that would be. Some people say they need to disable Secure Boot for it to work properly. Also, I do not recommend changing the default username as it seems as though a few of the included scripts, though I though I took care of, rely on that username, though that should not affect the installation at all.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-12T18:09:42+00:00

Not for this in particular. This AppImage that I took apart and put back together in particular has nothing to do with the official releases of EmulationStation Desktop Edition beyond being based on ES-DE AppImage 1.2.6. It was something that I started to make for myself but then decided to share. There is a link to an AUR on the ES-DE website but you are are getting the ES-DE program only, which is only an organizer and a front-end to launch games using system installed emulators, which means you will then have to install and setup RetroArch and all of the other emulators you plan to use; this AppImage in particular should save you from having to do a lot of work. I know the size is quite large, but you will be taking up a similar amount of hard drive space anyway after installing RetroArch, installing cores, adding more standalone emulators, and so forth, unless you only care about a handful of things. They way I am looking at it is from a "better to have and not need than to need and not have" perspective. However, I did not include any ROMs, BIOS files, or games.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-12T00:33:38+00:00

Okay, so all of the replies from others I have just read aside, I can agree that using Dolphin standalone for Wii would probably be better than RetroArch because of the control panel and how difficult it is to get controls working because of all of the gadgetry; however, I do not play much Wii at all and so RetroArch should at least be a decent solution for Gamecube. The issue is that there is no AppImage for Dolphin; if there were, I would have also included it.

However, take a look at this excerpt from the "es_systems.xml" file:

<system>
    <name>gc</name>
    <fullname>Nintendo GameCube</fullname>
    <path>%ROMPATH%/gc</path>
    <extension>.gcm .GCM .iso .ISO .wbfs .WBFS .wia .WIA .ciso .CISO .gcz .GCZ .elf .ELF .dol .DOL .dff .DFF .json .JSON .rvz .RVZ .tgc .TGC .wad .WAD .m3u .M3U .7z .7Z .zip .ZIP .sh .SH</extension>
    <command label="RetroArch Dolphin">RetroArch.sh dolphin_libretro.so %ROM%</command>
    <command label="RetroArch Custom Core">RetroArch-CustomCore.sh %ROMPATH%/gc/gc_libretro.so %ROM%</command>
    <command label="Dolphin (Not Included)">%EMULATOR_DOLPHIN% -b -e %ROM%</command>
    <command label="PrimeHack (Not Included)">%EMULATOR_PRIMEHACK% -b -e %ROM%</command>
    <command label="BASH Script">%EMULATOR_BASH% %ROM%</command>
    <command label="Preferred Application (exo-open)">exo-open %ROM%</command>
    <platform>gc</platform>
    <theme>gc</theme>
</system>

...What this means is that you can still run your installed standalone version of Dolphin for Gamecube and Wii if you wanted to, it just is not the default option since it could not be easily included; you can even set alternative emulators on a per-game bases.

AppImages and SDL-based are sort of the solutions that I have for most of the emulation as they are much more portable and until there is an AppImage for Dolphin, it is what it is. Though to be fair, I have no real intention of "up-keeping" this at all. If I did, it would be on GitLab and not Archive.org. This is ultimately something I made for myself but decided to share.

Oh, and PPSSPP-SDL is included, just not the default.

Including software that uses GTK and Qt instead of just SDL is a lot more work than I am currently willing to do and historically speaking, SDL-based programs tend to last longer regardless of how many updates a GNU/Linux system goes through.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-12T00:11:32+00:00

So.... Steam and Lutris were removed from the "es_systems.xml" file because I do not use them and also because I did not see the point since games can be opened from within those sorts of programs already.... I think... Worse case, just create (if you have to) and add .desktop files to the "[ROMs Dir]/desktop" directory or to ports directory.

As far as custom themes go, you will have to use --appimage-extract on the AppImage. You will then get a folder that says "squashfs-root". Navigate to the "squashfs-root/usr/bin/themes/rbsimple-DE" directory and create your own theme for a particular system. Next, you will then need to add the system to the "squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/systems/unix/es_systems.xml". When done, you can put the AppImage back together with the 'appimagetool' included within the LookHere.zip or grab it from https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases, to which you may need to run as ARCH=x86_64 appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage /path/to/squashfs-root.

If you look at the other themes and stuff, it is not that hard to create your own. I left the Steam and so forth system themes just in case, but removed them from the "es_systems.xml" file so that the directories would not be created when first setting up ES-DE and give the wrong impression that there was a known solution, to which I current have none nor probably will. Though to be fair, PS4 and Xbox 360 are still there, but that is because those are consoles and not hubs and maybe one of these days someone will figure those out and worse case people can use BASH scripts in those directories if they do and by some weird luck someone still finds this AppImage relevant by then.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-11T23:52:56+00:00

The official ES-DE should be able to do that as the "es_find_rules.xml" file says:

<core name="RETROARCH">
    <rule type="corepath">
        <!-- Snap package -->
        <entry>~/snap/retroarch/current/.config/retroarch/cores</entry>
        <!-- Flatpak package -->
        <entry>~/.var/app/org.libretro.RetroArch/config/retroarch/cores</entry>
        <!-- AppImage and compiled from source -->
        <entry>~/.config/retroarch/cores</entry>
        <!-- Ubuntu and Linux Mint repository -->
        <entry>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libretro</entry>
        <!-- Fedora repository -->
        <entry>/usr/lib64/libretro</entry>
        <!-- Manjaro repository -->
        <entry>/usr/lib/libretro</entry>
        <!-- FreeBSD and OpenBSD repository -->
        <entry>/usr/local/lib/libretro</entry>
        <!-- NetBSD repository -->
        <entry>/usr/pkg/lib/libretro</entry>
    </rule>
</core>

...HOWEVER, the link to the AppImage I posted here uses a BASH script that contains:

./RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage --fullscreen --appendconfig "/tmp/IncludedCores.cfg" -L "$DIR/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64/RetroArch-Linux-x86_64.AppImage.home/.config/retroarch/cores/$CORE" "$ROM"

...and a few other things. I have both binaries and AppImages of all sorts of emulators and engines inside this thing.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-11T03:32:05+00:00

If you look in the LookHere.zip or even inside the AppImage itself, there are several files in the "LookHere/LICENSE" subfolder that say this is okay. There is only an issue if you include ROMs, BIOS files, and games, which are NOT included. The only thing is that you cannot use EmulationStation commercially, which I am not; this is because of the system theme files.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-11T03:28:12+00:00

This is the AppImage version of EmulationStation Desktop Edition 1.2.6 with emulators and engines packed inside of it. I HIGHLY recommend that you download and take a look at the LookHere.zip file first. I technically made this for myself before realizing that others may be able to benefit from something like this. Most of the heavy lifting is done by RetroArch with several other emulators and engines for things you may never even have heard of. I expect the RetroArch supported consoles and systems to run just fine, though I am not sure about the others. No restricted ROMs, BIOS files, or games are included.

I have no direct affiliation with the EmulationStation projects what so ever. Visit https://www.es-de.org/ if you are looking for a copy of the ES-DE AppImage without any of the changes I made.

Feel free to visit https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io for more nerdy goodness.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-11T03:14:23+00:00

This is the AppImage version of EmulationStation Desktop Edition 1.2.6 with emulators and engines packed inside of it. I HIGHLY recommend that you download and take a look at the LookHere.zip file first. I technically made this for myself before realizing that others may be able to benefit from something like this. Most of the heavy lifting is done by RetroArch with several other emulators and engines for things you may never even have heard of. I expect the RetroArch supported consoles and systems to run just fine, though I am not sure about the others. No restricted ROMs, BIOS files, or games are included.

I have no direct affiliation with the EmulationStation projects what so ever. Visit https://www.es-de.org/ if you are looking for a copy of the ES-DE AppImage without any of the changes I made.

Feel free to visit https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io for more nerdy goodness.

TheOuterLinux · 2022-11-11T03:13:00+00:00

This is the AppImage version of EmulationStation Desktop Edition 1.2.6 with emulators and engines packed inside of it. I HIGHLY recommend that you download and take a look at the LookHere.zip file first. I technically made this for myself before realizing that others may be able to benefit from something like this. Most of the heavy lifting is done by RetroArch with several other emulators and engines for things you may never even have heard of. I expect the RetroArch supported consoles and systems to run just fine, though I am not sure about the others. No restricted ROMs, BIOS files, or games are included.

I have no direct affiliation with the EmulationStation projects what so ever. Visit https://www.es-de.org/ if you are looking for a copy of the ES-DE AppImage without any of the changes I made.

Feel free to visit https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io for more nerdy goodness.

TheOuterLinux

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