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TCE Talk / software source

« Last post by wysiwyg on March 05, 2026, 12:43:43 PM »

Hi all!

Looking over the "Source of wbar" thread below, I had a few questions.

1. Doe the source code files not migrate like the other repo software?  Meaning, when a new version of TC is released (e.g. 16.x to 17.x) the repo gets copied and updated at that point with any new versions of software.  Does the source code also get copied?  From the looks of the wbar conversation it doesn't appear so.

2. Does all software in the repo have a corresponding "src/PACKAGE"?

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General TC Talk / Re: Could be [tiny]core improved?

« Last post by GNUser on March 05, 2026, 12:16:12 PM »

Hi Rich. The select-to-copy, middle-button-to-paste is a great feature. X11 called it "primary selection." I'm happy to say labwc kept it.

The feature may be absent from GNOME and Firefox soon, though, because it is "unexpected." And, you know, "Goodbye X11" and all. https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-firefox-middle-click-paste-removal

I'm chomping at the bit to live in the GNOME utopia where nothing from yesteryear remains, where everything is shiny and new.

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General TC Talk / Re: Could be [tiny]core improved?

« Last post by neonix on March 05, 2026, 12:06:15 PM »

Hi neonix

Is it possible to add copy and paste function to aterm?

It already has copy/paste.

To copy, using the mouse, highlight the text with the left button held down.

If you then click the middle button, it will paste the text in the terminal
at the current cursor location.

Or, if you left click in an editor, then click the middle button, it will paste the
text in the editor at the current cursor location.

You can copy/paste from an editor to a terminal the same way.

It's not possible on touchpad.

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General TC Talk / Re: Could be [tiny]core improved?

« Last post by Rich on March 05, 2026, 11:45:44 AM »

Hi neonix

Is it possible to add copy and paste function to aterm?

It already has copy/paste.

To copy, using the mouse, highlight the text with the left button held down.

If you then click the middle button, it will paste the text in the terminal
at the current cursor location.

Or, if you left click in an editor, then click the middle button, it will paste the
text in the editor at the current cursor location.

You can copy/paste from an editor to a terminal the same way.

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TCE Talk / Re: ntfs 3g etc extensions

« Last post by wysiwyg on March 05, 2026, 11:38:28 AM »

Hey vinceASPECT,

The NTFS package should enable you to both read and write to NTFS partitions.  However, I think TinyCore has to be remastered in order to get it to use an NTFS partition to load extensions from it because NTFS is not part of the ramdisk image (hence the remastering of it to include NTFS support during the boot process).  Without this step, the ramdisk image has no knowledge of how to mount an NTFS partition.  Unless the readonly NTFS support was included in the Linux kernel (which I'm not sure of).

As an alternative, I could create a hook in the pax package so that a script could be called to redirect the TCE directory to an NTFS partition and the package loading could take place there.  The only two packages you would need in the original TCE directory would be NTFS and pax.

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General TC Talk / Re: Could be [tiny]core improved?

« Last post by Rich on March 05, 2026, 11:36:23 AM »

Hi neonix

Is it possible to offer another flavour, called tiny core deluxe?

Is it possible, yes.
Is it likely, absolutely not.

One of the reasons for Tinycore is you get to pick and install
the extensions you want, instead of having to remove extensions
that come prepackaged and you don't want.

If you feel you need  "tiny core deluxe"  because installing extensions
is too much work, then maybe Tinycore is the wrong distro for you.

There are other distros available with multiple apps preinstalled.

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Extension requests / Re: python3.14-pillow for TCL17 x86_64

« Last post by GNUser on March 05, 2026, 10:56:05 AM »

Thanks, Juanito.

I actually rebuilt img2pdf so that it depends only on python3.14, which is convenient. Unfortunately, the extension is now quite large (17M). I submitted it.

If the extension is not suitable for inclusion in the repo due to size, please feel free to reject it. No hurt feelings

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General TC Talk / Re: Could be [tiny]core improved?

« Last post by neonix on March 05, 2026, 10:33:44 AM »

Is it possible to add copy and paste function to aterm?

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General TC Talk / Re: Could be [tiny]core improved?

« Last post by neonix on March 05, 2026, 10:31:47 AM »

Is it possible to offer another flavour, called tiny core deluxe?

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TCE Bugs / Re: Xfbdev-jwm-desktop bug

« Last post by neonix on March 05, 2026, 10:29:15 AM »

Xprogs provides the tinycore gui applets, which depend on fltk-1.4, which depends on wayland

jwm depends on librsvg, which depends on dav1d

You could try the 32bit tinycore, which does not use wayland and uses an older version of librsvg that does not depend on dav1d?

I understand that dav1d provides avif graphic format for librsvg, but If we run fltk-1.4 without wayland, will it work?