Welcome's Personal Commands tutorial gets some more stuff!

General system EndeavourOS installation
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These additions have been made to the tutorial of Welcome’s Personal Commands:

  • There’s an example about adding your own bash functions. So this is where you can show off! :smile:
  • A mention about a yad “feature” that may unexpectedly change the number of columns you specify (but mainly it works as expected). Thanks @FLVAL :wave:
  • Added some more explanations today.
  • Other minor enhancements.

Here’s the tutorial.

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Thanks @manuel, I begin to read the bash functions, your explanation are clear to use it, but I have a lot to read and test about bash to know how to pass a value on a PKGBULD file to modify the pkgver value at the latest !

I’m cleaning my HardDrive cause after the exam, I have folders and files everywhere, it’s a mess !
I need to save space and rethink all this…after it I will try to see if I’m able to get this Calamares update at the latest throw Welcome’s Personal Commands it would be a good exercice for me…

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I guess your are doing something like this?

  new_pkgver=3.2
  sed -i PKGBUILD -e "s|^pkgver=.*$|pkgver=$new_pkgver|"
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I need to understand how to detect when each step are done in the good order ?

1- Modify file PKGBUILD with your code UP
2- Place PKGBUILD file into /home/liveuser/Documents/
3- Create the file pkg.tar.xz
4/ Copy file pkg.tar.gz into /var/cache/pkgfile/
5/ Install it

I remember when I did long time ago some actionscript, it does kind of listenner to detect when a step is done maybe it exists something similar that gives you a bolean finish false or true ?

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Increasingly, one of my favorite apps has become the Welcome app. Simple but great. I have not seen a similar solution in other distributions I know of, although there may be a welcome app in them. It is a good thing that the user can customize it himself. I will analyze the tutorial in more detail later, now I just looked at it briefly. Would that be that certain yad? https://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/multiple-item-data-entry-with-yad

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$ yad --version
6.0 (GTK+ 3.24.21)

man yad

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Let’s hope I understand your case.

Assuming you already have the correct PKGBUILD in folder /home/liveuser/Documents, then something like this might be what you would like to do. You can write this into a file, for example update_package.bash:

#!/bin/bash

DIE() {
    echo "Error: $1" >&2
    exit 1
}

Main()
{
    # User gives the new pkgver value as a parameter:
    local new_pkgver="$1"
    local name

    # Go to the proper folder:
    cd ~/Documents || DIE "cannot go to folder $HOME/Documents !"

    # Check there is a value:
    test -n "$new_pkgver" || DIE "please give new pkgver !"

    # Check PKGBUILD file exists:
    test -r PKGBUILD || DIE "sorry, PKGBUILD does not exist !"

    # Replace PKGBUILD's pkgver with the new value:
    sed -i PKGBUILD -e "s|^pkgver=.*$|pkgver=$new_pkgver|"

    # Find the name of the package from the PKGBUILD:
    name="$(grep "^pkgname=" PKGBUILD | cut -d '|' -f 2 | tr -d '"' | tr -d "'")"

    # Create a package:
    makepkg -cfs || DIE "makepkg failed !"

    # Install package with pacman:
    sudo pacman -U ${name}-*.pkg.tar.*
}

Main "$@"

Please note that I didn’t test any of this! :wink:

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Thanks @manuel, I need to know if the own_command on the Welcome from latest ISO after update in testing on VBox is supposed to work as the Welcome installed on baremetal ?

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Basically yes it should.

But there have been a report by @ricklinux on Cinnamon that some graphics features may not work properly. There was a Cinnamon setting to work around it, probably Rick remembers what it was.

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I just tested it on VBox - latest ISO with a basic welcome-own-cmds.conf that works on my baremetal EOS XFCE and it didn’t work ? Did I have to modify something to make it work on VBox ?
It could be the LIVE USER permission ?

To test Calamares I need to be in this environment as a user would be.
In case you test it on Vbox or VMware, let me know if I’m doing something wrong or if you got the same.

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What exactly did not work?
Of course wrong permissions could make it not to work. But I need more details.

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In the LIve ISO environment on VBox then I placed my welcome-own-cmds.conf file into /home/liveuser/.config/ and when I launched eos-welcome nothing added on the TAB.

own_command

I would like to add an Update Calamares button on this Welcome, is it wrong way to do?

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Right.
Personal Commands currently work only on an installed system, not with the installer.
Sorry, I probably should have noticed that already before. Just got confused about the Vbox.
But if you need it on the installer, I try to make it work there too. May take a while though… :wink:

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In fact, I don’t have choice to test Calamares in this environment on the same condition as user would do just before install.

Take your time, is not urgent at all, I was curious to test your new command, I could do it manualy as before. I added some code on the last one you gave me cause the PKGBUILD file comes from our repo, so I need to download it before to modify it…

I could test it on baremetal for now, I will change the paths…

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OK, now there’s a new Welcome version 3.1-1. It supports Personal Commands also in the installer.

Please let me know how it goes! :smile:

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You are faster than Bip Bip !

I go to test now.

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it works so I could continue :ok_hand:

Thanks @manuel

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You’re Welcome! :wink:

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Again, @manuel, great work! At the moment I can’t test it, but I will very soon.

I’m off again on my Velomobile and I think we will be on the road it until next tuesday (28th 0f July).

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Happy holidays, drive safely! :smile: