For anyone who prefers Google Chrome over the other web browsers on offer I've made a package that creates a cron job to automatically check for updates on a daily basis. If an update is available then the Debian package is fetched from dl.google.com along with the google-chrome.Slackbuild from the ...

Thanks, you've been really helpful.

I decided to install and configure laptop-modes-tools this evening which has solved my problem and more.

I also disabled the display settings in laptop-modes-tools and hard disk settings in xfce4-power-manager to avoid any conflicts which I assume could occur.

Well I've discovered that this from the README.Slackware doesn't work: ... As an example, if you wanted to change the hdparm setting for your hard drive's power management setting: rather than copying the entire contents of /usr/lib(64)/pm-utils/power.d/harddrive to /etc/pm/power.d/ and editing the ...

I use the following:

I currently have the following two commands in my rc.local to disable power management on my laptops hard drive and wireless card: # Prevent excessive hard disk load cycling hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda # Prevent wifi intermittently dropping connection iwconfig wlan0 power off Although this works it's a b...

Your still missing the point. The wrapper script that I wrote just removes the requirement to specify the root user when launching ktsuss which is the default behaviour for applications such as kdesu and gksu. If your unsure what's going on here just read the script: #!/bin/sh # /usr/bin/gksu: ktsus...

AFAIK, spkg will run update-desktop-database and gtk-update-icon-cache (?) regardless of any commands in the doinst script.

Just to make you aware.

But they're not required to build the package. These accounts are runtime dependencies only.

If it was up to me the doinst script would create the user and group upon installation but this isn't the Slackware way .

All my build SLKBUILDs for packages that are not in the 13.37 repository can be found in the relevant series here: http://people.salixos.org/pwatk/packages/current/ Oh and you don't need a pulse user and group to build the pulseaudio package, you can set these up after. I found a list of dependencie...