Void Linux

So i'm new to void and have been trying to install steam, the flatpak was giving me some headaches with dbus so i added the non free repos and installed steam, but when i try to install the 32bit libraries like libgcc-32 xbps say they don't exist and everything to fix points me to 2 links from the void wiki that have been long dead

[EDIT]

I've managed to install by adding the free multilib repo

sudo xbps-install -Sy void-repo-multilib

Really impressed with xbps in @voidlinux
Been using it as my primary OS for a few weeks and I feel like it does what pacman on arch attempts to do. If not for @leah’s excellent “hrmph” rescue iso idk if I would have given void a go as soon.
Still love apk on @alpinelinux but that fills a different niche for me

Anyone ever use velox wm, If so how did you manage to get it to work with the dependencies?

velox wm is a suckless wayland wm written from scratch. https://github.com/michaelforney/velox

What do you think? April fools?

I have installed Void Linux on a Raspberry Pi yesterday, planning to install a bunch of old games as well as DosBox on it.

But after the installation I noticed that nethack wasn't in the arm repos, despite being in the Void x86 and x86_64 repos as well as the arm Raspberry Pi OS repos.

Is there any plan to add nethack in the arm repos of Void Linux?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14067380

Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

How do you go about setting up XMonad with XMobar on Void? Installing it via XBPS results in errors about not being able to find the module 'XMonad', and using Cabal fixes that, but leads to XMobar not being able to find my font and uses a pixelated font instead.

In case anyone needs it...

Thought I'd ask here first, then report if it's a bug. Haven't used Nmap on Void before. I installed the latest version available in the repos (7.94). Still, no matter what combo of switches I use, it never shows hostnames. I even tried -R (reverse DNS lookup), it still doesn't report the hostnames. On the other hand, Advanced IP Scanner (Windows) resolves hostnames just fine. Avahi daemon is running, though that shouldn't make a difference as far as I know. Samba is also installed and smbd and nmbd are running just fine.

It's an older PC, a P4 I use as a radio streamer mostly, so the install is x86.

The problem is, audio seems to play back faster. I have it set up to boot up the streaming application after boot (Tuner, about 20 seconds after boot since it uses a spinning IDE HDD, so the rig is slow on boot) and sometimes (rarely) everything will be fine, the playback speed will be fine. But, most of the time, the audio plays back faster. In some rare cases, I've also noticed it can play slower as well. Also, if the audio is fine after Tuner starts and you change radio streams, back to square one, it starts playing the audio faster.

I tried running other applications, like VLC and Audacious to see if the same thing is happening in them. Yep, the same thing. I still haven't tried Winamp with wine.

I still use PulseAudio on that rig. I didn't see a reason to switch since it did it's job, I don't really need anything fancy on it, just a workable audio out was all I needed.

Also, I have no idea when this actually started happening (everything worked fine when I set it up a few years ago, 1.5 or 2 years ago I think) since I haven't used it in a while as a streamer, but I needed to use it now. I thought it might be a kernel/driver bug, so I rolled back a snapshot a few months ago (I think a snapshot that still had some 5.x version of the kernel), and it did kinda work (the fast playback speeds were less sporadic) but it didn't eliminate the problem completely.

Please, tell me what commands to run on this thing, I'll do it and post the output. It uses an onboard audio card, some old Intel card part of the chipset I think. Here is the output from lspci regarding the audio.

Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I'm thinking PulseAudio is so outdated now that it causes problems like these on certain chipsets/audio controllers, but I'm not sure. I know I'll have to eventually switch to PipeWire, but I was hoping I could ride the PulseAudio train a little longer.

hi,

when I log in from lightdm to xfce4 the desktop appears with the top panel with clock and sound applet, but then there is a ~5 second delay before the panel continues to load applets and the wallpaper. I've been trying to work out what is causing the delay during xfce4 startup. I've disabled all the auto-start items but the issue remains. Does anybody know how to work out what is causing the system to pause?

Thanks for any help

Fresh Void install: looks like I have an old issue with flacs where songs are interrupted for a second or less. I came from Arch where this bug was fixed after a recent update to some package (maybe pipewire or flac itself?).

I've noticed many Void packages are not in the latest version like on Arch, so maybe I can use a flatpak or other to solve? Thanks for any help on this!

[edit] Looks like the fix is on flac 1.4.2, here the changelogs, Void version is still at 1.3.4

I've "partially solved" the issue using my fav player thru flatpak

Voidlinux new iso images released.

I learned about Void recently and really liked some of it's features as a distro (simple packaging system, runit services). Just wanted to hear what others like.

It's not much but it's mine.

Dot files are here: https://codeberg.org/JustineSmithies/river-dotfiles

Replacement for lxappearance in wayland compositors now in voidlinux.

https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx 0.2_1 is now available to install through xbps. There is also xbps-src template of swayfx-0.3.

An older photo from back in the day when I was still on Reddit.

Summary of my method of installing Hyprland on Voidlinux.

swayfx - SwayFX: Sway, but with eye candy!

ranger-testing - ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. Latest commit with built in sixel image previews.

neofetch-testing - A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ Latest commit.

Be warned there may be bugs 😉

https://codeberg.org/JustineSmithies/custom-void-packages