I've got a few observations, comments and questions regarding Slitaz 4.0. For my tests I have used all four slitaz-core-4in1 rolling versions that have come out since Saturday, each with the "Live" and the "GTKonly" options. The following findings are the same for all four versions ...
Boot Options
What is the difference between "SliTaz Live" and "SliTaz core Live"? I can see that the respective command lines look differently but both options seem to lead to the same result.
GTKonly - Boot-Up
The procedure prompts for the keymap but not for the locale. Shouldn't both prompts be in there? Also, since Slitaz 3.0 times the German keymap appears as "Deutchland". I like such typos because they're funny. But of course it should be "Deutschland" with an "s".
GTKonly - Logout
The panel-menu (LXpanel) and the desktop-menu (Openbox) use different logout boxes. LXpanel uses "desktopbox logout" and Openbox uses "tazbox logout". I think, they should both be the same. As I prefer the "desktopbox logout" box, I've changed the Openbox menu in /tux/.config/openbox/menu.xml accordingly. (In Slitaz Live both are configured to use "tazbox logout". Maybe they should also be changed, as "desktopbox logout" is simpler and requires fewer mouse clicks?)
GTKonly and Live - Panel
I only use the bottom panel, so I've removed the top panel. In the panel preferences advanced settings the options "Make window manager treat the panel as dock" and "Reserve space, and not covered by maximized windows" should be selected by default, as they were in Slitaz 3.0.
GTKonly - Panel applet - Volume control
The applet doesn't appear in the panel because audio is not configured in GTKonly. Maybe the GTKonly version should have audio configured by default? (not sure about this).
GTKonly and Live - Panel applet - Minimize all windows
The applet also applies its tricks on the panel itself. When I click the icon, the panel disappears but the task manager tells me that it's still running. I have no idea how to bring the panel back in this situation. Is this a bug in LXpanel or in the applet?
GTKonly - Video configuration
From answers further up in this thread I have learned how to set up my Nvidia card for X, using the proprietary driver. Great! But just to make sure I'm not overlooking anything, here's what I'm doing after logging in as root ...
tazhw setup nvidia --non-free
... Read license? no
... Accept license? yes
... Configure X ? no (prevents the creation of 55-DeviceTweaks.conf)
rmmod intel_agp
nvidia-xconfig
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
check/edit ... driver "nvidia"
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Device.conf
check/edit ... driver "nvidia"
ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/55-DeviceTweaks.conf
if it exists ... rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/55-DeviceTweaks.conf
nano /etc/rcS.conf
check/edit ... LOAD_MODULES="nvidia" (remove intel_agp)
startx
ctrl + backspace
/etc/init.d/slim start
... maybe, if there's something still terribly wrong in all of this, one of the wizards here can let me know? (P.S.: there's an Intel AGP on my motherboard that cannot be disabled in the BIOS. I disable it here but the module keeps creeping back in whenever I use tazhw detect-pci).
GTKonly and Live - Tazlito
And lastly, the only serious problem I have encountered: I cannot make a customized LiveCD with Tazlito. The first part of the procedure, the gzipping, works well. But when Tazlito tries to fetch the kernel from the CD I get this error message ...
> Unable to mount the cdrom to copy the kernel and needed files. When SliTaz is
> running in RAM the kernel and bootloader files are kept on the cdrom. Please
> insert a LiveCD or unmount the current cdrom to let Tazlito handle the media.
... and I have no idea what to do about this. I suspect there's something wrong with the way the CD drive is detected and mounted. The left pane of PCmanFM shows the same CD drive twice, both unmounted. Maybe it's something in fstab? Maybe its something in tazlito.conf? I am grateful for any suggestions.