The portable yad almost works, but only yad command works, and some failures (...)

[gusbemacbe]

Hello!

I managed to build a portable container on Red Hat Linux 8.7. The complete process took more than 3 hours because the command line Excepting share-mime-info caused a stuckness in the terminal and a slowdown in the host OS.

I symlinked yad.arts to yad, yad-icon-browser and yad-tools:

• yad --help works and shows the correct details;
• yad-icon-browser --help shows the incorrect details;
• yad-tools --help has the same problem as yad-icon-browser;
• yad-icon-browser cannot open Yad's GUI.

1. I would like to resize from 10G to 600 MB. Is there how?
2. If it works on Red Hat Linux, will it also work on any old and new distributions versions, as Arch Linux?

[ruanformigoni]

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

The symlinks did not work because arts executes the command you set with 'arts-cmd', symlinks is a WIP, for now you can create a script called yad-icon-browser that does:

#!/bin/bash

HERE=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )

"$HERE"/yad.arts arts-exec "$(basename "$0") $*"

Put his script in the same directory as yad.arts and use it as you would a symlink with ./yad-icon-browser. For the other tools, you can just copy this script with the desired tool name cp yad-icon-browser yad-tools.

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The image apparent size is 10G, you can see the actual size with du -sh ./yad.arts. To resize it you can use arts-compress, this will make the image immutable, so make sure to install everything you need in it; or you can try to use ./yad.arts arts-resize 600MB.

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I'll check the delay with the share-mime-info issue, thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[gusbemacbe]

As Alpine does not have xcolor in their official repositories, I used Arch. But it failed:

[ruanformigoni]

Meanwhile, you can try to build it in a VM and copy it in the main host afterwards.

[ruanformigoni]

I've updated the other binaries with the fix, except the compression one.

[gusbemacbe]

I have just tested. It worked perfectly. The download and the installation are quicker on the native OS than on the VM. It is a pity that I cannot compress, as you still did not fix the compression binary.

Observe that after running the command ./arch.arts arts-exec xcolor -s clipboard and after selecting a colour, the command was not stopped or terminated, it was still stuck. I had to copy the random word from another window to stop the command.

[ruanformigoni]

Glad to hear it works! Currently working on the compression binaries. I as able to reproduce the xcolor issue, will investigate further.

[ruanformigoni]

Hello, compression binaries updated in the latest release.

[gusbemacbe]

Hello @ruanformigoni !

Has the extension arts been renamed to flatimage?

[ruanformigoni]

Hi there! Yes, I've renamed the project 😁