Feedback so far on Ghost.

mikethe1wheelnut

Note that this is not a help&support request, none of the issues are terrible or without known or suspected solutions.

1) When changing folder names in the file manager, the name goes black, making it close to impossible to see what you're doing. Such names can, I'm sure, be changed via the command-line, and changing them via the editor is doable.

2) sound almost cannot be heard. apparently this is a known problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/GhostBSD/comments/1d3q1rl/sound_hll/

3) tab-completion when using pkg install seems not to work. not clear if this is a ghostBSD specific problem

Everything else seems great!

brianthehughes

mikethe1wheelnut

Thunar or Caja file manager ? I see this on Mate’s Caja. I believe updating the theme settings toward dark modes resolved the colouring issue.
Nothing to add about sounds.
I don’t believe tab on the command line is connected to autocomplete through the pkg database. I think some package manager guis can do that sort of tab completion for installed package handling. Search in software station starts to provide a usable filtering look at the available GhostBSD pkg database.

Fellow ghost

grahamperrin

mikethe1wheelnut … tab-completion when using pkg install seems not to work. …

It should work when specifying the path to a local package.

mikethe1wheelnut

grahamperrin Ok. Interesting! ..I should probably have been more clear. The system -seems- to know what I want to type in. It gives me greyed-out options. How do I -accept- those options? <tab> does not work. ..as far as I recall..

grahamperrin

mikethe1wheelnut … <tab> does not work …

Try the End key.

brianthehughes

Tab completion follows commands and often options into the shell that you're using.
The other completion is probably command history. Using the Right Arrow key will accept these.

In my experience, when the commands are short and/or familiar (often used) it can be easy to think of them as the same thing.

And tab completion DOES seem to work into pkg install, one may need to wait a moment depending on how much it's completing on:

mikethe1wheelnut

brianthehughes Your second suggestion matches what I experienced! So, right-arrow key, huh? Thanks!

teekay

For the sound issue, I too have very low sound level when I boot up. To fix this, I run:
mixer pcm=100%
I used to run this on boot and it was fine, but recently I noticed that when I use the Mate volume control, it resets that pcm back down to some low value, and I have to run it again once more. Quite annoying, but at least a work-around that works.

mikethe1wheelnut

teekay I'll have to check this out, thanks!

grahamperrin

I just installed shells/fish on FreeBSD-CURRENT. Not my first use of fish, however this probably is my first use after spending years struggling with shell basics.

Nice. I might make fish a default.

I love that history timestamps include the date by default:

root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd ~\# history \-t  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:36:12 2025  
exit  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:35:58 2025  
tail .history  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:34:39 2025  
ls -ahlrt  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:30:15 2025  
pkg query %o shells/fish  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:29:26 2025  
man history  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:29:19 2025  
history -t  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:28:50 2025  
history  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:28:45 2025  
hist  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
bye  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
q  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
checksec  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
ls  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
ls -hl  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
cd /  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
ls -Bdhiln .  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
pwd  
\# Tue Feb 11 06:26:21 2025  
cd  
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd ~\# exit  
root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ #

(I can figure out a better date format later.)

This morning I found https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/154500/13260 for tcsh. I could never have learnt that from its manual page.

First downside of fish, for me:

ls -ahlrt

works as expected in tcsh
seemed to not work as expected in fish, only because (muscle memory) what I truly keyed was

ls -a
up
Return

It might take a long, long time for me to unlearn the up key (to use the End key in fish).

brianthehughes

grahamperrin

brian@d501 ~> fish_config
Web config started at file:///tmp/web_configi89j0csz.html
If that doesn't work, try opening http://localhost:8000/ca1f87ddcf38caa2a5f65ed0db287f0c/
Hit ENTER to stop.

Learn and/or modify fish to fit needs and preferences. I like removing/blanking fish_greeting.

vimanuelt

I went the other direction and migrated to 'osh' this month. Not having 'tab autocompletion' might annoy many people, but I don't mind. :-)

grahamperrin

vimanuelt osh

Via https://www.freshports.org/shells/osh/, http://v6shell.org/ redirects to https://etsh.dev/ with no mention of osh.

Is https://oils.pub/ the home page?

mikethe1wheelnut

grahamperrin Will do! Thanks!

vimanuelt

grahamperrin Yes, osh is oil shell.
To install, run: sudo pkg install oil-shell

Without tab completion, it appears to be more like a shell for non-interactive use. It reminds me of rc.