I installed the latest version of yad. There wasn't really any current versions of it around for debian, so i installed the current version ubuntu binary, which worked. Refractasnapshot 9.1.0 now is less sloppy and works properly bringing up the name distribution box (of course after applying the extra space to line 550 in it's config file).
I also got to testing refractainstaller 9.1.0. It displays properly and operates properly now. Still failing on simple install, but earlier i should have noted it just stops in its tracks when it's adding the swap entry to fstab.
EDIT: I'd just drop support for zenity entirely. These tools were built with yad in mind. And getting yad for debian is just one binary. If anyone wants to use these tools, i'm pretty sure they can hunt down a yad binary like i did. These tools being run with zenity makes a user think they were poorly designed without much of a thought that they themselves chose the wrong dependency to use with them. I thought this way for a bit until i did some research on yad (i didn't care about how the tools looked via the gui, i liked how they worked and what they did, however yad makes things a lot cleaner and definitely matters in the function of these tools i found out; you guys chose yad for a reason). That's why i decided to eventually ask if using yad mattered at all. It seems it matters a great deal.
fsmithred wrote:Sorry about that. Thanks for sticking with it until we solved it.
No problem man. In the beginning I was looking for an alternative to live-build since it's been doing nothing but failing for what is otherwise not that difficult a tool to use. The other alternative was simple-cdd, with nothing explaining how it worked, so i stayed away from it because i knew it would waste my time. The last answer is to make an iso from an installation. I am glad these tools are not remastersys, and beautifully a lot simpler in design and use. They have a lot of potential, and they're only getting better. My distribution is being built with and including these tools. I'm also bored and want to help out.
FURTHER EDIT: I will eventually test these tools on the credit card sized computer cubieboard. I own one, and the tools are processor architecture inependent. Time to do some research on yad for arm. The cubieboard is based on armhf architecture.