Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I've just encountered exactly the same problem while testing the solution provided in another thread (now using Dingo): This is where vendavisions post helped. I edited the file /etc/rc.d/rclocal and added the following line: echo -n "false" > /etc/.XLOAD...

EDIT: Discovered I'm an idiot. Had puppy 3.01 set up, rather than what I thought was 4.0. Sorry to waste your time.

Looking at http://www.gtk.org/ there seems to be newer subversions.
Should I still download the packages from the http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/slac ... ackware/l/ site or will it work if I download the latest versions from http://www.gtk.org/ and use those?

Nobody has any idea?

Time to start again I suppose...

Any ideas on the right way to install GTK 2.12 then?

Hi there, I recently discovered Puppy Linux and am really happy with it. It it brilliant for getting some use out of my very old and useless laptop. Everything was going well... I had version 4.0 running fine, set up my Netgear Wireless USB stick with the ndiswrapper and also set it up to mount a sh...