To set the default action by hand, you edit /usr/local/bin/defaultwordprocessor. Replace abiword by the executable for Libre Writer. I don't use Lucid or LibreOffice, but for my older OpenOffice, there is a link /usr/local/bin/swriter to the actual writer executable in /opt, so swriter replacing abi...

Until some time in the 1990's, my computer was a two floppy IBM XT. I worked hard to get as much on a 360K disk as I could: DOS, a good text editor, Vernon Buerg's LIST, Turbo Pascal for programming. To make it more responsive, you could put command.com in the high memory area and copy other parts i...

The traditional unix command-line search function is grep, often used with input piped in from or piped out to another command. Puppy also comes with gui tools, pfilesearch and pfind (look them up in additional software), which searches either file names or text within files for a given fragment tha...

If you really want typing "dir" to give a directory listing, you can make it an alias by adding a line
alias dir='ls -la'
to the file /etc/profile or (better) to the file /root/.bashrc. Click the eye button in rox to see files whose names start with a dot.

The final menu entries correspond to .desktop files in /usr/share/applications. The category entry specifies where in the menu it will appear. If you want to add or remove a menu entry, you create or delete one of these files. Menu categories are specified by files in /etc/xdg/menus and /usr/share/d...

Older puppies provided xclock in /usr/X11R7/bin

Just to confirm. It's a MS Word document with an embedded Word picture. I can't tell the origin of the picture. Abiword (old version 2.6.3) can't see the picture. Openoffice (old version 2.2) sees it fine. Textmaker (2008, Linux) can't see the picture, but a frame shows there is an object there. If ...

At the time Dijkstra was making the case against goto, the facilities for program flow in the primary computer language available (FORTRAN) were extremely primitive. There was the arithmetic if, assigned and computed goto (both pretty much obsolete now), and the do loop. No do while, no if...then; t...

The 10x20 and similar fonts are public domain "misc" fonts distributed with the X window system. They are located in /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc. Some further information on them is in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface) (This reply was blank up to now. Seems the message body d...

Yes, less than and greater than are the real names of < and > symbols.

Look in http://jeff560.tripod.com/mathsym.html for some history of these and other mathematical symbols.

I tried basic linux before discovering puppy, and it still works for me. Rather than deal with floppies, download the file bl3-50.zip from the BL3 site ( http://volny.cz/basiclinux ). This zip archive contains README.TXT SWAP.ZIP FS.IMG (20MB ext2) INITFS.GZ (gzipped ext2 filesystem) BOOT.BAT LOADLI...

With pup_save.2fs on a flash drive, the active read-write layer is kept in RAM, and the actual pup_save file updated periodically or at shutdown by the script /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy. Files you delete are marked by whiteout files. The script handles erasure from pup_save. Why the erasure has failed...

The pup-save is not only /root. A frugal puppy installation operates using an overlay file system. The pup_save.2fs file contains the read-write layer. The other principal part, the pup_xxx.sfs file (which is normally copied into memory on startup), is a compressed, readonly file system. Both can an...

You might write a short wrapper script like

#!/bin/sh
exec links -g "$1"

and put it into the open with directory, instead of a symbolic link.

A fifth niche, puppy does not have to live in the computer it runs on. With a CD or DVD and a flash drive, I have my whole set of programs and personal stuff going on almost any computer available. Very convenient when traveling.

This isn't a complete answer, because I cannot tell why, but what has happened is that ROX, the file manager, has failed to start or has stopped. ROX is the program that maintains the desktop background picture and pinboard icons. It is normally started by the X-window system from the hidden file /r...

Probably the best description you will find of the overall scheme for drive mounting is the one on Barry's site:
http://www.puppylinux.com/technical/eve ... gement.htm

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With a frugal install, the puppy files vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup_xxx.sfs, and your save file are just files on some preexisting partition of the hard drive. When puppy runs, the drive itself is mounted as /mnt/home. There is nothing to stop you from having additional files and directories there. They ...

Maybe what you are looking for is

cat /etc/puppyversion

or

cat /etc/issue

Another starting point is the script developed a year ago by jcoder24 to dynamically load sfs files. Seems to work for an sfs on a CD, but I am not using puppy version 4.3. Discussion in http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37913 The pet for it is in the ibiblio archive under pet-package...