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by slackfan
Fri 02 Oct 2015, 14:13
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit
Replies: 10
Views: 4351

Dear Barry, By all respect I have for your great work (its profit is very important for a great number of thousand of owners of old (and young and performant) hardware, as well sticks as CD have a terrible effect on our environment...). It is an error to promote solutions based on consumption of goo...
by slackfan
Fri 02 Oct 2015, 08:06
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit
Replies: 10
Views: 4351

Hi Musher0 The most easy access to those distros is to use the presentations page of GNU for the free distros: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html The direct access is: http://www.dragora.org/en/index.html Note: dragora is (probably) intended don't to be delivered as ISO containing binaries...
by slackfan
Thu 01 Oct 2015, 19:39
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit
Replies: 10
Views: 4351

oh! I did just discover the link to the installation's html for that new quirky. ok, it would be somewhat useful if it would be a puppy (a small live mode CD linux) but it is "only" a quirky :oops: what is the difference in my eyes? a quirky is nothing good any more... you MUST install it ...
by slackfan
Tue 29 Sep 2015, 21:22
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running xrandr -o normal alt. xrandr -o left to turn screen
Replies: 4
Views: 1402

tank you!
by slackfan
Tue 29 Sep 2015, 21:18
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: How to block the key combination Ctrl+Q in SeaMonkey?
Replies: 10
Views: 1745

How to block the key combination Ctrl+Q in SeaMonkey?

how to do that (some web applications use browser as real office platform where you are working hours! and only a wrong hitting on Ctrl Q close without warning the browser! The developers of Mozilla are really crazy... and how to recover written in the last opened web app if that happens? can the pu...
by slackfan
Mon 28 Sep 2015, 19:26
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: tahrpup64 6.0.5 CE
Replies: 862
Views: 522533

the actual pdf viewer seems don't to work. error msg:
qpdfview: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
by slackfan
Mon 28 Sep 2015, 07:17
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running xrandr -o normal alt. xrandr -o left to turn screen
Replies: 4
Views: 1402

thank you for your attention bigpup! a. this problem is the same on all or at least a lot of puppy's as soon you are using xrandr to turn virtually your screen to manage graphics in high format b. I also did post messages in the tahr puppy64 thread but as far I did understand, the questions actually...
by slackfan
Sun 27 Sep 2015, 22:42
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit
Replies: 10
Views: 4351

very interesting! thank you for the info, ally!

I suppose that the use of real 64 bit app's is also possible?
by slackfan
Sun 27 Sep 2015, 22:39
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running xrandr -o normal alt. xrandr -o left to turn screen
Replies: 4
Views: 1402

Running xrandr -o normal alt. xrandr -o left to turn screen

to process my graphic jobs (land maps as well as pictures) I need to turn the screen if I will use landscape, see pictures. my problem is that all that, being at the bottom in xrandr -o normal mode is after turning the screen IN THE MIDDLE of the screen and is hidden by the large picture. in tahr pu...
by slackfan
Sun 27 Sep 2015, 20:46
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit
Replies: 10
Views: 4351

Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit

as the 64 bit distributions are really rarely as complete as the 32 bit is this way very important for those coming from windows, mac or linux32 to some 64 versions... it is also rare to find some wine preinstalled to compensate that the one or the other app is not available in linux64 using an wind...
by slackfan
Sun 27 Sep 2015, 19:50
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: tahrpup64 6.0.5 CE
Replies: 862
Views: 522533

Hi I have some problems using the actual tahrpup64 ...-8 beta: a. the function menu > jwm window manager settings >> tray management >>> tray autohide option >>>> ON:tray autohide on does not work: the tray autohide stay "OFF" (my tray is on top because of xrandr -o left, option that I oft...
by slackfan
Sat 15 Aug 2015, 09:05
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: How about comparing initrd.q wary / humongous kernel quirky?
Replies: 1
Views: 1953

How about comparing initrd.q wary / humongous kernel quirky?

I would be interesting to read the comparison between both! what are initrd.q's (f.ex. wary64-6.99.iso) how to open them? how to rebuild them? as this thematic can be considered as parent / competitor from the thematic from "humongous kernel", where the 'vmlinuz' (kernel), for ex. for quir...
by slackfan
Mon 10 Aug 2015, 11:27
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: quirky / wary for old AMD laptop
Replies: 3
Views: 763

note: it can also be a Wary version as the last Wary from BK was an unicorn! The problem is Wary also is build to need full installation or alternatively a big RAM although it would be an extremly smart AMD64 mode Puppy like! but it doesn't start as a usual Puppy at although the name says it is conc...
by slackfan
Mon 10 Aug 2015, 07:45
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: color of text of icons on the desktop of puppy
Replies: 1
Views: 419

color of text of icons on the desktop of puppy

how to change them (I use actually an dark background picture and the texts are black! I would better need white or yellow...)
by slackfan
Mon 10 Aug 2015, 07:41
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: quirky / wary for old AMD laptop
Replies: 3
Views: 763

thank you for your attention. it's an old Acer emachines laptop E620 series Model no. KAW60 initially supplied with Windows Vista Home Basic emachines build with AMD64 Athlon but what I need would definitively be an Unicorn version because of compatibility of some software for AMD64 (in my opinion t...
by slackfan
Sun 09 Aug 2015, 22:06
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: quirky / wary for old AMD laptop
Replies: 3
Views: 763

quirky / wary for old AMD laptop

only under 2 GB ram!

are some "normal" quirky64 or wary64 ISO's and devx for them available?
by slackfan
Fri 24 Jul 2015, 20:59
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Links web browser for puppy 4.31
Replies: 6
Views: 3610

javascript & links

found in the links documentation Appendix 1: Links and JavaScript When Links was created, one of the main differences from Lynx was that Links supported JavaScript, even in text mode. It was controlled by the JavaScript 1.1 specification from Netscape Corporation. However JavaScript support was remo...
by slackfan
Sat 11 Jul 2015, 10:03
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Quirky-Unicorn-experimental-6.2.1.91 on MacBook
Replies: 0
Views: 530

Quirky-Unicorn-experimental-6.2.1.91 on MacBook

Hi we have a own laptop for Puppy with a normal partition table. but we also use a second laptop, a macbook, as it is delivered by apple, and we don't wish to change something important on it... as Quirky-Unicorn-experimental-6.2.1.91.iso give us a modern Puppy entirely logged in the kernel vmlinuz,...
by slackfan
Fri 10 Jul 2015, 23:02
Forum: Programming
Topic: How do I write programs for Linux?
Replies: 24
Views: 6377

probably that this page http://puppylinux.com/development/compileapps.htm as well as http://puppylinux.com/development/compileapps.htm can help to accede to divers classic puppy development usages from Puppy/Quirky in the past (old page from Puppy from scratch: http://puppylinux.com/development/pupp...