Still getting the warning to move my files, so I did - I moved the actual files to /root where previously they were just symlinked - completely on the ext4 partition the rest of my (Xenial) puppy is. Still getting the warning. I think I'm entitled to my own little rant now: My main use for dropbox f...

I'm running Puppy in an ext4 partition with dropbox symlinked to where the folder is in ntfs (so if I go into windows I can have dropbox running there as well). That should be okay right? But I still get the warning that it will stop syncing in November. So I read the article on linuxuprising (above...

How are you getting Chromium to work in Quirky 8.1.4? I've download a ton of deb files for arm versions to no avail. Please tell me there's a .pet - I don't know how to compile...

I haven't been able to install:
Gimp
JRE
Flash
(I've tried old-fashioned pet, txz sfs, and straight from the package manager. No good.)

I have been able to install:
premote
Dropbox
Packit

Can anyone point me to a Gimp that will install? Or is it me?

Hi gcmartin, I wasn't worried about adding a new rdp server to the host, as the one built into Windows is fine. I just wanted to know how to leave the sound at the Windows htpc host so I could listen to music over my home theatre system from Premote on my laptop. And I answered my own question by us...

Thanks for Premote William! Had a look at DoMyFile and I probably will use it occasionally for fiddling with media files. Another trick I worked out to save me getting up off my couch more often than I need to is that I put a sleep shortcut on my Windows desktop so that I can suspend it from Premote...

Hmmmm. Well that was easy - I just looked it up in the docs for Rdesktop and you just need to add:
-r sound:remote
to the default connection. And it works!

Hi, here I am, still using Puppy as my main everyday os after 10 years. She's a beauty! I do however use Windows for my htpc as I can get the sound more how I like it. I've been using Premote to do stuff on the htpc from my Puppy laptop, partly because using the air mouse is a bit limited, plus also...

The only problem I've had not already mentioned here is that it drops out of x when I click on the free space button, and same if I run "Partview" from the desktop. Funnily, the first time I booted into it I could create a save-file, but on un-saved boots after that it wouldn't save. I did...

copy the .mozilla directory to /mnt/home then, delete the .mozilla directory form /root then, reboot and save Now, Puppy "knows" that .mozilla is NOT in /root Create a link from the /mnt/home/.mozilla to /root/mozilla I do it by ctrl left button on the /mnt/home/.mozilla and dragging it t...

Hi. I've been trying to have my firefox profile in my home directory instead of root, but none of the instructions I've read here or elsewhere seem to have helped. Whatever I do Firefox just keeps putting my profile in /root/.mozilla/firefox So I had a look at how to create a new profile pointing to...

Hi, I couldn't find an icon for the puppy symbol in the icon-set, so I made my own and thought I'd share it...

I'm currently using my pc as a media player and I'd like to beef the sound up to 24-bit. Can ALSA easily detect my hardware and set my sound up for 24-bit? Or do I need to choose my sound card carefully and get advice from the community?

cheers,
Steve

I got Python 2.x running with the devx file okay, but I couldn't work out how to do code in a separate window like using Idle in Windo$e.

So I ended up downloading Active Python. It includes Idle, which is what I started learning on so I'll stick with that for now.

I got the version ( capital V ) by typing: python -V And I got help with: python --help Perl`s in there too. I`m running Puppy511 with the devx file. Thanks Sunburnt. I'm running 511 too. I'll get the devx file. (I wanted to be sure because like Barry I'm on satellite broadband which is very lean o...

Lobster wrote:Install slacko + devx

Does that mean I can't just run a devx sfs in my current lucid puppy?

Hi, I'm just at the start of trying to learn programming, and Python is my first language. I started by installing Python-3.pet, but when I tried executing a .py file in Geany I got an "invalid python installation" error. I tried to find more stuff I needed to put on my computer, but info ...

All my hard drives are in the computer. Occasionally I need my storage drive while the machine is running, so the bios idea and the usb idea won't suit. Maybe later I'll put it into a NAS, but it's in the pc for now. I tried to ask my original question without admitting that I use Windoze, but now I...

Hi. I have a main storage drive that I don't normally need when the computer is running. It seems to come up very quickly when I mount it, as if it's already running. Can I change it to not be running?

cheers,
Steve

Regarding the problem about the clock being wrong soon after you set it to the right time, I tricked it by setting it to the wrong time the opposite way, and now the clock is right in spite of itself...