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pl3589

I can't seem to get it to work on my system (wary 5.5). When I try running the SFS from a terminal window, I get "Couldn't load XRE functions". pl3589 you could try firefox-17.0.5esr.pet ,Firefox Extended Support Release, this is from the Carolina repo, it has two addons included, FireFTP...

pl3589

I can't seem to get it to work on my system (wary 5.5).

When I try running the SFS from a terminal window, I get "Couldn't load XRE functions".

pl3589

tallboy wrote:
R-S-H wrote:2. The attached script (remove the fake .gz and make it executable)

Oops! Thanks for the assist!!

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pl3589

I haven't been able to extract your script. This is my first time doing this, so it may be something wrong that I'm doing. Clicking on the file I get the prompt "do I want to decompress the file?" When I click on "yes", the prompt goes away, but nothing else happens. The file doe...

pl3589

Thanks!

I found the PET file at http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 96&t=15136.

Thanks for your help.

pl3589

The color scheme in the search results on Pfind are kinda weird. I can barely even read the list on the left hand side. I'm using Wary 5.5 on a Dell Latitude laptop. I don't think its the computer, because I've been using this version of Wary for 3-4 weeks and Pfind is the only program I am having t...

pl3589

Thank you.

pl3589

I've been playing with my JWM configuration, and I keep seeing references to a 'pager'.

What is a 'pager'

pl3589

rcrsn51 wrote:If that is what you are looking for, read here.

Brilliant! Adding the following to the beginning of my script was all it took:

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#!/bin/sh
tail -n +4 $0  > /tmp/script.txt
exec rxvt -e sh /tmp/script.txt

Thanks!

pl3589

Where does the original file reside.. somewhere on your $PATH? Which Pup? Being new, I already considered that maybe it had do something with where the script was located. I have tried it in the following 3 locations: /mnt/home/Users/Dan/Documents/Menu_Test_2.sh /root/my-documents/Menu_Test_2.sh /u...

pl3589

Semme wrote:Hey- Welcome. Is it executable? If you don't know, file permissions will look like these >> -rwxr-xr-x

Thanks.

The script runs great from Geany or by running it from the terminal. So I assume that means it is executable.

Permissions are rwx,rwx,rwx/---

pl3589

I created a desktop shortcut to my script by dragging the script from ROX-filer to the desktop.

But when I click on the desktop icon for the script, nothing happens.

The script runs great from Geany or by running it from the terminal.

How do I get the script to work from the desktop?

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Unable to extract script

Colors used by Pfind make it hard to read

What is a 'pager'?

Creating a desktop shortcut to a script