"I'm pretty sure this old thing will only run Precise." Surely you jest. Have you tried any of pemasu's versions? Snowpup, Icepup, upup raring. My favorite for my P4s is currently Slacko 5.6, and also 3 Headed Dog. To each his own, but I tried Precise 5.7 and found that my P4s hated it. I...

Oh very cool! I just found the pup-variants. I got the XPrecise going. A little slow compared to regular Precise. According to everything I researched, XFCE requires at least 256M of RAM and that is all I have in this old laptop. I have LxPup and Carolina 1.1 ready to go to see how they run. Thanks ...

you still on precise...hmmmm mike Yes, still trying to get Precise puppy 5.7 retro to work how I would like it to work. I would like something to run on my old Acer Aspire 3000 that was new when XP hit the shelves. I would really like to get this XFCE to run to even see how it works. I tried anothe...

Went here <http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84637> and tried their instructions, but it never booted. Do I have to force it by uninstalling ROX_filer?

http://rubenerd.com/uploads/logo.xfce.wide.png :arrow: Slacko : http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkmatelxde/files/Desktop_Environment_Puppies/Slacko/ Components : -Ristretto 0.6.3 -Thunar 1.6.2 -Xfce-Settings-4.11 -Xfce terminal 0.6.1 :arrow: Precise : Xfce 4.10 http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons...

mikeb wrote:xfce4 would provide the full desktop...perhaps something like that might be what you want

mike

No idea. Every time I try to install it, nothing happens. The PPM says it's installed, but I can't seem to get it to run. Am I missing something?

Thank you. Good to know.

Now, how do I get LXDE to run alone? It ran over the top of JWM.

Also, what kind of desktop environment can I run on Precise? I uninstalled ROX-Filer and had no desktop or anything. It was just a black screen.

Cool, thanks. I got IceWM to run. Now if I can figure out how to get LXDE to run. It's installed according to PPM, but I can't see where to run it.

OK. IceWM looks nice, but how do I install it to run in place of JWM? I thought I installed IceWM using the PPM, and I uninstalled JWM. When I rebooted, it wouldn't boot up. What step did I miss?

I love how Precise 5.7 has revived my old Aspire laptop. However, I don't like the desktop environment or the window manager. I do not see JWM and ROX-Filer as being Windows9x like in any way. I would love to find a combination of DE and WM that comes close to XP which is what I had on this old lapt...

How do I safely remove desktop icons/links without deleting the program? In Windows XP, it's a simple matter of right-click the icon, delete, and send the desktop link to recycle. The program is still there to use, but the desktop is cleaner. Is there a way to do that in Precise Puppy and how?

OK here goes....

Full install with Grub4bootloader on a partition on the hard drive. The partition I made with GParted.

I can actually still see all the partitioned drives and files, so a copy & paste job might work I guess. This old laptop has XP on it

It also has 256M of RAM.

I ran Precise on my dad's old laptop, and went through the steps to make a partition for Precise. I thought it was all good when I loaded it to the hard drive. Only problem is now Windows doesn't show up to boot up and the partitions that had Windows on it are listed as unallocated. The partitions s...

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to look over the suggestions, except for the "rm -rf" one. Thanks.

So, I'm going to have to learn everything about linux first to get it the way I want it to look, correct? There doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing anything in linux. Sorry, but I'm feeling very overwhelmed going over these forums and looking at the links posted above. I'm feeling completely los...

I have an old laptop, an Acer Aspire 3002 with XP, that was bogging at the load screen of Windows much less running anything else. I loaded Puppy Precise 5.6.1 to get it working again. It runs great now. However, there are all sorts of things I am unfamiliar with that I'd like to hide. My main quest...