Hi nooby, This part does does one make use of F12 or F2 of ESC or what keys active so one can chose the puppy that exist on both USB key and with Dir and some files on the desktop/ laptop PC? Teach me to accomplish this please. I had talked about several things in that quote you replied to... I'm no...

Hello @JTWdyp ... So what happens if what I got is an 16GB stick? ... It is NOT supported. Both @ETP (who makes a derivative of this approach with his version called "BluePUP") and @BarryK have expressed support for 8GB sticks. They don't say not to use others, they merely say "suppo...

Thanks for your comments, jtwdyp, you make some good points. I would certainly prefer 'Move to Trash Can' over my hastily composed terminology. I've never really liked the constant tedium of clearing desktop, dragging files with millimeter accuracy, resizing directories, aligning directories in ord...

Lenovo has released a laptop named Flex 10 with Windows 8 in it, and there is no other boot option except Win8. Before I try installing Puppy Linux (through exe installer) in this laptop, may I ask for advice from people who have tried installing Puppy Linux in a Win8 machine? First let me say 8-bi...

How many in the community are aware! I sure wasn't... BarryK introduces a new approach to delivery of a Puppy distro in his Quirky 6.0+ versions. These may be a single experiment, or the approach may have widespread acceptance in the PUPPY community. Well there are parts of what you describe that I...

I do this stuff the other way around... I use midnight commander as my primary file manager. With the panel navigation option [x] Lynx-like motion enabled I fly through my file system(s) via the arrow keys . True it doesn't give me any pretty icons but anytime I want those I can simply type rox . {D...

Puppy needs a trash can strategy similar to Windows, that gives a second chance to save accidentally deleted files. You can delete the file without stripping off the header, and then complete the deletion by emptying trash can. I beg to differ. One of the things I hate about windows is it's insiste...

Cool, glad it works. Please mark this thread solved, if you would. :) I most certainly would... It sometimes takes a day or two for me to get around to it, But when I consider one of my threads solved, I do so mark it... By the way, the command PATH has now been fixed on all three of my Fatdog flas...

Huh? xprop is in base Fatdog. It's located in /usr/X11R7/bin/xprop. PS: aardvark, thanks for helping, but don't use that ARM binary; that binary is meant for ARM platform not x86-64 (Fatdog64). AhHa! I found the problem... I don't know how this happened but: ~/tmp PuppyUnderTree#-> xprop -root _NET...

I'm looking for a pet that provides xprop to Fatdog64-630. If there isn't any such thing, would anybody know how else I can add xprop? I've got a script that would use it to automate changing the wallpaper on desktop area switch. It's the only thing that makes me {almost} wish Fatdog went with E17 l...

But could somebody explain that line to me a little better? I mean what does the last :1 do? Using it as an example I figured out how to make this: a="badgoodcrap" && b=${a:${#a}-8} && c=${b:${#b}-4} && echo $c say " crap " But I can't figure out how to m...

I noticed that you ideally wanted a different wallpaper for each desktop. I found this solution on a Linux Mint forum which seems to work. I've tweaked it for Puppy. I Know I said my previous example worked on fatdog. But actually, I'd only tested the "wallpaper path/imagefile" part of it...

I noticed that you ideally wanted a different wallpaper for each desktop. I found this solution on a Linux Mint forum which seems to work. I've tweaked it for Puppy. To get this to work you need to have something to set the wallpaper. I have used qiv which can be downloaded from the Ubuntu repos as...

The easiest way would be to bind a key to show the client-list-combined-menu which shows you the desktops and the active windows within each. - - - - - - - - -< s n i p STUFF >- - - - - - - - - - which puts up a useful menu when I press control-alt-2. Yeah, The thing is I'm trying to find out how t...

Thanks to Fatdog I've discovered that I actually " LIKE " using openbox. Almost more than E17... If I could {visually} see a major difference between the desktops then I think openbox would soon be my default "desktop*" in all my Linux installations. * yeah, I know it's only a wi...

But in Fatdog, I can't find the mojo to keep rox from auto-opening a window. That's because the mojo lives in another dimension. Try /usr/sbin/fatdog-drive-icon-action-handler.sh and search for the function named "open_rox_folder". Thanks :!: BTW: I'm starting to like this alternate unive...

I had a similar question for my Precise & Slacko puppies in: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=89745 Which was solved to my satisfaction when I learned to eliminate {actually #comment out} any/all commands in the /usr/local/bin/drive_all file that looked like: rox -x /mnt/$xONEDRVNAME...

What would be really great was if pupsaveconfig had a mode that caused the regular automatic saves to be replaced by a prominent pop-up telling you how close to running out of ram you are «maybe a percentage?» giving the user a chance to decide if his/her system is still clean enough for the save t...

Here is a quote from that article: the cost of Windows licences is ameliorated by other factors. These include payments for including pups (potentially unwanted programs, or "crapware") Not sure why he is picking on 'pups'. Maybe he needs to visit this forum a bit... :-) I had wondered if...

wow.. you only have a hundred or so posts in and already a power problem solver... I will be watching you kid... :D Well I've been wrestling with various Linux for years. And one thing I've learned is that If I understand a problem, and I care about it enough, I need to be relentless looking for a ...