greengeek, You may want to consider another approach. Create a "validate and change" script to check and change pet files before placing them in a "quick load directory". This would consist of basically the petget validation code and instead of installing, it would just change th...

greengeek,

I've noticed by your reference to http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52983 that you have seen how awkward it can be to satisfy everything - tradeoffs always come into play.

I've responded with another approach in the above thread.

Cheers,
s

greengeek,

If you wished to retain all of petget's validation and control capabilities, you might just comment out the dialog items in petget and just call it petget_NOX. I think it just defaults to install.

Cheers,
s
(Probably would also need a few tweaks as well....)

greengeek, Probably your pet file was made from a deb file. Petget calls /usr/local/petget/installpkg.sh. From there, other checks are made, including checking and correcting the .desktop file to conform to the Puppy menu system. This would explain your results. If the pet file was created to Puppy ...

Thanks seaside, that did the job! The pets installed and the programmes appeared in the menus but for some reason one of the pets (simplescreenrecorder) appeared in the menu with no icon alongside it so maybe I need to adjust the delay before fixmenus. I shall do a bit more testing of this. greenge...

"I would like to have a script that I can place in /root/Startup and have it look at a specific directory (/root/Startup/pets2install) and automatically install all pets that it finds in that directory (not worried about uninstalling later as this is for a run-in-ram session and I will just tur...

Try this.

Create below file and put at " /root/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini"
All gtkfilechooser calls should now show hidden files.

Cheers,
s

You might use "watch" like this.
When watch terminates, it could call an SFS unload command.

Cheers,
s

Jafadmin, File deletion utilities are very close to backup utilities. Very rarely does anyone really test them! Thank you for actually making this test on bcrypt. It's quite revealing to learn that it doesn't behave as anyone thought. I'm sure your utility Afo works nicely, and the inclusion of the ...

My guess is that the bash shell is not being used at the start....
That is a "bashism" parameter expansion.

Cheers,
s

@jamesbond :) specifies the GNU-printf) Is it so - that busybox can masqerade as the /usr/bin/printf ??? If so - how can the code guarantee - that the GNU-printf is called? Here's a test for bash testinfo=$(file `which printf`) [ "${testinfo/busybox//}" != "${testinfo}" ] &&...

Another option maybe is to try the openbox_xfce version I made, which has more options for resizing icons and fonts. Good Luck! Fred fredx181, Thanks for suggesting that version. It hadn't crossed my mind (I think I've tried so many window managers in the past that at this point they have all morph...

seaside; Yeah, it`s been a reality wake-up call for me working on DebianDog. How a real full-blown distro works is very different, and writing multi-user apps is too. Probably the best solution for your friend is a $100 23-4" monitor and Synaptic for app. install. I`ve seen 27" monitors f...

Hi seaside; I don`t think changing the icon size will help any, Rox auto. sizes them. So you can specify a 128x128 icon and Rox will make it fit for the current screen resolution. Only changing the pic size inside the icon will change their desktop size ( smaller ). Sadly, the easiest way to size t...

Hi seaside, I noticed that "desktop_drive_icons" throws a gtk error which doesn't seem to be important and I was wondering where the source code was and whether the icons are bound in the program or if they could be otherwise changed? The .deb package is specially made for DebianDog I don...

Thank you, Seaside! Fred made deb package from puppy pet package and it is installed in DebianDog: http://smokey01.com/saintless/Fredx181/desktop_drive_icons-0.0.1-i486.deb I Toni saintless, Thanks for the pointer. I see that the icons could be changed by linking to a different icon. The deb packag...

saintless, Still trying out and everything is looking good.. I noticed that "desktop_drive_icons" throws a gtk error which doesn't seem to be important and I was wondering where the source code was and whether the icons are bound in the program or if they could be otherwise changed? Regard...

JWM can be set by placing this in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal- <Group> <Name>on-top</Name> <Class>on-top</Class> <Option>layer:12</Option> </Group> Openbox set by openbox rc.xml "layer" property. http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Applications#Graphically_managing_per-application_settings Cheers, s

The team that put this together did a sterling job. Having both Rox and xfe, along with the choice of JWM or Icewm is just perfect. Excellent choice of starting software as well. A few items you may wish to consider.. The default settings for file right-click Rox actions are set to not show the menu...

Here's a prototype of what puppy might look like utilizing the "Standard" menu categories. It consists of three files, "pup_desk_parse_standard", "jwmrc_build" and the original "mjwm". "pup_desk_parse_standard" grossly reassigns all of Categories in ...