mplayer appears to ignore dvd menus, though it will play a dvd as a whole.

Not a big issue, as vlc is available as a pet, and works with dvd menu.

I installed the Chromium pet, and got the error message "illegal instruction" returned when running it from the command line. Google-chrome works fine when installed from the deb available from Google using ppm - although you need to move the google-chrome desktop configuration file into /...

I have a frugal hard drive install which saves to a partition. I would like to change to saving to a file on the hard drive. How do I ask Puppy to do this?

No, I think it's fine. The double quotes on the outside won't be bothered by any doublequotes that are inside backticks. Bash is smart enough to sort that out on its own. Thanks for that Pizzasgood. I've now dug out an old machine to run a 4.12 to 4.31 update again and it appears that the /usr/loca...

My apologies for not testing this observation, but the problem occurred on a relative's sytem to which I only had access for a short time and, not using Puppy myself, I don't have the time to set up a test. On updating a frugal hard drive install from 4.1.2 to 4.3.1, most desktop icons reverted to t...

The module evdev is reportedly missing, which breaks the synaptics touchpad driver in X; it's a surprise how quickly you get used to gestures, Puppy seems clunky without them. This may not be regarded as part of Puppy, but I can't pick up a broadcast from an XDMCP server, which was available under (...