No Todd, I understood. If you were running Puppy, you wouldn't need to worry about Windows spying on you as long as you leave no files behind (the only thing I would worry about is Puppy automatically trying to use swap - I don't know how current versions of Puppy behave in that regard, but worst ca...

Yep, sorry. The only way to be absolutely certain that the existing OS isn't snooping on you is to shut the computer down and boot from your own OS. And even then, it doesn't guard you against hardware keyloggers and such. And don't think that would be overly paranoid. They're very small and simple....

Version 0.10 uploaded. I couldn't get eggtrayicon to cooperate, so I reverted it to the old working non-transparent one, and added a condition so that if compiled on a system with GTK >= 2.16, it will use GtkStatusIcon instead, which has transparency. Other changes since 0.8 include an option in the...

That's strange. Have you doublechecked that it's still trying to use the correct sound card and volume controls for everything?

jemimah wrote:Save me a copy of the version that works in icewm - puppeee doesn't have jwm. I do have gtk 2.16 though so maybe it doesn't matter.

That would be this one: retrovol-0.9.1.tar.gz

%$@#, apparently I only fixed it in IceWM. It still doesn't close and restart the tray icon correctly in JWM. I'm going to take one last stab at eggtrayicon tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I'm going to revert back to the non-transparent but otherwise working eggtrayicon code for GTK < 2.16, and add ...

I didn't manage to get it done as quickly as I'd hoped, but I finally figured out how to get rid of the duplicate icon after using the config window since the new eggtrayicon was adopted. The fix is in SVN. I'll put together a package and update this thread tonight when I get off work.

Needs moar proofreading.

It's interesting so far though. Thanks.

There is a hidden area of the forum that serves as sort of a spam-graveyard / trashbin. Regular mods don't have enough permissions to actually delete posts and threads, so they move things there instead. From the point of view of a normal forum user it has nearly the same result (two small differenc...

Hmm... I have it nearly ready to go (in fact I thought I was done), but somewhere along the way a bug snuck in. When I hit "apply" in the config window, a second tray icon is generated. I'll try to figure out why and get it uploaded tomorrow. (I'm just posting this because I had already co...

The icewm tray does require a restart of X to change the background. Aha! The catch is that the ColorDefaultTaskBar color needs to be set correctly in the IceWM theme or preference file (at least in 1.3.6, don't know about others). The theme I use had a bunch of other Color*TaskBar properties set, ...

I think I have transparency working now in the SVN version of Retrovol. I don't know why, but it seems to require hard-restarting JWM for the color change to kick in if you change the theme. Just doing 'jwm -restart' doesn't cut it. It doesn't work in IceWM, but I think that's a general issue with t...

Sounds like something similar to garbage collection to me. I'm not familiar with whatever it is he's talking about (and since it's 3:52 AM I don't particularly care) so I'm not sure. But from what I can tell, they're allocating only part of a drive to the OS, but telling the OS it has the full drive...

Compiled languages need a compiler to compile them, and interpreted languages need an interpreter to interpret them. Those programs have to come from somewhere. Once you have a compiler for the language, you can of course write a new compiler for the language using the language itself. But before yo...

Bullcrap. That article amounts to this: Since they can't comprehend what would happen if the universe continued expanding forever, they posit that it can't keep expanding and that instead something will randomly destroy everything, and there's a 50% chance it will occur within 3.7 billion years. I'v...

I think so. It says versions 1.12 and older, which includes the version used in Puppy 5.0. It looks like how this works is when you run wget, it's possible for the webserver you download from to provide a different filename for the file than what you expect. This could potentially result in wget sav...

If you have a new idea shortly after making a post, and nobody has replied yet, it's generally considered bad manners to create another post (and worse to create a whole string of posts). The more accepted thing to do is to edit the existing post, so that you just make one. There is an edit button i...

When in the search window, on the left column of the options there is an entry to "display results as:" with the options "posts" and "topics". It defaults to topics. If you switch it to "posts", it will show the actual post that it was found in, and you can ju...

I found that more humorous than it really is. Not complaining.

Very good point SirDuncan. Nooby, like SirDuncan said, there isn't much point in worrying about this particular security hole in Puppy. What it does is make it possible for people who are not root to become root - which generally isn't necessary in Puppy. This isn't a vulnerability that helps people...