DCL 2008

[drongo]

Brandon,

This is a beautiful and elegant-looking version of Puppy. Despite this, part of me wants a picture of a dead cow on the desktop. Does this make me a bad person? How do you change the wallpaper in XFCE anyway?

What was your previous pup? It's not mentioned on your website.

I think I'm going to have to pick seven Puppies and have a rota for each day of the week. It's not that long ago we only had the option of Barry's latest creation or Meanpup.

Thanks

drongo

[Brandon]

XFCE Wallpaper can be change by clicking the "Start" button-Settings-Desktop Settings. Or typing xfce-setting-show backdrop into the terminal. My previous pup was BCSP, which is pretty similar but not put together as well.

[smhardesty]

Brandon

I downloaded DCL yesterday and finally got a chance to fire it up. I really like what I'm seeing. I had been pretty much content with NOP 3.01 until now. I'm running it on my Toshiba laptop right now while posting this.

As for doing anything serious with DCL 2008, does using it as an everyday OS on both my laptop and one of my desktops count?

I'll play around with DCL for a little while tonight and see if I want to replace my full hard drive install of NOP 3.01 with DCL. I'm pretty sure I'll do a full install on one of the partitions on my multi boot LINUX desktop.

I totally agree with drongo's comment about DCL being an elegant-looking version of Puppy. About the only change I'll probably make real quick is a second panel at the top of the screen.

DCL has most of my favored apps like Abiword, Firefox, NVU, and of course the whole XFCE arsenal. I'll add Gnumeric, HomeBank, Xnview, and PetBeGone, then remove just a couple apps I won't use. All in all, it looks like DCL is about as close to what I'd master for myself as any of the other puplets I've tried.

Keep up the great work! Really nice job.

[smhardesty]

Brandon

I downloaded DCL yesterday and finally got a chance to fire it up. I really like what I'm seeing. I had been pretty much content with NOP 3.01 until now. I'm running DCL on my Toshiba laptop right now while posting this.

As for doing anything serious with DCL 2008, does using it as an everyday OS on both my laptop and one of my desktops count?

I'll play around with DCL for a little while tonight and see if I want to replace my full hard drive install of NOP 3.01 with DCL. I'm pretty sure I'll do a full install on one of the partitions on my multi boot LINUX desktop.

I totally agree with drongo's comment about DCL being an elegant-looking version of Puppy. About the only change I'll probably make real quick is a second panel at the top of the screen.

DCL has most of my favored apps like Abiword, Firefox, NVU, and of course the whole XFCE arsenal. I'll add Gnumeric, HomeBank, Xnview, and PetBeGone, then remove just a couple apps I won't use. All in all, it looks like DCL is about as close to what I'd master for myself as any of the other puplets I've tried.

Keep up the great work! Really nice job.

[Brandon]

Thanks, and yes everyday use is about as serious as it gets! Thanks for using it!

[Boo2themoon]

Hi Brandon, Thanks for making this pup. It ticks most of the boxes for me and my requirements.

However I think there is a bug in the xfce panel manager.

My two panels disappeared and after restarting them with "xfce4-panel" Firefox would not start from either the panel or the menu.

Typing firefox into the console did nothing and when I tried to open the mozilla folder the computer froze.

After rebooting a couple of times everything is ok again.

Weird!

Thanks again for DCL.

Boo

[Béèm]

Boo2themoon,
This isn't DCL related but XFCE.
I have the same in Happy Linux (XFCE besed) and with the XFCE 4.4.2 sfs.

[Boo2themoon]

Hello Béèm,
Yes I also suspect xfce and have posted in the "Happy Linux" thread also.

[nicefinger]

Hello. I am new to DCL. Tested Puppy original before but did not Like JWM.
I want to change from Xubuntu on my fathers P3-1000/512 to something else.
Running Live CD now. Everything seems pretty okej, but for one thing ...
Some Menue-texts are awfully BIG, for example in GIMP but not i Firefox.
How can I make a screeshot?
A second thing, please help me change the cursor. I want it white and slightly bigger.

Bra jobbat

Edit:
In the menue the file manager is still called Rox-filer instead of Thunar

[Brandon]

To take a Screenshot open GIMP, File, Acquire, Screenshot.
I haven't tried the cursors but http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=16622 thats the link. ROX is accually redirected to Thunar, part of Xfce and the menus thing might be fixed by going to set-up and then Set Global Font Size.