This is a very small annoyance: When I boot MacPup, the nice icons at the bottom are outlined with a grey rectangle. When I use ctr-alt-backspace and type "xwin," the desktop comes back with the rectangle gone and everything beautiful. Is this a bug or some supernatural malevolent force out to get me?
My computer is an old Gateway, 400mhz, 256RAM, using VESA (xorg doesn't work for me).
Macpup Dingo
@davec51:
Can you try editing /root/.xinitrc (this is a hidden file, press Ctrl-H in rox to show this). Change the line that has wbar:
it should have a sleep 3 && wbar .....
change it to:
sleep 5 && wbar.
If the result is the same, try increasing the sleep timing.
Hope this works.
Can you try editing /root/.xinitrc (this is a hidden file, press Ctrl-H in rox to show this). Change the line that has wbar:
it should have a sleep 3 && wbar .....
change it to:
sleep 5 && wbar.
If the result is the same, try increasing the sleep timing.
Hope this works.
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A perfect fix. Thanks.prit1 wrote:@davec51:
Can you try editing /root/.xinitrc (this is a hidden file, press Ctrl-H in rox to show this). Change the line that has wbar:
it should have a sleep 3 && wbar .....
change it to:
sleep 5 && wbar.
If the result is the same, try increasing the sleep timing.
Hope this works.
What's This Window????
After having some issues with the live CD not functioning right, very slow and some buttons would not open the linked program I decided to do a full hard drive install. Well, overall it works fine, very much as Puppy 4.0, probably obviously. One thing occurs that bugs me. Upon launch there is a blank, black screen window that is open but reduced in size. I cannot close it out, nor can I do anything except resize it or send it to desktop #2. How can I get rid of that window?
I had the mysterious small black window - was in the top left of the screen, as if something had run but not cleaned up after itself. I tried clicking on it, round it moving it, killing it - After 3 or four re-boots it didn't come back - not sure if it was co-incidence or from clicking on it or killing it .. Also had the grey background round the w-bar - this went to the normal background on the same boot that the small black box went - though I didn't change any settings anywhere...
I told my sister in law's boyfriend about MacPup. He was impressed. However, he asked about being able to run macintosh software on it. I know most of who are linux users are more into using wine and other emulators for windows software (tell me that M$ isn't a monopoly), but that does bring up an interesting point. Is there an emulator for macintosh and if so, could it be compiled to run on puppy? If so, perhaps it could be included in the next version of MacPup?
UPDATE: I found the Mac On Linux project at:http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/. However, I couldn't get it to compile right. I will play around with this more a little later today. I think it would probably make MacPup even friendlier towards Mac users if it can run Mac software. I will post my findings again later.[/url]
UPDATE: I found the Mac On Linux project at:http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/. However, I couldn't get it to compile right. I will play around with this more a little later today. I think it would probably make MacPup even friendlier towards Mac users if it can run Mac software. I will post my findings again later.[/url]
The only windows I have are those on my home.
@prit1 I seem to have blundered my way into solving the corrupted pupsave problem see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 800#212800 for details . also modprobing i915 is now letting me start xorg and I applied the above mentioned fix for the oversize wbar .
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iamclueless
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macpup..awesome
just downloaded and burned the iso yesterday.
Dingo is amazing! i cant believe how much has been crammed into such a small space.
Enjoying the macpup so far.
however im having a slight problem.
I am running an old laptop that only supports a screen resolution of 800 x 600 x 24 (or 16?). everything looks fine except for the wbar. its too big and the first and last icons are off the screen. is there a way to tweak the wbar size??? thanks
Dingo is amazing! i cant believe how much has been crammed into such a small space.
Enjoying the macpup so far.
however im having a slight problem.
I am running an old laptop that only supports a screen resolution of 800 x 600 x 24 (or 16?). everything looks fine except for the wbar. its too big and the first and last icons are off the screen. is there a way to tweak the wbar size??? thanks
Thanks for letting us know.ronacc wrote:@prit1 I seem to have blundered my way into solving the corrupted pupsave problem see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 800#212800 for details . also modprobing i915 is now letting me start xorg and I applied the above mentioned fix for the oversize wbar .
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passing this along for other eeepc users , I added some of the things dvw86 mentions in this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 16&t=26567 to get sound , wireless and ath0 working. nop5 uses the same kernel as macpup-dingo so they work . for some reason seamonkey won't start , I installed the firefox pet
and that works ok ,
and that works ok ,
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iamclueless
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thanks
ya i found the file a couple of minutes after i posted. cheersronacc wrote:on page 3 of this thread is a tweek to reduce the size of the bar , I'm using it on my eeepc at 800x480.
I can not seem to get Mac On Linux to compile properly. Hence, I am now looking into macutils. Of course I am not having much luck with this either. Perhaps I am overlooking something really simple that is keeping me from getting either (both?) to work. I will report again later.
The only windows I have are those on my home.