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ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 01:16 Post subject:

on your package manager you should have 3 series packages, install qiv-2.0. then enable it . That will fix all those problems.
ttuuxxx

xbj9000 · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

thanks I'll try that.. double buffer can't be used with yout packages then?.

I was hoping not to add another app, as my system is minimal, but I'll see how it does..

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 02:58 Post subject:

xbj9000 · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

well I meant I didn't want to have another app running.. I have room to install it..

anyway, some of the (many) dependencies failed to be found, and I was left with some packages listed as installed that wouldn't uninstall (or rather wouldn't remove themselves from the installed list, since they never actually installed to begin with).. I solved that, I guess, by deleting their list files from ~/.packages (none of the files shown in that list existed on my system).. and now I noticed qiv is no longer in the Puppy3 list, but is in the Puppy2 list.. Confused

puppy is pretty great out of the box but I don't think I like it's package management.. I'm a big fan of apt-get install packagename :p

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 13 Jul 2008, 05:34 Post subject:

xbj9000 · Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 5

well for whatever reason (this is a pretty fresh install) I can't get qiv installed.. is there some other way? I could live with the slight flicker every 3 seconds, but it looks pretty bad when it blinks out entirely or partly for moments..

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 14 Jul 2008, 02:20 Post subject:

To get qiv installed you need the following packages.
http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/pet_packages-3/qiv-2.0.pet
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3/imlib-1.9.15-1.pet
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3/gtk+12-1.2.10.pet
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3/glib12-1.2.10.pet

or you can download the prepackaged version I made for you. Qiv doesn't start like other photo programs, you have to right click on an image and select "open with".
but for this conky thing it doesn't matter
ttuuxxx

code_m · Joined: 02 Jul 2008 Posts: 65

I just realized I never thanked you... so..

Thanks ttuuxxx!

Conky is my only app that I have started automatically, and I couldn't be happier.

Of course I went through and changed the layout quit a bit, then finally but it on the desktop and made it transparent, really cool.