Intresting Screenshots

[bombayrockers]

Believe me what you are going to see below are puppy screenshots.

To achieve this effect I have used
1. idesk with the transparent icons turned on
2. windows fonts
3. wallpapers from xp
4. Openbox / Oroborus + Fbpanel
6. Xi180 kdrive for puppy

idesk is available as idesk.pup
I assume that most of the people using puppy would be windows refugees.
So no need to download newer fonts for puppy they are already there on your computer.

In XP -> copy the C:\windows\Fonts folder to your /mnt/home ie the directory where your pup file is stored. Then type this in a terminal

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ln -s /mnt/home/Fonts /root/.font

KDE users need to install the font using control center. open control center and click on the last branch. In this the 2nd sub branch is font installer. Click on it. Click on add font. typr /root/.font in the dialog and then select all the files in the dialog. Click on open. Installation will start. If it asks about overwriting Click on overwrite all.

Xp wallpapers are stored in c:\windows\web\wallpapers. Copy them to /usr/share/backgrounds

Openbox is available in the KDE for testers post in cutting edge section.
You can also use oroborus window manager.
Fbpanel is also available as a dotpup

Xi810 applicable to on those who have i810 hardware , is available as a pupget. There are some errors in xwin that will get corrected in 1.0.7 and then this can be sucessfully used by all i180 puppy users.


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[aahhaaa]

Rocker- you are on a roll!

[sunburnt]

Too bad I don't have XP (eXtra Propriatary), the woods is beautiful.

[Jan]

In XP -> copy the C:\windows\Fonts folder to your /mnt/home ie the directory where your pup file is stored. Then type this in a terminal

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ln -s /mnt/home/Fonts /root/.font

Can't get it working, did you do something more?

[bombayrockers]

Jan,
No that worked for me. However if your pup file has space and your fonts folder is not very large than you can try moving the fonts to /root/.font

also take a lok at these topics

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.p ... light=font

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.p ... light=font

[Pizzasgood]

mine are in /root/.fonts
with an s
They show up, so I don't know if you made a typo or if both spellings work.

[Max]

Hello there,
Well, so far so good..But I am doubting what one does in this way may be against the norms, as thay are directly copied from windows. Is that really needed?
Think it over..
Regards
Max

[Jan]

Jan,
No that worked for me. However if your pup file has space and your fonts folder is not very large than you can try moving the fonts to /root/.font

Thank you for the reply and a very nice tip.

i made a small script and posted in Beginners help forum

TrueType fonts in Puppy applications
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4065

regards
Jan

[bombayrockers]

If we have a proprietary copy of 'that other OS' then we can use it which ever way want to use it.

[willhunt]

oops just a little off topic but I'm a multi os user and I can't help thinking there's a way to use this dormaint paid for os to make my linux experiance better liket wine, themes, ect if I only knew how

[Mr Doolie]

Too bad I don't have XP (eXtra Propriatary), the woods is beautiful.

It's just a picture. Maybe somebody can upload it here. I don't have XP either or I'd do it.

[Ted Dog]

Nathan can we use the nature photos, as backgrounds?

[Guest User]

Now change from KDE to XPDE and it will really look like winblows!

http://www.xpde.com/index.php

[MU]

I think Xpde looks less like Windows than an optimized Theme (Icewm + Gtk).

Xpde was programmed with Kylix (Linux-Delphi), and does not look exactly like Windows.
Kylix itself uses Wine-Libraries for the IDE (so Kylix itself looks like a Windows-app), whereas the compiled binaries use Gtk.

Mark

[bombayrockers]

A XP look fot the fluxbox dektop.

Ingredients
1. Fluxbox + xp theme for fluxbox
2. gtk1 - xfce4 engine + redmond colors
3. gtk2 - metatheme 0.0.6 plastik xp engine + xp colors (very light wt engine much faster and better than gtk qt)
4. kde - plastik + redmond xp colors

metatheme is an attempt to make a unified look for various tool kits. It is a very early stage of development at present and supports gtk+, qt, java at present. Later it would support gtk1, firefox, mozilla , openoffice ...

most interesing about meta is that it can use .msstyle files so that we can have windows like widgets in linux.

[aahhaaa]

just wondering, since Puppy is in RAM, whether the 'busy' hi-K pix backgrounds would limit performance any?

[Pizzasgood]

Shouldn't. I don't know exactly how it works, but it can't be anything noticible unless you are on a system so old it shouldn't even be able to run a gui in the first place. It might occupy a little more ram, but unless you are picky over less than a megabyte it's no big deal. As for they busyness, that is insignificant. What matters is size. But like I said, I can't imagine it being anything noticible. And for all I know, the only thing that matters is resulution. Yes, a smaller resolution will definately have slightly better performance, as fewer pixels will need to be drawn. I don't think anything else other than the number being drawn matters except when the image is first loaded.