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#81 Post by wow »

To start alsa-mixer from menu add this line to /root/.Xdefaults file:

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URxvt.termName: rxvt
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#82 Post by wow »

A new component was added to the LXDE project: LXShortcut http://blog.lxde.org/?p=125
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I installed it and nothing happens when I run lxshortcut :lol: :cry: I'll try to make it work later...
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#83 Post by Sage »

PM reply sent to "zygo"
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#84 Post by techtype »

wow wrote:To start alsa-mixer from menu add this line to /root/.Xdefaults file:

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URxvt.termName: rxvt
Doing this caused me to lose all sound. Had to revert to a backup to fix. (Turning up volume in the alsa mixer did nothing) Undoing and rebooting had no effect.
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Last two desires

#85 Post by techtype »

This is going to be my main pup. I have everything looking and working great except for my last two wishes:

1. I'm unable to configure "Application Launch Bars" on the panel. When I add something it flashes and then does not take effect.

2. I need something like "hotpupx" to add live drive icons to the desktop.

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#86 Post by wow »

0. Start alsaconf while an sound app is running causes that. Exit X and run alsaconf to fix it.

1. Yes, I know (seems to be a problem with this newer glib). You have to edit the config file manually from /root/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/<panel config file> Example: these are few lines from my "/root/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/top" file:

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Plugin {
    type = launchbar
    Config {
        Button {
            id=pcmanfm.desktop
        }
Try to edit or remove any button("filename.desktop" must be in /usr/share/applications) then restart lxpanel (run: "lxpanelctl restart" or restart X )

2. Have you tried to install hotpupx? Don't know if it will work. (It may work if it adds .desktop files to the Desktop folder)

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LX Shortcut is working now I had to wrote a wrapper to it and add it to the openbox menu. I will make a .pet tomorrow.
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#87 Post by techtype »

wow wrote:0. Start alsaconf while an sound app is running causes that. Exit X and run alsaconf to fix it.

1. Yes, I know (seems to be a problem with this newer glib). You have to edit the config file manually from /root/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/<panel config file> Example: these are few lines from my "/root/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/top" file:

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Plugin {
    type = launchbar
    Config {
        Button {
            id=pcmanfm.desktop
        }
Try to edit or remove any button("filename.desktop" must be in /usr/share/applications) then restart lxpanel (run: "lxpanelctl restart" or restart X )

2. Have you tried to install hotpupx? Don't know if it will work. (It may work if it adds .desktop files to the Desktop folder)

________________________________________________

LX Shortcut is working now I had to wrote a wrapper to it and add it to the openbox menu. I will make a .pet tomorrow.
Thanks for the help!!

0. I think I'll leave well enough alone

1. That works, editing the "top" file by hand is good enough for me.

2. Just tried hotpupx (you need the x version because it creates desktop shortcuts in the desktop directory)
however, it does not work. Maybe Mark or somebody will fix it sometime.

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#88 Post by wow »

LXShortcut
It’s a small utility used to edit application shortcuts.
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Installation
Download and install [lxshortcut-0.1-i686]
Unzip [add_desktop_shortcut.sh.zip] and copy to /usr/bin
Now we need to add a new entry to the openbox menu:
Run this command to open pcmanfm's preferences dialog:

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pcmanfm --show-pref=2
Enable "[ / ] Show menus provided by WM when desktop is clicked" and press the [OK] button.
Open "/usr/share/lxde/openbox/menu.xml" with a text editor then add this menu item to the "root-menu" section (line 31):

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  <item label="Add application shortcut">
    <action name="Execute">
      <command>add_desktop_shortcut.sh</command>
    </action>
  </item>
Something like this:

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  <item label="Reload Config Files">
    <action name="Reconfigure" />
  </item>
  <item label="Add application shortcut">
    <action name="Execute">
      <command>add_desktop_shortcut.sh</command>
    </action>
  </item>
  <separator />
  <item label="Exit">
    <action name="Execute"><command>lxde-logout</command></action>
  </item>
</menu>

</openbox_menu>
Save the file. Finally run this command to reload your openbox menu:

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openbox --reconfigure
Attachments
add_desktop_shortcut.sh.zip
Unzip to /usr/bin
(638 Bytes) Downloaded 589 times
lxshortcut-0.1-i686.pet
(12.22 KiB) Downloaded 632 times
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All ready to go except printing -solved

#89 Post by techtype »

OK, I thought I Was done when I solved the drive icons problem. I finally realized that Ultrapup already hotplugs drives in the media folder and they appear in PCman also. So I thought I was all set to remaster and switch to this pup. But, when I went to add my printer, I found that this older version of Cups and Gutenprint does not support my Canon iP4500. That had never occured to me since Muppy supports my printer. Muppy has Gutenprint 5.0.2 which was the first version of Gutenprint to support my printer.

I hope someone will make a pet or sfs to update Cups and Gutenprint!!

Edit: Solved - found a gutenprint pet that allows me to print!
Hooray, I'm done!

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#90 Post by wow »

Compiz Fusion 7.9 (from git, Dec 31 2008)

Download Requires: intel, ati, nVidia gpu. Color depth=24 bpp in xorg.conf Notes:
Xorg 7.4 autoconfigure everything else.
You must stop xcompmgr before start compiz:

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killall xcompmgr
fusion-icon, ccsm and simple-ccsm requires python, pycairo, pygobject and pygtk.
Autostart; disable xcompmgr and enable fusion-icon from Menu>DesktopSessionSettings
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My Documents folder

#91 Post by techtype »

Where does the "My Documents" folder on the desktop come from? How can we get rid of it?

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#92 Post by wow »

"My Documents" is your home directory. You can disable the desktop
in Pcmanfm's preferences > Desktop > Manage the desktop and show file icons. And use Rox-Filer/CompizFusion/xsetroot to handle desktop wallpaper.
If you want to remove only the "My Documents" icon try to download the source package and hack it.
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#93 Post by techtype »

wow wrote:"My Documents" is your home directory. You can disable the desktop
in Pcmanfm's preferences > Desktop > Manage the desktop and show file icons. And use Rox-Filer/CompizFusion/xsetroot to handle desktop wallpaper.
If you want to remove only the "My Documents" icon try to download the source package and hack it.
Thanks. Sounds like more than I thought. I'll wait for Mark's ICEWM sfs and see if I prefer it to Pcman.

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Compiz fusion... totally white

#94 Post by logimax »

I got fusion-icon to work, just installed the python depends, so that is all good... the only problem is when i start it (fusion-icon) the screen goes totally white and it works, but utterly sluggish, so I checked the xorg.conf, and it say
Section "Device"
Driver "vesa" #card0driver

Should it not say xorg, I have run xorgwizard multiple times. BTW i have nvidia 8600M card but xorg says nothing of that, i'lll try installing nvidia from www but I have already tried that with unnamed, and it did not work...

:cry:

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#95 Post by MUguest »

Bug:
Xorg-7.4-video-input-apps-i686-wow_411.sfs

You run xorgwizard, but just get a black screen.
Solution:
delete all sun drivers in /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/.
They are the reason, even if you have no "sun" graficscard.
After I deleted them, my S3 Savage was detected correctly.

I'll post a link, where you can download a rebuilt "Xorg-7.4-video-input-apps-i686-wow-patched_411.sfs" without the sun drivers in my next message.

Mark

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#96 Post by MUguest »

NEW version 02 is here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 084#268084

---------------------------------
Happy new year! :D
I just came back from northern germany today, and am very tired.
So no details, but you can get downloads already.

The easiest way to test them:
1.) Start with a NEW savefile (or backup your old one first).
Then boot with newyearspupMU.iso.
It is 200 MB instead of 67, and includes "addons-1".
In addition, I included libSDL and from wow the files from the Mesa and glibc-locale sfs.

2.) The other way:
Use wows Iso.
Start with a NEW savefile (or backup your old one first).
Then add the addons you like.

:!: They modify some systemfiles, so you need the backup, if you want to revert to wows original version :!:

The most interesting is "Icewm_411.sfs".
It includes Icewm, and a "Desktopchooser".
With that, you can switch among different desktops.

See the screenshots, or the unfinished documentation.

Get all here:
http://puppyisos.org/isos/2008-07-to-12 ... -by-MU-02/

Password:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28930

I'll post more details in the next days.
The documentation then will explain how everything works, and also include a small package with desktopchooser and desktopoptions, but without any desktop.
So it can be used to modify any other puplet.
The icewm_411.sfs also works with Puppy 4.12 after a quick test :)

------------------------
Here are some notes about my patches on the systemfiles:
1.) MuppyFiler+Quickmount+Freemem+xscreensize+gqview+backgrounds+sfscombiner+clocks+pbdict2_411.sfs:

-- these files get overwritten:
- Pupybasic 2.6 (wow included 2.5)
- filemnt patched fixes when 2fs files were not mounted
- /sbin/dir2sfs now accepts -nolzma or another other option for mksquashfs


2.) Icewm_411.sfs

-- these files get overwritten:
- /root/.xinitrc: run desktoploop instead $CURRENTWM, removed start of Rox-filer (that now is run by other scripts).
- yaf-splash + gxmessage to display utf8
- /usr/local/apps/Wallpaper fixes bug that puppypin is unset, add support for conky usind puppybackgroundsetter2.
- conky displayed further down, pmusic in it is deactivated as it used too many resources.
- /usr/local/bin/restart-lxde.sh checks different profiles
- /usr/sbin/fixmenus - does only run if changes were made in /usr/share/applications, support for localized icewm menu.
- new: /usr/sbin/run-xcompmgrnodock.sh - added C as parameter, so no longer draws shadows on docks like conky
- /usr/X11R7/bin wmpoweroff wmreboot restartwm might fix if X is not exited. See: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 019#263019
- /usr/sbin/chooselocale
removed downloadoption, run fixmenus afterwards, fix bug restarting X (see restartwm)
- /etc/xdg/templates/* modified the logout dialogs, added option to reload menu, added german icewm template.
----------------------------------------------------
-- these files are added in the base filesystem:
- wallpaper german translation

Mark
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#97 Post by techtype »

Thanks Mark and Wow! Looks like I'm going to be busy.

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#98 Post by wow »

logimax wrote:I got fusion-icon to work, just installed the python depends, so that is all good... the only problem is when i start it (fusion-icon) the screen goes totally white and it works, but utterly sluggish, so I checked the xorg.conf, and it say
Section "Device"
Driver "vesa" #card0driver

Should it not say xorg, I have run xorgwizard multiple times. BTW i have nvidia 8600M card but xorg says nothing of that, i'lll try installing nvidia from www but I have already tried that with unnamed, and it did not work...
Install this driver for your nVidia gpu: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 496#257496
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oops, should have answer

#99 Post by logimax »

wow wrote:
logimax wrote:I got fusion-icon to work, just installed the python depends, so that is all good... the only problem is when i start it (fusion-icon) the screen goes totally white and it works, but utterly sluggish, so I checked the xorg.conf, and it say
Section "Device"
Driver "vesa" #card0driver

Should it not say xorg, I have run xorgwizard multiple times. BTW i have nvidia 8600M card but xorg says nothing of that, i'lll try installing nvidia from www but I have already tried that with unnamed, and it did not work...
Install this driver for your nVidia gpu: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 496#257496
thanks! Thats a good tip, but I solved it anyway (DL nvidia tar.gz 180.17, fiddled a bit with it and everything is working like a charm)

Now Im off trying to install Tilda, a Quake like Xterm...

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#100 Post by Sage »

Rosy glow for wow? December award from DWW goes to LXDE. Always nice to know one correctly identifies the next big thing. Well done wow.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090105

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