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veronicathecow · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 526

Having bad eyesight a larger brighter mouse would be very helpful. I cannot find any easy way of doing this?
Cheers
Tony

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

My first impression of Puppy 4.2 is very nice.

Unfortunately I had to run it on my Eee PC 4G as it will not run on my desktop PC. I have no idea why but it must be something to do with the normal kernel as the retro 4.1.2 runs fine.

It seems to run fine until you get to the point where you have to select the mouse and the keyboard does not work. Prior to this the keyboard does work.

I would like to run the normal version of Puppy, in particular 4.2.

Does any one have any ideas what the problem might be?

Smokey

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

WhoDo!

Where are the JQ8 icons???? Only 27kb.

Ttuuxxx has persuaded jebaJQ8 to fix the weather font, ttuuxxx found that 'fontforge' editor, I extracted all the icons from the shareware font that we use, converted to SVG, packed 'em up and posted on Pwidgets thread. He said he is going to try to make his own design. I'm sure it will be a cracker! (Won't sigmund be surprised when he gets back. Wink

).

I have said before that I am 'graphically challenged'! Laughing

.So the task is in the correct hands! And there will be a minimum of recoding. And it will be even smaller!!!!

Mick

Pizzasgood · Posted: Mon 19 Jan 2009, 22:49 Post subject:

Okay, here. These are both the actual init script and a diff between it and the "original" from 420 alpha 1. What I did was have it detect whether the version in the pup_save.2fs file is old, and if so it says this:

Pizzasgood · Posted: Mon 19 Jan 2009, 22:59 Post subject:

I also agree that the console should white-on-black as the default colorscheme. It would make it more obvious to new people that that is a commandline and not a text editor. Besides that, it just looks better. Black-on-white terminals are an abomination, IMHO.

You just add these lines to /root/.Xdefaults:

eightbitz · Posted: Mon 19 Jan 2009, 23:18 Post subject:

Pizzasgood --

What do you think about putting the scrollbar on the right for the terminal?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 00:17 Post subject:

@WhoDo: Here are three issues.

1. The smb symlink needed by CUPS to access a Windows printer has been missing since the Dingo betas.

2. Recent versions of the Universal Installer are making a frugal install difficult to complete because of GRUB issues. There have been numerous reports along the lines of "I couldn't get a frugal install to boot, so I did a full install and it worked." The PUI seems to be making the decision that anyone doing a frugal install already has a bootloader in place, so there is no need to install GRUB for them.

3. The perennial "pup_xxx.sfs file not found" error during bootup. It would be really helpful if there was a bit of dialogue suggesting what to do next, instead of just dropping the user out to a prompt.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 00:26 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Neat tricks there Pizzasgood! I suppose if you put these lines instead in ~/.Xdefaults

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

how about setting the hostname to "Deepthought-4.2" ? I think that would be a nice touch for future versions of puppy

makes it less hassle to figure out what version people are running either on the forum or IRC

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 02:21 Post subject:

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 02:48 Post subject: Re: Mouse cursor size

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 03:00 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 03:03 Post subject: Re: Tiny Blank Window

WhoDo · Posted: Tue 20 Jan 2009, 03:08 Post subject: