Puppy 4.2 RC4 Deep Thought - Bugs & Fixes

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#241 Post by capoverde »

It seems that only some of the AbiWord fonts have problems, TrueType fonts from Win's directory work right (tho I haven't tried all 569 in there).
Then for a quick fix it would suffice to substitute some of the royalty-free TTFs to the buggy fonts in Abiword's set -- not elegant but effective, just an idea.

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#242 Post by panzerpuppy »

Patriot wrote:Hmmm ...

Finally, Joe has got wind of us !

:)
Build 445 is out.

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#243 Post by ttuuxxx »

coolpup found the fix for Abiword crashing, Man well at least its fixed, I must of compiled 500MB worth of stuff trying to fix it, and Coolpup did it with a 126kb pet:)
excellent job, well thats one down and 2 maybe 3 to go.
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only one instance of alsaplayer when selecting a station with streamtuner.

here's coolpups fontconfig.

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#244 Post by ttuuxxx »

panzerpuppy wrote:
Patriot wrote:Hmmm ...

Finally, Joe has got wind of us !

:)
Build 445 is out.
and here it is
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#245 Post by 01micko »

Hmmmm .... Coolpup..... posts=0... input=∞
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#246 Post by ttuuxxx »

If anyone wants to take a break and enjoy a real good youtube video, here's one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dYPnui3rM :D
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#247 Post by ttuuxxx »

hey WhoDo

Are You still Planning on having the full Seamonkey+Mail as default? If So, I've been compiling the latest full release and I'll try to finish it tonight :)
Boy this thread is going slow tonight, thats a good sign :) when its a bug related thread :)
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#248 Post by dejan555 »

ttuuxxx wrote:If anyone wants to take a break and enjoy a real good youtube video, here's one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dYPnui3rM :D
ttuuxxx
Hillarious!
panzerpuppy wrote:
Patriot wrote:
Hmmm ...

Finally, Joe has got wind of us !

Smile


Build 445 is out.
and here it is
Awesome! Looks great!
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#249 Post by Pizzasgood »

@jayargent: Okay, looks like I was right, my changes themselves worked, but Xorg doesn't like your setup for some reason. I have noticed that on my system, Xorg will behave wrongly with both cards active (my DRI won't work on the primary card when the secondary is enabled) and sometimes will hang, if I have the wrong combination of drivers installed. So I was beginning to doubt the wisdom in having it automatically set up the second screen, and your experience has reinforced that.

For now I think it would be best if the official Puppy didn't include my xorgwizard patch. It needs some improvements.

EDIT: Disregard the following request, see my next post in this thread.
@WhoDo: You should use the copy of /usr/sbin/xorgwizard that was posted earlier in this thread (but possibly not the .mo files, due to the bug I noticed. I'm assuming those are older copies than the ones already in RC4).
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Meanwhile: jayargent, your monitor is plugged into the Nvidia card, right? Try booting 4.2.1 and running xorgwizard. When it finishes, run this command:
mp /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the part that looks like this:

Code: Select all

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Place a # in front of the line for Screen1, like so:

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	#Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Now press [Ctl]-[s] to save, and [Ctl]-[q] to quit. Now run startx and see if X will start. If not, attach the new copy of the Xorg.0.log file.

If it does work, try it in RC4 also, to verify that this still works even if my patch has been applied. (My plan is to further patch xorgwizard to disable the second screen entry in the server section by default, but still add the missing screen section, so that it only takes the removal of one # sign to enable the second screen by hand.)
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#250 Post by XiaolinDraconis »

so no final yet eh? well i like it so far... i have samba shares now that i couldnt do in 412 and i believe cups works for me but im not sure how to use cups yet so ill get to work on reading about that next and then ill get xorg dri and my nvidia driver and give that a go... anything else i can test?

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#251 Post by 01micko »

buen día todos

Well, been testing Joe´s latest JWM and so far so good! Patriot seems happy but still considers it beta. Would love Pizzasgood or Dougal´s opinion... ziggy is absent as seems Hairy. MU?

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#252 Post by DaveS »

JWM enhancement giving no problems on my RC4
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#253 Post by Béèm »

Will this solution be applied standard in a future release of 4.2?
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Over shading on desktop backgrounds !

#254 Post by Tui »

I have included a screenshot of what I am on about, is this fixed
for final release?
What script do I need to change now to fix this problem?

Thanks Tui
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Re: Over shading on desktop backgrounds !

#255 Post by 01micko »

Tui wrote:I have included a screenshot of what I am on about, is this fixed
for final release?
What script do I need to change now to fix this problem?

Thanks Tui
Hello Tui :)

Don´t you like a movable clock? Well you can turn this feature off easily.

Go to /root/.xonclockrc (hidden file) and find the line ¨movable = true¨ and change to ¨movable = false¨. That will do what you want (if I understand your diagram correctly 8) )

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#256 Post by `f00 »

(ref)@PG on p17.9

Haven't tried rc4 on the i686 yet, but it's been going on with Xorg for awhile now.

Not just Nvidea (twin ATIs on the i686 and the AGP hooked up to two crts does an odd Xorg thing - even though only one display is on) ..

Yep, anyone that has the maus ptr go 'off' the screen hopefully has figured out that xorg.conf line and why it needs commenting out (if they have two monitors plugged into the card and not really set up for Xorg and/or Xinerama and/or whatever it takes to do twin displays properly in Puppy). It's been happening all through the 4.20 series and even in Gray's 4.13 NOP with Xorg - I was just so amazed to have Xorg work on the i686 machine at all that I forgot to mention it perhaps ..

What I used for a temporary solution ('til one comments that line out) is simply to Alt+F1 to get a mainmenu, then dirkey to run up/down - voila, the pointer's back on your dirkey'd selection (it works in Jwm anyhow, sometimes I can't recall Ice-keys).

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Re: Over shading on desktop backgrounds !

#257 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

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#258 Post by 01micko »

MinHundHettePerro wrote:
Tui wrote:I have included a screenshot of what I am on about, is this fixed
for final release?
What script do I need to change now to fix this problem?

Thanks Tui
@Tui

The shadows you are referring to stem from a feature called "BLING" :) (or eye candy), which is more obvious and look much nicer with a non-gray background.
However, if you wish to rid your desktop from the shadows, do the following:

1) The shadow on the face of the analog clock: Menu>Desktop>Pwidgets - tiny desktop apps >> Plugins>Clock_analog... > set Clock_analog to use another skin than JQ8lite.png. > Apply > Cancel > Apply > Quit

2) The vertical background-shadow: Menu>Desktop>Pwidgets - tiny desktop apps >> Plugins>Sidebar set widgets background... > Remove > Quit > Apply > Quit

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#259 Post by Tui »

Thanks MHHP,
With the exception of the clock, RHS is now fixed!

I changed the clock to the yellow theme, but the half shadow is still there !

What's next to change ?

Thanks Tui

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#260 Post by 01micko »

Tui wrote:Thanks MHHP,
With the exception of the clock, RHS is now fixed!

I changed the clock to the yellow theme, but the half shadow is still there !

What's next to change ?

Thanks Tui
The Shadow is part of the clock! You can get lots more clockskins but you must be able to put them in ¨/root/.pwidgets/clockskins¨ and they will show up when you use the plugin as MHHP suggested. I hope that helps.

You can see my sig ¨BLING bla bla ...¨ for links to clockskins

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