Please post your simple tricks you know but others don't

[aarf]

have been opening saved files for reading later one-by-one. now i find i can select a multiple of them and drag it to opera and they all will open in separate tabs.

[DaveS]

Use Seamonkey Composer to create an HTML document that is basically a list of bookmarks. Call it SpeedDial or something similar, then set it as you Seamonkey home page. Switching to it gives you a page that works like Opera Speed dials. Set Seamonkey to load it on startup, and you are done..........

[disciple]

I don't know about Seamonkey, but in Firefox (at least old versions) the bookmarks are stored in an html file, so you could simply use your bookmarks as your homepage.

[DaveS]

I don't know about Seamonkey, but in Firefox (at least old versions) the bookmarks are stored in an html file, so you could simply use your bookmarks as your homepage.

Sure you can, and Seamonkey works the same, but creating a whole new page allows a different set of bookmarks, effectively increasing instant access.

[dejan555]

I was trying to find some good php bookmarks manager to use with hiawatha and php or put on my site but can't find a good one.

Oh, btw, you can make bookmarks page in pplog

[prehistoric]

I don't know about Seamonkey, but in Firefox (at least old versions) the bookmarks are stored in an html file, so you could simply use your bookmarks as your homepage.

Current Firefox 3.5+ uses something called JSON natively, but you can easily export your bookmarks to an HTML file, which you can edit with Seamonkey composer.

It's a good idea to back up your bookmarks in a portable format, to protect yourself from crashes, or lock-in to a particular browser. (You may trust Mozilla or Google today, but suppose tomorrow they sell out to the evil empire of Redmond.)

Back in the bronze age, when I was running SuSE 5.8 over copper dial-up lines, I created a local homepage to avoid waiting for the ISP to give me access to their view of the Internet. This also allowed easy switches between different browsers, since all use HTML. Use internal bookmarks for quick links to current things, but edit your old standbys into an HTML page. This gives you the ability to organize links by your own categories, include images to remind you, etc.

You are not limited to fitting everything on one page, or a fixed number of categories, as in "speed dial". There is no reason you can't have multiple, linked, local web pages, each devoted to a particular category, and index them with your primary home page. Access is virtually instantaneous.

You may even discover you can go all the places you want on the Internet without ever using Google, Yahoo!, Ask or bing.

[big_bass]

here's something I wrote to save the seamonkey bookmarks and strip off the "extra"code to leave just the active link
so it is very easy to manage the new index for a number of uses

if you look at the original seamonkey index it's clean to view
but it saves extra code not needed if you plan to share bookmarks
or post download links

its just a one click auto build the index and display it script
two files are auto generated without editing your original bookmarks
and auto opens for viewing

a clean url list
/root/bookmarks_stripped.txt


a clean working index for any browser
/root/new_index_list


http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=19665

Joe

[itzme]

I only just spotted this thread, I should have posted my simple trick here, maybe a mod could move it here and delete this post, anyway here is my trick........http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52415

[itzme]

I recently installed Foxitreader and found that it couldn't find the help file when run from the menu, but if it was run directly from "/usr/bin " it functioned correctly, I found that if I made a link to " /usr/bin/fum.fhd " and placed it in" /root " it worked normally from the menu list.

hope that's helpful

[toowoombalinux]

G'day,

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iptables -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp --sport 2234 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

This opens the Port 2234 for my Wireless (eth1) connection.
Cheers
Martin

[sc0ttman]

This will change the behaviour of your save file management (a bit):

The following post shows how to:

1. Disable the automatic saving of the save file in frugal installs
2. Create a dialog message at shutdown, offering the choice of saving the session or not

Details here (don;t wanna double post):

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 738#383738

This is useful if you are running a puppy that should not be disturbed during busy periods, or have very old hardware or very little RAM....

[`f00]

This is a useful gui-applet for .. if freememappletshell doesn't display (for whatever reason) - extract this freememapplet-tray binary to wherever's best for you (like /usr/bin perhaps) and it'll sit there until called by startup or menu item or however you like (I generally stick it in a 'base' menu of on-demand xtras for each wm) if the wm has a systray or equivalent. It's a simpler 'retro' look and there's a short r-click menu as well as a popup/tooltip (handy in case the main display gets scrunched - that happens in fluxbox's native systray for me with this item; but it's just fine in jwm's systray-dock, stalonetray, or the notifier-systray plugin in lxpanel or fbpanel).

hovertip . . and rightclick menu

Not sure where it was from originally, but I pulled it from one of Gray's fine pupplets.

[ITAmember]

If you press the tilde key (~) while the focus is on a ROX window a terminal will be opened in that location.

[disciple]

In my puppy it is this key `
The rox keybindings are configurable though - just hover the mouse over an entry in the right-click menu, and press the key combination that you want to use.

[ITAmember]

Whoops, it is the backquote key.

[MinHundHettePerro]

In my puppy it is this key `
The rox keybindings are configurable though - just hover the mouse over an entry in the right-click menu, and press the key combination that you want to use.

Thanks a lot for this tip, my keyboard layout (se) types the ` (back-tick) through "dead-grave, grave", which doesn't work as a shortcut in ROX.
So, my "derived" tip for people not having single-sequence key-stroke access to ` is to, per disciple's tip, hover the mouse pointer over "Right-click - Window - Terminal Here", and press e.g. the comma-key (which is not already in use as a shortcut-key).

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MHHP

[yarddog]

I ran across this today and thought it might be worth passing on

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/instal ... nux-2.html

Not that anyone would use this many, however, I found it helpful as I have 12 full installs going now

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[prehistoric]

From a discussion about reading error messages in a console.

You can scroll (even on the raw commandline w/o X) by pressing Shift and the Page Up or Page Down buttons. Useful sometimes.

If you want the error and standard output to be combined for debugging, you can append this to the command.

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2>&1

[puppy_pup_pup]

I have MacPup Foxy 3 which is based on Puppy Linux 4.3.1, so take this into account although these locations make work on Puppy period.

root/.usr/share/applications
(This location has desktop icons to every program in Puppy - just plop onto desktop - if you've installed anything new, the icon(s) are HERE as well)
[NOTE: you'll need to hit the button at the top to "show hidden files" or you won't see the .usr folder!]


mnt/
(drives are located here, including if you've plugged in a flash drive or whatever)


usr/local/apps
(a few apps are in here like one to change wallpaper (I use that one a lot) )
[NOTE : can't recall right now, but you may have to hit "show hidden files" again to see this location]


That's it. It's nice to know WHERE the desktop icons are (finally) since I'd spent many moons trying to place icons on the desktop which I prefer sometimes to just having the program listed in the menu.

[glyoung]

go to a console and type dmesg and it will give you all the hardware info you need on the computer. Handy for finding drivers for devices and such.