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DaveS · #81 Post by **DaveS** » Wed 28 Apr 2010, 21:36

Installing DuDE 0.2 seemed to solve a load of niggly little problems.
Midori chugs along nicely. Installing Firefox OVER Seamonkey breaks CUPS a bit. Normal. Setting the font in GTK theme is a bit obscure, probably a good thing...............
Pnote is welcome. Dont care for the barebones Geany window as I cant drag it around by the window bar (needs alt doubletap). Like black terminal background.
Vattery dont display

jemimah · #82 Post by **jemimah** » Wed 28 Apr 2010, 22:00

DaveS wrote:Vattery dont display

Hmmm, Techno, you might want to check if your gtk build has SVG support.

technosaurus · #83 Post by **technosaurus** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 05:19

I tried running vattery in 4.31 and got the same result - it has the same gtk package ... running from rxvt I get failed to execute child process "ibam" no such file or directory ... it wasn't in the pet so I compiled ibam and it is working in 431 now to test again... but sleep first

alpha2 likely this weekend

DaveS · #84 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 05:53

technosaurus wrote:I tried running vattery in 4.31 and got the same result - it has the same gtk package ... running from rxvt I get failed to execute child process "ibam" no such file or directory ... it wasn't in the pet so I compiled ibam and it is working in 431 now to test again... but sleep first

alpha2 likely this weekend

YAY! Works now

Pretty blinky dont though......... on it!

technosaurus · #85 Post by **technosaurus** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 06:40

blinky

DaveS · #86 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 06:53

Thanks T. I had fixed it by swapping out the binary from Ttuuxxx which went into /bin/ to /usr/bin/ which is where the system one is.
The .pet is a nicer way...........

Newuser · #87 Post by **Newuser** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 07:24

Hi been using lhp for the past month or two thought I would try this version of puppy,
Ok being a non programmer etc,............ Here is my list of little problems installed Firefox would not start so uninstalled it it was listed on dotpet puppy manager. Window for used programs still shows firefox in the list even though it was uninstalled. Tried to install new Seamonkey but have version 2.0b2 which wont do all the things I prefer like ad block etc....this needs to be started by going into programs,internet etc.... route I cant just click on the window which lists used programs was hoping that puppy would replace old program with new. I like this style of puppy.

DaveS · #88 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 08:58

OK, so this is MUCH better from a users point of view than 4.3.*
Correctly auto-configured and logged on to wired LAN, browsers accessed internet via this LAN with no tweaking. It is cool to be able to drop a script into Favourites so that it is available with a couple of clicks. No more editing .jwm files.........
Both my printers installed flawlessly. I needed to know the address of the wifi one, but the USB one was autodetected.
Nice work.

Newuser · #89 Post by **Newuser** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 09:18

May I ask what Printer your using as I have never been able to get my lexmark to work with any linux version.

#90 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 09:48

Newuser wrote:May I ask what Printer your using as I have never been able to get my lexmark to work with any linux version.

I use a canon pixman ip5200 which works fine on puppy out of the box.
ttuuxxx

DaveS · #91 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 10:23

Newuser wrote:May I ask what Printer your using as I have never been able to get my lexmark to work with any linux version.

I use an HP C4380 wifi printer and a Canon Pixma 4600. Both work just fine but the HP is a total SH*T to set up for the very first time. Actually involves borrowing a Windows PC to do it. After that, it is trouble free.

DaveS · #92 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 11:29

Dont think this has been reported but when I try to change one of the default programs, say defaultwordprocessor, thru PCC, it just wipes the text in the default* file, and from there on the wizard will not load. Repairing the default* by hand is then required.

Newuser · #93 Post by **Newuser** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 13:07

hi the anks for the reply you state you sue the windows disk does that mean you compile a puppy driver from the disk as I would not even know how to do that I salute you.

DaveS · #94 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 13:27

Newuser wrote:hi the anks for the reply you state you sue the windows disk does that mean you compile a puppy driver from the disk as I would not even know how to do that I salute you.

No. This is something strange ONLY with the HP printer I have. To make it work, it has to be configured from a Windows pc first. I have never seen any other printer like it.

jemimah · #95 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 13:37

technosaurus wrote:I tried running vattery in 4.31 and got the same result - it has the same gtk package ... running from rxvt I get failed to execute child process "ibam" no such file or directory ... it wasn't in the pet so I compiled ibam and it is working in 431 now to test again... but sleep first

alpha2 likely this weekend

No one's mentioned that to me in all these months? Doh!

DaveS · #96 Post by **DaveS** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 13:43

jemimah wrote:
technosaurus wrote:I tried running vattery in 4.31 and got the same result - it has the same gtk package ... running from rxvt I get failed to execute child process "ibam" no such file or directory ... it wasn't in the pet so I compiled ibam and it is working in 431 now to test again... but sleep first

alpha2 likely this weekend
No one's mentioned that to me in all these months? Doh!

Well, it works 'out of the box' in 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 v3 for me:)

lstandish · #97 Post by **lstandish** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 13:51

Please consider adding snap2 rotating snapshot backup program (with gtkdialog GUI) to 4.4. It is now at version 4.5 and is considered stable/tested. I believe it adds important backup functionality to Puppy (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50402), and it adds little overhead (the 3 shell scripts total 81K).

Download the latest pet from http://files.lstandish.com/

Newuser · #98 Post by **Newuser** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 14:21

Ok well this is now disturbing me I have had to remove all traces of frugal install because I could not update seamonkey correctly in fact no browser would work. I must point out that I do want to be able to use puppy but why does it have to be so difficult?

I dare say people on here will rant and rage about how ex windows users blindly install software on to their pcs and not know what it does or where its going, true yes very true. However I can ride motorcycles or drive cars I don't need to know why the it moves or how it moves it just does if it breaks down I take it to someone who will fix it for me. Lazy? probably but answer me this do all those people who use puppy know how a to fly a plane to fix it? or how to build a crux a frame structure? (I do). Why are the repositories not updated with current versions of software from browsers to flash?

technosaurus · #99 Post by **technosaurus** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 16:51

jemimah wrote:No one's mentioned that to me in all these months? Doh!

At first read - I thought you had used the code from ibam in your vattery code and since ibam wasn't in the pet or referenced I thought that it was somehow broken (thus the reason for all the bash battery scripts in that thread)... after looking at the vattery code in order to replace some ibam sections with bash, I realized it was calling ibam instead... `which ibam` yielded a blank prompt (which was my prompt to compile the latest ibam) Anyhow sorry for all the bash pollution in the Vattery thread.

@Newuser - windows invented "dll-hell" otherwise it would be called "so-hell" ... without corporate backing, the pilots are having to do their own airplane maintenance here and predominantly maintain the parts that make their planes fly without crashing (preferably stable and tested parts), but are more than helpful to other "pilots" in need or wanting to test the bleeding edge... provided they don't talk trash

jpeps · #100 Post by **jpeps** » Thu 29 Apr 2010, 19:38

technosaurus wrote:
@Newuser - windows invented "dll-hell" otherwise it would be called "so-hell" ... without corporate backing, the pilots are having to do their own airplane maintenance here and predominantly maintain the parts that make their planes fly without crashing (preferably stable and tested parts), but are more than helpful to other "pilots" in need or wanting to test the bleeding edge... provided they don't talk trash

Keep up the good work!

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