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8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

When I click on the taskbar volume icon, I normally expect a volume slider.
But I get a sgmixer window open instead.
Normally, this would be ok.
But....
When I click the Exit button in that window, the taskbar volume icon disappears and I have to restart X to restore it.
So how about a true volume slider for the icon and sgmixer as a menu item?

tazoc · Posted: Mon 19 Jul 2010, 23:05 Post subject:

Hi 8-bit,
Yes, sGmixer is missing from the menus--I will fix that for the next release. Meantime, Zmixer is in the Multimedia Menu. What I do is minimize the mixer after using it.

I don't know how to put a proper volume slider in the IceWM tray. I think all the other WMs in Lighthouse do have that feature, although Xfce's may require Mariner.
-TazOC

CLAM01 · Joined: 22 May 2010 Posts: 68

Taz0c and 8-bit,
I like the volume control in Icewm as is. I run zero-volume most of the time, then, when I need, click it up with the tray icon, adjust, then click down, clicking on the icon again. Since the window is a good puppy it stays and reappears next time where it was told to stay. Mine right over the tray icon with the buttons down behind the tray, out of oops way. If you only adjust volume you can put the window down with only that slider showing and have only the roll-over disappear feature missing.

Stormson5150 · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 40

I commented out the standard mixer in /root/.icewm/startup and tried replacing it with absvolume, but it doesnt work at startup... Also tried linking it to the startup folder, that didnt work either... No problem, I just made a desktop icon and click on it at startup... Seems to work fine after that.

tazoc · Last edited by tazoc on Sun 25 Jul 2010, 11:36; edited 1 time in total

Streamtuner2 SFS Internet radio browser for Lucid Puppy, Slackpup or Lighthouse Pup 5

[2010.07.22 Updated VLC for Lupu and Slackpup]
Vlc-1.0.6-i486b.sfs 38M md5.txt A media player, encoder and streamer for Lucid Puppy, Slackpup or LHP 5

Pidgin-2.6.5b.sfs 5.1M md5.txt An easy to use, free chat client for LHP 5
-TazOC

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1604 Location: South Australia

tazoc Streamtuner2 did not work for me.

I'm using a frugal Lucid Puppy 5.0. I mounted the sfs file by clicking on it. Navigated to /usr/bin/streamtuner2 [clicked]. It said it was borderless and starting streamtuner2 but it did not. When I ran it from a terminal it could not find a python command.

# ./streamtuner2
./streamtuner2: line 12: python2.6: command not found

Does it also provide a menu entry when mounted as I couldn't find a menu entry in multimedia or internet.

Thanks

tazoc · Posted: Tue 20 Jul 2010, 18:12 Post subject: Xscreensaver_fix#2-LHP5.00-C.pet

tazoc · Posted: Tue 20 Jul 2010, 18:41 Post subject:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

I load Abiword, insert some scanned images of pages with a page break after each page and if I select save as PDF, the processor maxes out and the save fails.
But if I save the file as an Abiword file, exit, and run PuppyPDF to convert the file to PDF, it works.
Since PuppyPDF uses Abiword for the conversion, is there a bug in Abiword as to directly saving to PDF within Abiword?

tazoc · Posted: Tue 20 Jul 2010, 21:49 Post subject: Abiword

Thank you for the workaround 8-bit. Smile

Yeah, Abiword is buggy, I tried different versions and it didn't help. Considering it's <8M with plug-ins I think its good enough for now. If OpenOffice (>175M with JRE) was small enough for the base ISO, I'd use it to replace Abiword in a heartbeat!
-TazOC

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

I made a 512 meg personal spupsave file by using the prompts on my first install.
I added a few apps and 4 SFS files using Puppy Boot Manager.
Then Seamonkey updated to 2.06
The Personal Storage space tray applet showed 503 megs with 175 megs free.
So I used the option from the menu to increase personal storage space (spupsave).
I selected 512 megs as an increase and rebooted to LHP.
The tray applet still showed 503megs with 175 free.
I then did another size increase of 1024 megs and rebooted to LHP.
The Personal storage size and free space still did not change from the initial 503 megs with 175 megs free.
So is this a definite bug with the tray applet.
Edit:
Also, when I right click on the spupsave.2fs file, the size is shown as 2048 mbytes. Also, Pwidgets also shows it as a 504meg pupsave.

Also, running a filesystem check the unmounted pupsave from another version of Puppy showed block errors and other errors.
So isn't the Personal Storage space tray applet supposed to pick up the new pupsave size and display it properly?

tazoc

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

I have a 40 gig partition on sdb3 formatted to an ext2 file system.
All other versions of Puppy, frugal installs in subdirectories, work fine and report the correct pupsave file size as well as free space on them.
But even after booting from a live CD of Puppy 431 scsi and doing
e2fsck -vy /dev/sdb3 and also then mounting sdb3, navigating to the light house pup directory and doing e2fsck -vy spupsave-500.2fs, I still got the Puppy Personal space tray applet showing 504 megs with 175 megs free.
I uninstalled the googleearth pet as a test and the free space increased.
But I am still at a loss as to the discrepency.
If I select properties of my spupsave-500.2fs file, the file size is shown as 2048 megs.
Also, if I boot back and forth between Puppy versions to check the spupsave-500.2fs file with e2fsck, I get block error reports, and a bunch of other errors that it corrects.
I run e2fsck twice each time and the second time, it comes up clean.
At this point, I am ready to just ditch the pupsave file and start over fresh with a BIG pupsave file.
BTW, Light House Pup with the Mariner SFS loaded is the only Puppy on sdb3 that has given me this problem.
Puppy 500 always has the pupsave file check out clean when checked with another version of Puppy running.

tazoc · Posted: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 15:27 Post subject:

Sorry about the difficulties. Please carefully follow all of the steps in my last post, especially booting from the Lighthouse 5 LiveCD with puppy pfix=ram,fsck at the boot menu, e2fsck -vfy spupsave-500.2fs (try -vfy this time) then resize2fs -pf spupsave-500.2fs

I just resized my 384M spupsave.3fs up 128M with Resize Personal Storage file, rebooted and now freespace indicates 496M total, Freespace 298M. In ROX the pupsave is now 512M. I have 21 SFS files enabled in BootManager, including the Mariner SFS.
-TazOC

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

I tried your suggestions as to recovering from the Personal Storage space tray applet displaying correctly and nothing changed until I did a resize from command line on my unmounted pupsave file.
I gave it a command to resize to the same size my pupsave file already was.
After that, and a reboot, the correct size was shown.
Thank you for the heads up though.