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#61 Post by playdayz »

Tested MPlayer with avi, wmv and mp4 so far.........when playing fullscreen the picture occasionally goes to a bluescreen for a few seconds before returning to the video.
JamesC, I should have mentioned. Gnome-mplayer is the latest version 0.9.9.2-1. In my testing it does not work correctly playing full screen with JWM. That is why we had used an older version 0.9.6, but dad gum it ;-) if jwm has too many problems let's try something else. Whoa--did it actually play full screen with JWM?

Such as LXDE Light -> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59673
I think dejan555 has also made a fluxbox that I am trying to track down.
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I am wondering if we ought to have an Email Chooser, comparable to the Browser Chooser. Why have a stripped email program--if I need to do email I need to do real email, so why not a choice between Sylpheed 3.10 with GnuPG, Thunderbird, or Eudora--we have them all ready. If you want to do email then you have an internet connection so that would not be a problem..

Any opinions, comments, ideas, please.

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#62 Post by playdayz »

(1) Thunderbird refuses to link to /mnt/home/.thunderbird, otherwise it works well. I've tried installing it from Maverick repositories, however it has missing dependencies that I can't locate. I have no problem with relative links with other programs.
Have you tried it from PPM jim1911.
Have you also tried downloading Thunderbird from mozilla.net or org?

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#63 Post by playdayz »

CUPS 1.4.3 : first time I encountered
Epson_Stylus_SX410-1 geany job #3 root 253k Unknown stopped
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf failed"
I am sure I broke something. I am going to try for Cups 1.4.4 which will be in Maverick.

Kernel, Maverick will have 2.6.35 and so I hope will we.

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#64 Post by James C »

playdayz wrote:
Tested MPlayer with avi, wmv and mp4 so far.........when playing fullscreen the picture occasionally goes to a bluescreen for a few seconds before returning to the video.
JamesC, I should have mentioned. Gnome-mplayer is the latest version 0.9.9.2-1. In my testing it does not work correctly playing full screen with JWM. That is why we had used an older version 0.9.6, but dad gum it ;-) if jwm has too many problems let's try something else. Whoa--did it actually play full screen with JWM?.
I took a different direction, good old VLC. :) Downloaded from Quickpet and wouldn't launch.Missing libhal.so.1.
Installed missing lib and working fine. Plays the same videos fullscreen with no problem.
By the way, MPlayer also had the problems in Icewm too, but I knew VLC wouldn't disappoint me. :lol:

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#65 Post by playdayz »

I took a different direction, good old VLC. Smile Downloaded from Quickpet and wouldn't launch.Missing libhal.so.1.
Installed missing lib and working fine. Plays the same videos fullscreen with no problem.
Hal bit us. You might have noticed on the first message I mentioned that Lucid Mav is "hal-free", but VLC wasn't one of the ones compiled by Ubuntu to not need hal--we can add hal to the pet as you did.

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#66 Post by James C »

playdayz wrote:
I took a different direction, good old VLC. Smile Downloaded from Quickpet and wouldn't launch.Missing libhal.so.1.
Installed missing lib and working fine. Plays the same videos fullscreen with no problem.
Hal bit us. You might have noticed on the first message I mentioned that Lucid Mav is "hal-free", but VLC wasn't one of the ones compiled by Ubuntu tonot need hal--we can put hal into the pet. Thanks.
Read that before I downloaded. Seems kind of ironic, remove something and then immediately need it again. :)

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#67 Post by playdayz »

Seems kind of ironic, remove something and then immediately need it again. Smile
Story of my life ;-)
It didn't take long did it--30 minutes or so LOL
We might be able to include libhal but not the hal daemon--so it wouldn't be running but the library would be there if needed.

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I am just noticing the retrovol uses a lot of cpu--it was popping in and out of the top 4 regularly. I killed it and then set up a volume control in lxpanel and the whole lxpanel is using less cpu than retrovol was.

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Here is the conky.conf that I am using to check quad core stuff. Install Conky from PPM and then Save this file as /etc/conky/conky.conf and start Conky from the Menu -> System. If you are using cpu_freq_scaling you can see if it is working on all cores. You can use the benchmarks in System -> Hardinfo to stress the cores.

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# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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#
# $Id: conky.conf 1193 2008-06-21 20:37:58Z ngarofil $

alignment middle_right
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
font 6x10
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type normal
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 3.0
uppercase no
use_spacer no
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime

${color grey}Frequency:$color ${freq 0} ${color grey}CPU 0 Usage:$color ${cpu cpu0}
${color grey}Frequency:$color ${freq 1} ${color grey}CPU 1 Usage:$color ${cpu cpu1}
${color grey}Frequency:$color ${freq 2} ${color grey}CPU 2 Usage:$color ${cpu cpu2}
${color grey}Frequency:$color ${freq 3} ${color grey}CPU 3 Usage:$color ${cpu cpu3}

${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_free /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} k/s${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed eth0} k/s
$hr
${color grey}Name                  PID   CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

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#68 Post by Jasper »

Hi playdayz,

Although Osmo is now v 0.2.10:

the main header still shows v 0.2.8, and
the spell-checker icon does not appear above a new note.

Midori keyboard arrows work, but should there be a vertical scroll bar?.
Added: I clicked the Refresh button and the scroll bar appeared.

My regards

Thank you all again for such an amazing and outstanding Puppy.

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#69 Post by playdayz »

Although Osmo is now v 0.2.10:

the main header still shows v 0.2.8, and
the spell-checker icon does not appear above a new note.

Midori keyboard arrows work, but should there be a vertical scroll bar?.
Added: I clicked the Refresh button and the scroll bar appeared.
I investigated building Osmo with the latest Ubuntu Maverick binaries and it would have cost 50MB! Some of the Ubuntu programs just turn out like that--but it doesn't matter to ubuntu since they include everything anyway ;-) But it does matter to us. Therefore, the Osmo is a pet hat Barry made for Quirky. We can look for a newer one or someone could compile one. And we could also build the whole big thing and put it in PPM for anyone who wanted the whole enchilada.

Yes, the famous disappearing scroll bar....
Although Osmo is now v 0.2.10:

the main header still shows v 0.2.8, and
That part is weird. I think it is either an Osmo problem or something to do witht he way it was compiled, since I haven't found how to change it.

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#70 Post by Karl Godt »

luma-002 : copied lupq510rc /usr/lib/cups/filer (includes pdftopdf) completely to luma-002 and still no luck ... seems to be something with gtk-libs or whatever ...

luma-001 is printing fine exept for the page head that seems not to print in the same font size as the text .... ( CRAZY! ) ( geany 0.19.1 )
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#71 Post by Karl Godt »

conky-cli basic didn`t like to run

This is
/root/CONKY/BIN/standard/conky-std_1.8.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb/root/CONKY/BIN/standard/liblua5.1-0_5.1.4-5_i386.deb

with playdayz conf : ( added more lines ..max 9 is very little )
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replace jwm ? yes, please or make it second WM !

#72 Post by Karl Godt »

/lxde-0.5.0-lucid.pet : works fine so far :)

jwmrc-tray isn`t backup`ed at /etc/xdg/* or where-ever `jwmconfig` grabs its backup .jwmrc things .

3 of the 4 first suggestions from google for retrovol :

You can also re-run retrovol while it's already running to open the main window. In the main window you can see all the active controls ...
www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50744 -

9 Jan 2010 ... Retrovol Pizzasgood has written a very nice volume control for the tray, ... EDIT: no sorry, Retrovol is not a window that gets swallowed, ...
bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01325

31 Jan 2010 ... retrovol. Hello tempestuous, In the latest Quirkys, ... retrovol. Thanks. I had a quick look at the source code and it appears to be true ...
bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01372
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#73 Post by Jasper »

Hi playdayz,

Abiword shows twice in my main menu.

Firstly, I expect you already know that already, but secondly there is no need to reply.

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002 problems - box 2 (dialup)

#74 Post by scsijon »

Hi,

Box 2 frugal install

video - ok

install - ok

resize - ok

shutdown - ok

savefile creation - ok, :? I still have to change the directory, a nusance I know but can't it be an automatic process?

no modem detected (winmodem)

Unmount drive partitions - won't unmount a ntfs partition (even when no window or app using it)

install pets - ok

apps I use seem to behaving as expected

:shock: otherwise ok

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Samba problem?

#75 Post by peebee »

Hi
I can't get Samba to work in this version - pnethood can't detect any shares - the log (screen dump attached) says the smbclient command cannot be found.
Anybody else seen this problem?
Thanks
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Missing libxcb-atom1

#76 Post by mories »

Is needed for Skype with pulseaudio.

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#78 Post by 01micko »

playdayz..

um .. you do know I am itching to get hold of the devx :lol:

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#79 Post by Iguleder »

Playdayz, I have some tiny fix or suggestion, whatver you call it.

You could move first-run.sh to /root/Startup and add "rm /root/Startup/first-run.sh" at the end, that makes the wizard show up only once - if you restart X you see it again, kinda annoying for nvidia users. :wink:
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#80 Post by James C »

Ive been trying out the latest Aptosid, the distro formerly known as sidux..........since the 2.6.35.4 kernel is frozen in Squeeze I'm assuming that will be the kernel used in Maverick.Seems like some pretty big improvements there, from what I've read anyway. :lol:

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