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dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2807 Location: Montenegro

No Rupp, I'll check how to do that.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1698 Location: Germany

can confirm the crash on deiconifiing for 4.31. have reported the issue to the bugtracker.

aragon

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2807 Location: Montenegro

Thanks aragon.

Eyes-Only · Posted: Mon 14 Mar 2011, 16:48 Post subject:

Hmm... now that makes me wonder why it is that I'm the only one not experiencing that crash? - now on two systems, my Luci-252 and my ClassicPup-214X?

I guess I'm always the lucky one, eh? Confused

@Grimoire: You'd asked if this Fluxbox would work in other builds aside from 4.3.1 I believe? ( See page 2 of this thread. ) By all means, yes! Very Happy

And by my account and usage of 3 to 4 hours a day, it works great! This has been the fastest, best, Fluxbox install I've ever used on any distro BAR NONE!

HTH?

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1698 Location: Germany

Rupp · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 87

Eyes-Only · Posted: Wed 16 Mar 2011, 13:52 Post subject:

Hmm... well then, if I'm not experiencing any of the problems on any of my Puppy installs ( from hard drive to frugals to Luci-252 back to ClassPup-214X and everything in between I might add ), then what should I do Aragon? Should I do - as the old saying goes in English, "just let sleeping dogs lie" and leave well enough alone? Or instead, should I go and uninstall my 1.3.0 and upgrade with whatever you are going to come out with next - supposedly solving the problem from bugtracker?

BTW: The system all these Pups/puplets are running upon is an OLD ( approx. 8 or 9 y.o. if not older ) DELL 2400, 2.4gigs "Celery" processor, 512megs of RAM/1gig SWAP with a 160gig HD with 4 partitions.

I hope the specs in some way help?

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

`f00 · Last edited by `f00 on Fri 25 Mar 2011, 22:27; edited 3 times in total

..my weekend activity is slated (enough fooling around, afterstep 2211 can wait since it needs compile and some real attention to bring it to a meeting place while ede is getting there albeit slowly there are personal targets being ranged).

c'mon dogs, let's see if there's anything to these flux dux …

___addenda (scouting the marsh) `110319/20___
w020 (multisession)
Kind of a bust-out (since I decided to keep fluxbox-1.0.0 'just in case' .. moved and renamed all components of that version). Extracted fluxbox-1.3.1 and the mans (truly don't like dotpet automation) and started from prompt. Not too usable, but not a disaster either. Took a look at some of the readable stuff and made a few adjustments, spent some time with both 1.0.0 and 1.3.1 and for me it's not much gained at this point in time. 100 'just works' while I'd have to sit down with a clear guide to what's new or been changed in the 131 init. For example, window and context menus (such as for client list and toolbar buttons) aren't even showing in 131 for me - root+base menu is functional after a copyover from the 100's root dir (after the initial startup, I didn't have much faith in what the updaters could accomplish). embed'd image as a link to a bigger different image (only 61k) follows:

After a reboot/save, repeated minimizing/restoring from the client menu or by lxpanel (group by wincmd/individual by taskbuttons) results in no issues with dropping out of X (tad clumsy having to use lxpanel for missing window/context menus in flux). Early on it did somewhat erratically drop out (before the reboot/save) but there was no consistent pattern I could see. The 'graphical' rootmenu with icons is fine with an older imlib2-1.4.0 so didn't use the new package (have tried that in other pups and sometimes there are issues with other apps that seem to prefer the older imlib).

___addenda2 (lunch in the field) `110323___
mp520 (ephemeral 1stlook)
Everything seems kopacetic, no real issues with a fresh install (my bad on the above, but there should be a way to have two separate versions .. maybe a 'remote' or somesuch to ensure the proper match at startup of different inits). Without getting too invested in a throwaway install (mp520 and 511 have some minor menu-issues that annoy me when using other wms), it's all good with the window/taskbutton context menus now .. oddly enough there seems to be no context menus for apps in the workspace/client menu now (there was such on fluxbox-1.0.0 link to example here @268k for clarification, on that particular install the menu was a popup) but there could be some interaction with all the various config items.

No crashing at all with repeated deiconifying from the workspace/client menu (but since no context menus for apps in that menu-list, re-iconifying is done by taskbutton or from the window's titlebar button or context menu)

Readily accepts realtime manual menu editing - something I usually do to get icons in and my own base mods (in macpup any wms that use a puppy-standard xdg rootmenu may likely have to be manually edited anyway to take care of an annoying anomaly). Can be slightly balky to get correct as-intended style looks (active/passive text-fgs in menus may not look right until a simple [restart]).

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1698 Location: Germany

@eyes-only: i will post the same package with the bugfix,so i think there should be no problem in upgrading.

Aragon

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1698 Location: Germany

Uploaded bugfix-release that solves the crashes on icon-menu to the first post.

@eyes-only: if you got no crashes, you don't need to install.

aragon

Eyes-Only · Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2011, 17:10 Post subject:

I've been away for quite some time and so unable to follow up on this thread unfortunately. Crying or Very sad

Thanks for the heads up Aragon! While ATM I'm literally drowning in emails and catch-up items I'll download the updates on page numero uno and get those installed ASAP barring any impending disaster I may cause on my end here. LOL!!

Again Aragon, thanks muchly for all your hard work and dedication ( and to all you others reading as well! ) when it comes to the Puppy Community.

Cheers/Amicalement!

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

EDIT #1: LOL! Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could READ? I see now what I missed in your last post Aragon - that I DON'T have to install if having no problems, etc.

Still, however, I think I'll d/load the updates just so as to have them on my backup DVD. Good idea me thinks! Wink

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2807 Location: Montenegro

Well I compiled current git version and couldn't crash it so far so I guess they solved the bug. If anyone wants pet for 215 CE let me know (running this version on my laptop Razz

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Masf · Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 5

Help me please

The installation was successful, but when i restart puppy I see the original menu bar.

Can be fixing going to promnt and written "XWin startfluxbox", but I like not having to do it every time.

there is an image:
http://img59.imageshack.us/i/image1nn.png/

Also, the option to change window manager in the menu (desktop/desktop settings/WM switcher switch between windowmanagers) don`t do anything.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1698 Location: Germany

hi masf, the problem is, that you have fluxbox and an independant panel running at the same time. the panel in your pic might be fbpanel.

to work around this problem please do the following:

1. copy /root/.xinitrc to /root/.xinitrcSAVE
2. open /root/.xinitrc in an editor
3. Look for a part that looks like the following (in my version line 138 ff)