Hi Everyone,
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I have a range of old machines that have gone into disuse over the last 5 years due to hardware aging and lack of CPU/RAM resources. Stumbled onto Puppy trying to resurrect an old machine.
I have successfully installed Puppy and then Legacy OS on an old HP Vectra machine I had lying around. Both worked exceptionally well - boy, now I wish I never gave away all those old machines!
I ended up going to Legacy OS because the end user was a complete beginner. The profile ... a 74-year-old Nonna, new to computing. I rightly or wrongly took that Puppy is aimed at reasonably computer literate users that are less likely to do the wrong thing and Legacy OS more aimed at beginners.
I have spent some time tinkering with the Desktop and made it more 'newbee friendly' but expect a telephone call at sometime in the future stating that she somehow fried the desktop. Unique data backup aside*, what I would like to know is how to get what I have got, saved, so when 'that call comes' it is just a matter of sticking a disk in the CD tray, reinstalling the saved image and copying back her saved data**.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
PS. If anyone knows of a good menu manager for IceWM that would allow me to hide some of the more dangerous menu options, a link would be appreciated. I have looked at the 'menu' text file in the /root/.icewm directory but am a bit reticent about cutting out menu items. I note also that the logout/logoff options are also not found in this file and changing options in the associated configuration files do not appear to have an effect - hence the desire to locate a suitable editor.
Footnotes
* I will probably setup a backup script that works when she closes down the desktop. I have put an icon on the desktop to make it easy to select 'close computer' as the menu is a little tricky for beginners and may result in her logging off rather than turning off the computer, resulting in her being faced with a terminal prompt.
** Data will be saved to a separate partition on the HD using a backup script tagged onto the 'turn computer off script'
Cheers Simon.
System Snapshot or Backup
Items that appear in the menu are located in /usr/share/applications.
Removing a desktop file from that directory and then opening a terminal and typing "fixmenus" followed by a restart of the window manager will work.
As to desktop icon links, you can right click on one and select remove.
Hope that helps.
Removing a desktop file from that directory and then opening a terminal and typing "fixmenus" followed by a restart of the window manager will work.
As to desktop icon links, you can right click on one and select remove.
Hope that helps.
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Yours is an interesting question and there are several options.
From menu / setup / remaster
to multisession
to my solution - UWillFU (which means in my case 'You Will F*&^ Up')
I run Alpha versions of Puppy, visit dubious websites (including my own)
and run as root with full javascript and flash, cookies enabled
and probably worse of all - no tin foil hat
So I know how to set up Puppy and run from DVD
(I never have time to bother with an install)
I keep my bookmarks and pictures of sardines in compromising tins
on unmounted hard disks (I KNEW I would eventually find out what unmounting was for).
A version of Puppy such as Lucid (straight to desktop) makes things easy
I keep any pets on the Hard disk
I backup any data from 'my documents' into those hard disks
Hope that helps
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If you use this method to cull the menu will it result in orphaned files that will cause a problem, or dependencies required by other programs being deleted?8-bit wrote:Items that appear in the menu are located in /usr/share/applications.
Removing a desktop file from that directory and then opening a terminal and typing "fixmenus" followed by a restart of the window manager will work.
As to desktop icon links, you can right click on one and select remove.
Hope that helps.
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Do I take it that all pertinent data not-specific-to-the-system is housed in the 'My Documents' directories? You know, things like links, desktop preferences, Desktop icons, etcetera?Lobster wrote:I backup any data from 'my documents' into those hard disks
... and that copying files from a backup of this directory on top of a fresh install will reinstate a 'saved' session after rebooting?
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No.Do I take it that all pertinent data not-specific-to-the-system is housed in the 'My Documents' directories? You know, things like links, desktop preferences, Desktop icons, etcetera?
It is just the data I want . . . so that is perhaps unusual
If you want all the config data
you need something like
spupsave.3fs
lupusave-pupice008.3fs
(name depends on the Puppy you are using . . .
and the name you gave when first saving config details)
This will be in mnt/home