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#121 Post by Terry H »

I just updated to guydog 5.0.1 from 5.0.0. Previously when I used pmount, the selected partition would be mounted and displayed in emelfm2. Today following the upgrade, the pattition is mounted, however an error is displayed that rox-filer is not installed.

Originally when I completed the upgrade I used the same savefile. I then deleted the savefile and checked again, the error still exists.

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#122 Post by Iguleder »

Yes, you could do yourself a favor and read the changelog.

Previously, /usr/bin/rox was a dirty hack that launched emelFM2 when ROX-Filer was called, but I decided to remove it because it's too dirty. Instead, I put a placeholder that tells you to install ROX-Filer if you want that functionality.
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#123 Post by dejan555 »

Hey Iguleder, just booted guydog, well version 5.0.0 was when I downloaded it, been wanting to try it since.
I wanted to report network wizard problem but I see it's fixed in 5.0.1

If I choose 1024x768 I get 800x600 res, but I can get higher 1280x1024
If I go to "Choose" tab and choose radeon or ati or radeonhd and then type xwin it doesn't start at all after that, have to revert to "Probe" -> Choose res.

I also get a smaller area on screen visible that is the size of my TV-out so it's kinda 1280x1024 desktop and then same wallpaper scaled to 800x600 begining from top left corner of screen :P

I like the minimalistic idea and that you change from usual rox desktop and file manager.

As with other newer pups everything works slower on my PC :( so that's not your fault
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#124 Post by Iguleder »

I visit once in a while, I just ... became a very important person :)

I work a lot and don't have much spare time.

Regarding the network wizard - I'll wait for Barry to fix it, since I'm not familiar with the code. While we wait for 5.0.2, I work on something nice, sort of a proof-of-concept project called Dogbox, a minimalistic implementation of many common executables, like Busybox but written independently with just important features.

Here's the binary - it supports both direct calling (e.g through a symlink with the applet name) or as an argument (e.g "dogbox cat /path/to/file").
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#125 Post by upnorth »

Hi Iguleder:

In the menu.xml file, one of my apps had execute option containing quotes "

But, all quotes in the menu.xml file are escaped with \.

Had to remove the \'s, or app wouldn't start. The only other app that had escaped quotes in the execute line that i could see was xfontsel. I removed those \ also, then ran Reconfigure from menu>openbox>Reconfigure.

xfontsel still works and is puke green now, and my app that wouldn't work with escaped quotes now works with nonescaped quotes.

Otherwise, things looking good.

UPDATE: I fixed my problem with escaped quotes in menu.xml by commenting out line 125 in /usr/bin/ob-xdgmenu. Tested with fixmenus and reconfigure and it worked. 8)
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#126 Post by tubeguy »

5.0.1 installed frugal no problem. This is one fast dog.

What can I use for accessing network shares like with pnethood?

Any way to make the clock 12hr instead of 24hr?

Thanks!
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#127 Post by Iguleder »

1) You'll have to install Pnethood and smbclient.
2) /root/.config/tint2rc is your friend :)
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#128 Post by Terry H »

Iguleder wrote:Yes, you could do yourself a favor and read the changelog.

Previously, /usr/bin/rox was a dirty hack that launched emelFM2 when ROX-Filer was called, but I decided to remove it because it's too dirty. Instead, I put a placeholder that tells you to install ROX-Filer if you want that functionality.
I'm sorry I didn't associate the mention of the usability fix with the error message received.

I don't want to install rox-filer, I like to use emelfm2.

Thanks for your excellent innovative work on puppy.
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#129 Post by jim3630 »

installed 501 manual frugal as usual to ext4. again noted in ppm puppy 2,3,4, 5, wary, quirky, lucid repos which seem not likely compatible. squeeze main, and slacko included quess ok to use but exprimo noticeably missing which would guess is ok to use.

again could not find any help documentation either in menu or desktop which could help for folks to know which repos to use.

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#130 Post by tubeguy »

Iguleder wrote:1) You'll have to install Pnethood and smbclient.
2) /root/.config/tint2rc is your friend :)
Thanks :D
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#131 Post by James C »

Fresh manual frugal install of 5.0.1 on my main Linux box.was able to use the "nv" driver to get the correct 1440x900 screen resolution this time. Sound and internet ....no problem.
Looking good so far.
Guess I'm old-school Puppy.......had to install SeaMonkey and Rox.... :lol:

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#132 Post by James C »

Almost forgot.......this release is fast...... :)

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#133 Post by mandibule2005 »

Barry make a fix for network on is blog !

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#134 Post by James C »

Pleasantly surprised by the low resource usage.

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#135 Post by Iguleder »

You can lower it to 38 MB without tray icons, tint2 or wbar, just Openbox :)

By the way - I just wrote build scripts for pptp, gpptp, gadmin-samba and now I'm working on Samba. I want to get a full VPN and Samba stack in Guy Dog.

The next step is Bluetooth, probably :)

EDIT: attached a 20K bigger rxvt-unicode package with more features, will be included in the next release. Copy n' paste works now.
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#136 Post by 8-bit »

I have now tried 500 and 501 and I am curious if a font problem I have is only happening to me.
Sometimes, the characters are not fully formed like the lower part of the "e" character will be gone.
Also, when reading posts on the forum, I am getting faint blue characters with some of them such as the two L's in the word "well" would be light blue.
I have tried changing the font size in Firefox, but that seems to have no effect on the light blue character being displayed.
I have not tried using a different font though.

Also, I had a previous pupsave file that I let 501 update.
The update went ok other than the fact that I previously had selected visa as the driver and now vesa does not work for me.
But now the nv driver works where it did not before.

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#137 Post by pacer106 »

I have spent most of the last few days running some experiments with various new puplets.

I have discovered (I think) that kernel 2.6.39.4 in several new puplets including slacko, next pup, dpup exprimo, & stu90's d-lite pup does not seem to like the belkin wireless g router I use.

So I was wondering if any of the mentioned puplets could have the kernel rolled back? If it was rolled back would the puplets not work properly?

Does anyone else have any issues with getting online using a belkin wireless g router?

I would be interested in finding out from those who have had kernel panic lockups if they are using a belkin wireless g router.

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#138 Post by Iguleder »

I remember I wrote a script that replaces the kernel in a Puppy, I can write a new one for you, so you can take Guy Dog (or any other Puppy) and transplant a new kernel - 2.6.32.x could be a great choice.
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#139 Post by pacer106 »

That would be great Iguleder :) When you get time no rush on it. I know you got many things going on right now. They are more important then my little issue.

I should know how to do that already lol. Just never had a need for a different kernel. The native included in the puplets I try have always worked until this belkin router started being used. Really curious as to what it could be with the belkin.

Going to do some internet searching today see if I can find any other known issues with the kernel in recent puplets & belkin routers.

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#140 Post by Iguleder »

Umm ... I've got good and bad news.

The good news are that now we have Samba and a nice GTK+ frontend (gadmin-samba) built in dpup and they seem to work, although I haven't shared a printer or something to test.

The bad news is the size of the Samba package - about 30 MB. At the moment, what the official Puppy releases have is an old Samba from 2009, that probably won't work with Windows 7 and 2008 R2.

That package has just smbclient and other important binaries, not the whole deal. However, the smblclient binary is about 4 MB in the package I just built, which is still way too much.

pacer106: thanks for the inspiration, you gave me a very innovative idea - a multi-kernel Puppy (e.g multiple kernels in one Puppy, not multi-boot) - the downside is slower boot times (and size, of course). A kernel choice menu in the boot loader could be a nice addition to Puppy :wink:
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