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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2457 Location: Ontario

I installed Right click on Slacko and it worked nicely
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67013

But first install ghasher or gtkhash to get md5sums.

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I upgraded gtkhash to version 0.5.0 and checked it on slacko
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=576619230&t=73839

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nubc · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 739 Location: USA

Viewing the text in this forum, particularly the text in blue or hyperlinks, default fonts in Seamonkey 2.5 could stand a little tweaking. Nice color scheme, particularly the menu tree. Task bar does a cute disappearing trick when unoccupied. Uh-oh, no "mount" icon. I'm gonna miss this. I guess it was considered to be redundant?

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 15 Dec 2011, 17:28 Post subject:

Running 3builddistro with a vanilla Slacko build with Woof2. I'm looking for creative ideas for 5.3.2 and trying to get certain packages to work right (most notably, wbar and idesk).

Works splendidly so far, except some mess in 3builddistro. It fails to create /root/.packages for some reason.

I'd like to thank you, Mick, for all your hard work and the willingness to cooperate with other developers, as you did with the Trinity SFS and the /opt prefix fixes.

EDIT: found the problem, it was my fault. Hurray for Woof2!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2625 Location: Earth

WoW!

i'm running PAE 5.3.1 in a RAM based LIve media environment. This system, on a laptop, screams, its so fast.

The only change I have made is the addition of FULL SAMBA 3.61 from the Network Section of the PPM. Your tool that you include to help newbies (or even experienced Puppy users) to start immediate use is phenomenal. IN fact, the total arrangement of how you start the system as well as how you start SAMBA makes this so easy to have a Puppy which matches the experience I get OOTB from OSs from the Big 2 Ms (MACs and Microsofts). And, it shares all of my media flawlessly with entertainment devices that I have had problems with, in Linux, before now.

The RAM use is ONLY 134MB on this 4GB system with SAMBA sharing going and a user transferring a file from this laptop. This is a phenomenal feat. And after 2 days, I still haven't rebooted to save-session the current desktop. This experience is polished, its stable, its fast, and its feature-rich. This is all I could ever ask for from any distro, but, the speed of this exceeds wildest dreams.

Thanks 01Micko......THANKS!

Lobster · Posted: Thu 15 Dec 2011, 19:43 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 16 Dec 2011, 04:57 Post subject:

Running a home-made 5.3.1 and it's amazing how fast it is.

I'll probably rebuild all the packages in my repository with a /usr prefix, so the existing packages can be easily replaced.

I really like all the small gems of this version (e.g the SFS loading feature), they make it much nicer than 5.2.x.

By the way, I have three bug reports:
- Annoying flickering in JWM's tooltips when the cursor hovers above the tray.
- Visual artifacts under 2.6.37.6; I use the i915 driver (for my Intel 3150 GPU) and I see small diagonal lines in random places. Opening an application "cleans" its area, but they appear again once something moves.
- My Synaptics touchpad support multi-touch, but two-finger scrolling is disabled by default, as in any other distro. However, flsynclient doesn't work.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Iguleder, about your bug report,

jwm.. Joe has been active but his latest has layer problems. I stuck with 508. Yes jwm is getting a bit behind, but it's tiny, the bloat with jwm is the tools!

i915 .. could be jwm, but I did find a minor bug with woof to do with glib, may be unrelated. There are numerous "tricks" you can perform on xorg, including fooling it into not reading a xorg.conf at all, but being a laptop you'd possibly need to add some "synaptics.conf" stuff in /etc/xorg.conf.d/

Synaptics .. either try the newer kernel or try flsynclient -0.7 in PPM.

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 16 Dec 2011, 13:39 Post subject:

First of all, I want this to be clear - this isn't a bug report, but a RFC Smile

Since OpenGL is unsupported out-of-the-box, I was thinking - why don't we build a tiny Mesa package with just the DRI software rasterizer (e.g a CPU-based driver) so 3D stuff work out of the box?

This could be a nice addition and I don't think it's big. For new machines, OpenGL will work, while it will be slow on older machines. But the key feature here is the fact it works.

Stripe · Posted: Fri 16 Dec 2011, 14:15 Post subject:

Hi all

Mick have found a few little problems

1. there is no "more" command in the bash, usually in /bin/ (was working in 530 but not in 531) (found by CatDude and Smokey01) during a scripting session on psip. (great tool for development)

2. the rox focus bug.

3. the important one. the link from the shed to you playing guitar doesn't work

everything else seems to be working great, congratulations on another great puppy

cheers

Don

bigpup · Posted: Fri 16 Dec 2011, 17:04 Post subject:

Here is a bug that I reported in development and the answer was you will have to live with it.
Maybe you will have more time now to investigate. Hard to figure I am the only one this is affecting.

Problem:
1366X768 resolution
At first fresh boot of Slacko 5.3.1
I am able to select 1366X768 resolution in xorgwizard.
Personalized setting says it is 1368X768
Desktop looks like it is off to right slightly.
So, desktop looks like 1368X768.
In personalized setting, I can choose 1366X768, and it shows as that in all settings.
However, the desktop is still looking like 1368X768 is used.

My monitors native resolution is 1366X768, but it will not auto adjust to 1368X768
In fact, I do not think that is even a standard excepted resolution.
The problem seems to be that 1368X768 gets used, even after selecting 1366X768.

These pictures are after I change setting.
Frugal + save file and rebooted.
NV driver.

tekeli-li · Joined: 16 Dec 2011 Posts: 1

Hi,

thank you for slacko puppy. Works great so far on my Dell mini 9. First I had a problem with wifi (broadcom bcm4312) connecting to my router but using himem-pae iso fixed it (newer kernel I suppose).

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7017 Location: qld

Iguleder

Hmm.. interesting idea about the cut down mesa. Using mesa does solve some i915 issues.

Stripe

1) I don't know what happened there with "more". It may be the busybox upgrade in woof. You can symlink to busybox.

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 306 Location: UK

01mick0

Re: line 303 of rc.sysinit.
Given that the kernel now contains built in support for both USB core & storage, this line would appear to be redundant.

Finally many thanks for this very slick pup - SLICKO ? Smile

dawg · Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 106 Location: still here

Slacko 5.3.1: serial mouse still won't work.