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[Eyes-Only]

Same here oldyeller... I did basically as catdude ( only I used "xwin icewm-session" which worked for me - I wonder why the difference? ) and haven't had one iota of a problem from 5.3.1 up to 5.3.3. It's worked flawlessly across the board.

Like catdude asks, so do I: Could you be a wee bit more specific in just how IceWM isn't working correctly for you? Then perhaps someone here could better assist you with your problem.

Thank you!

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

[mikeslr]

Hi oldyeller,

I haven't tried using icewm myself in Slacko. But when I installed openbox I found it convenient to also install a window manager switcher. [Trying to remember whether, after exiting X, to type "xwin xxx"? or "start xwin xxx --sessions"? or something else, and how to recover when I screwed up was just painful]. There's a slacko wmswitcher pet at ibiblio, http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/ perhaps eslewhere.

mikeLr

[mikeslr]

Hi Jasper and anyone else:

This might not be the proper thread to discuss it, but as the use of a swap file on a USB-Key came up, there's something that's been bothering me and I thought perhaps someone could clarify it. I'm not sure that a swap file on a usb-key has any value. If I understand things correctly, it might actually just waste storage space. I reach that conclusion based on the following assumptions. Please correct any which are in error. Note in particular the one I've bolded, of which I'm least certain:

(1) A swap-file is not Random Access Memory (RAM). It is, rather, a dedicated (restructured?) portion of “storage space” be that space on a hard-drive or Flash-memory on a USB-Drive.
(2) An operating system able to take advantage of a swap-file reserves a portion of RAM and contains instructions such that when an application would otherwise write to that portion, what would be written to that portion is written to the Hard-drive/USB-Flash storage, and later read from that Hard-drive/USB-Flash storage. Consequently, when a swap-file is employed less RAM is actually available for use by the programs one desire to run.
(3) Actually changes in content, however, only take place in RAM. So, for example, if you are using Libre-Office, part of which has been written to the Swap-file, and you type the letter “A”, the part of the document to which the letter “A” is to be written if it is in the Swap-file, will be read from the Swap-file into RAM, the letter “A” added and the revised part will then be written back to the swap-file.
(4) The loss of usable RAM is usually more than compensated for by the facts that a swap-file enables the loading of a program or simultaneously more than one program when doing so would exceed the RAM available to run that (those) programs; and when the swap-file is on a Hard-drive writing-to or reading-from the Hard-drive is relatively fast, at least in comparison to reading-from or writing-to a USB-Key.
(5) Puppys are designed to run entirely in RAM and both its operating system and the applications designed for it utilize little RAM compared with Windows, or the Big-Bloated Linux distributions. Consequently, with the same amount of RAM available to them, more or larger programs can be opened in Puppy and run entirely in the available RAM than in Windows or Big-Bloated Linuxes.
(6) Even if a Swap-file is available, Puppies will not utilize it unless the RAM requirements of opened programs would exceed the available RAM.
(7) In the absence of a Swap-file, when you open a pet in or load an SFS into Puppy, if there is insufficient available RAM, Puppy will load as much of the application as it can, leaving sufficient RAM to work with it, albeit slowly, writing to and reading from a temporary file (in the SaveFile).
( In short, with Puppy and its SaveFile on a USB-Key, in the absence of a Swapfile, Puppy will use the storage provided by the SaveFile to write to and read from when there is insufficient available RAM, while if a Swap-file is available on the USB-Key, it will use the storage on the USB-Key provided by the Swap-file. In both instances, it is just storage on the USB-Key which is being used. The difference is that if you've created a Swap-file on a USB-Key, you may never have to use it and have merely reduced the available available space for storing files outside of the SaveFile. On the other hand, if you find, in practice, that your usage demand exceed the size of your SaveFile, you can always just resize the SaveFile.

mikesLr

[oldyeller]

Hi Everyone,

This pic shows what I am having problems with. Every time I go and change things using the config gui and restart icewm nothing happens. It all goes back to be checked again and no changes.

Thanks
oldyeller

[CatDude]

Hello oldyeller

[oldyeller]

Hi CatDude,

That pet workd great thanks

oldyeller

[CatDude]

Hi

[01micko]

Thanks CatDude,

I have already uploaded to ibiblio your rpl pet. I updated the packagelist too so if you update PPM and download icewm, rpl will be dragged in as a depend automatically (i just tested it, works ). Will take a day or so to filter to all repos.

Cheers

[dalderton]

Cant get Flash to work with seamonkey or Opera 11.64. It is there in the /usr/lib/Mozilla/plugins but I cannot get YouTube to work on either browser. The same setup on Lucid works fine .I have uninstalled and reinstalled flash a couple of times with no success. Strangely I do not get the popup advising that I need FLash . Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards Dennis.

[bigpup]

Try getting flash with this program:
Install this program
Getflash
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74491
(make sure to download the newest version)
After installing Getflash.
Run from menu->Internet->Getflash install flash player
This program will find the latest version of Flash Player and install.

[dalderton]

[shinobar]

GetFlash install Flashplayer UPDATE: v1.1
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74491

[sszindian]

GLslideshow from the PPM (Slackware repo I believe) works very nice in Slacko... Every one of the screensavers works 'except' those that have to display graphics or pictures... GLslideshow, Slideshow, Carousel.

Can someone give a reason or better yet a 'fix' for these particular screensaver displays???

So far, this is about the only function that fails to work properly in all of Slacko... very very nice job there 01micko!!!!

>>>---Indian------>

[Tman]

Hi Slackers ,
I have compiled Artha, LXTerminal and some developer apps for Slacko.
The download link is -> here <-

Artha is an offline thesaurus + dictionary, using Wordnet as the base.
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[Colonel Panic]

I've found a problem with Slacko, unfortunately.

About every month I back up all my files onto a DVD-R so that if my hard drive fails, I don't lose any important database files, documents, spreadsheets, images, music files etc. This means that once I've created a backup DVD, I have to be able to mount it in order to access the files I've stored there.

Slacko won't mount my backup DVD as it would a hard drive partition but insists instead on trying to play it as a video / music DVD, so I can't use it to access my data files etc. (Polarpup, on the other hand, does get it right so I know it can be done).

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news,

CP .