Slacko 5.4 - FINAL 2 Dec 2012

[mufeed2012]

Where is Slickpet? I can't find it anywhere. Somebody Help me.

Thanks.

[James C]

Where is Slickpet? I can't find it anywhere. Somebody Help me.

Thanks.

Slickpet was removed by the developer for this new release.

[01micko]

When I add .desktop files for wine applications, the jwm menu entry for the app is not generated correctly. For example:

The command to execute the app is:

env WINEPREFIX= "/root/.wine" wine "c:\\PROG~FBU\\Bloobs\\Bloobs.exe"

When the jwm menu in regenerated, the following is created:

env WINEPREFIX= "/root/.wine" wine "c:PROG-FBUBloobsBloobs.exe"

The three sets of double back slashes in .desktop file should have been
converted to single back slashes in the jwm menu.

I assume this is a problem with fixmenus. This worked in slacko 5.3.3.

Thanks

Hello ejb, thanks for the report.

I have used wine in the past and as far as using it recently goes I have just been loading it up and making sure it works. I am not familiar with the correct way to construct desktop files for wine. Is there a standard somewhere? If so, I will refer the link to technosaurus the maintainer of the menu gen system for JWM that I have decided to use. I'm sure he'd be interested.

One suggestion is maybe to use single quotes in the path. Bash takes them as literal and the problem should disappear. That said, you can use the full UNIX style path as I have done with MS office programs. An example:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Word
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/MS-Word-2-icon.png
Comment=Word word processor
Exec=wine "/root/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=WordProcessor
GenericName=Word

An alternative I may offer is to install Barry's fixmenus script which avoids the new menu generator. I'll make this entirely optional.

The reason I am going with technosaurus' method is that it is up to 10 times faster and it is very noticeable. I am attempting to wipe out a few minor remaining bugs.

Anyway, I have recently built wine-1.5.15 and it works very well. I have Office 2007 word, excel, powerpoint and outlook all working well. Powerpoint has a minor issue easily resolved. I will be writing up a document on how to install office 2007 as part of the Slacko online documentation. I have also built zenity to run winetricks which when wine is installed from PPM will get downloaded as a dependency. I'll upload after the week end, a bit busy at the moment.

I have also tested dreamweaver cs4 and utorrent, both work fine. This now means that my win 7 install is just wasted disk space!

[grump]

... Just trying to get streaming radio (http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8051) to work in Audacious. It worked in lupo - maybe I'll look to see what worked there.

The only difference I could see was a neon plugin - there was one in my lupo Audacious but not the slacko one. I found a neon pet but it made no difference.

Back in slacko - after installing all the Audacious versions and some of the dependencies ( a gtk something?) and neon I tried Pmusic, and after setting up internet radio there it played the station I wanted (ABC Radio774 in Melbourne). I then re-installed Audacious (the 2.5.4 slacko pet form ibiblio and the neon pet) and the url above worked. My shortcut says when I select 'open as text':

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,ABC - 774 Melbourne
http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8049

and I've set the run action as 'audacious "$@" '.

[mufeed2012]

Where is Slickpet? I can't find it anywhere. Somebody Help me.

Thanks.

Slickpet was removed by the developer for this new release.

Thanks for the Help.

[Billtoo]

Billtoo,

Wondering why you are getting such a high memory use reading in Htop?
On initial boot I usually see a figure of around 50-70 MB for memory usage.
I see you have a system up time of 3 days.
I wonder if programs are staying loaded in memory after shutting down and the memory is not being returned for use.
Maybe a problem?

Not much change after six days.

[OscarTalks]

Just trying to get streaming radio (http://iiradio.iinet.net.au:8051) to work in Audacious. It worked in lupo - maybe I'll look to see what worked there.

Hello grump,

That stream link seems dead here at the moment and changing the port number from 8051 to 8049 as per your other post doesn't seem to work either.

Is this a stream URL for ABC 774 Melbourne? If so you can find other ones from the station website eg:-

http://shoutmedia.abc.net.au:10350

That is a 48 kbps aac+ Shoutcast stream which plays OK for me in Deadbeef and Pmusic.

[grump]

Oscar - the link is ABC unmetered streaming hosted by my ISP iinet, so maybe it wont work outside .au.

Whatever I did made it work - more by good fortune than knowledge.

When I got radio through Pmusic it was directly from the ABC. I'm guessing that setting up Pmusic for radio (it offers to do so when the radio tab is selected and downloads something) also allowed Audacious to work with radio.

[Q5sys]

Billtoo,

Wondering why you are getting such a high memory use reading in Htop?
On initial boot I usually see a figure of around 50-70 MB for memory usage.
I see you have a system up time of 3 days.
I wonder if programs are staying loaded in memory after shutting down and the memory is not being returned for use.
Maybe a problem?

Not much change after six days.

have you tried running 'top' and outputing it to a file to see whats useing what? same with running 'lsof' and outputing that to a file as well. those two reports might give you a better idea of whats going on.

[mavrothal]

Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Manual frugal install to USB flash drive.
Save to partition on USB flash drive.
Not saving to file but entire partition.

Do you mean that after saving to the entire USB stick and rebooting the saved data were recognized and used OK? Did not get to the fist boot screen again after reboot? Any old savefiles in any subdir in the stick?

Also what exactly do you mean by "Manual frugal install to USB"? Which files where copied over to USB. Just initrd.gz, vmlinuz and the slacko sfs? At the root of the stick or in a subdir?
How do you setup boot device? grub/grub4dos/BIOS/other?

Sorry for the too many questions.
Thx

[spandey]

How do I install Wine in FF non PAE version of slacko?

[bigpup]

Slacko beta2 k3.2.31 [opera, NO PAE]
Manual frugal install to USB flash drive.
Save to partition on USB flash drive.
Not saving to file but entire partition.

Do you mean that after saving to the entire USB stick and rebooting the saved data were recognized and used OK? Did not get to the fist boot screen again after reboot? Any old savefiles in any subdir in the stick?

Also what exactly do you mean by "Manual frugal install to USB"? Which files where copied over to USB. Just initrd.gz, vmlinuz and the slacko sfs? At the root of the stick or in a subdir?
How do you setup boot device? grub/grub4dos/BIOS/other?

Sorry for the too many questions.
Thx

Do you mean that after saving to the entire USB stick and rebooting the saved data were recognized and used OK?

Yes

Did not get to the fist boot screen again after reboot?

Not after reboot, but after a cold boot it boots to the desktop.
A normal shutdown or reboot does this:
Stops at screen showing:

login: root (automatic login)
login: root login on tty1
#

Any old savefiles in any subdir in the stick?

No

what exactly do you mean by "Manual frugal install to USB"? Which files where copied over to USB. Just initrd.gz, vmlinuz and the slacko sfs?

Yes just copy those files to the USB flash drive.

At the root of the stick or in a subdir?

Root of the stick.

How do you setup boot device? grub/grub4dos/BIOS/other?

I have Grub4dos installed to the MBR of the hard drive with an entry in the menu.lst for booting from the USB flash drive. Have USB flash drive plugged in when I boot to the Grub4dos menu.

[bigpup]

How do I install Wine in FF non PAE version of slacko?

Download one of the pets from here and install.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53675

[mavrothal]

I have Grub4dos installed to the MBR of the hard drive with an entry in the menu.lst for booting from the USB flash drive. Have USB flash drive plugged in when I boot to the Grub4dos menu.

Would it be too much to ask for your menu.lst entry?

The problem I have is different than yours. There is no grub or HD in my system. Just the USB stick.
However, when I used an old initrd/init that successfully booted from the USB/SDcard it also hanged at shutdown. I think this is a separate rc.shutdown issue.

[01micko]

The one legacy grub doesn't work.

More info if possible please?

The menu entry is working for me, always has, but I haven't tested grub for a month or so. Is there a problem installing grub?

[01micko]

More on the wine thing, (re page 26, post by ejb)

Ok, silly me found the wine .desktop files under ~/.local, where they have always been, but none of them seem to work for me. They do have a similar syntax as you describe and some of the commands work from the commandline but all throw an error due to %f being appended to each one. So either way, they'd need to be hacked if moved to /usr/share/applications.

Again, jury is out on that one.

[mufeed2012]

Somebody give me a slickpet .pet file.
Please.

Thanks In Advance.

[bigpup]

Would it be too much to ask for your menu.lst entry?

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title Puppy slacko 5.3.6.5 (sdb1)
  uuid 593c30ef-fa09-4080-9b8c-476ca94a43f3
  kernel /vmlinuz  pmedia=usbflash  pfix=fsck nouveau.modeset=0
  initrd /initrd.gz

[majorfoo]

Somebody give me a slickpet .pet file.
Please.

Thanks In Advance.

Found version 1.94 at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=390
It is in third entry from top of page

Not sure if it will work since developer has discontinued use in current version of Slacko

Hope this helps you

[ETP]

Would it be too much to ask for your menu.lst entry?

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title Puppy slacko 5.3.6.5 (sdb1)
  uuid 593c30ef-fa09-4080-9b8c-476ca94a43f3
  kernel /vmlinuz  pmedia=usbflash  pfix=fsck nouveau.modeset=0
  initrd /initrd.gz

What pupmode does your /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE show?

=== Common Pupmodes ===

PUPMODE 02 : full install
PUPMODE 03 : full install, flash drive
PUPMODE 05 : first boot [or pfix=ram]
PUPMODE 06 : pup_save is a partition
PUPMODE 07 : ditto, but flash drive
PUPMODE 12 : normal running puppy
PUPMODE 13 : ditto, but flash drive
PUPMODE 77 : multisession cd/dvd [13+64]

IIRC 06 is highly experimental which must mean problematic. I am not sure that I
understand the intended purpose of mode 06 unless it is a means of exceeding the
normal savefile size limit. If so it would probably apply to a partition on a
USB HDD. BK may be the person to explain.