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drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 119

Updated to 5.4.1 from 5.4.0.90 all went well.

But, when I tried to run iconfinder, it seemed to hang while compiling the icon list. When I broke off the program, I got an error message saying that the list file was probably too large.

Checking /root/.icon_finder revealed a list file weighing in at 4.28 MB, which did seem like quite a lot!

I examined the file and found the source of the problem - iconfinder had left my local machine and had started to download the addresses of all the jpg's on my server. This is why the program appeared to hang.

This unexpected behavior was caused by an unintended interaction with YASSM. iconfinder is configured to search /root among other directories and YASSM mounts the network shares in /root/YASSM - hence the entire network is included in the search rather than just a few local directories where icons are likely to be found.

This problem did not arise earlier when attaching shares with pnethood, which mounts under /mnt/network.

The problem can be solved by adding:

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 10 Nov 2012, 11:23 Post_subject: Re: iconfinder and YASSM

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4680 Location: GB

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2844 Location: Ontario

For a faster download of precise-5.4.1-retro

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/

Warning! This site doesn't appear to have downloaded
precise-5.4.1 properly ---> It shows a size of only 31 meg
when it should have a size of 165 meg

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Terryphi

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

cowboy · Posted: Sat 10 Nov 2012, 16:29 Post_subject: LTS puppy

Howdy Fellas,

In light of BK's mention that "However, longer term, working toward a next release, is up to members of the Puppy community. I will not be coordinating further releases."...Precise 5.4 was supposed to be an LTS version, correct? Seems I remember seeing it compared to the 5 year LTS term of Ubuntu's Precise?

Not trying to grate here, but just got a friend going on Puppy (Slacko 5.3.3) , and they checked the forum, noted the new version number, and then emailed over the quotes above. I explained that this was common with Puppies (ie, Lucid with Playdayz, Slacko with 01micko), etc) that BK sometimes gets them rolling, and then someone in the community will take over the LTS updates. That's...right....right?

As always, I truly appreciate the efforts of every developer in the pound on the users behalf. Playdayz created a true LTS with Lucid, 01micko has made Slacko an incredible and ongoing distro, and none of us would even be here without BK. Thank you.

bigpup · Posted: Sat 10 Nov 2012, 19:02 Post_subject:

I was wondering the same thing.
Anyone going to take over as prime developer?

nubc · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 852 Location: USA

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 1545 Location: New Zealand

bigpup · Posted: Sat 10 Nov 2012, 20:28 Post_subject:

JWM Themes Exchange
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23260

`f00

true

Themes are what they are, some subtle and others more obvious. In any case, not (usually) a bug per se.

Funny, I've always rather enjoyed the minor challenge of themes I'm not all that thrilled with

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nubc · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 852 Location: USA

Right, the title bar changes from very light grey (inactive) to medium grey (active). for the setting Flat-grey.