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sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2363 Location: UK

I have re-uploaded the Xfce4 package in the repo,

I have fixed Thunar so that it now has the right click options that I added (see screenshot),

..but the problem that menu settings are messed up/unorganized at first launch remains..
The fix is a double install of the xfce pkg..

The easiest way to download & install it (twice) is with these terminal commands (you can use TAB auto-complete for pkg names):

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 777

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2363 Location: UK

I think I have totally fixed the xfce4 package, so I've re-uploaded it.. Testers welcome!

Menus should be nicely organised, no double 'internet' categories, mime types should be loaded up as i saved them, and all right click options in thunar should work fine... Smile

finally... and it's only about 5mb inc all deps Smile

How to install:

partsman · Joined: 06 Jun 2012 Posts: 157 Location: OHIO,USA

Hello sc0ttman
if i try to run a wish app from terminal i get:
Runtime error:"usr/local/bin/wishrush:19: Can't load package Gnocl at file
"usr/loacal/bin/wishrush", line 19 Confused

not sure what i need to do ? line 19 says: package require Gnocl but i did install it from ppm Confused

anyway any help would be appreciated thanks again Very Happy

also glad to see xfce4 is working for you happy for you good job Wink

As i know it tried your patience Very Happy

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2363 Location: UK

partsman · Joined: 06 Jun 2012 Posts: 157 Location: OHIO,USA

hi sc0ttman i belive i looked at line 19 if you open wishrush as a text the only thing i noticed is pakage gnocl is capitalized on line 19 maybe i will change it to see if that does anything some of the other wish apps work ok just not wish rush Confused

i will exparament a little if you think of something let me know thanks Very Happy

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2363 Location: UK

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6666 Location: lisbon

wishrush works fine on akita if gnocl-0.9.92.pet is installed.

The later gnocl-0.9.95.pet has additional dependencies of libinotify, libdbus & libdbus-glib.

partsman · Joined: 06 Jun 2012 Posts: 157 Location: OHIO,USA

Hi Sc0ttman
i did a new frugal install to see if wish apps would work sorry to say i had no success Crying or Very sad

Must be a result of switching kernel Confused

Anyway MC is cool i have played with it in the past on other puppies Wink

I will continue to try and resolve the issue when i feel like it ! I installed them on my daughters pc
and all wish apps work fine Very Happy

Anyhow when i did my new install i updated ppm and noticed buildpet is missing and maybe depends also ! I already had the pets saved to my hd but thought you would want to know Wink

Also again thanks for everything i am learning so much from akita and your help
the documentation in akita is wonderful thanks for takeing the time to include it in Akita Very Happy

Also wanted to tell you i did another kernel switch using wary 5.3 kernel in Akita but is for single core cpu as you already know but if you or if you know of anyone who would like to check it out please let me know and i will upload it ! iI plan on trying it out on daughter pc at some point Very Happy

Thanks again Sc0ttman for everything Very Happy

bark_bark_bark · Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 703 Location: USA

I got the same old craptop running again (don't ask me how I got it working again). Well Akita was a couple versions old so grabbed the lastest and it runs. I am still having major issues with wireless, but the device now works (because I grabbed a package containing the "rt3070sta" module for 2.6.25.16). The interface is "ra0" (instead of "wlan0") which I believe is the culprit for why..

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4134

here is another browser choice:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=697851#697851

I did a fully static build of netsurf with the xcb and linux framebuffer backends (instead of the normal gtk2 build) there are 2 versions - one has builting fonts only, the other uses freetype, but both support most image formats (ico/bmp, png, gif, jpeg and even some webp and svg images) and has https and some rudimentary javascript support. I think the freetype version looks better than seamonkey and it uses only ~8Mb of RAM.

I redid the desktop icons and binary name so that it can be installed along side of the gtk2 version. (btw the gtk2 version now has gstreamer support if anyone wants to give it a try)

rotolinux · Joined: 12 Apr 2013 Posts: 4

I'm testing Wary 4.5 and Akita B14 on a Wyse SX0 366mhz thin client box and both work fairly well, but Akita is much faster while launching apps. For example, rxvt term takes 4-7 seconds in Wary to display the console prompt, whereas Akita only takes 2 seconds. Anyone know why?

I've only been running Akita for a day, so I'm a novice, but I've used Linux for the last 15 years. So far, I only have two issues, first is a missing iwlagn wireless driver, which I'm sure I can fix by recompiling the kernel.

The more interesting problem is after installing/uninstalling several web browsers, my 1gb sfs ext3 formatted save file, though having lots of free space (84%), now reports that it is low on free blocks so I can't install anything else. Is this a common issue or has anyone else seen this? Is there a way to free unused blocks?

Back to searching the forums.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6666 Location: lisbon

See this sticky here.

rotolinux · Joined: 12 Apr 2013 Posts: 4

The speed problem with Wary 5.5 (not 4.5 as I mis-stated) was due to LANG=en_US.UTF8. After changing it to en_US the speed of Wary is now as fast as Akita. Now to find out why. Note that this issue is only probably noticeable on a super slow cpu.