Precise Puppy 5.6.1-final, May 29, 2013
Thanks! The alt-key tip helps, now I can drag the window from any point in it.
Xorgwizard only gives me choices of 16 or 24 bits at 1024 x 600 resolution.
I got a little more breathing room with Rox by turning on the automatic hiding of the bottom panel and setting it to be less tall. Some dialog boxes are still way down tho. More dodo than giraffe, they have their heads in the sand!
I'm not going to give up on Puppy yet, its frugal installation is perfect for a flash-drive netbook like this. I may be able to hack the shell scripts to change the size and/or shape of their dialogs, but modifying and recompiling progams will be a lot more time and trouble.
Aren't there some Linux window managers that let you put the panel on the side of the screen? How much trouble is it to change the WM?
Xorgwizard only gives me choices of 16 or 24 bits at 1024 x 600 resolution.
I got a little more breathing room with Rox by turning on the automatic hiding of the bottom panel and setting it to be less tall. Some dialog boxes are still way down tho. More dodo than giraffe, they have their heads in the sand!
I'm not going to give up on Puppy yet, its frugal installation is perfect for a flash-drive netbook like this. I may be able to hack the shell scripts to change the size and/or shape of their dialogs, but modifying and recompiling progams will be a lot more time and trouble.
Aren't there some Linux window managers that let you put the panel on the side of the screen? How much trouble is it to change the WM?
Giraffe Dialogs
Hi eeekos,
Two tips.
1. In desktop/set global font size, reduce from 96 dpi to 84 or less.
2. In desktop/chtheme chooser, reduce the font size by one or two points.
You may need just one of the above or a combination.
Two tips.
1. In desktop/set global font size, reduce from 96 dpi to 84 or less.
2. In desktop/chtheme chooser, reduce the font size by one or two points.
You may need just one of the above or a combination.
Regards ETP
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You could do away with all of the desktop icons and use Wbar and have it auto-hiding. It's quite nice.eeekos wrote: Aren't there some Linux window managers that let you put the panel on the side of the screen? How much trouble is it to change the WM?
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I've just done a full install of this one after X Windows broke in Legacy OS2 and xorgwizard failed to bring it back (but that's a story for a different thread). So far it's working fine.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
This worked very nicely and left only 4 files in the root directory of the thumbdrive. Now I need a way to hide the taskbar. If that cannot be done without too much fuss, I will just install LDXE od XFCE. I just prefer having a clean desktopumair wrote:Hi Linuxbear:linuxbear wrote:This is definately nice on an old machine @ work. I also did an install to a USB thumbdrive with unetbootin. The problem is that Unetbootin put everything in the root directory of the thumbdrive and I would rather locate all of the Precise files in a directory. Does anyone have any idea how to do this and which system files need editing. Also, what would be the minimum amount of files in the root directory required for a boot after the Unetbootin install?
As suggested by the smokey01, You can use GRUB4DOS for that.
Here is the link where I post a detail that how to use your Flash Drive for Single or Multiple puppies in USB Drive. It will also work for your HDD (If you want to do.. ) http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 8&t=82373/
hope this will helps.
Thnx.
UMAIR
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@ Linuxbear.linuxbear wrote:
This worked very nicely and left only 4 files in the root directory of the thumbdrive. Now I need a way to hide the taskbar. If that cannot be done without too much fuss, I will just install LDXE od XFCE. I just prefer having a clean desktop
Glad to know that it helps you. For clean desktop, I may refer you to try xfce alongwith wbar instead of LXDE as LXDE is a more complicated compare to XFCE..
UMAIR
linuxbear wrote:
This worked very nicely and left only 4 files in the root directory of the thumbdrive. Now I need a way to hide the taskbar. If that cannot be done without too much fuss, I will just install LDXE od XFCE. I just prefer having a clean desktop
You could try: LxPup by SFS.....umair wrote:@ Linuxbear.
Glad to know that it helps you. For clean desktop, I may refer you to try xfce alongwith wbar instead of LXDE as LXDE is a more complicated compare to XFCE..
UMAIR
Not too complicated
Cheers
peebee
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Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
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hide taskbar & desktop icons
Hi linuxbear et al,
To hide your jwm taskbar use Menu > Desktop > JWM Configuration Manager > Tray management > Tray Autohide Option.
To hide all other drive and desktop icons try the brilliant SwapIcons-1.0.pet from rhadon.
To hide sfs files (e.g. the final Opera Classic v 12.16 download from Terryphi today) try the pet masterpiece SFStray from seaside. Easy to set up > then Click an icon to open > then, after use, just close to unload the SFS (or minimise it to the taskbar if it is to remain loaded).
Also from seaside is another jwm masterpiece fav-menu.pet. Easily choose your favourite apps to put in the menu > then left-click any free screen space (similar to the main menu right click option).
To hide Main Menu Apps there is PupMenu from radky - another of my personal favourites - which also does much more and is of wide use - not restricted to Precise and JWM.
My regards
To hide your jwm taskbar use Menu > Desktop > JWM Configuration Manager > Tray management > Tray Autohide Option.
To hide all other drive and desktop icons try the brilliant SwapIcons-1.0.pet from rhadon.
To hide sfs files (e.g. the final Opera Classic v 12.16 download from Terryphi today) try the pet masterpiece SFStray from seaside. Easy to set up > then Click an icon to open > then, after use, just close to unload the SFS (or minimise it to the taskbar if it is to remain loaded).
Also from seaside is another jwm masterpiece fav-menu.pet. Easily choose your favourite apps to put in the menu > then left-click any free screen space (similar to the main menu right click option).
To hide Main Menu Apps there is PupMenu from radky - another of my personal favourites - which also does much more and is of wide use - not restricted to Precise and JWM.
My regards
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by... Jejy69 (not SFS)peebee wrote:You could try: LxPup by SFS.....
Hi thereASRI éducation wrote:by... Jejy69 (not SFS)peebee wrote:You could try: LxPup by SFS.....
Did you follow the link?? You will find an SFS which can be added to a number of Puppies to turn them into a version of LxPup (though not the current LxPup version with different package management).
The thread explains how the SFS relies on the achievements of Jejy69.
Cheers
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here is a list of changes that i made to pmusic.oldyeller wrote:It booted right-up had no problems with any hardware.
Pmusic 2.6.7 does not open directories without close Pmusic and opening it back up unless one wants to manually put it in and hit enter.
Other than that everything looks good. Thanks Barryk
Cheers
the first one fixes that issue:
/usr/local/pmusic/ 2.6.7
gui_add:GUI_ADD_FIELD
<action>clear:SOURCE</action>
<action>refresh:SOURCE</action>
gui_playlist:GUI_PLAYLIST_FIELD
<action signal="enter-notify-event">refresh:PLAYLIST</action>
func_progressbar:SEC_PLAYED
SEC_PLAYED=`echo "($(echo 0:$TMP|rev|cut -f2 -d:|rev)*60)+${TMP#*:}+$(<"$WORKDIR/SS")" | bc`
/usr/local/pmusic/ 3.3.0
func_trackinfo:check_connection
#"`grep 'connected' $WORKDIR/tmpinfo`"
func_add:AUTOPLAY
AUTOPLAY=false
func_add:smartadd
ls -1d "$(cat $WORKDIR/filebrowser_dir)"/*/*|sed 's_[^/]*$_&|&_'>>$WORKDIR/sourcelist
sort -u $WORKDIR/sourcelist -o $WORKDIR/sourcelist
EDIT: once i noticed there was a new version of pmusic i updated this and it looks like there is also a new version of precise
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