(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[simargl]

I will leave http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org forum registration open today, if someone wants to join, then will disable it again to prevent spammers from registering or making comments.

[anikin]

Hi simargl,

Hope, you're doing well. I've done a quick test of alphaOS 9.0, mainly its startup routine. Will do some more testing and share my experience here later on. Both good and bad, in equal measure. In the meantime, I have a question, purely technical one: Can you apply the startup routine, as implemented in alphaOS to a classic puppy of your choice. So that, "xorgwizard" is taken out of the process, but leaving "quicksetup" intact. Can you make it happen?

Thank you in advance

[simargl]

Hi, I think xorgwizard in Puppy is started from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, and quicksetup from some script inside /root/Startup, so you can find xorgwizard there and comment that line to disable it. Every script from /root/Startup in original Puppy is executed when session is started, but that directory is not used here, instead of there is file /root/.start that sets background, tint2 panel, volume control and other programs on startup.

[anikin]

It's not that simple and the task is above my grade. The process is split into many parts, some moved to initrd, some to profile. Obfuscated, to say the least. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87662 I shouldn't have mentioned Quick setup as it is not related.

[simargl]

There is new Openbox release 3.5.2
http://icculus.org/pipermail/openbox/2013-August/008158.html

3.5.2:
* Fix crash in theme rendering code, and in theme parsing code.
* Maximize windows without borders to fill the whole screen, don't leave
a one-pixel empty space. (Bug #5996)

3.5.1:
* New translations: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Interlingua, Hebrew, Romanian,
Greek.
* Updated translations: Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish,
German, Arabic, Polish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Estonian.
* SVG icon support. This is optional, depending on librsvg being installed.
* Allow application rules to control window size with a new <size> tag.
* Allow application rules to pick a monitor for new windows without forcing
a position.
* Allow non-interactive focus cycling with a new <interactive> tag.
* New LeastOverlap window placement policy replaces the old default
behaviour. It finds a place on a given monitor that overlaps as few
windows as possible. Contributed by Ian Zimmerman.
* Improved Xinerama behaviour.
* Correctly interface with latest gnome-session for Gnome/Openbox X sessions.
* Allow third-party control of window opacity in compositing managers.
* Improved themeing options. Contributed by Dave Foster.
* Add <monitor>, <title type="regex">, <title type="exact"> and
<activedesktop> options to If action.
* Addresses bugs #4661, #5506, #5186, #5758, #5410, #5228, #5277, #5731,
#5746, #5737, #5419, #5721, #5711, #5385, #5500, #4992, #5443, #5518,
#5444, #4782, #5237, #5228, #5173, #5203, #5246, #5180, #5179, #5150,
#5132, #4937, #4889, #5253, #3769, #5819, #5811, #5081, #5426 among others.

[simargl]

I installed new openbox package from

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/openbox/

with
pacman -U --force openbox-3.5.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

I don't like their new window placement choice, it looks like with some tiling window manager and it is too much robotic (better if they kept it random like before).

Window placement in previous version was perfect, now they have changed to worse.

[toppas]

Did anybody find a way to install additional broadcom wifi driver? i just can't get it working...

[simargl]

The GNU C Library version 2.18 is now available

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2013/msg00000.html

Already in the Arch Testing repository https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/i686/glibc/

Before they move it to the [core] repository, I think they will recompile all 6000 packages with this new glibc,

Than means Arch is still the most up-to-date, plus simple, fast and stable Linux distribution in the world.

[watchdog]

[Scooby]

[watchdog]

[Scooby]

wmv files wont play in mplayer.

Tried installing codecs frompackage manager but still refuses to start

any ideas?

[simargl]

That is strange because this is original mplayer2 package from Arch, it should play everything

I've tested and here wmv file plays correctly in gnome-mplayer

[watchdog]

I have found the way to get working the compiled wl.ko driver on my machine. I created a shell script:

[Scooby]