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OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1824 Location: London, England

Hello guys,

There is something of a "known issue" with the mplayer (and so also gnome-mplayer) in Slacko 5.6

01micko has posted a .pet of a newly-compiled mplayer here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87987&start=97

I found that some video files would not play in the original but installing this .pet fixed it for me.

dawg · Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 116 Location: still here

Indeed, this does solve the problem for me too. Thanks, OscarTalks!

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 773 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

OscarTalks Wrote:
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There is something of a "known issue" with the mplayer (and so also gnome-mplayer) in Slacko 5.6

01micko has posted a .pet of a newly-compiled mplayer here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87987&start=97

I found that some video files would not play in the original but installing this .pet fixed it for me.
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'Thanks Oscar' The .pet for the NEW MPlayer fixed my problem also!

>>>---Indian------>

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 773 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

X-Slacko

Wanted to use two programs- Osmo and Leafpad. Couldn't find them in X-Slacko anywhere so went and did a search in the PPM. PPM indicated that both these programs were already installed in X-Slacko... they were not, at least to the point where you could click on anything and use them.

I reinstalled both programs from the PPM despite the warning that the supposed already installed packages would be over written.

Both work just fine now!

FYI If you run across this with any other packages just reinstall the program from the PPM, you always then have the option to uninstall it!

Wifi holding up well so far!

Seamonkey browser appears more stable than Firefox (at least on my setup.)

And on with the testing we go....

>>>---Indian------>

rg66 · Posted: Sat 28 Sep 2013, 08:32 Post subject:

@ dawg

I've had X-slacko running on 4 different comps and haven't seen any of the problems you are experiencing except for the AMD/P3 issue. Does your ISO md5sum checkout?

As for the thunar font size, it's not adjustable as far as I know. You can go to Control Panel > Desktop > Set global font size and change from 96dpi to something smaller but it will be system wide (after restartX).

@ sszindian

Slacko (pre-X), lists removed packages as installed in ppm. I'm sure precise does as well but will have to confirm this.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: SW Wisconsin

@rg66,

Deacon · Joined: 19 Mar 2013 Posts: 191 Location: USA

Working on X-Slacko, I've found a build of OpenOffice 4 that works, as well as the Cairo-Dock 2.1 Slacko SFS works on it.

A good OpenOffice 4 Slackware build, which requires a right-click download in Firefox, is here.

http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/testing/slackware/

Unfortunately it doesn't create menu items, so to run OpenOffice I created a panel shortcut in Xfce with the command "openoffice4" to make it work (there's already an OpenOffice icon to use).

Question then: What's a decent menu editor for X-Slacko?

Cairo-Dock 2.1's SFS also works well, found here:
http://www.lhpup.org/team/aracnachid/downloads/

2.2 is locked.

Also, what's the easiest way to remove AbiWord and Gnumeric?

rg66

Deacon · Joined: 19 Mar 2013 Posts: 191 Location: USA

rg66 · Posted: Fri 04 Oct 2013, 08:50 Post subject:

Slacko-1.1 delta is out - 2.9mb

A few fixes and updates. The non-pae will come shortly, unfortunately it still doesn't work with older AMD and P3 cpu's. Hopefully that'll be fixed in the next one.

Change log and download link is in the first post

sszindian · Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Posts: 773 Location: Pennsylvania U.S.

rg66:

Any chance of getting a panel-EXTRAS (weather, etc) like you made for X-Precise? That's a nice add-on feature! The one for X-Precise doesn't seem to want to work in X-Slacko? (unless it's something I'm not doing right?)

>>>---Indian------>

rg66 · Posted: Mon 07 Oct 2013, 08:25 Post subject: Re: panel EXTRAS

Deacon · Joined: 19 Mar 2013 Posts: 191 Location: USA

I've tried a few Chrome/Chromium pets and even gotten as far as asking me for a default browser, but missing libraries. I tried running the lib libraries in Slacko and they crash. Any ideas?

rg66 · Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 11:43 Post subject: Re: Chrome?

peebee · Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 13:02 Post subject: Re: Chrome?