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peebee · Posted: Thu 17 Oct 2013, 15:21 Post_subject: Problem with pfind under openbox

I have detected a small problem with the use of pfind under openbox which I have reported on the pfind thread

It affects both LxPup13.10 and OpenBoxPlus.

Just something to be aware of.....

Cheers
peebee

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 450

Dear PeeBee,

I found the problem cause for the problems listed earlier. It has nothing to do with Lx or Slacko. It is in the PC's I used for test.

I wanted to create a nice puppy for my wife's EeePC X101CH. It has an atom 2600 processor with build in GMA3600 video. That is supported in kernell 3.8 and upward. Since my wife uses it with W7 now, I do the testing on our old laptop, a core-duo HP pavilion DV2000.

For the Eeepc I selected Slacko 5.6.0 because it has kernel 3.10, but.... 01Micko build that kernel with PAE.

And my test PC does not support PAE (actually I don't even know if the atom supports PAE).

Problem is ... it "kind of" works, and only shows problems occasionally. The only repeatable symptom that started me looking was the fact that Mplayer (in Slacko 5.6.0) did not want to play video. It did play the associated audio though.

Running the LxPup 13.10 (kernel 3.4 non PAE) and it works already for hours without a glitch. So now I have to find a non-PAE build kernel that supports my GMA3600 video. Seems that UPUP RARING uses 3.8 kernel with non-PAE.

I'll keep experimenting for a while.....

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 233 Location: Washington State

So far I really like it,

I installed it by extracting the files to a USB and running "Grub4dos". It runs really good. I haven't ran into an issue yet.

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 233 Location: Washington State

How do I update Firefox? I don't see anything in PPM??

peebee · Posted: Sun 20 Oct 2013, 02:42 Post_subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

Use the Updates Manager to keep Firefox up to date with the 17ESR series. This is what the parent distro (slackware) supports. It works fine in LXPup (first thing I did actually).

It is possible to install the latest Firefox (no ESR, search the forum for a pet) and it will update automatically, but I don't recommend this unless you feel comfortable fixing things if they go wrong. The reason I use the native Slackware versions is that it has the best compatibility with the libraries installed. Who knows what Mozilla compile their official version on, probably either Ubuntu or Fedora.

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 233 Location: Washington State

Thatnks peebee and micko,

simes · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Cheshire, UK

Peter,
This is a great Puppy. I have been using your LXPup-by-SFS tool on a Precise 5.7.1 base as my main distro for a few months now (ever since Precise 5.7.1 came out) and it has been thoroughly reliable and fast. This new ISO means a similarly polished distro is available "off the shelf". I may even move back to a Slacko base as a result (though I may miss some Ubuntu packages I've added to Precise). I agree with 01micko, that LXDE looks like the way forward for Puppy now. It has a mainstream, smart appearance and is easy to learn and use, ROX and JWM are feeling a little dated. Whilst 'datedness' is defensible in a distro designed to be small and usable on older hardware, with LXDE/PCMANFM we seem to have found a GUI that looks more modern and is still lightweight. I really appreciate your efforts on this. Thank you!

peebee · Posted: Mon 21 Oct 2013, 12:10 Post_subject: desktop drive icons pet

Here is a modded version of akash_rawal's desktop-drive-icons for openbox

The mod was identified and specified by SFR over on the Compiz thread - many thanks to him.

I will include this pet in the iso in directory /opt/lxpup-xtras in future so people can install it if they want desktop drive icons

Cheers
peebee

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 488 Location: SW Wisconsin

Nice package! Played with themes, added vattery and PupClockset manager 2.2.1, set up lxpanel and my external browser and it's good to go.

This first thing really is slacko related, but I'm not running slacko so...

To enable lid-suspend without false 'flicker' when reopened, I modified /acpi/actions/lid.sh as follows:

peebee · Posted: Mon 21 Oct 2013, 15:15 Post_subject: Re: lid-suspend

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 488 Location: SW Wisconsin

Hi peebee,
Just one panel, and the toolbar check box shows up right clicking on mid-panel.. and is indeed just for the task bar. I thought about editing the desktops but it's too kludgy for even the king of kludge here. I have a small set of context specific rightclick actions in, say, SpaceFM which offer a couple of choices for a given mimetype. I'll play around with using the "open with" in PCManFM, probably use my send to directory in Rox as a starting point.

All really minor things though. Lots of good in the openbox/lxde combo with a solid slackware backbone and repos. I've used and cobbled together a lot of panels and the 'Go below when not in use' feature in this lxpanel is the smoothest most intuitive I've used. Seems like a simple small thing but it's not easy to get JUST right Smile

peebee · Posted: Tue 22 Oct 2013, 02:35 Post_subject:

peebee

Service pack C has been uploaded - replaces pack A & B - delta file should be applied to the base LxPup13.10 iso to produce lxpup-13.10-1C.iso

Cheers
peebee

peebee · Posted: Wed 30 Oct 2013, 12:30 Post_subject: Right click pet

An experimental right click pet is attached in later posts

Thanks must go to don570 for Right-click-6.7.5.pet which I've used for the mime types.

DO NOT load this pet if you have made any personal right click definitions as they will be overwritten.

I welcome feedback and testing on whether the provided right clicks work and if any further ones are needed...

The list of mime associations is attached - remove the false .gz or right click and open as text Wink

Cheers
peebee