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[musher0]

@Mike W.

Hi.

I control the font parameter from the outside, like so:

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, Musher).

Modifications now made.

I've got TrSah Dungeon set as a default font in Tahrpup 6.05 anyway, so it was easy enough to call it up using

[musher0]

Hi Mike Walsh.

That menu looks absolutely great! Congratulations!

As to keeping the parms from one session to the next:

-- in theory, /var/tmp is supposed to keep anything in it between
sessions; as compared to /tmp where everything is erased at shutdown
or reboot;

-- in practice, /var/tmp sometimes forgets to do its job... Or is this a
Puppy "weirdness"...

So... if you want to keep your very own MRUF menu from session to
session, may I suggest that you introduce the values you mention above
in the appropriate parameter lines, which should be around lines 35-40 in
the script.

That way, if the content of /var/tmp is erased for some reason, the script
lines will kick in and re-create the missing parameter files with the
settings you want.

Please be careful when editing the color setting: I used the form "white\nblack"
with an < echo -e > statement. (It doesn't really matter if you write:
"white
black"
or "white\nblack" with an < echo -e > statement. This is only a "heads-
up". And it can be any two colors, too; the above is simply an example.)

TWYL

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, Musher.

I just have one query for now. Which script are you referring to? You've got scripts all over the place, man (I do apologise, but I extracted the .pet just to get some idea of what you'd done!)

I'm still none the wiser.

So, to recap; which script is the one where I can introduce the parm values to? (If you wouldn't mind enlightening a humble 'scratcher', that is.....)


Mike.

[musher0]

[musher0]

Hello people.

Working on version 0.9.2 at the moment. It's in alpha state. I did expand
the reach of the MRUF script to include the default system history logs
xerrs.log and Xorg.0.log, plus the less history file.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Browser histories:
I discovered that the links2 browser had a bookmarks file.

Also while one needs a sqlite3 app to directly access the history of any
Mozilla-type browser, I discovered that the exported bookmarks from
these browsers have a "modified" date. So we can export, say, the
Firefox bookmarks and sort them by date: we then have a fall-back
position to access at least part of our browsing history without getting
over our head with a database program.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Since adding a Mozilla-type history slows down the process, I added a
refresh item as the last item in the menu. I thought of scripting a timer on
this refresh and make it automatic (say, every 15 or 30 minutes), but I
think it is wiser to let the user decide when to refresh his/her MRUF menu
according to his/her heavy or light use of the Puppy.

What the above means is that the initial construction of the menu takes a
few seconds, but after that the MRUF menu pops up immediately. The
user knows best when to refresh the menu, depending on if (s)he made a
heavy use of the computer on that day or not.

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Do you know of any other program used in Puppy commonly enough and
which would have a useful history file? I could consider adding it to the
MRUF script.

BFN.

[musher0]

Hello all!

Please find attached version 0.9.2.

This version incorporates the elements mentioned above. Plus other changes:

-- a new icon, derived from Puppus' original. The letters "r" and "d" are
now centered and are quite recognizable. Comes in two variants: on white
background or on black background. By default the active icon is the one
on black background. You can change it by editing the icon line in the
MRUF.desktop file in /usr/share/applications. This alternative icon with
white background is named mrudicon2-48x.png; it's in directory
/usr/local/share/pixmaps.
-- the time line will always display the current time, even if you do not
refresh the menu
-- this menu refreshes itself when you ask it to, but also when changing
your locale. (I realize that this will affect perhaps 0.5% of users, those
who change locales at mid-session, but still, it's a handy feature to have,
I think. It saves some mouse clicks.)

A technical note which may be of interest to some: to mimic a history
file for MZ browsers starting with an exported < bookmarks.html > file,
I did time calculations based on what's called "the Unix timestamp". So
the script keeps, for display in the menu. only the URLs modified in the
last 30 days. (That includes the "added" ones.)

Of course the best way to process the history file of a Mozilla family
browser is to work it from within the browser itself. But this way you
can have a general idea of your recent browsing activity.

~~~~~~~~~~
I think this upgrade of the MRUF / MRUD script for Puppy now covers all
the important bases for what it's supposed to do. I've thoroughly tested
it, but please test on your side and report if I missed something and/or
you find a problem. TIA.

TWYL.

[musher0]

Hello all.

I fleshed out the explanations above a little. BFN.

[LazY Puppy]

Open Office 4.1.1, Libre Office 3.3 and GIMP tested.

Programs appear in the list, but won't start/run/execute from the Programs list.

Open Office appears as openoffice.4.1.1 (or openoffice-4.1.1), Libre Office appears as libreoffice.3.3 (or libreoffice-3.3) and GIMP appears as GNU Image Manipulation Program.

For Open Office it has to be soffice, for Libre Office it has to be libreoffice and for GIMP it has to be just gimp.

Probably there are some more programs, that won't run from that Programs list?

[musher0]

[LazY Puppy]

Here is related content from /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.

[musher0]

Thanks, Lazy_Puppy.

As you may know, I'm "on strike" against jwm and will be until "joe wing"
produces readable, friendly and non-headache-producing docs with
telling, simple examples. For now, you or anybody else can do whatever
you want with jwm -- or even worse TO jwm --, I don't care!

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To solve the (Open|Libre)Office problem, try this? It's an "enriched"
xdg-open file.

[musher0]

Actually...

[LazY Puppy]

[musher0]

Ah. Ok.