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Posted: Fri 25 Jan 2008, 01:48
by Pizzasgood
It sound like Puppy wasn't loading into ram, or else was but only left a very small amount for using.
Posted: Sun 27 Jan 2008, 02:41
by Flash
I just realized that the HTML composer window is missing from SeaMonkey in 3.01. When I click on the "html" desktop icon a little window pops up saying
Please open Composer from Window menu of currently running Mozilla
but I can't find the composer anywhere in SeaMonkey.
It was there in previous Puppys. What gives?
Posted: Sun 27 Jan 2008, 09:29
by WhoDo
Flash wrote:I just realized that the HTML composer window is missing from SeaMonkey in 3.01. When I click on the "html" desktop icon a little window pops up saying
Please open Composer from Window menu of currently running Mozilla
but I can't find the composer anywhere in SeaMonkey.
It was there in previous Puppys. What gives?
Which version of Seamonkey? One of them was badly flawed.
I'm using Seamonkey 1.1.7 in Puppy 3.01 and it works fine. See Window>Composer or press Ctrl+4 and it should pop up.
Hope that helps.
Posted: Sun 27 Jan 2008, 13:14
by Flash
WhoDo wrote:Flash wrote:I just realized that the HTML composer window is missing from SeaMonkey in 3.01. When I click on the "html" desktop icon a little window pops up saying
Please open Composer from Window menu of currently running Mozilla
but I can't find the composer anywhere in SeaMonkey.
Which version of Seamonkey? One of them was badly flawed.
I'm using Seamonkey 1.1.7 in Puppy 3.01 and it works fine. See Window>Composer or press Ctrl+4 and it should pop up.
In SeaMonkey's
Help > About it says SeaMonkey 1.1.2. There's no Composer in the drop-down menu under Window, only Navigator, and Ctrl+4 does nothing. Hm, I downloaded Puppy 3.01. /etc/puppyversion says 301. What happened?
Posted: Sun 27 Jan 2008, 13:30
by WhoDo
Flash wrote:In SeaMonkey's
Help > About it says SeaMonkey 1.1.2. There's no Composer in the drop-down menu under Window, only Navigator, and Ctrl+4 does nothing. Hm, I downloaded Puppy 3.01. /etc/puppyversion says 301. What happened?
Yep. That's the flawed version that came with Puppy 3.01 so you'll need to upgrade. It's easy though. Just go to the
Seamonkey Project page and download the full installer. It's a one-click GUI install that I've found relatively painless.
Hope that helps, and if BarryK does decide to put out a bug-fix version 3.02, I also hope he includes the Seamonkey update.
Cheers
Posted: Sun 27 Jan 2008, 13:59
by Flash
Thanks.
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 03:01
by Flash
Ok, I downloaded the latest SeaMonkey and tried it out. It seems to open faster than the version that came with 3.01, and I generally like it, but I didn't save it because of a few problems I'd like to clear up first.
1) How do I install it so that clicking on the desktop "browse" icon starts the new version? I can only start it by typing ./seamonkey in an rxvt window. I guess what I'm asking is, is it possible to replace the old version, and how do I do that?
2) How do I install Flash? Nearly every website I open causes a window to pop up telling me I need to install (the latest version of) Flash. I tried installing the tar.gz download, but it didn't work.
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 03:26
by MU
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/Flash7.pup
and
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Internet/Flash9.pup
They have a menu-entry to choose 7 or 9 (9 might be unstable on some sites, but others require it).
Mark
Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008, 11:19
by WhoDo
Flash wrote:1) How do I install it so that clicking on the desktop "browse" icon starts the new version? I can only start it by typing ./seamonkey in an rxvt window. I guess what I'm asking is, is it possible to replace the old version, and how do I do that?
Open /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser file and edit as follows:
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#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey "$@"
Seamonkey-1.1.7 is placed in a slightly different location than version 1.1.2 and earlier. Seamonkey-1.1.5/6/7 all update to the same directory now. Earlier versions used to create a separate directory including the version number, which made it hard to upgrade over the top rather than just adding another version.
Hope that helps
PS I've had no problems with Flash 9 and Java in Seamonkey-1.1.7 either.
Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 02:50
by yaknowwat
Xorg Wizard that comes with puppy seems to not finish making the Xorg.conf file and that is why it doesn't have out of the box Multi Monitor support.
What it doesn't do is a detection on the second monitor, it declares it is there in one part but does not attempt to do a scan on the next monitor to generate the information and also it doesnt put a second screen section.
Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2008, 03:26
by Pizzasgood
Actually, if I remember right it's the parsing that's the problem. The xorgwizard runs Xorg -configure to generate an xorg.conf file, which Puppy then hacks apart based on what you choose in the wizard. I don't remember for sure, but I think when I ran that by hand and analyzed its output (/root/xorg.conf.new) it did have the extra screen section. I'd check it, but you can't run that command while X is going and I have important stuff running right now so restarting X isn't an option.
Anyways, if I'm right then Puppy puts in the serverlayout section without really looking at it, but only grabs a single monitor section. To fix it would probably be pretty simple. Just have it check the serverlayout section to see if there are multiple screens, then modify it a little to handle extra screens (don't just limit to two either, count the number in serverlayout).
Posted: Sun 03 Feb 2008, 17:44
by RobertB
Back to an old issue that doesn't seem to be resolved... after adding memory to my PC, the problem I was having with applications not coming up seemed to go away. But just now, the system froze up (as old boxes sometimes do), requiring a hard shutdown. When I brought Puppy back up, it was back to the bad times -- over a minute for Opera to come up. This time I thought to run Top, and it showed that Opera was never using more than 8.5% of CPU.
But that's enough for me -- I'm going to do a 2.17 frugal install, and see what I can learn about copying files from one installation to another. And I think I'll pay more attention to the suggestion that a frugal install is more flexible than a full HD install, like I've currently got.
Pet memory management
Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2008, 23:41
by maddox
I've had probs decompressing pet's, no room left to decompress..
you have xxx blocks left and the pet needs xxxx blocks to decompress install..
There's enough displayed room left, seemingly,
but the ram has reached it's pre-determined safe limit
and Flushing the RAM, pup-save, has it's unionfs limits.
I know there are patches to (fix) that issue, but it doesn't cure it.
What about putting in the real file-size in the pet, as a variable
so the pet, petget manager could check if it could decompress and install ?
.
Posted: Sat 09 Feb 2008, 23:53
by Dingo
as written
here
I have looked a very strange behaviour with upload. many times, uploading on youtube, connection is lost and i must reboot to have a new working connection and, finally, i must reboot again and turning on windows for upload to youtube
these problems affects all browser i have tried: seamonkey, firefox, opera, elinks, netsurf and dillo. may be a puppy problem?
Posted: Fri 22 Feb 2008, 03:39
by Wolf Pup
If anyone is having problems with X hanging on boot and then droping to a command line, try this:
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# Fix X hanging on some boots
/bin/rm /tmp/.X*-lock >> /tmp/xerrs.log 2>&1
it should be added to:
/usr/X11R7/bin/xwin
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[ -z $DISPLAY ] || exit #v2.11 from GuestToo.
echo "This script will run X windows for you..."
# Fix X hanging on some boots
/bin/rm /tmp/.X*-lock >> /tmp/xerrs.log 2>&1
save then reboot.
<SOLVED> Freememory box Help gives http error
Posted: Sat 23 Feb 2008, 00:12
by r__hughes
In my pup301 everything seems to work fine except this -
clicking on the blue freememory box at the bottom-right of desktop gives 3 choices
The 2nd & 3rd options (partview & KP0) work fine but the first (Help) doesnt - it brings up a Netsurf error -
unable to display this 'http' page the /usr/share/doc/freememapplet.htm should apparently be accessed as
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file:///usr/share/doc/freememapplet.htm
- not as a http
Anybody else have this problem?
Anybody know of a quickfix for changing the /usr/sbin/freememapplet binary file to fix this (via a hexeditor) or failing this some kind of tricky indirect linking?
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edited 25FEB08
SOLVED - see trapster below
I changed my /usr/local/bin/defaulthtmlviewer" to this:
#!/bin/sh
exec netsurf "file://$@"
Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2008, 16:43
by Dingo
Occasionally, from time to time, it happens when I open a program (eg gftp) leaves me a message no space left on device. I then replaced the file pup_save with a backup and can immediately resume using puppy, but this thing is boring. why this happens? I'm puppy 3.01. The 3.02 will correct these problems?
Posted: Sun 24 Feb 2008, 23:26
by trapster
The 2nd & 3rd options (partview & KP0) work fine but the first (Help) doesnt - it brings up a Netsurf error - unable to display this 'http' page the /usr/share/doc/freememapplet.htm should apparently be accessed as
Code:
file:///usr/share/doc/freememapplet.htm
- not as a http
Anybody else have this problem?
I changed my /usr/local/bin/defaulthtmlviewer" to this:
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#!/bin/sh
exec netsurf "file://$@"
Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 22:18
by r__hughes
Thank you Trapster your suggestion
I changed my /usr/local/bin/defaulthtmlviewer" to this:
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#!/bin/sh
exec netsurf "file://$@"
solved the problem - much obliged
Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2008, 01:37
by crabbypup
hey, does anyone want to do a full bugfix for 3.01? and possibly post the iso? it would be very helpful. thanks. (i found that 3.01 had alot of bugs, so i have moved to TEENpup)