(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

I would have taken note, but I knew I could just deconstruct the dotpup if I needed it. When I said I "had to do a manual search for it" I was meaning more that I needed it than that I looked hard. It was actually in the first place I checked.

As for the icons, you might be able to just replace them with small blank icons. Otherwise you could try symlinking them to Puppy and ROX's icons.

Dougal, it just won't work on my other machine. I tried every resolution I could find in the xvesa wizard. No matter what I chose, all I got was 720 x 400 or something like that, and all that shows is just a small section of what would be the full window. At least I can still right-click on the desktop to get the menu and try various choices.

It would work perfectly for me, except the dammed thing won't start. Does anyone know where to find libxau.so.6?

No, but have you tried Google?

Hello Everybody,
XFCE looks great on my Puppy except all the extra packages I've added Like Open Office, Real Player etc aren't include in the Xfce Menu and I can't access them for use.
How do I edit Puppy to include them in the Xfce Menu

john biles wrote:all the extra packages I've added Like Open Office, Real Player etc aren't include in the Xfce Menu and I can't access them for use.

In the Setup menu you'll find "XFCE Menu editor". It allows you to add items to the menu.

If you don't know what to add (like the commands), you can open /root/.jwmrc (hidden file) in a text editor and find the entries for your new programs and see which command (in JWM it's preceded with an "exec") runs each. You can also see which icon is use in each...

Pizzasgood wrote:As for the icons, you might be able to just replace them with small blank icons. Otherwise you could try symlinking them to Puppy and ROX's icons.

Yeah, I've got some experience with such cheating (like replacing .png images with links to equivalent jpegs...). I'll look into it when the final version is released.

Thanks Dougal,
It's taking time but I can now add the extra programs to the Menu.
Xfce looks excellent on my Desktop. Thank you for the Xfce Dotpup

Hi John (and all),

The way I enter items into the Xfce menu is like this: I go into "/usr/share/applications" and you'll find a lot of .desktop files there. Open one for the category of your programme that you wish it to appear in. (Ex: If a browser open Dillo.desktop and use that as a template.)

Then I simply rewrite the file for my programme keeping the same "Category" and "mimeType" info near the bottom. When it comes to the "icon" you can usually write the pathway to the icon like this: "/usr/share/pixmap/<name>.png" or whatever and if you refresh ROX after saving the .desktop file under your programme's name, you'll see the icon show over the file. Usually the next time you reboot (or even if you reboot the Xfce desktop sometimes) your programme will appear in the menu.

While this sounds complicated and time-consuming it really IS NOT. Takes me just a minute.

Another way to do it is to add the programme to the launcher at the bottom. If you right-click on an icon you can add an "arrow extender" to the side of that icon where you may add even more links. I have all my internet things under one, text editors under another, so on and so forth.

I hope these two ideas help?

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

I'm going to try out the XDG thing when I get a chance, because the idea behind it has always appealed to me. Many times, though, I don't even bother with a menu. I just open a terminal and start the program from there.

I use a 1280 x 1024 LCD and try as I might I cannot get the resolution when using your package. So for me its just not an option which is sad -

Eyes-Only: you are using a xdg menu. there's an easier way of creating new .desktop files: search the forum for rarsa's "alien-to-xdg" application. It's a wizard to create new .desktop files for installed packages that don't have them.

http://dotpups.de/dotpups/System_Utilit ... -packages/

Mark

has anyone gotten the xfce packages in this thread to work with Puppy 2.17.1 ??

Yeah, NOP 2.17 has 4.4.1 built-in.

stevenbinion wrote:has anyone gotten the xfce packages in this thread to work with Puppy 2.17.1 ??

if it works well


only that the weater pluin works badly, do not install this plugin

this way my desktop is seen in puppy 2.17.1
asi se ve mi escritorio en puppy 2.17.1:



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si funciona bien


solo que el weater pluin funciona mal, no instales ese plugin

gray wrote:Yeah, NOP 2.17 has 4.4.1 built-in.

Yes I know they do. I finally have 4.2.3.2 going on my build of 2.17.1 but I want to go with 4.4.1 but I need a required library. libvte-dev I'm trying to make a .pet of it now and hopefully have it going

A little help, please. After installing the "locales" pup, how do I switch from English to another language?

Thanks, Marco