(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

if mrxvt is installed, but there is no rxvt executable, you can easily make a symlink or a wrapper script to run mrxvt when rxvt is executed

#!/bin/sh
exec mrxvt "$@"

Vabene, I'm puzzled.
I tried Muppy006 today on my notebook, and rxvt works.
I chose english and german, with and without the addons, with xvesa and xorg.

So at moment I had only 3 ideas;

1.) CD is broken
2.) you have a graficscarddriver that works incorrect in X.
3.) You use a setting, that makes problems, like an installation on a USB-stick.

I ran it from CD with the boot-option
puppy pfix=ram
So my pup_save.3fs was not used.

I have no idea at moment

Please follow guestToos advice.
rename /usr/bin/rxvt to rxvt-old
Then symlink it:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/mrxvt /usr/bin/rxvt

If mrxvt is in a different location, you must of course use that path.
You can type
which mrxvt
to find out the correct path.


Mark

wow
we are getting serious eh!
ok
now is time to start switching my main laptop to puppy as well (my backup desktop and my backup laptop are already on it)
today, while playing with the partition table, i screwed it, and while i can still fix with the backup, i prefer to get rid of ubuntu and get the new muppy!

only 3 condition for the complete overhaul of my system:

• first i need good perl support, i MUST be able to run scripts

• second i need my intel 2100 wifi card to WORK, work good with no problems.

• third, while i can have a fat32 partition, i would like to do everything on ntfs, if puppy totally supports it, swap is not an issue, since i already have a swap partition.

so now only my main desktop remains on ubuntu (i need multiuser) and winzoze xp

Mark,

I tried Muppy today. A brilliant demonstration of how and what can be done. I looked for things to discover and use.

Here's my question, and I'm almost embarrassed to ask. Somewhere in there I found a very handsome set of tan or light brown, more or less rectangular, gnome icons that were just right for my desktop. Unfortunately I lost them in a reboot, and cannot remember where I found them:-(
Do you possibly know what I am looking for? Sorry to ask.

Henry

Please disregard the above question, Mark. I went back and sorted it out.

(Actually, they were gray, not brown, anyway

Henry

i can answer two of my questions:

i can make the wifi card work out of the box

puppy installed on fat but attempted to install on the ntfs partition, which didn't do because was "unclean"

now i need to discover if has perl and i can start playing

yes, Perl is included.
But not all modules, if a script won't run, please paste the errors.
Then we might try to add them
Mark

Mark,

Does the recent edition solve the problem I was experiencing with Dougal's latest edition of the remaster script and the probepart issue?

This release looks very sharp. One thing I wanted to point out that is fixable pertains to playing streaming video from sites such as CNN, video.ap.org, etc. Would be nice to have the codecs pre-installed for release 007. From personal experience, this is a bit overwhelming for a newbie. Just a suggestion.

.

yes, that bug should be fixed.
Codecs: I will have a look.
If someone can point me to what needs to be added, I'd be happy
Mark

Mark,

My custom Puppy based on 2.10 supports almost all online streaming video formats using the Firefox mplayer plugin. I'll have to refresh my memory on how I was able to get this to work, but I'll provide you with the details in a few hours. In the meantime, can you create a PSI compatible object for the mplayer browser plugin from the source at http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net ?? That would help. There is also a MediaConnectivity Firefox plug-in you can pre-install at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions.

EDIT: One of the most critical steps that comes to mind was supplying the Firefox browser with a list of file extensions associated with multimedia formats to be used by gmplayer. I was actually able to get this to work by using another distro's Firefox browser presets, which saved me a good deal of time in defining my own. A bug that I encountered that I still have not overcome is that once the media file finishes playing it would shut down the browser. That needs to be solved, Also, there are some sites that for some reason I can't seem to get the video working, like www.foxnews.com which I've been able to use the mplayer plugin with in the past.

there was a bug in my rxvt-wrapper, that caused that the "lock" icon on the desktop did not work.
Other applications might be affected too, if they use something like
rxvt -title "xxxSPACExxx"

bugfix (9 kb):

http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Muppylinux/Mu ... cepack.pup

Mark

I'm running Muppy 006 right now (Full HD install) And it is real sweet.
Installed with Xorg, and I like the fonts (real clean).
I haven't had a chance to try all the bells and whistles yet.
But I like it a lot so far.

PS: I had no issues with the install (it went real smooth).

Mark,

This is just one for your "wish list". I'm a big fan of PSI and appreciate your "service-pack" concept. That said, it would great to have a feature in Puppy to automatically apply critical service packs specific to a particular distro similar to features found in enterprise-grade versions of Linux. This would require some work and is not imperative but just something to add to the idea exchange.

i found a strange problem with psi
i tried to update the mirrorlist, since i was getting all the packages unsorted into one dir
but it tries to connect to 5.0.0.0 and obviously get nothing..
how can i fix it?
moreover i would love my wifi configuration to be retained and reapplied every time i reboot
how can i do that?

ezeze5000
Thanks for the feedback

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jam, I plan to add a update-entry to the toolbox.

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nevermore, no idea at moment.
Maybe the server is not reachable temporarily?
Does it work later, maybe?


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I made a wizard to make it easier to setup the Icewm-dock:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4047#84047

Will go into Muppy007.

Mark

nope Mark
can you please post your config files (for mirrors update only) so that i can overwrite mine that maybe got messed?

/root/dotpups-downloads/mirrors.txt
Does it work?
Mark

perfectly!
thanks!but damn it, i wish i could make it retain the wireless settings..by the way, where is rutilt?
and more important, i started jwm and now i can't go back to xfce, even with xwin xfce i still have jwm bar menues and so on..
i want old plain muppy

rutilt?
Never had a look at that, but if it is in Puppy 2.12, it also is in Muppy006.

xfce?...
Muppy has icewm.

type
xwin starticewm
to start it.
Mark

mark it is there
but not displayed on menues..strange..
appears only on jwm.
i installed the office sfs
i notice that if i open office, then i save and close it, then i try to shutdown.
shutdown doesn't do anything.