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ttuuxxx,

It worked by adding that usb plugin. It recognized my C5280 printer and was able to print a test page with an old 1315 driver. I installed the hpijs-2.8.10.pet which has the correct driver for the C5200 series but couldn't get that driver to work.

Thanks,
Jim

ttuuxxx,

It worked by adding that usb plugin. It recognized my C52080 printer and was able to print a test page with an old 1315 driver. I installed the hpijs-2.8.10.pet which has the correct driver for the C5200 series but couldn't get that driver to work.

Thanks,
Jim

JMX wrote:2) When I use "Open Terminal Here" that opened location should automatically be in the PATH for that opened terminal session.

No, it should not. Standard *nix behavior is to not include the local directory in the path. Changing it would make things even more confusing, because then we wouldn't be standard anymore. If we start messing around with things that are that fundamental, we eliminate the new user's ability to trust generic Linux guides found on the web. How we have it now may be a little odd at first, but it is more consistent.

I do agree that /usr/local/sbin should be in the path. Also, /usr/local/lib should be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or /etc/ld.so.conf) if it isn't already in 4.2 (I forget).

Jim1911 wrote:ttuuxxx,

It worked by adding that usb plugin. It recognized my C52080 printer and was able to print a test page with an old 1315 driver. I installed the hpijs-2.8.10.pet which has the correct driver for the C5200 series but couldn't get that driver to work.

Thanks,
Jim

jim can I have the link to that pet for that driver please? I want to look at the package.
ttuuxxx

zigbert wrote:Warren
I have updated the Ptray package. Version 0.4 also handles the show/hide of left/right-tray. The package contains fixmenus and globicons. These should be included by hand to their original packages.

Thanks, Sigmund. Included for Puppy-4.2Beta1.

Pizzasgood wrote:

JMX wrote:2) When I use "Open Terminal Here" that opened location should automatically be in the PATH for that opened terminal session.

No, it should not. Standard *nix behavior is to not include the local directory in the path. Changing it would make things even more confusing, because then we wouldn't be standard anymore.

Cool, PG! I hadn't worked out what to do with that request and now I know.

@JMX - I guess you'll have to continue amending this one by hand. Sorry.

@ttuuxxx - it looks like all the hard work on CUPS may have paid dividends. I'll include these files in Puppy-4.2Beta1 in the hope that there are no more major problems related to CUPS. Thanks, mate!

Hey WhoDo

-how long do I have before you need the finals for the beta ?
-Do you know which plugins for things like abiword did you remove? If not I could figure it out, but it'll take more time.

I still have a bit to do on icewm and Cups, right now the Cups package is very large, I'll be able to remove a good size chunk but it will need more testing. I'll keep backups for somethings to fall back on in case something goes wrong. Plus do you know what parts will be going in like gutenprint? or is that a repo item.
thanks
ttuuxxx

Well most things seem nice and smooth.

But the drive icons.
This has to be addressed as well as unmounting.

2 quick tests.

Old IBM Pentium 111 1 gig chip 512 ram
Must have had 8 extra drives show up.
Triangular icons obviously faulty....removed them.
The hard drive would not unmount at all.
I did not know you could right click to unmount.
Used xorg...as only 1 meg video card on this computer.

Interesting..I booted my 2.8 celeron 512 ram.
Used xvesa.
Now....all these drive icons started to appear.
Selected my screen size 1024x 768.
Saved it.
Spare drives disappeared.

After cleaning my XP install out....my usual way,
the drives refused to unmount.
I then tried right click on the drives to unmount them.
Success.

So maybe this has been already raised, but is it a
joint Pmount and Xorg setting making it worse?
Just strange the extra icons started to appear
and then vanish.

Not a criticism as such.
Highly annoying and mischievous.
So much good work and this piddly bug.
To me this must be fixed soonest.

Oh! well that's why you have Alphas.

I shall try and look more tonight.

Hooroo to all....and regards.............Chris.

ttuuxxx wrote:-how long do I have before you need the finals for the beta ?

I planned on uploading within 2 hours, but if you can reduce the size significantly that's worth waiting for. I have the Beta running on my machine and it's (choke) almost flawless! Hope I don't come to regret that rash statement!

ttuuxxx wrote:-Do you know which plugins for things like abiword did you remove? If not I could figure it out, but it'll take more time.

As far as I'm aware I didn't remove ANY plug-ins for Abiword.

ttuuxxx wrote:I still have a bit to do on icewm and Cups, right now the Cups package is very large, I'll be able to remove a good size chunk but it will need more testing.

If you can get me 3Mb, we'll be all but ready for the RC! Sorry but I had to leave Murrina out because of size problems. Clearlooks is still in of course. I'll give you back Murrina if you can get me the 3 meg!

ttuuxxx wrote:I'll keep backups for somethings to fall back on in case something goes wrong. Plus do you know what parts will be going in like gutenprint? or is that a repo item.

Gutenprint is in. I have installed ALL of the CUPS pet files you mentioned so CUPS should be complete and epdf viewer now works again. Foomatic is also back in. Current size is 102Mb, even including CUPS, CUPS docs, Gutenprint etc.

cthisbear wrote:Well most things seem nice and smooth.

But the drive icons.
This has to be addressed as well as unmounting.

All squared away, Chris. Check the Beta release coming soon.

Hi

This is sounding good - can't wait.

Once again - many thanks to all concerned for all the hard work and brain-strain.

I think puppy is already the best small distro by a long way -
this CE elevates puppy to the highest levels.

Stonking stuff

Very best regards - Ray

I'll get it ready for beta 2, I just received your message. probably don't have enough time, to reduce it all. Testers of beta4 please keep your copies handy for testing, the updated packages, I still have some work to do on them.
ttuuxxx

actually cool pup just informed me that a newer Gutenprint is out, I'm downloading right now, the source package is 1.5MB larger, so I don't know it it will do at all. Depends how it compiles I guess.
ttuuxxx

WhoDo do I have any time left I'm working on it, The pressure is on
ttuuxxx

WhoDo please don't forget the usb plugin. or we'll have a lot of complaints.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=15011

ttuuxxx

WhoDo I'm uploading a small Ghostscript package, If I had say about 1.5Hrs I could do a lot in that time, I'll try to get you everything asap,
ttuuxxx

Here's the Ghostscript package. Its small because I removed the fonts like Barry did I, also linked it the our built in fonts, not sure if it works or not, not time to test. But it worked in the past for barry without the links.
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 4-i386.pet
ttuuxxx

WhoDo wrote:Check the Beta release coming soon.

Hey, I've got the 4.1.1 version of Remaster Express done except for a bit of needed testing; it just ejected a completed live-CD for me as I was typing this. (Right after I get done with this message, I'll put up links to the completed set of screenshots in the "Remastering remastering" thread.) [EDIT: And here they are: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 765#274765] Can I have the 4.2 versions of packages.txt and 0pkgs_db, so I can work up the 4.2 version of Remaster Express really fast?

Also, there's still a problem with the Tcl 8.5.6 .PET (the "clock" command doesn't work, and apps that invoke it won't start). I PM'd rarsa several days ago, but I haven't received any notice that he's corrected the problem, if he has. I appreciate the fact that he slimmed Tcl and Tk down considerably, but I can't help wondering if he may have cut out too much in addition to the "msgcat" package that's needed to make "clock" work. I hope you can either (1) successfully beg him to fix Tcl 8.5.6 really soon or (2) bring yourself to cram in my somewhat fatter 8.5.5-runtime .PETs straight out of Slackware, unless and until the problem with 8.5.6 is fixed. (They still amount to a lot less than the 4 MB you were originally considering for Tcl and Tk!)

pa_mcclamrock wrote:

WhoDo wrote:Check the Beta release coming soon.

Hey, I've got the 4.1.1 version of Remaster Express done except for a bit of needed testing; it just ejected a completed live-CD for me as I was typing this. (Right after I get done with this message, I'll put up links to the completed set of screenshots in the "Remastering remastering" thread.) Can I have the 4.2 versions of packages.txt and 0pkgs_db, so I can work up the 4.2 version of Remaster Express really fast?

Also, there's still a problem with the Tcl 8.5.6 .PET (the "clock" command doesn't work, and apps that invoke it won't start). I PM'd rarsa several days ago, but I haven't received any notice that he's corrected the problem, if he has. I appreciate the fact that he slimmed Tcl and Tk down considerably, but I can't help wondering if he may have cut out too much in addition to the "msgcat" package that's needed to make "clock" work. I hope you can either (1) successfully beg him to fix Tcl 8.5.6 really soon or (2) bring yourself to cram in my somewhat fatter 8.5.5-runtime .PETs straight out of Slackware, unless and until the problem with 8.5.6 is fixed. (They still amount to a lot less than the 4 MB you were originally considering for Tcl and Tk!)

I compiled the full version last week, I have it on file here, the one which rarsa provided didn't contain any dev files for compiling so it made it useless for me when I wanted to compile the latest amsn, but by then the 2 packages weren't compatible, So it messed everything up, When i'm done of printing and icewm, I'll move over to tcl and build a release, with the dev files available for the devx or to download.
ttuuxxx