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mikeslr wrote:Wondering what else I might have left out I discovered it was also missing a comma. Call it the "Xerox" syndrom: I used a previous config file to build it, ran thru the alphabet and counted from 0 thru 9, but forgot to check symbols.

When I first read your comment about "xerox" syndrome I did not understand what you meant. I guess you meant just "blindly copying"? Your comment came to mind this week when one of the guys at work posted a link about recent problems with xerox copiers having the opposite problem - the copiers are deliberately (and very carefully) corrupting the characters:
http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... documents/
Nasty problem!

Hi oui,

If the following does not help you may wish to re-post your query in the Precise 5.6.1 thread as this Pup is a re-master of that and AFAIK there is nothing in it that would impact upon the ability or inability to rotate the screen.

The only half decent reference to that subject that I can find is this one, which suggests a couple of solutions but backup your savefile before you try!
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58138

I tend to prefer simple solutions and with my own copy of MouseCam Pup V6 use the following sfs.
nvidia-glx-319.17-k3.2.44.sfs
That driver provides the rotation facility which obviously the monitor must support.

So if you have a monitor and graphics driver that support this you could in theory rotate any Pup. (I would still backup your savefile before trying it though!)

thank you very much ETP! I did continue in the specialized discussion:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 441#718441

and I use this knowledge in this French discussion:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87960

Hi
devx file actually yet available?
Regards

slackfan wrote:Hi
devx file actually yet available?
Regards

Hi slackfan,
MouseCam is based on a re-master of Precise Puppy 5.6.1 (k 3.3.44)
The devx for 5.6.1 can be found here: (138.7MB)
https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Precise

Hi ETP

Thank you very much!

It would be important in my eyes the https://archive.org/ would appear on the official download page from Puppy
http://puppylinux.com/download/index.html
as those important step of the Puppy development did be erased on the other official depositories of Puppy and remplaced by the less used new versions!

MouseCam is probably one of the best Puppy derivatives of all the Puppy live and the two goals are unique, help handicaped people and for that use extensively voice commands! It would be terrible that the actualisation of main depositories would made of MouseCam a dead branch as no future development with it would not be possible any more!

I did download 3 files
- devx_precise_5.6.1.sfs
- devx_precise_5.6.1.sfs__devz_precise_5.7.sfs.delta and
- devx_precise_5.6.11.sfs!

estonish is the size difference between evx_precise_5.6.1.sfs and evx_precise_5.6.11.sfs! why?

what is a sfs.delta?

kind regards

Hi slackfan,

It would be a good idea to add archive.org to the list on Barry’s puppylinux.com site.
Perhaps you could PM your suggestion to forum member ALLY who maintains it and to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude.

Delta files are explained here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52232

MouseCam is really a super production!

Here in action with the kde4.10.1.sfs:

You can see that I am using

- Konqueror, works very well (but seems don't to be able to use full the flashplayer integrated in MouseCam for Chrome. Perhaps is a adequate driver to connect it?)

- KolourPaint making a screenshot

- Dolphin actually using his splitted modus

- and did install Parley on top from Debian Squeezy (needs only 1 dependencie more! it is libkeduvocdocument.so) so it would be possible to start it as supplementary *.sfs (and probably more KDE educational stuff, perhaps also Calligra?)

- kwrite, kate, gwenview, okular did also work...

Hi oui,

I regret that I have never used KDE apps but Google tells me that flash can be problematic:
https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q= ... wser+flash
Having first backed up your save-file, you will need to experiment. The search results include a couple of possible solutions but I do not know what impact if any they might have on Chrome’s pepper-flash.

Hi ETP

On this site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcaRkf ... 8L&index=2

where "linux help guy" is showing his new Tahr Pup, somebody Andrew Bryant pianotunerbristol, asks if he can make it accessiblle for blind people ..

Thought to remember your derivatives for disabled people.

Not sure whether yours is completely accessible to te blind.

Anyway maybe you can have a closer look and in case of .. contact the "pianotuner".

Would be great if you could meet his demands.

Remember, even to abled average Windozers, puppy is not all that accessible.

Hi nancy reagan,

MouseCam is not suitable for the blind but the last version of Obedient Pup
(V3) released 5th November 2013 included features for the blind.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88095

It is not clear whether Andrew is himself blind & his request relates
specifically to PuppyBang Linux 6.0.3

LHG has a vast knowledge of Linux & may be able to add features for the Blind or recommend
a suitable alternative.
Obedient Pup is now rather out of date and I do not intend to update it
That does not mean that I have lost interest in voice control but am waiting for
Google to bring customisable voice control to Chrome for desktops. They call it
"voice actions" & are currently testing it with Android first.