LxPup : a Puppy with LXDE as its desktop environment

[Subito Piano]

OK -- thanks for the quick reply & the good work on LXDE, my fav WM. JWM has always worked fine & i'm pretty familiar with it, so it will do for me.

[peebee]

PuppyLinuxWorld has (sort of) reviewed LxPupTahr14.12:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjfszAspwE0

[festus]

Now that I've played with this pup for about two months, I just want to say that this is the best OS that I have ever used.

Thank you, peebee, and any others, involved in the maintenance of this fine pup.

festus

[hapless_user]

yes,me too! so far, I like LxPup 15.02 non-Pae) very much....I like the lxde (?) window manager versus the jwrmc(?) because it is easier for this windoze refugee and especially, it works with Opencpn navigation program.

I have used on 3 laptops from usb stick: HP G60, HP Dv1000 and a Dell D420

The only real pest has been the D420's Broadcom 4311 wireless card but I eventually found the tip to blacklist "wl" and that works!!

(...tahrpup 6.0.02 is excellent too (and no issue with B4311) except I could not get OpenCPN to display properly on it. I think it must be due to Opencpn's wxgtk dependencies ...)

[rawmilk905]

I posted this issue in the newbie help forum and it was recommended that I post it here as well. It is copied and pasted so it may require edits for clarification. PM me if this is the case. Thanks:

wlan0 not seen after initial save/reboot - LxPupTahr 15.02.1

I tried the vanilla JWM TahrPup, even though I can't tolerate that desktop, and had a similar problem, but "ifconfig wlan0 up" in the terminal fixed it right away.

Not the case here, I'm getting "ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: no such device" and prior to the first reboot when setting up the save file everything was working fine.

I tried several Puppy variants and this is the one I want to stick with for being up to date, complete (distros like X-Slacko lacked things like Xsane and Peasyscan) and having an agreeable desktop environment, but I need wifi to work.

I'm setting it up on an Acer Aspire One 532h-2588 which according to system info utilities has an Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter, but this install (via unetbootin) is on a USB stick* and I intend it as a portable OS to use on multiple computers wherever I happen to be, so I can't constantly be fussing with wifi issues.

I have been using Linux Mint for nearly a couple years now, but I am new to Puppy. Any clues? I have done the initial set up several times, deleted the save file and started over but this keeps happening. It really seems like a major bug. Also, no access to a wired network, so hopefully the solution is through the terminal.

*The USB stick is FAT32, one single 16GB partition. It was freshly formatted prior to the install, but not upon deletion and rebuild of save file.
There is a folder called "Keys" on it containing my keepassx database and key file for access, in addition to the Puppy install. This must be accessible from other booted OSes as well as Puppy as it stores my logins/passwords.

The install uses the recommended .2fs file with heavy encryption and is located on the top level of the partition with the other Puppy OS files.

[Subito Piano]

ugh....atheros....

Can you swipe the driver from the standard TahrPup -- in other words, boot up TahrPup, copy the driver (or the whole driver folder) onto your usb drive, boot up LXPup, and copy it to the correct folder (same location as in TahrPup)?

[peebee]

I posted this issue in the newbie help forum and it was recommended that I post it here as well. It is copied and pasted so it may require edits for clarification. PM me if this is the case. Thanks:

wlan0 not seen after initial save/reboot - LxPupTahr 15.02.1

I tried the vanilla JWM TahrPup, even though I can't tolerate that desktop, and had a similar problem, but "ifconfig wlan0 up" in the terminal fixed it right away.

Not the case here, I'm getting "ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: no such device" and prior to the first reboot when setting up the save file everything was working fine.

I tried several Puppy variants and this is the one I want to stick with for being up to date, complete (distros like X-Slacko lacked things like Xsane and Peasyscan) and having an agreeable desktop environment, but I need wifi to work.

I'm setting it up on an Acer Aspire One 532h-2588 which according to system info utilities has an Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter, but this install (via unetbootin) is on a USB stick* and I intend it as a portable OS to use on multiple computers wherever I happen to be, so I can't constantly be fussing with wifi issues.

I have been using Linux Mint for nearly a couple years now, but I am new to Puppy. Any clues? I have done the initial set up several times, deleted the save file and started over but this keeps happening. It really seems like a major bug. Also, no access to a wired network, so hopefully the solution is through the terminal.

*The USB stick is FAT32, one single 16GB partition. It was freshly formatted prior to the install, but not upon deletion and rebuild of save file.
There is a folder called "Keys" on it containing my keepassx database and key file for access, in addition to the Puppy install. This must be accessible from other booted OSes as well as Puppy as it stores my logins/passwords.

The install uses the recommended .2fs file with heavy encryption and is located on the top level of the partition with the other Puppy OS files.

Hi rawmilk905

Please try blacklisting the wl driver as that is present in LxPupTahr and is known to sometimes claim wifi devices erroneously.

After a first reboot, go:
Menu -> System -> System -> Boot Manager -> Modules -> Blacklist module
and move wl into the right hand pane

then reboot.

Cheers
peebee

[rawmilk905]

Hi rawmilk905

Please try blacklisting the wl driver as that is present in LxPupTahr and is known to sometimes claim wifi devices erroneously.

After a first reboot, go:
Menu -> System -> System -> Boot Manager -> Modules -> Blacklist module
and move wl into the right hand pane

then reboot.

Cheers
peebee

This did it , thank you!

[peebee]

I am considering a new look for LxPup at the next release....

The icon set is called flat-remix
The OpenBox theme is from Windows8OB by David Andrew

Please send any comments by PM so as not to clog up the thread.

Thanks
peebee

[peebee]

Thanks to the efforts of 666philb, LxPupVivid should be available soon.......

[clasico3124]

hola,
tengo problemas con la llamada en skype no se escucha a la otra persona y la otra persona tampoco me escucha

uso puppy tahrpup con escritorio lxde

hello,
i have problem with skype call i dont lisen other person and the other dont lisent to me

i am use tahrpup with lxde

[peebee]

hello,
i have problem with skype call i dont lisen other person and the other dont lisent to me

i am use tahrpup with lxde

Please use:
Menu -> Setup -> ALSA Sound Wizard
to adjust your sound

and
Menu -> Multimedia -> Pavrecord
to test settings

Then try Skype again when you have sound configured correctly.

[clasico3124]

hello,
thanks for help me with skype, now work all ok with skype call.

i have a new problem, with mixxx dont leave other app sound

i want speak with other person in skype, and both of us go air with mixxx

but mixxx doesnt premition other app sound

why only one app sound at the time

[peebee]

LxPup-15.03 is available to download from:
http://lx-pup.weebly.com/slacko60.html

Slackware-14.1 (Slacko6-Beta2) flavour with no-pae k3.4.94 and pae k3.17.7 versions

Main change is the new "look" - new default background, flat-remix iconset, Windows8OB window decoration, xfce-dawn gtk2 widgets

ppm and pup-sys-info also updated

(if you want to revert to a close approximation of the previous "look" then use Menu -> Desktop -> Change appearance and select:
Windows - Onyx
Theme - Nodoka-Aqua
Icons - Elementary
Background - vladstudio-windypress)

Note: updating an existing savefile will likely need some desktop reconfiguration after 1st boot - particularly an iconset will need to be selected and a windows manager restart done. This is because the box iconset is no longer included.

Cheers
peebee

[peebee]

LxPupTahr has also now been updated to version 15.03.

See http://lx-pup.weebly.com/upup-tahr.html for download.

TahrPup updates to 22-Mar-2015 16:09 are included.

Box icons are no longer included.

The Puppy update process does not support LxPup fully, so if you are updating a previous install of LxPup you will need to do some manual tweaking after the 1st boot.

In particular you should:
- select the new iconset (flat-remix): Menu -> Desktop -> Desktop appearance -> Icons
- delete the optional top-panel if you have activated it and then re-activate it:
Menu -> Desktop -> Desktop appearance -> Options -> Top panel

You may also need to change the background and the GTK2 widget theme depending on how many changes you have made to these features in the past.

Cheers
peebee

[clasico3124]

where is the pet or sfs when quickpet download ?

[peebee]

where is the pet or sfs when quickpet download ?

Afraid I don't personally use quickpet.....

Looking in /usr/local/quickpet_precise
for .pets - they are downloaded to /root and deleted after install

.sfs must be left in a location where they will reload on next boot - probably /mnt/home?

[john009]

Updated from 14.12 to 15.03 last night -Everything's working perfectly ..Actually it's gotten better

The new win8 themes and icons are really good.

Allt+f2 launcher wouldn't work in the old version;I can use it now.

I am still confused about security updates though??

Thanks peebee for such a awesome distro..

[peebee]

Updated from 14.12 to 15.03 last night -Everything's working perfectly ..Actually it's gotten better

The new win8 themes and icons are really good.

Allt+f2 launcher wouldn't work in the old version;I can use it now.

I am still confused about security updates though??

Thanks peebee for such a awesome distro..

Hi john009 - thanks for the feedback

If you are using the LxPupTahr flavour then that includes 666philb's quickpet update mechanism and he provides security updates through that route. Go into Quickpet and click Check for updates.

For the LxPup (Slacko) flavour there is Updates Manager - latest from Slackware in the menu. Some of the entries will be already present and updated but can be loaded again if you are in doubt.

Cheers
peebee

[clasico3124]

hello

nice new look for xlpup tahr distro is beautiful
i dont see bluez in quickpet

i edit this post because i found the bluez for bluetooth but will be nice if it is include in quickpet for the next update

thank pebee for this puppy the best puppy i probed