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Happy New Year!

updated virtualbox to 4.2.6 r82870 for carolina 3.2.13-ski

includes extension pack...
guest additions ISO should be automatically detected now (on my previous package, I mistakenly placed the ISO in the wrong directory)

VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-carolina-3.2.13-ski.sfs

VirtualBox-4.2.6-82870-carolina-3.2.13-ski.sfs-md5.txt

drag and drop seems to work on my backtrack guest, but not on my windows 8 guest

Thanks, Happy New Year!

Hello, great release here with Carolina! Im just curious if there is a way to get chromium from this page to run?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 51&start=8

Shows some missing or incorrect version of glib if i remember correctly. The version in package manager is far to old to use as most extensions can't be installed and it lacks various other features I use from updates. Carolina and Lxpup are my favorites and I keep them both on thumbdrives, and latest chromium works on Lxpup. I love to use both puplets on different computers for various reasons, but really need to be able to have certain chromium extensions installed on both for syncing and other purposes. If this could be done or any help provided at all I'd be greatly thankful

Anyone else having problems with Network printing?

My browser @localhost:631 is showing

Printer (Default Printer) "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "Printer" not available: No such file or directory"

for my printer.

Recommendations?

Testing 0.0.5 out now;it's working well. I like the Christmas themed wallpaper as well!

the latest firefox update - version 18 seems to break carolina's firefox?
I've tried it also with a stock carolina 0.0.5 and it's stock firefox 16.0.1 and firefox doesn't want to launch anymore.

jpup wrote:the latest firefox update - version 18 seems to break carolina's firefox?
I've tried it also with a stock carolina 0.0.5 and it's stock firefox 16.0.1 and firefox doesn't want to launch anymore.

This appears to be a bug in firefox 18. This bug has also occurred in a couple earlier version of firefox. Firefox 16.0.1 works from from a fresh install; if it's failing, it's probably due to the update being saved to your save file. Try a fresh save file with the stock carolina firefox 16.0.1 for the time being.

thanks for the info Elroy,
I'm Ok good thing I have a packaged firefox 17.0.1 sfs with all my configs. It still works as long as I don't go with the update to version 18.

thanks

gcmartin wrote:My browser @localhost:631 is showing

Printer (Default Printer) "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "Printer" not available: No such file or directory"

for my printer. Recommendations?

Have you installed the printer-scanner-drivers.sfs package?

When I installed the newest version of pschedule I got the
following mysterious warning...

don570 wrote:When I installed the newest version of pschedule I got the
following mysterious warning...

That's because it's not a Carolina package and looks for the dependencies gtkdialog and cron.

I repackaged it without the dependency check, there are a number of packages that need to be repackaged specifically for Carolina/Lina.

Added new apps to the repo, see recent additions HERE

Could AngryIP be considered for addition to the repo?

It is so easy to use especially since its pre-req is built in the Carolina base. I recognize that I could be ahead of myself as you may have already considered it for the next base.

Also, I think FlightGUI-Flight is a good candidate as well.

Thanks in advance

Currently, we're looking at getting input from our users concerning which default applications Carolina-006 should use. Here are the categories:

browser
email-client
image-editor
image-viewer
music-player
video-player
text-editor
document-editor
spreadsheet-client

Please pm carolina with your choices.

I'd like two apps I wrote ( baconrecorder and Extract-pet)
to be included.

By the way I've just finished a gettext version of report-video .
It might be useful in Carolina if you wanted to slim down the distro.

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Hello Elroy,

FYI: I always move firefox out of my savefile when I set up a fresh install.
However, version 18 still corrupted it on two of the machines I am running.
One with carolina 05 and one with carolina lite 05.



Pete

Pete22 wrote:Hello Elroy,

FYI: I always move firefox out of my savefile when I set up a fresh install.
However, version 18 still corrupted it on two of the machines I am running.
One with carolina 05 and one with carolina lite 05.



Pete

Pete the reason that Firefox 18 doesn't work is the glibc is old, wary as suffered the same fate, it is out of elroy's and my ability to update this library and it will most likely need glib and the kernel updating also.

so it looks as if this where development stops, if someone would like to take over development MP me, I will be unavailable from the 4th due to family issues.

Hi everybody!
First of all, please accept my wide compliments, Carolina is very good, a great balance of simplicity and powerful features
Let me also say that it seems more than a "beta" as declared!

I would have some question:
- When I launch some applications requiring some time to start, nothing happen and there are no popup to advice that something is running and have to wait some seconds.
- With Firefox, sometimes happens this: if I go to a webpage and I stop the loading (e.g. exit from browser), then at re-opening Firefox it seems not more able to connect to anything... unless I act on panel icon in order to disconnect from eth0 and restart connection.
It's annoying, it's like "something keeps in mind" that there is a connection to establish
- The icons on desktop have a poor contrast/visibility even choosing different wallpaper. I didn't find a solution, does anyone has a suggestion?
- I would like to try wbar and I found these instructions
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WbarInstall
Are they valid also for Carolina?

Many Thanks in advance for any info or suggestion!

inoxidabile wrote: - The icons on desktop have a poor contrast/visibility even choosing different wallpaper. I didn't find a solution, does anyone has a suggestion?

Maybe try a different icon theme from the repo

inoxidabile wrote: - I would like to try wbar and I found these instructions
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WbarInstall
Are they valid also for Carolina?

Wbar is in the repo, just dl and install. A startup script is put in usr/Startup to run it at startup, but if you restart x you will have to launch it again. Just type wbar in the terminal. There is a .wbar config file in /root to make changes.

I'm back, went to see my brother Mark who passed away from cancer on the 10th, the forum and puppy seemed unimportant to me for the last few weeks, but life go's on and being here is a good distraction from the misery that happens in the world.

inoxidabile wrote:The icons on desktop have a poor contrast/visibility

Use Xfce Power Tools located in Control panel under Desktop to adjust text colors and opacity, you can also change the font size custom settings by right clicking the desktop and selecting Desktop Settings, look under the icon tab for the options.

Many thanks to Geoffrey and rg66!
With Your suggestions now the look is better... and I must take practice about setups of xfce ...
(I still have some trouble with setup of wbar, but this is an other question I'm looking for the gui tool for this )

Coming to the others points of my post, unfortunately, I can confirm the mentioned behavior
When for any reason a page doesn't finish the load, at restart it seems that the connection becomes not active and Firefox try again to load that web page.
I'm not able to say if it's due to Firefox or/and network management but looking on web I have seen that I'm not the only one.
Following some suggestions, I found the solution (maybe... ):

1) Disable frisbee and use sns (SimpleNetworkSetup) and ckeck ok as default tool; maybe also Dougal Wizard but not frisbee

2) Setups about Firefox
- Go to -> preferences-network-advanced settings and use system proxy settings or no proxy (if possible...)
- Type about:config in the address bar and press the "Enter" key. When you see a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise! button.
- Then, in the Filter bar, type network.http.max-connections. Right click the preference network.http.max-connections and choose Modify, change the value to 30 or 48.
- Then, search for browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash Double click on true to toggle it to false.
- Now, search for browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes and set it to 0
Finally, exit the page and restart Firefox.

In my feel these are more workarounds than true solutions but I hope the above could be useful for something else , however