default font, ren "sda1", shortcuts to desktop, SMPlayer?

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default font, ren "sda1", shortcuts to desktop, SMPlayer?

#1 Post by McNoobish »

How do I make the default font size bigger, much bigger? For the desktop and inside apps?

Can I rename the partition icons in the lower left to the names I'm used to on Win7, like Media? Safely?

I went though the process of installing Firefox, pretty easy, but is there a way to get a shortcut on the desktop?

I didn't find the excellent SMPlayer in the puppy. It's my pref and the default on many distros, so how do I get it?

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#2 Post by musher0 »

Hello McNoobish.

Welcome to the kennels!
I hope your will find this forum friendly and useful.

You have four questions in your post above.

#1) About fonts on the desktop:
First for the size of the icon labels.
Open ROX-Filer by clicking on the "Home" or "Root" icon (usually at the
top left of the Puppy screen).

Right-click on any white space in that window and click on "Options" in
the sub-menu that appears.

Now click on "Pinboard". More or less in the middle of the right panel,
you see "Use custom fonts". Click on the rectangle to the right of that
label and you will be able to choose the font and size among those
offered.

When finished,click on OK.
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Second, for the size of the drop-down menus of programs and the
listings in the ROX windows.

There should be an app in your general menu called gtk_chtheme or gtk_
chtheme_wrapper. Click on it.

At the bottom of that window, you will see a box for fonts. Click on it.
Again you will be able to choose the font and size among those
Puppy has to offer. The difference is that this choice of font and size will
apply to the drop-down menus of programs and the listings in the ROX
windows.

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Third, you can set the font and size of the text for certain programs:
e.g. Seamonkey, geany, leafpad. It would be too long to explain each
procedure in detail here, but the general approach is to browse in the
program's properties panel, and make your choices there.

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Fourth, do you wish to know how to change the font and size in urxvt?
That would be a section in itself!! But if you need this info, just say so!
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I'll leave the other questions for other forum members to answer.

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#4) Now for your SMPlayer. We do have sfs and pet archives of it
somewhere. The best thing for you to do would be to use this forum's
search engine. (See at the top of this page.) It is strongly suggested
that you get the package for your Puppy breed and version.


You could also download and install SMPlayer for your Pup using the
PuppyPackageManager (aka "ppm", if calling it from console).

Aside from that, off the top of my head, if I am not mistaken, go-to
advisors for SMPlayer would be forum members Billtoo, Mike_Walsh,
and perhaps peebee.

IHTH.

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In the future: on this forum, we try to have one thread per question? ;)
But being a newbie at this point, you couldn't have known.

Again, welcome aboard!
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#3 Post by McNoobish »

musher0 wrote:Hello McNoobish.

Welcome to the kennels!
I hope your will find this forum friendly and useful.
I already have, thanks musher0.
You have four questions in your post above.

#1) About fonts on the desktop:


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Fourth, do you wish to know how to change the font and size in urxvt?
Maybe I'll want to know someday after I find out what urxvt is.
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I'll leave the other questions for other forum members to answer.

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#4) Now for your SMPlayer.
Thanks for that, I'll look into it. Puppy seems worth the effort.
P.S.
In the future: on this forum, we try to have one thread per question? ;)
Now I know, thanks.

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#4 Post by OscarTalks »

For SMPlayer, the first stop is to have a look here:-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=102733
Forum member Norgo produces various builds
Probably best to look near the end of the thread for the latest version.
I also compile some versions of it in Stretch Pup, plus Wheezy, Slacko 5.7 and Precise which are a bit older.
You are welcome to try any of those, but treat them as being for testing.
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
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Re: default font, ren "sda1", shortcuts to desktop, SMPlayer?

#5 Post by a_salty_dogg »

McNoobish wrote:
I went though the process of installing Firefox, pretty easy, but is there a way to get a shortcut on the desktop?
Assuming you installed Firefox via the Puppy Package Manager or a .pet you downloaded? Then do the following:

Open your ROX-filer file manager. It opens by default at your "root" directory, so the first thing you'll need to do for this excercise is to go up to the next directory level by single clicking on the green "up" arrow at the far left of the ROX-Filer window's toolbar.

Now you need to navigate to /usr/share/applications:
Do this by finding the folder named "usr" and single-click on it,
then in the window which opens click on the folder named "share",
then in the next window click on the folder named "applications.

Now look for a file in that window named "mozilla-firefox.desktop". (It should already be displaying a firefox icon there.)
Now move your cursor over that file, left click on it, holding the cursor down, and drag it to your desktop to where you'd like it linked. Then release your cursor.
There, you've symlinked Firefox to desktop! (Symlinks are essentially what "shortcuts" are called in Linux, though you'll find they have far more uses here!)
A single click on it should now open Firefox.

Now you'll probably want to tidy up its clumsy name on the desktop?
Right click on the symlink you just created and choose "Edit item" from the menu which opens. Change the name to anything you like in the box marked "The text displayed under the item is", easiest probably just call it "Firefox". Then click OK.

Close ROX-Filer window by clicking the X in the top right corner. All done!


Can't help you with the other matter of renaming your drive icons, sorry. Never heard of it done and don't even know if it's possible. Have to wait until somebody more knowledgeable comes along.

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which version of 18

#6 Post by McNoobish »

OscarTalks wrote:For SMPlayer, the first stop is to have a look here:-
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=102733
Forum member Norgo produces various builds
Probably best to look near the end of the thread for the latest version.
Thanks. Yesterday I posted to Norgo about his post
SMplayer version 18.6.0 - statically

compiled under use of Slacko 630 / Slacko64 632 and statically qt-4.8.6
smplayer-18.6.0-s-i686.pet
smplayer-18.6.0-s-x86_64.pet
wondering about which version a n00b should try installing. Perhaps he's off at the moment, do you have an opinion?

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#7 Post by musher0 »

Hello again, McNoobish.

Well, if your Puppy is a 32-bit, you download and install the "i686" file. If
your Puppy is a 64-bit, you download and install the "64-bit" file.

Have you noticed if your Pup is a 32-bit or a 64-bit? To find out, open a
console and type:

Code: Select all

uname -a
You should see "i686" mentioned towards the end of the result line if you
have a 32-bit Pup. Otherwise, you have a 64-bit Pup. (Lucky guy!) :)

IHTH.
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Re: default font, ren "sda1", shortcuts to desktop, SMPlayer?

#8 Post by McNoobish »

a_salty_dogg wrote: Assuming you installed Firefox via the Puppy Package Manager or a .pet you downloaded? Then do the following:
Thanks, salty, saved for later. I installed FF via the Puppy icon on the desktop. This method seems harder than Windows' right-drag-create-shortcut but I'm sure it will seem easier on the 2nd go.

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#9 Post by McNoobish »

musher0 wrote:Well, if your Puppy is a 32-bit, you download and use the "i686" file. If your
Puppy is a 64-bit, you download and use the "64-bit" file.

IHTH.
Thanks, I get it now. On Win7 I'm used to choosing 64 when available, just never heard of 686. What is IHTH?

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#10 Post by musher0 »

IHTH is short for "I Hope This Helps."
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#11 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hallo, McNoobish. And Image to the 'kennels'.

Re; your question about 're-naming' the drive icons.

AFAIK, you cannot change the 'sda1', 'sda2', 'sdb1', etc. stuff, because that's intrinsic to the way Linux works. You can, however, add a label to each drive, certainly.....but although it's easy enough to do so, there's at least two tools involved. You have to go into the 'gParted' partitioning tool to give each drive/partition a name before you can add it to the desktop icons......and then you have to go into the Puppy 'Event Manager' to make the names show.

With me so far?

What would be helpful would be to see a screenshot of your desktop showing the drives.....and for you to tell us what name you would like assigned to which drive/partition.

As long as the image is not too large, you can add it as an attachment to the next post (max size of 256 kb); otherwise, you'll need to post a link to an image-sharing site, like Imgur, or Photobucket.

BTW: since nobody's asked yet, it would also be helpful to know which Puppy you're using, and some basic machine specs; CPU, amount of RAM (that's important for Puppy), graphics chip, etc. Also whether a 'full' or a 'frugal' install....running from HDD, or USB stick.....or LiveCD?


Mike. :wink:

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Re: which version of 18

#12 Post by norgo »

McNoobish wrote:Yesterday I posted to Norgo about his post
Hello @McNoobish
I'm afraid there went something wrong, your message did not reach me.

Still something about the versions.

smplayer-18.6.0-s-i686.pet
The letter s means statically. So the package contains already all needed qt libs.

smplayer-18.6.0-i686.pet
without letter s , package doesn't contain needed qt libs. So installation of qt 4 package is needed.

smplayer-18.6.0-qt5-i686.pet
qt5 means, you will need to install qt 5 package to run this version

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#13 Post by McNoobish »

Mike Walsh wrote:Hallo, McNoobish. And Image to the 'kennels'.

Re; your question about 're-naming' the drive icons.

AFAIK, you cannot change the 'sda1', 'sda2', 'sdb1', etc. stuff, because that's intrinsic to the way Linux works. You can, however, ...
With me so far?

What would be helpful would be to see a screenshot of your desktop showing the drives.....and for you to tell us what name you would like assigned to which drive/partition.
Thanks for that info and OK then, running from a LiveCD of xenialpup64-7.5-uefi on:

Operating System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V LX (LGA1155)
Graphics
HP V242h (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (ASUStek Computer Inc)
1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 6670 (XFX Pine Group)
CrossFire Disabled
Storage
447GB TS480GSSD220S (SSD)
298GB Seagate ST3320620AS (SATA)
931GB Western Digital WDC WD1001FAES-22W7A0 (SATA)
298GB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB Device (USB (SATA))
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-24B1ST c
Audio
AMD High Definition Audio Device
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Next time I'm booted into Puppy I'll try to get a grab of my partition labels.

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Re: which version of 18

#14 Post by McNoobish »

norgo wrote:
McNoobish wrote:Yesterday I posted to Norgo about his post
Hello @McNoobish
I'm afraid there went something wrong, your message did not reach me.
Thanks, Norgo, it wasn't a PM but my own post. Are you subscribed? I cannot find my post either.

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