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#16 Post by WhoDo »

jonyo wrote:I's confused :oops:
Could someone sum up what's good to go (& install) here in one post.
It's all "good to go" IF you need it. If you don't use Midnight Commander, don't install the patch. Simple.

Hope that helps.
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#17 Post by kirk22 »

WhoDo wrote: 4. PETbegone will not run without certain configuration files and these were omitted from the release. Attached is a patch to replace those files. It should be unpacked to /root/.packages - check that a directory called unleashed exists after the unpacking.
I tried to use this file and petbegone to strip out a lot of packages and came up with a bunch of errors. Some packages were removed but some came up with an error such as "/root/.packages/unleashed/alsa-lib-1.0.12rc1.files does not exist.

This happened with a few games, some wireless apps, etc.

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kirk22 wrote:Some packages were removed but some came up with an error such as "/root/.packages/unleashed/alsa-lib-1.0.12rc1.files does not exist.
That will happen for any programs that were not directly installed through Unleashed - if the program was added as a patch or update, for example.
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Open Office Boot Splash for Puppy

#19 Post by WhoDo »

Just playing around and thought I'd create a Puppy-specific bootsplash for Open Office ... just to add to the "complete" look-and-feel of Puppy.

Enjoy!
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OOo-splash.png
Add to /usr/local/apps/OpenOffice/program as intro.bmp
(116.53 KiB) Downloaded 1333 times
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#20 Post by Flash »

Looks really good, WhoDo. :)

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#21 Post by richard.a »

That's all we do, is it? Right click, and save as Add to /usr/local/apps/OpenOffice/program as intro.bmp ??

Sounds too simple.

I wonder if any other applications do that too...

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#22 Post by WhoDo »

richard.a wrote:That's all we do, is it? Right click, and save as Add to /usr/local/apps/OpenOffice/program as intro.bmp ??

Sounds too simple.
That's all there is to it. 8) Remember, Open Office is an open source project, not a M$ product! :P
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#23 Post by Lobster »

:)

I found the .bmp here
/opt/openoffice.org2.2/program

changing it for the intro.png meant I now have no logo
OO is not loading it . . .

. . . prefer that anyway :)
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#24 Post by jonyo »

gorgeous graphics.. :)

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#25 Post by richard.a »

Lobster wrote::)

I found the .bmp here
/opt/openoffice.org2.2/program

changing it for the intro.png meant I now have no logo
OO is not loading it . . .

. . . prefer that anyway :)
perhaps you should have called it .bmp in the filename?
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#26 Post by Lobster »

richard.a wrote:perhaps you should have called it .bmp in the filename?
yes I did that
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#27 Post by richard.a »

Lobster wrote:
richard.a wrote:perhaps you should have called it .bmp in the filename?
yes I did that
After changing the file format from png to bmp?
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#28 Post by Lobster »

:oops: eh no . . .
OK it works now (no more laffing from the fish)


as a penance I made it OO Tmxxine compatible
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#29 Post by richard.a »

I won't say anything mate hehehe :) :D
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#30 Post by richard.a »

I've started checking what apps have a splash screen that is configurable. Naturally I made a start withh OOo v2 (thanks Whodo for the idea).

Here are the OOo v2 ones I could find...
http://micro-hard.homelinux.net/OOo2_splash/

I located the only OOo 1.1 I still have in captivity...
http://micro-hard.homelinux.net/OOo1_splash/

Sun's Java Desktop System has Sun's version, Star Office...
http://micro-hard.homelinux.net/staroffice7_splash/

Note: These are all bitmaps (.bmp) to avoid any need to convert the file format :)

If anyone knows of any other apps with editable splashes, please PM me or even post it here, and I'll put them online. If there are many, it might be an idea to put them all in a splash directory on the root, for example micro-hard.homelinux.net/splash/OOo2/

Lobster I created from your gorgeous design a smaller .bmp that is the same size as the others and called it intro2


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Here is one I created for GIMP...

#31 Post by WhoDo »

... I picked up the "fine art" idea elsewhere, but this creation is all mine specifically for Puppy. Woof!

Edit: Some versions of Gimp have it at /usr/share/gimp/2.0/images.
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Patch for xorg.conf

#32 Post by ecomoney »

Hi, when I use 2.15ce, and run the xorgwizard, I cannot manually edit the etc/x11/xorg.conf file using the setup boxes. I select edit and it goes straight to the next screen. It turns out there is a missing program "mp", which is a text editor present on most puppies but not on 2.15ce which the xorgwizard uses for editing the file.

I put a post on explaining this problem which bruce b has kindly supplied a solution for. Currently editing the xorg.conf file is the only way of making a computer with two graphics cards (say an underrated onboard one with an extra more powerful pci one) work. Xorgwizard creates entries for both parts , one of which must be removed. Ive documented this fault here some time ago, anyone know if its been fixed yet?

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#33 Post by ps »

mouse pointer disappears - I have the same problem - had it with 2.17 and have it now with 3.1. Seems I started having the prob since getting a new MB with a dual core AMD cpu. What cpu's do you people have? Coudl that be the problem?

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mouse cursor diappears

#34 Post by ps »

This is what I found in the KDE.Linux list

"On Friday 26 January 2007 10:27, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Is your video card an nvidia one? If so, there's a bug in nvidia driver
> that causes exactly this problem with some nvidia cards (not all). The
> workaround is to disable hardware cursor in xorg.conf.
> Add the following line in the device section for your video card:
> Option "HWCursor" "off"

I added that line and have not had the problem since

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#35 Post by ttuuxxx »

I just had to, lol here's my 5 seconds boot splash screen for gimp, and yes It looks fake, thats why i made it lol.
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