Macpup Dingo

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smokey01 · #16 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 14 Jun 2008, 09:51

Prit1, good work on Macpup Dingo.

It looks very nice and polished, quite tidy in fact.

I did find a problem though. I quite like Hotpup in Dingo but it doesn't work in Macpup.

Regards

Smokey

prit1 · #17 Post by **prit1** » Sat 14 Jun 2008, 15:40

@cartz:
Thanks for the good feedback. I would recommend starting afresh instead of re-using an existing pup_save file. I have had some problems doing this with another version.

@HairyWill:
Thanks for the link to that thread. Very informative.

@pigshed:
Thanks for the good feedback.
Regarding wbar, you can read the below thread. It is 7 pages though.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=19742

Two things you can play around with are
- editing the /root/.wbar file to add or remove or change icons/programs
- editing the /root/.xinitrc to change the options in wbar.

You can get all options available by doing the following command in console.

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wbar --help

Hope this info helps.

@smokey01:
Am glad you liked Macpup Dingo.

When you say, Hotpup did not work, does it not show you any icons at all? I will have to check this one.

smokey01 · #18 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 14 Jun 2008, 23:55

prit1 wrote:@smokey01:

When you say, Hotpup did not work, does it not show you any icons at all? I will have to check this one.

The problem is when you try and activate Hotpup.

Please see screen shots attached.

Smokey

prit1 · #19 Post by **prit1** » Sun 15 Jun 2008, 02:52

@smokey01:

Yes I did see that error message. I have posted on the Hotpup thread requesting help. I am not sure myself. It looks like Hotpup settings script is not able to modify the .xinitrc.

Archie · #20 Post by **Archie** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 01:27

Pardon me if this may sound stupid ... but I have been trying to reach [url]http://tipsforeveryone.com/macpup/[url] for several days now and I cannot even seem to reach the URL from northeast China.

So I was wondering if there are any other mirrors for this particular type of Puppy derivative?

I'd really love to try this out.

TIA for any response.

prit1 · #21 Post by **prit1** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 03:34

@Archie:

Please try http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/Macpup/

disciple · #22 Post by **disciple** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 04:51

cartz - if you did want to try upgrading a save file, you would simply need to edit /etc/puppyversion to put in a lower number.

HW - I thought Barry's whole objective with Dingo was for it to be able to load into ram with only 128MB?

Slightly off subject, n both machines I now have several versions of lunux/puppys - all show the trash as Empty . yet looking in .local or using the graphical disk usage tool - I see lots in trash !

This belongs in a different thread, but you will need to communicate the problem a little more clearly.
What is "looking in .local"? The trash is in ~/.Trash
I can't comment on the disk usage tool - if it is Gdmap you are talking about, I could never figure out how to tell anything from it - it seemed like "visualisations" from a media player that don't have anything to do with the actual music.

If I go in to delete the files manually from trash off the drive, will they go from trash straight back into trash ? or a special command to clear it out "pooper scooper ?" A forced delete of files generally - shift+del doesn't seem to work, is there an equivalent.

If you delete files they never go to the trash in the first place - they are gone forever (unless you use some file recovery software in a hurry). To send files to the trash you need to drag them to the Trash icon on the pinboard, or "open with" the trash if you add it to the open with menu. If you haven't used the Trash, but are going to start, I suggest you upgrade to the latest version (I put it up last week or something), as the new summary feature isn't backwards compatible, and hopefully it will be present in the next Puppy.

Archie · #23 Post by **Archie** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 12:16

@prit1

Thank you for the link. Downloading Macpup and will be trying it out soon enough.

--EDIT--

Macpup is pretty, functional and fast on a Sony VAIO VGN FZ-25. Thanks for the hardwork on getting this to us. So far, no real issues to report.

HairyWill · #24 Post by **HairyWill** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 12:36

disciple wrote:HW - I thought Barry's whole objective with Dingo was for it to be able to load into ram with only 128MB?

having a look at init in 4.00 shows this

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#if there's heaps of ram, copy pup_xxx.sfs to a tmpfs...
 #v4.00 lowered rom 230000 to 220000...
 if [ $RAMSIZE -gt 220000 -a "$NORAM" != "yes" ];then #256MB system. note, only checking physical ram.

prit1 · #25 Post by **prit1** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 18:14

@smokey01:

Dougal confirmed that he has fixed that issue with Hotpup in his latest version. You can get that from this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29331

I will make sure I test and include this in the next update of Macpup.

smokey01 · #26 Post by **smokey01** » Mon 16 Jun 2008, 21:15

Thanks prit1 & Dougal.

davec51 · #27 Post by **davec51** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 00:31

I upgraded my RAM from 192 to 256 today (took out the original 64 and added a 128 -- that's all my motherboard can handle). Now Macpup completely copies the .sfs file to RAM and the CD is free.
By the way, the standard Puppy 4 didn't have this limitation. It's MacPup that somehow needs just a little more memory to operate from RAM, it seems.

quote="prit1"]@davec51:

Thank you for verifying. I did read somewhere that Dingo might use more memory when compared to its predecessors even thought its size is smaller. I cannot validate it though.

Maybe I will try running it on mine and see the memory usage. Have to wait till I get home to get on my Macpup laptop.[/quote]

prit1 · #28 Post by **prit1** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 00:39

@davec51:

Glad to hear that your system now works well with Macpup.

Macpup is 95MB and Puppy 4.00 is only 87MB. So it will require a little more memory than Puppy 4.00.

shri · #29 Post by **shri** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 06:54

Hi to all,

Macpup Dingo is a such faster os.keep it up

puppyluvr · #30 Post by **puppyluvr** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 07:27

Hey prit1

Great Pup, cool site..i`m jealous...LOL

No seriously....

Bene Belt · #31 Post by **Bene Belt** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 08:23

hi

i love the style! jepp and with the right .sfs included it rocks my machine. but i havent figured out how to add panel miniprograms. like the gmixer. it was so handy just to use mouse wheel over the little icon, which is now missing. so i tried to symlink it to the desktop with drag n drop. didnt match. so how about th e customized task bar? couldnt i use the miniprograms anymore like "kill process"? or system monitor?

so long
Bene

prit1 · #32 Post by **prit1** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 16:12

@shri: Thanks for the feedback.

@puppyluvr:
Am glad you liked it.

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You may like to know that Buddapup is the most visited url on Puppylinux.ca.

@Bene Belt:
I am glad you liked it.

If you are familiar with adding new programs to the taskbar panel in Icewm, this would be the same way. You can look at the files in /root/.icewm/ directory.

There are Icewm experts like Whodo, Ttuuxxx and others on the forum who would know exactly.

puppyluvr · #33 Post by **puppyluvr** » Wed 18 Jun 2008, 16:04

Hello

@Prit1
Really, I had no idea!! Thats great.
Any stats on Downloads??

prit1 · #34 Post by **prit1** » Wed 18 Jun 2008, 17:01

@puppyluvr:

I do see around 5000 visits to the Buddapup directory. But I dont have a way to measure unique attempts or downloads.

On Macpup, I have the links on my server and can measure it better.

luverofpeanuts · #35 Post by **luverofpeanuts** » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 17:09

I used burniso2cd to burn both a single session and multisession CD. On my Thinkpad T61p, Macpup tries to boot, but I only get the "loading Stage 2..." text and then it reboots. So I don't really even get a Grub menu. I get into a boot loop.

Just thought I'd pass this along in case anyone else has experienced this.

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mixer - customize menu - symlink to desktop