Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5245 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Congrats with the first alphas.
I have made some brief testing, and looked through some posts on the forum. It VERY active around here.

HairyWill is right. The deepthought-jwm_tray package contains files (and scripts) like Globicons which overwrites existing. It must also be somewhere in another package and should be replaced in its origin location. There are 3 reasons why I packed it all together.
1) Easier testing on running systems.
2) I don't want to behave like a maintainer of all these scripts.
3) I don't know in what package they belong.
I have only tested the Deepthought package in an already installed Puppy. It will not be the same as buildning an iso. This is not my field, but if there are specific issues that still are not solved, I can do some digging. All my experience during the work with the DeepThought desktop has been put in the MAIN post of the forum thread 'Puppy 4.2 - Desktop and artwork'.

I'll go through all the news in Pwidgets, and release a new version.

Hopefully I can put my Puppy-energy into Pburn and Pmusic. JakeTake has also pointed a fix for Pschedule. There are issues that should have been solved until the stable Puppy 4.2.

- Thank you for a black rxvt
- If the clock skin is meant to be like the one in alpha2, it's no bug, but else you have not used the xonclock that was packed together with Pwidgets. In my opinion my skin fits better the outfit of the rest of Pwidgets (and it is much smaller too).

Sigmund

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312

ttuuxxx

TWO Thumbs UP!!!!!
Thank you for the Pets... made life easy to load and test the printer.

Found it is necessary to set manually for default printer... not big, but will confuse some new folks.. all seemed right, but pressing print key in word processing, it went to to generic default printer, not newly assigned printer until I specified it as the default.

Did not try all options, printer prints test page in color, so all seems good. Cusp displays jobs active etc.. so all seems well.

Ran in first Alpha, will be happy to retest ver 3 Smile

Great work all of you guys... neat!!!!

P.S. In Yuma at the moment, seems half of Canada and Ontario here.

pps. How do you respond to a msg with old message in new one?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 01 Feb 2009, 17:33 Post subject:

Thanks Minnesota glad to see things going uphill for puppy now Smile

ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 02 Feb 2009, 01:42 Post subject:

GFTP

compiled and added the latest Gftp, the old one in the repo which wasn't that old was 231kb pet, The one I did today I managed to get it down to 152kb a savings of 79kb, not bad Smile

Thats like 3 parcellites, lol.
Plus it has a real nice default Tango theme, its no longer ugly
I noticed it had bookmarks, so I checked it out, WOW to my surprise there were tons of great direct FTP bookmarks, excellent!!!!
But hmmmm (LightBulb Goes on Idea

) I figured that hey wouldn't it be nice if puppy linux repo at ibiblio.org and puppylinux.ca were in the bookmarks, hmmmm so I added them, but they were on the bottom of the list, well that won't do!!! So I edited the bookmarks file and place Puppy Linux on Top, where it should be Wink

So now if you want to get the unleashed tree, or latest release, its just a couple of clicks away. Smile

enjoy ttuuxxx
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Pizzasgood · Posted: Mon 02 Feb 2009, 02:20 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Mon 02 Feb 2009, 02:47 Post subject:

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2943 Location: Sydney Australia

WhoDo :

I have only used Puppy 4.2 Alpha 1 so far.

Mostly pretty smooth etc.

But I hate that top bar...menu whatever.

One thing I would really like is that m4a play
straight away. That's Apple format ...right.
Because it's a real pain to play those files.

Ironic that many Windows use Apple.
I made it work with Gxine....but chasing that
icon to drop in is stoneage.

No offence. Great things hoped for and achieved here.

Chris.

Going to PM you.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 02 Feb 2009, 08:28 Post subject:

As The Top Bar Goes, I never used it, It doesn't bother me at all, But I have no need for it, some might, I guess I'm neutral. Doesn't bug me if it stays or goes, or finds its way into a quick launch on IceWM & JWM. Or Like how we had at one time, enable, disable Conky in the menu, could do the same for the menu bar, have it disabled by default and click in the menu and it turns on and stays enabled on next reboot, until its shut off again. That would be easy to do in IceWM with the start up script, just have 2 of them. Or even a pet package with it in it, say placed in root and people could just install the pet.. Or we could could put it on the 3rd tab of the shutdown menu, LOL kind of reminds me of the clash song 'Should I stay?, Or Should I go?'
ttuuxxx

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5245 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Optional Ptray

I guess if someone could add the option in the 'JWM confuguration' gui it would be very simple. /root/.jwmrc calls the original .jwmrc-tray file before it calls Ptray (.jwmrc-tray-top). If the last line is removed from /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc, Ptray is gone after a fixmenus.

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312

Pizzasgood

Caneri · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1565 Location: Canada

Whodo's alpha3 is ready here
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/puppy-4.2alpha3-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso
http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/puppy-4.2alpha3-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.md5.txt

md5sum is correct.

Eric

Minnesota · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312

Seems to be broken items in ALPHA 3.
This version not seeing wireless network on an IBM laptop.
Pet for gutenprint did not give message of completion
Pet for cups seems to load, menu item exists but gives 404 error
Icons for all devices on the desktop
Tried to add weather to widgets never showed, even after x-restart
Sad