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Posted: **Wed 19 Jan 2011, 19:11**

Thanks Techno,
Running pmount from the terminal or from the menu will show the message :Puppy Drive Mounter Please wait probing hardware, thats all nothing more.
I change the w\p from Menu>Desktop> w\p setter.
Thank you again.

Posted: **Sat 22 Jan 2011, 18:37**

May I suggest dmenu as a tiny super fast app launcher? It would make an excellent compliment on this pupplet. Auto run it on startup with -i for convenience for noobs and veterans alike. I really hate case difference handling in linux '_'

Also why did you set double click??? It's slowing it down, plus it adds strain to your finger! It should have never existed on the first place, damn MS...

Posted: **Sat 22 Jan 2011, 21:18**

Just speculation because I am in Wary at the moment....

bignono1 wrote:I change the w\p from Menu>Desktop> w\p setter.
Thank you again.

I think it uses ROX-Filer's background => needs to be modified/replaced with something that changes the jwm background instead. Here is the reference:
http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/config.shtml#desktops
Pup'ngo has a cli program that does this

Running pmount from the terminal or from the menu will show the message :Puppy Drive Mounter Please wait probing hardware, thats all nothing more.

not sure if this could be due to missing the image manipulation binaries - more recent versions of pmount use my shell code to generate the bar images using only the shell (no external binaries required) ... it may just need an upgrade

Posted: **Sat 22 Jan 2011, 21:20**

acrocosm wrote:Also why did you set double click??? It's slowing it down, plus it adds strain to your finger! It should have never existed on the first place, damn MS...

Maybe single click only was already patented by Apple(originator of the mouse)? Damn Apple

acrocosm wrote:May I suggest dmenu as a tiny super fast app launcher? It would make an excellent compliment on this pupplet.

Here is a simple script that does a launcher

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#!/bin/ash
for x in `ls /usr/share/applications/*.desktop`; do I=$I"<item>""`grep "^Exec=" $x |cut -d = -f 2`""</item>"; done
export D="<vbox><entry editable="true"><variable>E</variable></entry>
<combobox><variable>C</variable>"$I"</combobox><button ok></button></vbox>"
eval `gtkdialog3 --program=D` && [ "$E" == "" ] && $C || $E

Posted: **Sun 23 Jan 2011, 12:27**

technosaurus wrote:Here is a simple script that does a launcher

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#!/bin/ash
for x in `ls /usr/share/applications/*.desktop`; do I=$I"<item>""`grep "^Exec=" $x |cut -d = -f 2`""</item>"; done
export D="<vbox><entry editable="true"><variable>E</variable></entry>
<combobox><variable>C</variable>"$I"</combobox><button ok></button></vbox>"
eval `gtkdialog3 --program=D` && [ "$E" == "" ] && $C || $E

ah some interesting stuff you can do. Can you add auto-complete to that, with case indifference and even better, picking adjacent letters from the whole word as long as the order is correct? dmenu doesn't have that last bit but it would be a nice touch. And finally it's important that you don't have to take hands off keyboard looking for the mouse to click or/run

I'll keep dmenu for now but thanx for showing me the possibilities ^_^

Posted: **Wed 16 Mar 2011, 19:10**

I found the same problem that eeevans616: "It seems mtpaint is hotkeyed to the up arrow on my keyboard . . ," and perhaps nancy reagan's problem. Really is a handicap working in the terminal. Tap the up arrow for a previous command and mtpaint takes a screenshot. Same thing on the bare desktop.

I found this line in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal <Key keycode="111">exec:mtpaint -s</Key> and deleted it. The change did not take effect with "fixmenus," but it did with a reboot.

Up arrow is now free of mtpaint.

BTW running Turbopup Extreme v1 on a Gateway Solo 2150 451 MHz, 64MB Ram. Turbopup Ex. moves well on this computer. Still trying to get the sound working, but that has been a work in progress through other Puppy versions.

Posted: **Mon 13 Jun 2011, 03:08**

Is there a way to change from double click to single click - for the GUI - in Turbopup?

Posted: **Mon 13 Jun 2011, 13:43**

nickec .... I think what you are looking for is a Rox function. I change a double left click to open function..... to a single left click function this way:

Right click on desktop to open main menu
Open Filesystem .... ROX-Filer
RIGHT click on any icon in home-file window that opened.
Move pointer down to "Options" and click to open "options" section
The second menu item should be "Filer Windows" ... open that.
Under "window behavior" click on "Single-click navigation" to check-mark item.
Then move down to and open the "Pinboard" section ... under the "Pinboard behavior" section click on "Single-click to open" to check-mark item.
(This section may not be active in Turbopup as desktop icons are not displayed but most other Puppies use this for desktop function).

Then click on "OK" to save changes and close window.

Hope this works for you .... KJ

Posted: **Thu 16 Jun 2011, 01:01**

Trying to get my nephew's dinosaur going for few more weeks. It is an old Pentium 1 (maybe) with 386meg of memory. Is Turbo the puplet to install? Lupu 520 works but is quite slow.

All they need is email for banking etc. calibre and transmission for books and movies. I did a frugal install on my own box to see if I could get calibre running but python and Qt are giving me fits as usual.

Direction or links to appropriate packages would be appreciated. Suggestions to a different pup for Frankenstein (cobbled out of 3 dead) greatfully accepted

Thanks

Posted: **Thu 16 Jun 2011, 20:42**

ehmmm.. I wrote a similar topic on Puparcade forum, but it also applies to Turbopup, since Puparcade is based on Turbopup:
I have several geforce4 agp video cards and have no nvidia-96.43-k2.6.25.16.pet driver.
The sites having it don't exist anymore.
Has someone the nvidia-96.43-k2.6.25.16.pet somewhere?
Many thanks to whoever can post a link to it!!

Posted: **Fri 17 Jun 2011, 00:41**

Thank you very much KJ. I appreciate your kind help.

Posted: **Fri 17 Jun 2011, 01:07**

tommy

http://www.mediafire.com/?v2rinm1afyv

I believe Gray compiled the original Nvidia drivers, so if it doesn't work PM him, as he may be able to help

also later drivers here [may be backward compatible]

http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/

Aitch

Posted: **Fri 17 Jun 2011, 14:59**

Aitch, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I've done a lot of google and filewatcher searches for that .pet with no luck, but you had the working link!! I will try this .pet to see if it works with all the different geforce4 cards I have. I learned that make nvidia video cards work with linux drivers is a PITA but I will try if at least one does work.

I know http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/ has nvidia drivers but they're too new and nvidia says they don't work with geforce4.

Someone should consider upload this .pet to puppy 4.20 repos (to extend old PCs life)

.

Thank you again.

Posted: **Sat 18 Jun 2011, 14:37**

Fishy wrote:Trying to get my nephew's dinosaur going for few more weeks. It is an old Pentium 1 (maybe) with 386meg of memory. Is Turbo the puplet to install? Lupu 520 works but is quite slow.

Try Turbo Extreme and see how it goes. If it boots and speed is okay, then try Wary 5.1.2 which is intended for older gear. (Though I don't know about Pentium I's.) There is also the updated 2.14 series here you could try: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553

All they need is email for banking etc. calibre and transmission for books and movies.

Although you may think any old puppy should do, you may find a site needs an up to date browser addon, etc. Besides, how will they connect to the net? The older puppies may not accommodate wireless internet.

I'm surprised you have 386 MB of ram. That's plenty. But what speed is the CPU?

Posted: **Sat 18 Jun 2011, 16:50**

Thanks to Aitch now my Toshiba laptop and its Geforce4 are working with direct rendering and 3D acceleration!
I installed the nvidia drivers posted above, restarted Xorg but I had a blank screen of death.
I had to hit ctrl-alt-bkspace, modify xorg.conf in this way:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go]"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0" # added this to get rid of blank screen
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/EDID" # added this to get rid of blank screen

With the two options added I was able to start Xorg with no problems and with 3D acceleration OK!
I don't know what generates the EDID file, but without that option the screen goes blank.
Many thanks for the help!

Posted: **Mon 05 Sep 2011, 11:00**

Turbopup Xtreme screenshots replaced with images of sleeping kitties?

LOL

[EDIT] It's the year 2011 and Turbopup is still alive and kicking (the thread has reached almost 200 000 views !)

Posted: **Mon 31 Oct 2011, 18:34**

I'm just beginning a trial of Turbopup--it does appear to be very lean and mean! I can't believe it is using 16mb at idle!!!!

I'm currently using a multisession DVD for fear that Turbopup will grab the existing Lucid Puppy 5.28 frugal files and goof them up (as Wary did when I tested it recently).
Of course, I backed them up...but...
If I use Turbopup in frugal mode, will it create it's own pup-save file?

I know I guess I could just try it, but to be blunt, I am a novice with Puppy and don't want to screw anything up.

Posted: **Mon 31 Oct 2011, 18:58**

Luxeon wrote:I'm just beginning a trial of Turbopup--it does appear to be very lean and mean! I can't believe it is using 16mb at idle!!!!

I'm currently using a multisession DVD for fear that Turbopup will grab the existing Lucid Puppy 5.28 frugal files and goof them up (as Wary did when I tested it recently).
Of course, I backed them up...but...
If I use Turbopup in frugal mode, will it create it's own pup-save file?

I know I guess I could just try it, but to be blunt, I am a novice with Puppy and don't want to screw anything up.

Hi,

Yes it will create its own pup_save file, but unlike some other Pups it boots up without giving you a delay to enable you to choose a savefile and (depending on what other pup_save files you've got around), "accidents" can happen where it loads, or tries to load, the wrong savefile. I've found in the past that it's best to use it without any other savefiles around, at least not ones Puppy would recognise (i.e. ones with extension .2fs or .3fs). It's easy enough to change the extension of any others on the drive to something like .bak or .ffs..

Posted: **Wed 02 Nov 2011, 19:53**

Hey... trying to get TurboPup running on a Latitude CPi

More info on the system is here --> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 099#579099

A few issues so far...

(1) Boot screen does not permit me to enter extra parameters. Dunno if that's by design or by my hardware being crotchety. What I can say is, the one time I pressed F2 fast enough, I entered "puppy pfix=noram" and it shut down on me.

(2) Graphics card on this system is really special, it's a NeoMagic 2160 (never heard of 'em myself)... gotta have drivers for it, cuz if I go with Xorg, it can't tell what size screen I have and eventually just blanks the LCD, but if I go Xvesa, it's greener than a seasick alcoholic dragon

Any advice?

Posted: **Thu 03 Nov 2011, 03:57**

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