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otropogo · Last edited by otropogo on Wed 11 Nov 2009, 01:04; edited 1 time in total

Where IS the original post, and will this response remove the phantom post from the last page of the "view unanswered posts" search?

Well, sort of...

The original post is still unfindable.(Maybe legendofthor, the original poster, can shed light on this mystery...)

And the topic now appears on page #1, instead of in last place on page #230, and it shows legendofthor as the author, "0 replies" and a "last post" by otropogo.

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

otropogo

looks like a double post problem, [common] and a corrupt database, maybe?

original here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=329271#329271

traced by going to this page...>

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6449

Aitch Smile

otropogo · Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 21:31 Post subject:

legendofthor

Sorry people I have no idea why this has happened... it was not my doing as I haven't visited this post is a while.
Cheers
Martin

otropogo

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

otropogo · Posted: Tue 10 Nov 2009, 22:57 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Do you mean this background?

otropogo · Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 00:25 Post subject:

otropogo · Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 01:12 Post subject:

While playing around with the forum search engine, I've discovered that while entering "linux format" gets 132 hits, with this thread at the top of the list, the original, with exactly the same name, doesn't appear anywhere in the list. The only way to find it is by adding "legendofthor" in the author field

Strangely, this thread doesn't appear in the search by author, although "legendofthor" is in shown as the "author" here too.

It would be interesting to see whether:

a) legendofthor is still able to edit the title of this thread, and

b) whether adding a "2" to the end of it (or to the other) would allow both threads to appear in a search for "linux format"

I tried to do this myself, since the forum search engine believes that I'm the author of this thread.

But apparently, the forum editing program doesn't agree. Because when I changed the title in the first message, the thread title remained unchanged and an edit notice appeared in the post body (which doesn't happen when an author changes only the title of the thread - go figure!)

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4352 Location: merriam, kansas

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

rjbrewer beat me to it and he's exactly right. When the image is added to /usr/share/backgrounds/ it will be as simple as choosing it in the wallpaper setter.

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

otropogo

Received the following notice of a new posting in a subscribed topic, and clicked on the link, only to find that:

a) it's not a topic I've ever subscribed to (or even knew about), and

b) it has nothing to do with the thread named in the announcement

otropogo · Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:56 Post subject:

Thanks James, rj, Aitch. Have my desktop background changed now.

Are there set limits/parameters for such a background image to work in Puppy 4.3.1? If so, where can I find a description?

I noticed that when changing the backgrounds bundled with the release, the icons changed with the image.

That didn't happen when I switched to the Puppy 4.0 image, so presumably one can switch the icon group in an imported background simply by choosing to replace a different one of the original selection.