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#241 Post by DaveS »

Cant find a gui config for wbar, is there one or is it manual config only?
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#242 Post by DaveS »

My feeling is we should move to '5' immediately as I fear '4' is possessed :)

Two items:
Typing issues
Abiword Load issues

Both solved themselves while I was asleep last night!

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#243 Post by dejan555 »

/root/.wbar for setting icons. for changing position/other options look in /root/.xinitrc for wbar line, it may be implemented in theme changer scripts too, is it gposil?
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#244 Post by gposil »

There is a script in /root/Startup that starts and configures position etc...there is also some script in the wallpaper setter that refreshes the bar's background as well.
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#245 Post by dejan555 »

Does wallpaper take script from Startup folder so it runs it how you configure it or has fixed command? Also I noticed after changing background when wbar refreshes "Home" icon opens /usr/share backgrounds folder. Maybe start with command rox ~/ ?
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#246 Post by gposil »

Yes, wallpaper setter takes script from Startup, and the not starting at home problem is fixed in beta5...I just forgot about that before I released beta4.... :oops:

If anyone's thinking of making a config GUI that would be great, the ones that are already available, have ridiculous dependencies...GTKdialog would be perfect...I just haven't had time....
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wbar gui - wbarconf

#247 Post by smil99 »

Hi Gposil,
I have been using wbarconf for some time now on many versions (puplets) of puppy, the latest being Karmic-pup. Actually, it was packaged for me by CatDude (forum name). It depends on python and it weighs about 1.5 Mb. May be that is quite big for a gui but I really care less about sacrificing just this size (space) for easy configuration of wbar. I can post it here directly but I would prefer you contact CatDude (through pm?) if you are interested.

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#248 Post by chris »

@gposil - thanks for looking at my xorg problem.

I've looked a little further and found a problem with a missing file. Here's what I did.

1. Booted to xorg/xvesa menu
2. Choose xorg and default res -> blank screen
3. ALT-F1 to console and start xorgwizard
4. choose XVesa -> blank screen and no activity after waiting for 1 minute
5. ALT-F1 to console

Console has a file not found message for command "cat /etc/videomode"

I guess this is not even letting me fall back to vesa.

FYI - despite the relative newness of my system it has a strange problem in that Xorg cannot get Videomode data (EDID) from my Viewsonic monitor. I spent many hours with numerous linuxes trying to track this down. Finally found out that I could export the EDID data from the monitor to a file and load that up as a custom display line in xorg.conf. Haven't figured out how to do that exactly from the console but official puppy at least falls back to Xvesa so its not a problem. However it seems that dpup is not falling back to vesa so I'm stuck. Hopefully the absence of the videomode executable is the only thing preventing me from running X with dpup.

If there's a fix I can try with the current beta or downloading a future beta, let me know and I try it out.

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#249 Post by 01micko »

Hmmm,

I had trouble resizing a pup_save,,, looking at the script "pupsaveresize" should be in "/initrd/mnt/dev_save"... it IS in "/initrd/mnt/home".. what is going wrong???

Also, I'm not able to paste text into "console", a little annoying, especially when it looks so nice!

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#250 Post by dejan555 »

I'm not able to paste text into "console"
Middle click doesn't work?
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#251 Post by 01micko »

dejan555 wrote:
I'm not able to paste text into "console"
Middle click doesn't work?
With pasting to console? Not for me.. but the "pupsaveresize" is now... a little strange. :?

Pasting to urxvt is ok.

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#252 Post by gposil »

Mick,

The centre mouse button works here, just highlight what you wan't to copy and click centre mouse button on console window and it works...mmmm strange if that's not working
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#253 Post by vtpup »

Just to try to clear up some occasional tiny confusions that can make things look other than they are---- if these don't apply for you here, please forgive me:

1.) When going to Xvesa from xorgwizard, nothing will happen after clicking XVESA UNLESS you also type "xwin" and enter. This is different functionality than choosing XORG, which will immediately try to start X. That one has bitten me several times, you'd think I would remember it after enough times of confusing a blinking prompt at the bottom of the screen with a failure to start X.

2.) When copying text into the terminal with the middle mouse button, you must have JUST selected text prior to the paste. Doing anything else often loses the contents of the clipboard. You must have it positioned just right in the terminal screen. It is better NOT to click "Copy" in "Edit" or a mouse right click dropdown before trying to paste with the middle mouse button. Just select the text you want, that's all. Then push the middle mouse button when you're exactly over where you want to paste it.

Again, sorry if I'm re-stating things you already find obvious -- just saying it in case someone has made the same mistakes I have.

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Resizing dpupsave-???.2fs

#254 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

Hello! :)

I just tested resizing the save-file, and it worked for me.

just an FYI-FWIW :)/
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#255 Post by dejan555 »

vtpup wrote: 2.) When copying text into the terminal with the middle mouse button, you must have JUST selected text prior to the paste. Doing anything else often loses the contents of the clipboard. You must have it positioned just right in the terminal screen. It is better NOT to click "Copy" in "Edit" or a mouse right click dropdown before trying to paste with the middle mouse button. Just select the text you want, that's all. Then push the middle mouse button when you're exactly over where you want to paste it.
Yes, this is how it should behave, higlight text and while it's still highlighted middleclick to paste. This works for most applications, I think it's X feature.

It's not to be confused with regular clipboard that works with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V those are two separate clipboards AFAIK.
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#256 Post by dejan555 »

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#257 Post by MinHundHettePerro »

Hello! :)

I am a man of many partitions, running in screen-res 800x600, so I always have the drive-icons stacked to the right hand-side of my screen. I know shinobar's code was incorporated into /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d of 4.3, which is also inherited into dpup-482. And it does take care of some oddities of the placing of drive-icons BUT, does not tend for us needing more than one row for the drive-icons.

Anyway, from 412 and onwards, I just use my modified /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d, which resolves the issue for me.

Just in case anyone uses the same unfortunate combination of many partitions and low screen res, here's what I do:
add to /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d
SCRNXY="`xwininfo -root | grep -o '\-geometry .*' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d '+'`"
SCRN_X="`echo -n "$SCRNXY" | cut -f 1 -d 'x'`"
SCRN_Y="`echo -n "$SCRNXY" | cut -f 2 -d 'x'`"
th=`grep '<Tray ' /root/.jwmrc-tray|grep -o 'height="[0-9]*'|cut -f 2 -d '"'` # MHHP
max_Y=`expr $SCRN_Y / 32 \* 32 - 32` # MHHP
[ `expr $SCRN_Y - $max_Y` -lt `expr $th + 26` ] && max_Y=`expr $max_Y - 32` # MHHP
and replace the free_coord() function of that same file with

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free_coord() {
 #find a free place on desktop. v410 avoid exact overlapping icons...
 COORDSGRID="`grep -o ' x="[0-9]*" y="[0-9]*" ' /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin | sed 's/[0-9]"/"/g'`"
 #COORD_Y=`expr $SCRN_Y - 64` # MHHP
 COORD_Y=$max_Y # MHHP
 MIN_Y=32
 COORD_X=32
 MAX_X=`expr $SCRN_X - 54` # MHHP
 xPATTERN=" x=\"${COORD_X}\" y=\"${COORD_Y}\" "
 while [ 1 ];do
  xgPATTERN="`echo -n "$xPATTERN" |  sed 's/[0-9]"/"/g'`"
  [ "`echo "$COORDSGRID" | grep "$xgPATTERN"`" = "" ] && break
  COORD_X=`expr $COORD_X + 64`
  if [ $COORD_X -gt $MAX_X ];then # MHHP
  COORD_Y=`expr $COORD_Y - 64`;COORD_X=32 # MHHP
  fi # MHHP
  xPATTERN=" x=\"${COORD_X}\" y=\"${COORD_Y}\" "
  [ $COORD_Y -le $MIN_Y ] && break # MHHP
 done
}
change JWM taskbar height to 26 in /root/.jwmrc-tray.

To try it out, first delete all lines with /root/.pup_event/drive_xxx in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin, delete /root/.pup_event, then restart X-server.

I have only tested with (narrow) screen-res's, like 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, though.

FWIW :)/
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#258 Post by gposil »

Much appreciated MHHP, I will incorporate in beta5... :)

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#259 Post by dejan555 »

And I thought I have many partitions o.O
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#260 Post by shankargopal »

A new problem that seems to be coming up: The startup script /etc/rc.d/rc.local doesn't seem to retain any changes for me. But this is in beta 3, maybe you've already fixed it, gposil...

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