(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

shankargopal,

Yes it has been fixed, just change its permissions to executable...

I will clarify my 'console' problem. I can copy and paste within console. I can not copy text from geany or anywhere else and paste into 'console'. I can with Urxvt, so it's not a clipboard prob.

The pupsaveresize only failed the first time, might be my fault.

Cheers

On pasting into "console"

I can paste into "console", unless what I'm trying to paste is copied from geany (it's ok if copied from e.g leafpad or rox).

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MHHP

Ctrl + middle click works in mrxvt There's also context menu on ctrl+right click but doesn't seem to work.

And now suddenly doesn't xD Very weird behaviour. Found some tips to add shortcuts to ~/.mrxvtrc but didn't work either.

If you remove the tick marks in the Desktop Drive Icons manager and restart X, pmount will not work. It opens normally, but when you try to mount a partition, it closes without mounting the partition.

If you leave icons on the desktop, (tick marks present), pmount works properly.

Really enjoying the speed, stability, and the new Control Panel.

The remaster application script in the control panel needs to be updated to include an option to remaster from a directory as well as a CD.

Great job

Jim1911 wrote:If you remove the tick marks in the Desktop Drive Icons manager and restart X, pmount will not work. It opens normally, but when you try to mount a partition, it closes without mounting the partition.

If you leave icons on the desktop, (tick marks present), pmount works properly.

Seems like it has more to do with the restarting of X. Without touching the tick-boxes in pmount preferences, before any restart of X, pmount works from wbar, menu and CLI, and /tmp/pmounterr is empty.
After restarting X, pmount runs from CLI, with an empty /tmp/pmounterr while, if run from menu or wbar, just exits due to the content of /tmp/pmounterr: Rebooting gets things back to how they were before the restarting of X.

Not a solution but, maybe a useful piece of the puzzle for someone ...

Fwiw /
MHHP

MinHundHettePerro's observations above seem to be correct since after a reboot, pmount works on my system also.

Jim

EDIT: nevermind... i thought i had something figured out. i'll come back to it.

Well here's some stuff

On 11/27/08, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:56:38 -0800
> "Dean Linkous" <dean at nrvwebsolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone using geany or scite along with mrxvt or aterm? Highlight
>> something in geany/scite and then middle-click in mrxvt/aterm to
>> paste. Doesn't seem to work. Works fine if roxterm/xterm is used with
>> geany/scite. Works fine if medit/leafpad is used with mrxvt/aterm. I
>> can even copy/paste from mrxvt/aterm into scite/geany - just not vice
>> versa.
>
> It seems to be a Scintilla (editing component) issue, see:
>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=787791 <-- See comments at this link.
>
> Not sure why it happens.

IIRC, it is related to having Unicode characters.

upgraded to Beta4, so same thing here re. middle button geany/terminal.

uhhhh, how do I remove wbar.....

Is wbar causing problems...

If you wan't to stop it, just remove or move /root/Startup/wstart to somewhere else, and comment out the following lines in /usr/local/apps/Wallpaper/set_bg...like so

#killall wbar &&
#/root/Startup/wstart
#cd /

Regards the geany/mrxvt problem...I have tracked down that it is a scintilla problem, which is the sourceview highlighting component of Geany...it is apparently being worked on as we speak...Until they fix Geany, you could use dpup's Parcellite...works fine with everything. I don't really wan't to ditch mrxvt just because of this Geany problem...do you...

gposil wrote:Is wbar causing problems...

Thanks gposil. Not big problems -- overlaying some desktop icons that I can't get to anymore. And not actually displaying icons I use frequently, so requiring work to set up. But I could probably solve those if I wanted to.

No, just a matter of personal preference. I just don't like it. No biggie. To each his/her own!

Jim1911 wrote:If you remove the tick marks in the Desktop Drive Icons manager and restart X, pmount will not work. It opens normally, but when you try to mount a partition, it closes without mounting the partition.

If you leave icons on the desktop, (tick marks present), pmount works properly.

I have fixed this problem in beta5..I think, at least it doesn't do it for me anymore....add the following to /etc/profile

LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL

Hope that fixes that...

I am not sure if the geany/mrxvt issue is strictly with debian or not but copy and paste between the 2 works in ttuuxxx's 2.14x16. maybe he has the solution.

Well guys, i've just finished compiling Abiword 2.8 in beta5, and I have got to say, I think they've got it right. It's smaller, faster and have not had a single GTK error all afternoon. I haven't compiled all the plugins yet, but over the standard formats and spell-check built-in, I think the only plug-in people will want is docx. Word, Open-Office, new and old format RTF are built-in now so no need for those plug-ins....

I'll upload it in an hour or so...try it and I think you'll agree it's a vast improvement. I'll put it in the upgrades section in beta4 download area.

http://dpup.org/test/dpup482beta4-2.6.30.5/upgrades/

Cheers
Guy

BTW: We'll be the first distro with it....

Hi Guy

Sounds good

Can you post ./configure options so I can learn where I went wrong? (PM if you like)

Cheers

Hi boys,

I have this kernel panic error at boot using VMWare and dpup-482 beta3.

I can boot with RAM only parameter and create my pupsave file at shutdown. I also can access to dpup, choose the created pupsave file and work but after a new boot I get this error:

Any idea?

Greetings,
clarf

re.Abiword 2.8

This is what I get on opening an .odt file (Open Office 3.0).

Also a similar jumble when I open a .doc file generated by Open Office 3.

Here's a test of Abiword vs Microsoft Word 2000.

The document was created in Abiword and opened in Word.

The line made of underline characters in Abi breaks and wraps when viewed in Word.

Table column widths are not consistent in Abi after a save and re-open -they were originally all the same width. Word does show them as the same width.

Typestyles are not preserved -- even for the simplest translation of serif to serif font -- as web browsers do when unable to locate an exact font match.

I do technical writing and occasional resumes for people. This kind of thing will wreak havoc with document formatting when carried through several pages of carefully prepared documentation.

Unfortunately such documents are all handled electronically now, so the sender is unaware of the impression he/she has created in the recipient. The recipient is unaware that the document was prepared on a non-MS word program. They just assume it's a mess. People lose job opportunities over this kind of thing. And they don't even know why.

Unfortunately all non-Microsoft generated .doc programs have these problems -- Open Office, too. They simply cannot be used for the purpose of sending .doc files in any professional or publications setting -- even though .doc compatibility is a major drawing point for the software.

I had hoped Abiword would have solve this in the latest version. I hope the same for every OO version as well. But even basic text formatting has never been really compatible.

I think that with things the way they are, a copy of the latest version of Wine is of great value to any serious word processing professional, much as I wish that wasn't true, so compatible documents can be generated for publishing.

I put Wine on my puplet MediaPup, and I wonder if any official Puppy will ever carry it as well?

This is the only area where I think Linux cannot replace MS. Unless OO or someone else really makes the effort.