hello
is there a way to get rid of the bar at the top
of the display. it has those icons for quick accessing.
my screen is so small, some widgets get in the way.
thank you
timremy
Boxpup 431
1. Not sure how to update BoxPup-4.1.3 conventional install on sda3 to BoxPup-4.3.1
2. Made BoxPup-4.3.1 live CD-RW, and booted that.
It found and used the pupsave file for Puppy-4.31.1 on sda11, and changed the pupsave!
I later deleted those files, now gone, and will begin anew at some future time.
3. When running that Puppy-4.3.1 using the pupsave for 4.31.1...
Used "Menu->Setup->Puppy Universal Installer" to install to sda3, and told it to UPDATE the existing BoxPup.
Tweaked the title in the GRUB menu.lst file held in the sda9 Ubuntu file system [GRUB was installed using Ubuntu].
4. It completed OK, but when I booted to BoxPup on sda3, all was NOT well.
The screen size and color depth was wrong, there was no taskbar.
Didn't hang around to see if it could be tweaked.
5. Booted Muppy-008.4c frugal with pupsave on sda10, and used Xfe to use a backup of the folder/file contents made just prior to the change, to restore the contents of sda3.
Now back working in BoxPup-4.1.3.
6. Did I get it wrong?
How to do it right?
2. Made BoxPup-4.3.1 live CD-RW, and booted that.
It found and used the pupsave file for Puppy-4.31.1 on sda11, and changed the pupsave!
I later deleted those files, now gone, and will begin anew at some future time.
3. When running that Puppy-4.3.1 using the pupsave for 4.31.1...
Used "Menu->Setup->Puppy Universal Installer" to install to sda3, and told it to UPDATE the existing BoxPup.
Tweaked the title in the GRUB menu.lst file held in the sda9 Ubuntu file system [GRUB was installed using Ubuntu].
4. It completed OK, but when I booted to BoxPup on sda3, all was NOT well.
The screen size and color depth was wrong, there was no taskbar.
Didn't hang around to see if it could be tweaked.
5. Booted Muppy-008.4c frugal with pupsave on sda10, and used Xfe to use a backup of the folder/file contents made just prior to the change, to restore the contents of sda3.
Now back working in BoxPup-4.1.3.
6. Did I get it wrong?
How to do it right?
Firefox crash
Firefox crashes when trying to view embedded video. The missing libgconf4 is only needed by the crash reporter & so is not important. What is causing the crashes ? I believe it is the xine plugin (got from an earlier puppy). Either disable the plugin in Firefox, remove it from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or try replacing it with the attached plugin (once you unzip it).
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I've remastered BoxPup for the EeePc. Check it out here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50162
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prehistoric
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xine firefox plugin, email spelling, mounting pup-save
The xine plugin suggested above works with this boxpup 4.3.1 installation on a Dell D610. (frugal installation on an internal SSD shown as sda, and multi-booted with GRUB.)
I'm now experimenting with boxpup 431 as my regular system. While I had no particular trouble moving my Mail (email) and sylpheed 2.0 directories from Puppy 4.3.1, I'm running into some trouble spell checking email.
I notice you are now using Abiword 2.8.0, which uses enchant for spell-checking. Gtkspell now uses enchant also. If I could launch gtkspell from a command line, I could use the hack I've been using to launch aspell in place of the external editor, and get a nicer user interface for spell checking without recompiling sylpheed 2.7.1.
In the interim, I've tried to use aspell with this hack, (external editor defined as "rxvt -e aspell -e -c %s") and run into trouble. Is anyone else able to do this? (Note: aspell and aspell dictionary pets must be installed.) Is there a better way to spell check email?
Finally, while moving files between different pup-save.2fs files I did not see a quick way to mount such file systems under boxpup. I've said that the one-click mounting under stock 431 is convenient for developers, but a source of confusion for newbies. (I regularly get questions about errors on shutdown from people who forgot they had mounted a file system in a file on a device, and can't unmount the device as a result. This happens with ISO images, .2fs files, etc.)
Automatically mounting with a single click may be too simple to be remembered, (people have been known to do this by accident,) but mounting with a dialogue box, like the one which pops up when you click on a drive, would be better. It would also be nice to have mounted and unmounted file icons, like drive icons, to show the status.
Overall, I'm impressed with this puplet, as I have been with NOP. I wouldn't consider moving to this for regular use if it didn't look very solid.
Regards,
prehistoric
I'm now experimenting with boxpup 431 as my regular system. While I had no particular trouble moving my Mail (email) and sylpheed 2.0 directories from Puppy 4.3.1, I'm running into some trouble spell checking email.
I notice you are now using Abiword 2.8.0, which uses enchant for spell-checking. Gtkspell now uses enchant also. If I could launch gtkspell from a command line, I could use the hack I've been using to launch aspell in place of the external editor, and get a nicer user interface for spell checking without recompiling sylpheed 2.7.1.
In the interim, I've tried to use aspell with this hack, (external editor defined as "rxvt -e aspell -e -c %s") and run into trouble. Is anyone else able to do this? (Note: aspell and aspell dictionary pets must be installed.) Is there a better way to spell check email?
Finally, while moving files between different pup-save.2fs files I did not see a quick way to mount such file systems under boxpup. I've said that the one-click mounting under stock 431 is convenient for developers, but a source of confusion for newbies. (I regularly get questions about errors on shutdown from people who forgot they had mounted a file system in a file on a device, and can't unmount the device as a result. This happens with ISO images, .2fs files, etc.)
Automatically mounting with a single click may be too simple to be remembered, (people have been known to do this by accident,) but mounting with a dialogue box, like the one which pops up when you click on a drive, would be better. It would also be nice to have mounted and unmounted file icons, like drive icons, to show the status.
Overall, I'm impressed with this puplet, as I have been with NOP. I wouldn't consider moving to this for regular use if it didn't look very solid.
Regards,
prehistoric
My exact thoughts: Fav Puplet has been upgraded.T_Hobbit wrote:My favourite puplet is back (or should I say upgraded?)... Yes!!!
How can I erase Firefox and replace it by Seamonkey 2?
I've been trying to compile the newest kernel to work with BoxPup based on 4.1.2 and have been running into problems left and right. (learning as I go). Having found that Gray has updated BoxPup... might mean I dont need to fight with my system. I will be testing this out very throughly next week... and hopefully... replacing my old boxpup version with this new one.
Gray,
One question i've had from using your older BoxPups (4.1.2, 4.1.3) and then this one... the quick launch bar you have at the top, what file is it that we edit to add or change the items there? There are a couple programs that I run all the time, that i'd like to be able to manually add, but i dont know what file I need to be editing.
ask them here !
boxpup is my fav puplet since 4.0
of course i customise look a bit
i attach lxpanel ba ckground what i use
and openbox theme wich matches gtk theme Polished blue
boxpup is my fav puplet since 4.0
of course i customise look a bit
i attach lxpanel ba ckground what i use
and openbox theme wich matches gtk theme Polished blue
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Ive run into an odd situation. I'm unable to save my session. Doing an install to a USB flash drive. When shutting down I get go through the process to make a save file. The system creates the save file... but then I get "Session not saved" Upon reboot the system reads the 2fs file and asks for a password, however it will not accept the password as valid so I can only drop out into Bash.
At first I thought maybe I was using a bad usb flash drive. So I tried another. After 2 more drives failed I thought maybe my CD was bad. So I downloaded the ISO again, hash checked it burned it, then hash checked it again. It was fine.
And then I went through my usb drives trying to install and failing.
I've not used 4.3.1 before this, is this a known issue? Or is there something else thats the problem? Any ideas?
At first I thought maybe I was using a bad usb flash drive. So I tried another. After 2 more drives failed I thought maybe my CD was bad. So I downloaded the ISO again, hash checked it burned it, then hash checked it again. It was fine.
And then I went through my usb drives trying to install and failing.
I've not used 4.3.1 before this, is this a known issue? Or is there something else thats the problem? Any ideas?
Boxpup 431 on a Dell Latitude C800 Laptop
i would like to thank gray for a very nice version of puppy linux. works very well on my desktop pc. a few bugs if you are running it on a dell latitude c800 with the ATI M4 graphics chipset , video files will be distorted/squashed during playback while running in xorg with resolutions below 1360 x 760. h31.5-90v60 LCD panel 1360x768 is the ideal setting for no distorted video playback. 800 x 600 will give you a vertical line in the middle of your screen. vesa mode will give you a desktop that does not completely fill up your LCD panel unless you run it with 1600 x 1200 resolutions. i spent a week installing/running different multimedia players until i worked around the squashed video problem.
Q5sys,
Puppy 4.31 (official and all 4.31 derivatives) is the first Puppy to give me consistent failures with USB thumbdrives; I can't get a bootable drive with Gparted, the Universal Installer, or the new USB/Flash drive loader.
Although it would seem that you have somehow succeeded where I have failed (in getting a USB drive to even boot), you might try using a different Puppy version to install-to-USB. That's how I solved my immediate problem, with fingers crossed that I never need the USB-drive version to format anything.....
Note that it is entirely possible that your difficulty is completely unrelated to my woes... I have never encrypted a save file, so have never gone through the password request you mentioned.
Please do not mis-understand; my issues are integral to all 4.31-based Puppies, not just this one. I really love Gray's work and am a great admirer of his versions.
-Roy
Puppy 4.31 (official and all 4.31 derivatives) is the first Puppy to give me consistent failures with USB thumbdrives; I can't get a bootable drive with Gparted, the Universal Installer, or the new USB/Flash drive loader.
Although it would seem that you have somehow succeeded where I have failed (in getting a USB drive to even boot), you might try using a different Puppy version to install-to-USB. That's how I solved my immediate problem, with fingers crossed that I never need the USB-drive version to format anything.....
Note that it is entirely possible that your difficulty is completely unrelated to my woes... I have never encrypted a save file, so have never gone through the password request you mentioned.
Please do not mis-understand; my issues are integral to all 4.31-based Puppies, not just this one. I really love Gray's work and am a great admirer of his versions.
-Roy
How does one enter an address in pwget to download this iso ?It has the initial address shown in the first post in the thread ie http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP which does not name the file in question. If I put this in pwget and give a download folder it shows the console with a link up process then this disappears and the download folder appears. If I add the ISO in question ie http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/puppy-431-boxpup.iso Then the same thing happens that is ,the console appears then disappears and the download folder appears. Am I missing something. I have downloaded ISO s before when the link has the whole address including the name of the ISO and had no problem.I put it down to premature senility but hope there is a better answer.
Help would be appreciated in particular a link that will work with pwget. or pmirrorget.
Regards Dennis.
PS I have sattelite broadband and it is not totally reliable which results in downloads stalling and not restarting if using the browser downloads D
Help would be appreciated in particular a link that will work with pwget. or pmirrorget.
Regards Dennis.
PS I have sattelite broadband and it is not totally reliable which results in downloads stalling and not restarting if using the browser downloads D
dalderton,
I do not know about pwget, but if you use the following commands in Puppy's desktop Console, it will work:
Should you need to interrupt your download for any reason, simply press Ctrl+C to pause it. Using your keyboard's Up Arrow will bring back the original command shown in the code window above; pressing Enter with your blinking cursor at the end of that command line will resume the file transfer. Using this command line with the '-c' in it will also cause the transfer to restart on its own if the connection is temporarily interupted.
-Roy
I do not know about pwget, but if you use the following commands in Puppy's desktop Console, it will work:
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wget -c --user=puppy --password=linux http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/puppy-431-boxpup.iso-Roy
Roy Thanks for that,it worked perfectly.I dont know why the pwget setup did not work but the CLI system is perfect. Unfortunately to some of us the Console stuff has to be spelt out.I only know enough about this stuff to know what I dont know, Also people who are working in a system that they deeply understand have trouble realising that others in another area havent a clue what they are talking about.
Anyway thanks again ,I guess that this just proves that if you want to know the answer you must ask the question.
Regards Dennis.
Anyway thanks again ,I guess that this just proves that if you want to know the answer you must ask the question.
Regards Dennis.
well I decided to take a shot in the dark and choose not to encrypt the save file and guess what... it works fine. So Im not sure why trying to encrypt it is breaking the save file.Roy wrote:Q5sys,
Puppy 4.31 (official and all 4.31 derivatives) is the first Puppy to give me consistent failures with USB thumbdrives; I can't get a bootable drive with Gparted, the Universal Installer, or the new USB/Flash drive loader.
Although it would seem that you have somehow succeeded where I have failed (in getting a USB drive to even boot), you might try using a different Puppy version to install-to-USB. That's how I solved my immediate problem, with fingers crossed that I never need the USB-drive version to format anything.....
Note that it is entirely possible that your difficulty is completely unrelated to my woes... I have never encrypted a save file, so have never gone through the password request you mentioned.
Please do not mis-understand; my issues are integral to all 4.31-based Puppies, not just this one. I really love Gray's work and am a great admirer of his versions.
-Roy
As for your issue, which method of installing are you using? Universal Installer or BootFlash?
dalderton,
You are right; the command line stuff is not what a typical Windows refugee needs to begin using Linux. Personally, I am extremely grateful for these guys who have gone out of their way to create GUI's for guys like us in the past year or two. I only know the wget commands because the GUI stuff was not available when I first started using Puppy.... BTW, you should notice that the wget commands download to your root directory, unless you open the Console from within another directory OR use 'cd /your/target/directory' before inputing the commands I previously provided.
Q5sys,
I have tried loading 4.31 onto a USB stick by formatting the stick with Gparted (FAT32 with boot flag properly set) followed by using the Universal Installer (I have always chosen mbr.bin as an option in the past -- everything else is the default values); I have also tried 4.31's BootFlash. In both instances, plugging the USB stick into my target computer gives me a message that the USB drive is not bootable.
Using the BootFlash option in Quirky 2 works without problem, as does using Gparted and the Universal Installer from earlier Puppies. Puppy 4.31 -- or a derivative thereof -- is the single common denominator in all of my failed efforts.
-Roy
You are right; the command line stuff is not what a typical Windows refugee needs to begin using Linux. Personally, I am extremely grateful for these guys who have gone out of their way to create GUI's for guys like us in the past year or two. I only know the wget commands because the GUI stuff was not available when I first started using Puppy.... BTW, you should notice that the wget commands download to your root directory, unless you open the Console from within another directory OR use 'cd /your/target/directory' before inputing the commands I previously provided.
Q5sys,
I have tried loading 4.31 onto a USB stick by formatting the stick with Gparted (FAT32 with boot flag properly set) followed by using the Universal Installer (I have always chosen mbr.bin as an option in the past -- everything else is the default values); I have also tried 4.31's BootFlash. In both instances, plugging the USB stick into my target computer gives me a message that the USB drive is not bootable.
Using the BootFlash option in Quirky 2 works without problem, as does using Gparted and the Universal Installer from earlier Puppies. Puppy 4.31 -- or a derivative thereof -- is the single common denominator in all of my failed efforts.
-Roy