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#16 Post by 8-bit »

I just installed you pcc.gz file to /usr/sbin, made it executable, and was able to change the environment to light backgrounds on the applications.
So I do not know why it was changed.

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MD5 for pup44-a1.iso.

#17 Post by capoverde »

Just downloaded pup44-a1.iso, but the usual MD5 check is routine here before burning; surprise, no MD5 -- a SHA1 checksum is currently offered, for which I have no hints. Could the MD5 be published along, or else a quick link to a .PET for checking SHA1 sums?

Many thanks in advance, I'll go for a burn anyway in the meantime, hoping all is OK: I'm too curious :wink: .

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#18 Post by technosaurus »

8-bit wrote:Then it adds a few lines to .jwmrc
Then it restarts JWM.
There is the problem - the template differs from the standard one.

it probably better to add a file with the appropriate jwm bits and then add an include statement at the end of the template. that way the code is removed if the pet is uninstalled (an empty include should have no effect)

add the code to a file
<JWM>
....code....
</JWM>

then code something like...
sed -i "s|</JWM>|include /path/to/myjwmbits \n </JWM>|g" etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc

I'm sure there are other packages like this, so its good to catch it early - excellent work.
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#19 Post by Jim1911 »

Frugal installation on an old Sony vaio laptop with only 64MB ram on an ext3 partition. Installs fine and everything sets up without a problem. However, when a save file is created, the save file created is always corrupt (regardless of save file size) and on the next boot kernel panic and freeze.

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Questions

#20 Post by Minnesota »

Q1) sfs and screen 4.3.5..... confusing... is this 4.4?

Q2) Used puppy manager to install sqlitedms-0.5.1-pup4, said all dependencies met. Found entry in business menu. Followed yellow box instructions click left button Squlitdms, received Failed to connect 127.0.0.1:6543.

Kind of miss some of the icons on the desktop, but like the clean and crisp control panel.

My_links folder can use some examination for Newbe.....what is it?...etc.

Looks crisp and clean.

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#21 Post by technosaurus »

Has anyone else had issues with a save file?

My links is for the sfs linker so that you can install an sfs file without having to reboot. It simply mounts the sfs as normal and makes symlinks to proper places in the main file system. There are still a couple of bugs with it though - the devx.sfs doesn't work due to an obscure symlink issue.

It is 435 because it is alpha 1... A2=436 B1=437 B2=438 RC=439 & release =440... fairly standard practice to skip a few numbers for bugfix releases (ttuuxxx is working on 432) and start a few numbers back from the next to build toward the next stable release number.

As far as the icons go, it is nice and clean for the minimalists and yet very easy to add back any icons you want using the add icons tray on the left. (which reminds me - I still need to put up a couple screenshots)
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Synaptics touch pad problem again

#22 Post by wjfs »

In Quirky 018, the synaptics touch pad on my laptop Acer Aspire 4736Z doesn't work properly. There is no respond when I click on the pad so I have to use the button bellow it. However, in Puppy 4.4alpha1 everything is fine. Is there any differences in drivers of the two versions?

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#23 Post by jpeps »

technosaurus wrote:Has anyone else had issues with a save file?
)
It might have been a freak event, but after saving the first time, it knocked out my grub bootloader, so I had to reinstall one. After that, I copied in another pupsave. The update process was very impressive, and got everything. Everything working nicely!!!

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#24 Post by FlyingRedGoat »

technosaurus wrote:Has anyone else had issues with a save file?
No hickups yet.

K
[quote="Lobster"][quote]Read this: Fear Not Root, and tell us what you think.[/quote]

I thought reading this was preferable to running around like a headless penguin
exclaiming, 'Beware the root'. :roll:
[/quote]

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Menu button

#25 Post by gjuhasz »

FlyingRedGoat wrote:When you change the number of desktops, the "menu" button ceases to respond.
To fix it, edit .jwmrc-tray and insert this:

<TrayButton icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/start-button.png">root:3</TrayButton>

In some cases, this line is there with root:0
Shall be replaced with root:3

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gview

#26 Post by arby »

I noticed the graphics viewer 'gview' is now absent.
Please reinclude this little program, it operates in ways
the present viewer does not.

I've found it very handy to have gview be the default in
my systems, and use right-click/open-with for the 'big' viewer
when needed.

It's a speedy, effecient way of viewing multiple small images.
Resizing on-the-fly with mouse wheel and being ablt to click&drag
by grabbing *inside* the picture.

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Re: gview

#27 Post by technosaurus »

arby wrote:I noticed the graphics viewer 'gview' is now absent.
Please reinclude this little program, it operates in ways
the present viewer does not.
please provide .pet and its NLS package for evaluation or a link to them
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gview

#28 Post by arby »

>please provide .pet and its NLS package for evaluation or a link to them

If I knew what those things are, I would.

I only know gview was in 4.31, now it's gone.

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#29 Post by technosaurus »

replacement script for gview which will work in nearly every distro with X

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#!/bin/sh
Xdialog --icon $1 --msgbox "" 0 0
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#30 Post by jpeps »

This version seems short of libs like libao and libsamplerate needed for apps like rdesktop. I don't know if this was intentional.

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#31 Post by technosaurus »

I only included the libs that were required for what is installed.
libsamplerate was statically compiled into mhwaveedit (the only installed program that needed it)

this is how I look for library dependencies to remove unneeded ones

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ldd /*in/* /lib/* /usr/*in/* /usr/lib/* /usr/X11R7/bin/* /usr/X11R7/lib/*  
|grep = |cut -s -d "." -f 1 |sort |uniq -c |sort |tr "\n" "," |tr "\t" " " >libs
and this is how to tell how many programs depend on each lib to determine whether to statically compile them or not (larger size with few dependent binaries)

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ldd /*in/* /lib/* /usr/*in/* /usr/lib/* /usr/X11R7/bin/* /usr/X11R7/lib/* |cut -s -d . -f 1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n >deps
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#32 Post by jpeps »

Any idea why ldd doesn't work with /usr/bin programs like gnumeric?
(compression??)

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#33 Post by technosaurus »

they are upx'd (after I verified all dependencies)
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#34 Post by kkoceski »

I can't get wireless to work on my new Dell Latitude E6500. It has a "Dell Wireless 1510 Wireless-N WLAN Mini-Card" (according to Windows XP Device Manager). This same laptop worked fine with the previous pre-alpha version that came out a couple months ago.

Still works :
1398318d72c3e1f744f68b6cd708503c *pup-431-2.iso

No Wireless:
caf22e9658134778897066f4ad570620 *pup44-a1.iso

So, I tried the new one (burned to CD) - no wireless. Went back to the old one (burned to CD), and wireless works fine. Now I tried the new one again, but with a USB stick, and wireless still fails.

The problem is that the card is never "seen". I always get something that says "no wireless networks found". In all these cases, I never "saved" anything to the hard drive.

Thanks, Kurt

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#35 Post by jpeps »

technosaurus wrote:they are upx'd (after I verified all dependencies)
Thanks...ldd works after upx -d

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