Lucid Puppy 5.1- A Full-Featured Compact Distro
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Window tittle bar difficult to read. lupu 508
Window tittle bar difficult to read. lupu 508
Whether I change to another theme, the tittle bar of a window is difficult to read. The bar is quite dark and the text black.
When the background is dark as well, the bar is even difficult to see.
I looked in the desktop menu, but don't see where I can change this.
Is there a way to change?
Or is it hard-coded in JWM?
Whether I change to another theme, the tittle bar of a window is difficult to read. The bar is quite dark and the text black.
When the background is dark as well, the bar is even difficult to see.
I looked in the desktop menu, but don't see where I can change this.
Is there a way to change?
Or is it hard-coded in JWM?
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youtube2pup video downloader lupu 508
youtube2pup video downloader lupu 508
I don't find the youtube2pup video facility anymore.
I wanted to see if it is working now.
Will it be back?
Is it abandoned?
I don't find the youtube2pup video facility anymore.
I wanted to see if it is working now.
Will it be back?
Is it abandoned?
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Luci 505 proved to be very innovative in many ways than the latter lucis.
For example, through the video/language/keyboard changer, I could change the keyboard settings without dropping to the command line. Also, my internet connection fired up automatically without any intervention. These were quite great functions but they are lost in the latter lucis. Any chance to bring them back?
Cheers.
For example, through the video/language/keyboard changer, I could change the keyboard settings without dropping to the command line. Also, my internet connection fired up automatically without any intervention. These were quite great functions but they are lost in the latter lucis. Any chance to bring them back?
Cheers.
Re: Window tittle bar difficult to read. lupu 508
BeeM, if you want to change it go to /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme and change the top part of the file to read like this:Béèm wrote:Window tittle bar difficult to read. lupu 508
Whether I change to another theme, the tittle bar of a window is difficult to read. The bar is quite dark and the text black.
When the background is dark as well, the bar is even difficult to see.
I looked in the desktop menu, but don't see where I can change this.
Is there a way to change?
Or is it hard-coded in JWM?
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<WindowStyle>
<Font>-11:Bold</Font>
<Width>3</Width>
<Height>22</Height>
<Active>
<Text>#FFFFFF</Text>
<Title>#9f9191:#392d2d</Title>
<!-- <Corner>#9f9191</Corner> -->
<Outline>#564141</Outline>
</Active>
<Inactive>
<Text>#ECE5E5</Text>
<Title>#d7cbcb:#2c1d1d</Title>
<!-- <Corner>#d7cbcb</Corner> -->
<Outline>#564141</Outline>
</Inactive>
</WindowStyle>
<TaskListStyle>
<Font>-12</Font>
<ActiveForeground>#FFFFFF</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>#9f9191:#392d2d</ActiveBackground>
<Background>#d7cbcb:#2c1d1d</Background>
</TaskListStyle>
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Re: Window tittle bar difficult to read. lupu 508
Thank you DaveS, that did the trick.DaveS wrote:BeeM, if you want to change it go to /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme and change the top part of the file to read like this:Béèm wrote:Window tittle bar difficult to read. lupu 508
Whether I change to another theme, the tittle bar of a window is difficult to read. The bar is quite dark and the text black.
When the background is dark as well, the bar is even difficult to see.
I looked in the desktop menu, but don't see where I can change this.
Is there a way to change?
Or is it hard-coded in JWM?That changes the blacks to white. I had to do the same. Re-start JWM after.Code: Select all
<WindowStyle> <Font>-11:Bold</Font> <Width>3</Width> <Height>22</Height> <Active> <Text>#FFFFFF</Text> <Title>#9f9191:#392d2d</Title> <!-- <Corner>#9f9191</Corner> --> <Outline>#564141</Outline> </Active> <Inactive> <Text>#ECE5E5</Text> <Title>#d7cbcb:#2c1d1d</Title> <!-- <Corner>#d7cbcb</Corner> --> <Outline>#564141</Outline> </Inactive> </WindowStyle> <TaskListStyle> <Font>-12</Font> <ActiveForeground>#FFFFFF</ActiveForeground> <ActiveBackground>#9f9191:#392d2d</ActiveBackground> <Background>#d7cbcb:#2c1d1d</Background> </TaskListStyle>
A pity that the puppies still lack user-friendly kind of configuration facility for such situations.
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Re: youtube2pup video downloader lupu 508
In the meantime I tried the flasgot extension for SeaMonkey and this works well.Béèm wrote:youtube2pup video downloader lupu 508
I don't find the youtube2pup video facility anymore.
I wanted to see if it is working now.
Will it be back?
Is it abandoned?
Also coolpup referenced a solution with pvideo pet.
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Béèm, Did you fail to boot to the desktop? The goal is that everyone can boot successfully to the desktop--we have solved the big problem from Lupu 5.0--which was Intel 855 graphics chipsets.When boot to the desktop fails and a user has the command prompt it is hell to type when having a National Language Keyboard.
So no change here.
Last edited by playdayz on Tue 03 Aug 2010, 16:17, edited 2 times in total.
smil99, "change the keyboard settings without dropping to the command line." The code in 505 that allowed that was too complicated and untested. To make the changes now you don't actually see the command line--you would have to restart X either way. Since it is only once, generally, that people need to do this, we went for the safest way. But it also works to change over and over, ask me You can also use the Mouse/Keyboard Wizard to change Keyboard layout once you have set it once with the Classic Configuration Experience.For example, through the video/language/keyboard changer, I could change the keyboard settings without dropping to the command line. Also, my internet connection fired up automatically without any intervention. These were quite great functions but they are lost in the latter lucis. Any chance to bring them back?
If you have ethernet your connection should have been automatic--the difference is that simple network setup doesn't run automatically. it seemed like too many things popping open at once.
Last edited by playdayz on Tue 03 Aug 2010, 14:44, edited 1 time in total.
pvideo is a wonderfully-valuable tool, thanks!
I have it working in spup 040, hope it will also work in TXZ_450 and Fatdog64-500.
I have it working in spup 040, hope it will also work in TXZ_450 and Fatdog64-500.
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Laptop battery level indicator missing
Running 508 frugal install on HP550 laptop.
Looking really good....congrats to all involved.
I'm still without a battery level indicator on both JWM and IceWM - should I expect this to appear automatically? It always did with previous Puppies?
mplayer still does not do dvb-t properly for me - just get sound plus a blank white screen - VLC though if loaded works fine.
CUPS still crashes Chromium still but now works OK with Netsurf.
SNS now seems to maintain details of my wifi connection through a reboot which is a real advance - still have a problem with losing the AccessPoint but this can be re-established with an
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxx
command.
Cheers
Peter
Looking really good....congrats to all involved.
I'm still without a battery level indicator on both JWM and IceWM - should I expect this to appear automatically? It always did with previous Puppies?
mplayer still does not do dvb-t properly for me - just get sound plus a blank white screen - VLC though if loaded works fine.
CUPS still crashes Chromium still but now works OK with Netsurf.
SNS now seems to maintain details of my wifi connection through a reboot which is a real advance - still have a problem with losing the AccessPoint but this can be re-established with an
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxx
command.
Cheers
Peter
Yes, it should appear automatically. 01micko is doing some last minute work on it that might help.I'm still without a battery level indicator on both JWM and IceWM - should I expect this to appear automatically? It always did with previous Puppies?
Are you sure about Netsurf? For me it gets to a point with drop down menus and they don't show right in Netsurf. I think there is nothing we can do about Chromium--people will want it even though it doesn't work for Cups.CUPS still crashes Chromium still but now works OK with Netsurf.
And yes, at this point it is enough that there is a way to get it done, even if not the default.mplayer still does not do dvb-t properly for me - just get sound plus a blank white screen - VLC though if loaded works fine.
CUPS - SMB - Netsurf - success
Yes - I've managed to install a SMB printer that sends a raw PS file to my Windows XP box where it gets successfully printed using the REDMON and GSView runes and magic. Used Netsurf to do the CUPS setting up bit on lupu508 AOK - drop down menus worked where needed.playdayz wrote:Are you sure about Netsurf? For me it gets to a point with drop down menus and they don't show right in Netsurf. I think there is nothing we can do about Chromium--people will want it even though it doesn't work for Cups.
Cheers
Peter
Hi playdazs and the team,
I agree there is a stunning choice of "Nathan" backgrounds which will surely please thousands of new users as well as current devotees.
I had unusual difficulty in choosing my ideal screen resolution, so it was fortunate for me that I already knew I should see a Task Bar at the bottom of my screen.
I also agree with the comment above about dark coloured text on a dark background so I hope that very few new users will be affected by this or alternatively, and preferably, the standard set up can be made universally legible.
It would be good to have existing programs updated (e.g. Osmo).
Lucid Puppy 5.1 will justifiably receive rave reviews and huge acclaim. I am now using 5.0.0 as my main OS (having today relegated Xubuntu to the back burner despite it is highly tweaked to suit my personal needs).
My regards and congratulations
I agree there is a stunning choice of "Nathan" backgrounds which will surely please thousands of new users as well as current devotees.
I had unusual difficulty in choosing my ideal screen resolution, so it was fortunate for me that I already knew I should see a Task Bar at the bottom of my screen.
I also agree with the comment above about dark coloured text on a dark background so I hope that very few new users will be affected by this or alternatively, and preferably, the standard set up can be made universally legible.
It would be good to have existing programs updated (e.g. Osmo).
Lucid Puppy 5.1 will justifiably receive rave reviews and huge acclaim. I am now using 5.0.0 as my main OS (having today relegated Xubuntu to the back burner despite it is highly tweaked to suit my personal needs).
My regards and congratulations
The Next Step Towards Lucid Puppy 5.1 - Lupu-508 Beta 3
This time I formatted my 4GB flash drive to ext3 in gparted and set the boot flag and then installed 508 using the universal installer instead of bootflash.
After booting up and doing the usual setup I rebooted and saved to sdb1 instead of a file so it used the entire drive.I installed SFS_Installer-1.0-430.pet and then used that to installed the devx.
I installed more apps from quickpet and then rebooted, rebooting took over 10 minutes because it was saving to the flash drive and if the light on the drive hadn't been flashing I would have thought the computer had locked up. I tried clicking the save icon on the desktop before rebooting the next time and it took about 10 seconds to reboot vs 10 minutes the other way.
My 4gb flash drive is down to 2.4gb free after installing quite a few things.
After booting up and doing the usual setup I rebooted and saved to sdb1 instead of a file so it used the entire drive.I installed SFS_Installer-1.0-430.pet and then used that to installed the devx.
I installed more apps from quickpet and then rebooted, rebooting took over 10 minutes because it was saving to the flash drive and if the light on the drive hadn't been flashing I would have thought the computer had locked up. I tried clicking the save icon on the desktop before rebooting the next time and it took about 10 seconds to reboot vs 10 minutes the other way.
My 4gb flash drive is down to 2.4gb free after installing quite a few things.
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No I didn't fail to boot to the desktop. In this case by a mouse click the config can be done.playdayz wrote:Béèm, Did you fail to boot to the desktop? The goal is that everyone can boot successfully to the desktop--we have solved the big problem from Lupu 5.0--which was Intel 855 graphics chipsets.When boot to the desktop fails and a user has the command prompt it is hell to type when having a National Language Keyboard.
So no change here.
Good to hear that the big problem is solved. So let's hope that nobody has the problem anymore, then all is well.
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Lucid-508 is working great on my system with one notable exception. It has problems with an ext4 partition.
I tried an installation on an USB flash drive formatted to ext4. it appeared to install using the puppy universal installer, however it failed. Reformatted it to ext3 and it worked fine.
Also, tried a frugal installation on an internal ide ext4 partition, it also appeared to work with the universal installer, but no files were copied. I repeated this installation, but this time manually copied the files using ROX to the ext4 partition. It was successful, and booted properly.
I haven't tried a full hd installation.
Cheers,
Jim
I tried an installation on an USB flash drive formatted to ext4. it appeared to install using the puppy universal installer, however it failed. Reformatted it to ext3 and it worked fine.
Also, tried a frugal installation on an internal ide ext4 partition, it also appeared to work with the universal installer, but no files were copied. I repeated this installation, but this time manually copied the files using ROX to the ext4 partition. It was successful, and booted properly.
I haven't tried a full hd installation.
Cheers,
Jim