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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3210 Location: Ontario

I have some applications for you to try out:

mtpaintsnapshot.sh 1.2 will open and save to screenshots folder
as the default when taking a screenshot
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-cf582c86.html

Screenshotbrowser will open the Screenshots folder and edit images there
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-501053b3.html

latest version of mtpaint 3.34.63
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-5b44e99f.html

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3210 Location: Ontario

I've just discovered that there is a built-in application
called 'dir2tgz'

It would be useful to have a right click entry for
folders when using Rox Filer so this app was readily available.

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don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3210 Location: Ontario

I noticed GNAC sound converter program in
Fluppy010. It requires gstreamer to be installed.
It's a nicely written and powerful program. Check it out.

http://gnac.sourceforge.net/

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tazoc

tazoc

I received a PM about VirtualBox filling up the LHPsave and I think my reply might help others:

Exit VirtualBox, copy .VirtualBox from /root to /mnt/home (uses full partition) or wherever your desired drive is mounted, remove /root/.VirtualBox, then symlink back to /root (in ROX make the link by dragging the new .VirtualBox folder back to /root and click Link (absolute).

Or copy and paste into a terminal:

Béèm · Posted: Fri 31 Dec 2010, 17:49 Post_subject:

its-me-again · Joined: 29 Apr 2010 Posts: 109

Just a few things i need clarification on. can you please update .sts to latest versions. such as pidgin. you have made a pet. for 2.7.7 good job. but are there sfs being done.

the new lhp update is great. thanks for considering adding latest.sfs versions for them. or, as i believe, in the past are they included in an update so only one sfs file is needed and updated from there.

also pidgin 2.7.7 pet is not working properly. not dislpaying things or even able to loggin.

also is it ok to use the auto update feature in apps such as firefox. i know that in windows os you can get viruses thru it. and a downloading is better.

tazoc · Posted: Sat 01 Jan 2011, 00:49 Post_subject:

its-me-again · Joined: 29 Apr 2010 Posts: 109

Béèm · Posted: Sat 01 Jan 2011, 09:17 Post_subject:

its-me-again, I prefer sfs as well, but if the pet doesn't work it's no use to make a sfs out of it.
Tazoc has requested more info, screen shots, but all you reply is: 'it doesn't work'.
That's not helpful for Tazoc to make a diagnosis on.

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1289 Location: UK

I'm back after my delayed Christmas break, during which I was away from my PC so had little time to do any Puppy work.

One thing I did do was look at the Radky's Puppy Control Panel and PupApps tools.

The control panel seemed to work fine. I need to test the flsynclient .pet and try integrating that as well.

The PupApps panel worked fine but I have a comment regarding the programs shown in the categories. All except Business are OK - although I am not sure of the need for a separate Documents Category.

I think the Business category should include:
Abiword (and/or Open Office Write if Mariner is installed)
Gnumeric (and/or Open Office Calc if Mariner is installed)
Impress (if Mariner is installed)
PDF Reader

Consideration should be given to the following (which I have copied from the Asus EEE):
E-Mail Program
File Manager
Notes
An assessories section under Business has a calculator, a PIM and screen capture. Not sure about the latter for Business but the first two are relevant.

Although this a personal taste I do find the omission of a spreadsheet app from any category is not acceptable. In business, particularly, these are used a lot. Even in home use a spreadsheet is good for a simple database.

Despite my comments, these are great little apps.

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1289 Location: UK

Sage,

I agree with your comment about a well stocked repository.

If I remember rightly, you are an advocate of the full install method, rather than the frugal install. I think your comment regarding SFS files being undesirable may be made in that light.

SFS files are more or less useless to the full install - but they are very useful to us frugalists, especially in conjunction with SFS Linker - a facility you just do not get with a full install.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 3210 Location: Ontario

note to Tazoc:

I highly recommend that you upgrade to pmusic 1.5.2
from version 1.4.2 for several reasons.

1) Stability. Previous versions would crash when I opened
a menu item.

2) Audio CD's will now play properly on my machine.
I previously had a problem with the motor racing too quickly.

3) Scripts have been rewritten to make them quicker,
making for a more enjoyable experience.
Switching window modes is now instantaneous on my IBM desktop.

4) While a song is playing in background you can continue to
add music to a playlist .

5) Changes have been made to the interface that make sense.

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radky · Joined: 02 May 2010 Posts: 447

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 1047

TazOC,
I was bored today so I compiled the latest kernel that BK has the patched source for (2.6.35.7). Everything worked well and didnt have any issues... well thats not entirely true. I apparently killed all of the wireless drivers when I did it. Not quite sure how I managed to do that... but yea, ethernet worked well still. lol

If anyone wants to play with it... Here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/441030576/kernel.tar

I'm also building the latest Intel Graphics driver, but I'm not sure how stable it'll be. I took a peek at where it is in dev with other distros... It hasnt even made it to the unstable branch... its still way out there in experimental land. lol But I'll give it a go.

Another question for you though, It's happened a few times with 5F, for some random reason a save file in Frugal will fail to load the WM. X loads, and then immediately unloads. I've check the logs and Im getting no errors. The save files load fine... and I can browse my files in /root/ and other dirs fine from the command line... I just cant get X to load and stay loaded. No matter what WM I try it just kicks me back out to the prompt the same was as if I shut down X manually.
Any ideas?
I've tried running xorgwizard and going back through that process but then the system hangs and I have to do a hard reboot. However... all I need to do is load my backup of my save file and it works fine.
I'm totally lost as to what might be causing it.