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#181 Post by jemimah »

That's a funny idea. Definitely worth experimenting with. The flight voice doesn't sound much like a cow though - at least I don't think so.

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#182 Post by musher0 »

lobster said:
> But what we need is a talking cow [...]

Nah, no gadgets. At least not in the default run-of-the-mill Fluppy.
Of course, that's just my two cents, pennies, liras, centimes, and other inconsequential money. :lol:
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#183 Post by big_bass »

Hey jemimah

I like the way you set up the themes
specially the metal look 8)

its a great Idea to target netbooks

very nice to see a fresh new look

all worked well for what I tested so far

thanks
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#184 Post by gerry »

I've updated Fluppy 02 to 003, by using unetbootin to install the iso on a usb stick, then using (installed) Puppy 431 to delete vmlinuz, initrd, and the two sfs files from the hard drive and copy the new ones from the usb stick.

Reboot into Fluppy, and it all worked. My Canon printer drivers are still ok (not Gutenprint, the real thing), Firefox is still working, complete with bookmarks. Wireless connected by itself. And I'm still signed in to the forum. It's great. EXCEPT- no icons! Should there be some? All I have are the drive icons along the bottom.

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#185 Post by Lobster »

The flight voice doesn't sound much like a cow though - at least I don't think so.
I am not sure if a cow voice is available for flite - clearly an oversight . . .
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/doc/ ... html#SEC17

A talking cow/lobster is an essential tool for the terminally sane
and may help those with limited vision
(for example my imaginary psychiatrist
who has less sense than a 5 year old
- who all know cows talk)

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#186 Post by 106498 »

I've been messing around some more and as usually happens with puppies would like to make some changes for me personally. There's a lot of software in the menu that I know I will never use, which I'd like to remove, and then remaster. Do you have that file that installs the list of all the packages that are there so they can be removed? I think barry usually makes a pet called 0pkgs_db-xx or something like that.
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#187 Post by jemimah »

Unfortunately Fluppy is a manual remaster and I'm not sophisticated enough yet to keep a database.

The best way to get rid of stuff is to use Edit-SFS to delete the unwanted files. But the difficulty is knowing which files those are.

If you're trying to shink the SFS, the best thing to do is delete unused video drivers from /usr/X11/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ and /usr/X11/lib/dri.

Also running Zdrv Cutter will shrink the zdrv a lot, but it will limit your options to add hardware in the future.

If you don't care about size that much, you can simply use Pmenu to remove unwanted menu entries.

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#188 Post by dru5k1 »

Hi Jemimah
:D
In your first post, can you please tell me what the .iso size is? ..also could you make a (maybe 5-6 screenshots) slideshow of your puppy with picassaweb or flickr or somesuch?
(with picassaweb -start the slidshow and 'grab' the url quickly)

http://picasaweb.google.com/dru5k1Linux ... 4532425826

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#189 Post by jemimah »

Screenshots are roughly similar to Puppeee.

http://puppeee.com/web/screenshots/

I believe the ISO is about 160MB.

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#190 Post by James C »

jemimah wrote: I believe the ISO is about 160MB.
My copy is 160MB.......164,038 KB. :)

Been playing with Fluppy a bit since the iso appeared........I like it.Great job. :)

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#191 Post by abushcrafter »

Lobster wrote:Image
But what we need is a talking cow :shock:
- the png could even be swapped for a Puppy
Now that is the way to handle hints, tips and help . . .
http://www.doof.me.uk/xcowsay/
download source code here . . . and link to flite if possible
Yes! Good idea. I have been thinking of posting a thread about the idea of audio speech feedback using flite.
Puppy Linux Discussion Forum :: View topic - flite_hts_engine: at last, good quality Puppy speech

A example of use:
When ram space is low you hear "Warning you have **.**MB of ram free."
[url=http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/]adobe flash is rubbish![/url]
My Quote:"Humans are stupid, though some are clever but stupid." http://www.dependent.de/media/audio/mp3/System_Syn_Heres_to_You.zip http://www.systemsyn.com/

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#192 Post by musher0 »

Greetings to you all, beautiful Fluppy people! :D

I encountered a problem remastering. I guess the name of the sfs file has to be flp-003.sfs, whatever the remastering program asks you to write...

I also had this problem with Puppy Bruno. See here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 1&start=45

The solution is the same (except the name of the sfs file, in this case: flp-003.sfs).

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#193 Post by musher0 »

jemimah wrote:The ROX in Fluppy is patched to remove the annoying panel auto-hide feature that doesn't work if your panels have stuff in them and allow the corner buttons to work nicely in Flwm.
[...]
Upon second reading, a light-bulb lit over my head! 8)

So ROX would have
1) an "annoying panel auto-hide feature"
2) "that doesn't work if your panels have stuff in them"

Kindly explain...

In other words, does this mean that ROX has by default hidden panels that "unhide" when you put stuff in them? And I thought my brain was ok. :lol: Strrrrraaannggge...
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#194 Post by musher0 »

Hello again, jemimah.

Almost got stuck in flwm (hehe), until I followed your tracks back to /etc/wm, and placed "openbox-session" there. My fault, I tried to introduce good old wmx in Fluppy. And now I've put your wm chooser out of commission

So you're not using the usual Puppy .xinitrc, eh?
Second question: how do I integrate another wm than the three you suggest ?

I'm not criticizing -- you really did a fabulous job with Fluppy. :D I like it a lot.
It's just me being curious, and trying to get back to my old groove!

Many thanks in advance.
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#195 Post by musher0 »

jemimah?

Two more questions, if I may:

How would I give a separate function to each of the mouse buttons in FLWM?
At present, they all display whatever is in /.wmx

How would I reinstate desktop icons on the FLWM desktop? Change or copy PuppyPin manually?

Again, thanks in advance.
And have a great day!
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#196 Post by musher0 »

Me again...(I hear you saying: "Shucks...") :lol:

I noticed that if you change the size of the drive icons at the bottom in /usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps, they will change for the duration of the session if you restart with xwin from console, but they won't stick for the next session, at least not from booting from a CD / DVD. True or false : this is a quirky problem, not a Fluppy problem? (I think I remember that Puppy 4.0 had the same bug.)

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#197 Post by rjbrewer »

About half the times I boot Fluppy I get an X in the tray and a little
window in upper left of screen.
The only way to close it is by restarting X.
What is that thing?

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#198 Post by gerry »

Where does flwm get it's menu from? I want to add an app to the menu, but I can't find the flwm menu anywhere.
(And it didn't add itself, not being a pet or installed from the repo.)

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#199 Post by jemimah »

gerry wrote: It's great. EXCEPT- no icons! Should there be some? All I have are the drive icons along the bottom.

gerry
Just switch the icon theme using the Rox Icon Switcher on the desktop menu.

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#200 Post by jemimah »

musher0 wrote:
Upon second reading, a light-bulb lit over my head! 8)

So ROX would have
1) an "annoying panel auto-hide feature"
2) "that doesn't work if your panels have stuff in them"

Kindly explain...

In other words, does this mean that ROX has by default hidden panels that "unhide" when you put stuff in them? And I thought my brain was ok. :lol: Strrrrraaannggge...
If you uncheck "Do not cover Panel" (which only works in EWMH compliant WMs), Rox will raise the panel, if and only if you hover over a blank part of the panel. That's not the annoying part though - the annoying part is that it lowers the panel when you move the mouse away, making it impossible to drag things to the panel that has windows behind it.

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