Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[gray]

Magerlab, I thought Opera was starting to get bloated - especially when you consider that around 1.5Mb of mozilla libs are needed for the flashplayer plugin.

[Henry]

Thanks!

[magerlab]

interesting
i thought since they refused from qt dependencies it will be mush smaller

[Sage]

Did you get the phone call from Stockholm yet, gray?!
So rare that genius strikes so often on one continent...

[Henry]

I was (am) excited by QNop. I'm still using the Nop that evolved over the years, and it does everything I need flawlessly. It's on the same hard drive as QNop and shares the same data files. I suppose I should leave well enough alone, but it seems about time for a catchup job. Earlier today I wasn't sure, but having sorted out some things today, yes, QNop is excellent!

It's fun to work with, and is superior in a number of areas. As gray will remember it took me a lot of time and help to perfect my Nop. Here we go again with QNop. I'm a little baffled about which packages work with it. One assumes the -q ones do, and I always search for them first.

Gnome-MPlayer is elegantly designed, just right.

The easy part was getting most things working, and getting it all tricked out as I like, suppressing all those things I don't want to see (or use). Setting up keyboard shortcuts, etc.

EDIT: But I've spent a day or two trying to get Gnupg working in Thunderbird. Also, I get this in Thunderbird:
"OpenGpg Alert, Enigmail:Enigmime service not available. To permanently avoid this alert, either fix the problem or uninstall Enigmail using the OpenPgp->preferences menu" That's a new one on me - Enigmail works fine in my other system.

But I decided I'd spent enough time on this and uninstalled Enigmail. I can easily enough decrypt occasional emails in the terminal. Anyway, the accountant handles most such mails in Eudora

Thanks for listening.

[Sylvander]

The locations on the desktop, of the icons for the partitions...
Are not good.

How should I move these to preferred locations?
When I try to move an icon by drag 'n drop...
When I drop it...
It just moves back from where it came.

[Sage]

Just one little matter. I've noticed that several distros/apps don't like 'combo' CD-R&W/DVD-R drives. A man of your calibre, gray, may be able to fix this?
Otherwise, it's purring along - oh, sorry, barking along.

And, something dodgy with Firefox - gives all sorts of flicker, dropping out and other spurious behaviours regradless of Xorg/XVESA. Ignore my previous advocacy of Opera, but really that browser, (maybe also Chrome?) now seems to the next big thing since professional criminals are so actively hitting FF as well as their longer target of IE.

[Henry]

Good morning,

Here's the way I have organized the desktop. Very conventional. And why not?

http://henrystrobel.com/linux.htm

EDIT - It's all working and in use except for VirtualBox, which I just noticed gray had posted for Quirky. I'm downloading it now.

Regards to all, and thanks to gray!

Henry

[Billtoo]

I downloaded the nvidia driver from the same site as the NOP iso and installed it.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Quirky, version 120

Chip description:
07:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

Driver used by Xorg:
#card0driver

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
# glxgears
49870 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9973.878 FPS
49893 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9978.476 FPS
49975 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9994.876 FPS
49961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9992.128 FPS
50011 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10002.080 FPS
50002 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10000.369 FPS
#
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
#
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 256.35
Direct Rendering Yes
#
Current Session
Computer Name puppypc
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment XFCE 4

another great puppy to use

Edit:

I downloaded Opera 10.60 and use that.
I added the devx and compiled two small apps, weechat and moc.
Having fun, thanks

[Henry]

I downloaded the new VirtualBox .pets and installed them (in /opt/).

Oracle VM VirtualBox appears in the menu. Space decreased by about 68Mb.

But it doesn't start. I note that I already have a GuestAdditions.iso from Nop in /mnt/home/. Also a 3Gb win2k.vdi.

It's been a while since I set up that .vdi. Nearly forgot about it. It's been completely trouble free. Can it be reused?

It looks like time for a weekend break . . .

[gray]

Henry,

You jumped the gun a bit mate. Just re-uploaded the pet.

To fix your problem try the entering the depmod-FULL command in the terminal and then re-start the computer.

VB depends on SDL and OpenGL.

Have you installed an SDL pet from the quirky repo ?

For OpenGl you need either the mesa pet or if you have an NVIDIA card then my NVIDIA pet includes OpenGL.

[Sylvander]

Discovered that it's possible to drag 'n drop desktop icons to certain locations but not to others.
Seems each icon has some kind of invisible force field around it that occupies quite a big area.
Hence the icons will only go to locations that are quite widely spaced.
e.g. They are about 1.25 inches up from the taskbar and 1 inch separation from each other.
That spacing seems to me to be too wide. [I have 12 partition/drive icons right now]

[sc0ttman]

[DaveS]

[DaveS]

Latest Gnumeric, Firefox with Compactmenu and Chromifox theme, monofont url, desktop image 'borrowed' from Mint, window theme modified by myself, based on Curve. Also lates patched Abiword. NO bugs so far.