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gabe · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 85 Location: Minnesota, USA

BUGS
- JWM theme bug still exists. To reproduce: Boot live media. Menu -> Desktop -> Desktop Settings -> cfthemes GTK Theme Chooser. Choose Polished-blue. Press OK. Menu -> Desktop -> Desktop Settings -> JWM Configuration. Click "Or, apply current GTK theme to JWM." Now either "Restart JWM now" or just click "Choose a JWM theme." None will work, and the bottom bar MAY permanently disappear. Restarting JWM or Xorg does not fix the issue. VERY bad.

- Gnome Mplayer is very broken. It is incredibly slow and there is a tearing glitch where all motion results in jaggies (videos look like they are interlaced). This is the Intel GMA950 (945 mobile chipset), the most common linux laptop/netbook configuration in the world. (No, really!) VLC is fine. VLC also plays DVDs perfectly with embedded menus.

- Browser should NOT load for first-time users! Midori comes up with full URL and Google search bar at the top, but does NOT function properly (limited functionality). Gmail doesn't work, scrollbars disappear, etc. There is NO WARNING that the browser is crippled. The "warning" is only given AFTER this start-up intro (with "woof woof" sound effect) is presented (i.e. the user has to manually choose it from the menu in order for this warning to appear).

- Thunar file manager (in "official" xfce .pet in post #1) does not launch under JWM (it's in the menu!), instead throwing a "Could not open %F" error and closing.

IMPRESSIONS
- Boot is fast (after I finally got it working with a hack), default theme appears old-fashioned but usable, default "deformed cursor" when choosing from X menus is VERY ugly. The wonderful Aqua theme (with the pretty blue-coiled scroll bars etc) from 4.x is gone! Wireless was fairly easy to set up, and guided me through the process. There is no option to disable "touch to click" in the trackpad without disabling scrolling too (or I couldn't find it).

Jades · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 08:59 Post subject:

Jades · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 09:18 Post subject:

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

Re hyphen or underscore

It was Barry who moved from underscore to hyphen sometime around 4.3.1 (? maybe before that). This caused a bit of a problem with any iso busting tools that did not take account of the CD format being used. A simple file rename would solve it.

I cannot remember when but Barry moved back to underscore again recently because of the problems. Presumably this is why underscore now appears with luci_238.

Barry has been doing a lot of things to woof recently and reversing some things he did previously.

The one I particularly like - he has stopped copying the sfs to the hard drive - whether you ask for it or not. I hope 5.2 when it gets released will have picked this latest change up from woof.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Lucid Puppy 5.2 Base Luci-238 New Version NOV 20

I guess this Puppy is not supposed to be made for the very small Netbooks like 10" inches Atom CPU Acer Aspire One D250 or similar computers?

Or is it me that need to start all over.

Fluppy008 boots every time while Lucid Puppy Luci-238 boots irregularly.

unpredictablly. Can fail several times in a row but usually boot at 3rd try but sometime one need to try 5 times.

So why don't I use Fluppy or Puppeee that are made for such computers?

Because they are not Lucid Puppy 5.2 Base Luci-238 New Version NOV 20
compatible.

pdf in fluppy fails when it works in Luci.
.rm files works in luci and fails in Fluppy.

Everything look different in Fluppy.

So I either need a Luci that works in Acer D250 or a way to reuse the programs from luci that works and somehow reuse them in Fluppy.

Am I alone having this problem with booting?

Will luci work for my gear or am I stuck with Fluppy?

Then I need to make these pdf and mplayer programs get over to Fluppy. How?

Jades · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 11:23 Post subject:

Brown Mouse · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 11:42 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 12:00 Post subject:

Hi guys well I spent most of the day one this, Basically I made a static version of Dillo web browser, I also edited the sources to change the default browser page to google and change the icon theme to some Gnome/tango Icons I had, you have to manually add the icons in the actually source files, Its imbedded in the code. I also added links to common puppy stuff in the bookmarks and yes Gmail doesn't work. I can look at the main Gmail inbox but it doesn't open the files, I also enabled cookies but made a small script in the startup that deletes the cookies every time you bootup or restart X.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 12:04 Post subject:

here's the altered sources
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 12:15 Post subject:

Here's the static FLT backend if you want to recompile Dillo, not needed to run it
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 12:21 Post subject:

I'll work on the fonts tomorrow its late tonight and just wanted to get this in the wild Smile

I'll probably alter the sources tomorrow for better fonts. Then recompile and make a new pet

ttuuxxx

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1508 Location: Ontario Canada

This pet is the dosbox dos emulator, it needs the SDL_net-1.2.7.pet
installed as well to work.
It creates an entry in the Fun category of the puppy menu.

I have a directory on my hard drive named dosprog which contains all
my dos programs that I use in dosbox, to mount the dosprog directory as
drive c in dosbox I enter the command:

mount c /mnt/sda1/dosprog

Now I enter c: to switch to my c: drive in dosbox and I can run the
games etc. in my dosprog directory.

I compiled the source code and made the pets for these in luci 238.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

ttuuxxx,
We need the internal browser to run Cups which requires javascript, as well as to display Help and LupuNews from Quickpet. Thanks.