yr1945 wrote:ps: i still have not figured out the correct way to apply downloaded/extracted files from tar.gz????
Rox-Filer is an extremely powerful tool, once you've mastered it. Takes longer to explain it than to do it. Pretty soon it will be second nature and you'll wonder why people put up with Windows Explorer. But meanwhile, feel free to ask for clarification if any of the below is confusing:
1. Click on the "Download" button where I offer fonts.conf.gz, above.
2. Presently, a dialog box will appear, giving you the choice of Open or Save, choose Save.
3. A dialog box appears, asking where you want to save it. In the left pane, double-left-click "root", then left-click the "Save" button in the lower right --BUT: on some monitors, not all of this dialogbox is placed onscreen, some falls off the screen. This is one problem with most of the very lightweight window managers which are supplied with "stock" Puppy. Better window managers for Puppy are fluxbox, Enlightenment e17, and, when painstakingly configured, Openbox, but you'll delve into those later.
In case of dialogbox off-screen placement, you must left-button-hold-down-drag-and-release the save dialogbox's titlebar so as to move the dialogbox up and to the left in order to see the "Save" button. Or, hold down the alt key while left-button-hold-down-dragging the window up and to the left so as to center it on the screen.
4.OK, you have now saved fonts.conf.gz to /root.
Now left-click Menu -> Filesystem -> ROX-Filer
This opens a ROX-Filer window on the subdirectory /root
5. (HINT: right-click in whitespace (between icons) in the ROX-Filer window, left-click "Options", left-click "Display" in the left pane, and use the scroll bar in "Default size" to choose Small Icons; then left-click-to-check the box "Order small icons vertically".
Now click the X at upper right to close the options dialog, again to close this Rox window, and do
Menu -> Filesystem -> ROX-Filer
again. With the new smaller icons and vertical ordering, Rox is much easier to use).
6. You will see fonts.conf.gz listed in /root. Left-click on its icon. This will call the gunzip (Gnu Unzip) program, it will ask if you want to unpack it where it is and delete the original. Answer yes and it will do exactly that.
7. Now right-click on the freshly unpacked fonts.conf, left-click Rename, and put a dot (".") in front of the "f" in "fonts" and then press Enter or click the ...mm, I forget, whatever the "OK" or "Save" or "Rename" button is called.
Now you have a file named .fonts.conf in /root. Any file with the . in front is a hidden file, and may not be visible in Rox depending on how you have Rox set up. There is an option in Options to show hidden files. If you can't see .fonts.conf, left-click the eye icon along the top of the Rox window and Rox will show hidden files.
8. When you have .fonts.conf visible in /root,
do Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X Server (exact names vary among different Puppies) to restart X, and now /root/fonts.conf will take effect.
9. Now make a copy of it as /etc/fonts/local.conf, but first back up your existing /etc/fonts/local.conf, Do this:
Left-click Menu -> Filesystem -> Rox, left-click the up arrow to navigate to the top directory /, left-click the etc subdir icon, left-click fonts, right-click local.conf, left-click Rename, and rename it local.conf--original
10. Now left-button-hold-down-and-drag-n-drop /root/fonts.conf from a /root Rox window into the /etc/fonts Rox window. Then, right-click the new /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, Rename, and rename it local.conf.
11. Now do Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X Server again, and bob's-yer-uncle.
12. To select all the files in the subdirectory shown in a Rox window, left-click in whitespace to de-select anything that is selected, then hold down the Ctrl key and tap the A key and release the ctrl key. All items in the subdirectory are now highlighted. You can left-button-hold-down-and-drag them as a unit to another Rox window, say for example a Rox window opened to
/usr/share/fonts/default/TTF, and this way copy all the .ttf files over from /root/.fonts in one fell swoop.
(note: the first letter of the filename fonts.conf and the directory name "fonts" should not be capitalized, case matters in Linux)
Rox also lets you lasso files, you'll learn that later.
Be careful when ctrl-A copying all the contents in a top directory (say, for example, /mnt/sda3), not to copy (or delete) the subdirectory "lost+found" (if it exists) as this is important to the filesystem structure and must remain where it is. To de-select an item from a Rox window in which you have selected everything using ctrl-A, hold down the ctrl key and left-click on the item you wish to deselect.
Welcome to Puppy, praise the Lord 'n' pass the ammunition,
SHS