Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Sage]

'Eagerly awaited' is the polite message, but it's driving me crazy having a nearly release that is, potentially, the complete answer to so many requirements and having a bunch of machines just waiting for a more viable version. In particular, have tried a number of patches, including the zzz ones, but, although sound is now working very satisfactorily, cannot get settings to stick on FULL installations. Grateful for all those slaving away over hot PC s, but it's like Network Rail on a snowed in nation - the not knowing when rescue is coming is infuriating. Unfortunately, BK has other parallel developments underway, so my office/workroom will have to remain a junk yard repository piled high with almost completely working kit. Nothing new there, then...

[Billtoo]

Midnight Commander is a powerful file manager, it creates an entry in
the Filesystem>Filemanagers section of the puppy menu.

It is similar to Norton Commander.

slang-2.2.2-i486.pet is required for Midnight Commander to work.

Edit: I made a new mc-4.7.0.10-i486.pet and it's about half the size of the first one that was posted here.

Edit: Here's version 4.8.0 and slang is included in the pet.

[Billtoo]

Htop is a process viewer, it creates an entry in the System section of
the puppy menu.

[DaveS]

[Sage]

Great weather for cricket, though!

[Billtoo]

Cmus is a small music player that will play mp3 and ogg files plus a
few other formats.
The number keys 1-7 show various parts of cmus with 5 being the
browser to let you navigate to your music directory and 7 which brings
up a page with all the commands.

cmus-v2.3.3-i486.pet creates an entry in the Multimedia section of the puppy
menu.

edit: If you open the console and enter "man cmus" without quotes, it will bring up more information on using cmus.

Edit: Here's the latest version: v2.3.4

[Billtoo]

Nano is a text editor, the nano-2.2.6-i486.pet creates an entry in the
Document section of the puppy menu.

[Billtoo]

Geeqie is a picture viewer, does slideshows etc.
geeqie-1.0-i486.pet creates an entry in the Graphic section of the
puppy menu.

[smokey01]

Bill Geeqie seems a little large. I think I have a copy somewhere that is only about 300k.

It also doesn't run as it's missing the exiv2 lib.

This is my favourite graphics viewer.

[Billtoo]

[Billtoo]

This is the Elinks text based web browser.
elinks-0.11.7-i486.pet creates an entry in the Internet section of the
puppy menu.

Tested in Wary 0.98 and Luci 242

[Shep]

[Billtoo]

[emil]

I tested the xgamma-gui in lupq511 and found it still buggy.
(it is called from the xorgwizard panel or by "xgamma-gui" from the commandline.

Anyhow, I suggest a solution and have reworked the xgamma-gui script.

I postet it on the Lupu 511 thread
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59590&start=135

EDIT: There is a problem. The script which works in Lupu 511 will not work in wary. I tracked it down to the command bc. If you enter the commandline option -l (this is for loading a mathlibrary) then bc will do nothing. So most probably something is wrong here.

EDIT: I tested it in the spup which was posted by mick01 yesterday. There is the same inability to use bc -l. It seems that this is in Woof.

Something to reproduce:

in Lupq 511:

[emil]

I have played around with this

somehow the math library is included, because you can call bc in commandline mode: bc -l
then you can call all those sin, exponential, log functions.

but it won't work if you use it from the commandline in a pipe to echo ...

If the bc in wary(size 55K) is replaced by the version in lupq (size 70K) then it works.