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Stripe · #391 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 03:39

Hi all

mick you did set the seamonkey helper applications to the vlc plugin in preferences? (of course you did but I had to ask)

I am not a big seamonkey fan, but it has the email app (if anybody ever uses it) and it works great with spup, I have had problems with firefox (compiled, binarys and beta versions) saving bookmarks.

I have two python pets to upload 2.7.1 & 3.1.3, have just about got wbar working properly and I also have the trimmed kernel modules if needed.

Cheers

stripe

Iguleder · #392 Post by **Iguleder** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 14:38

Hey guys, here's a Pidgin 2.7.9 SFS. I also made PETs, they're in the pet_packages-igu directory as usual

I also compiled a new Bash 4.1.9, plus Coreutils 8.9. At the moment I'm trying to build a sane spup with those two ... let's see if there's any speed improvement with the threaded coreutils

Stripe · #393 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 15:59

Hi all

have nearly finished my latest monster, a 102 mb sfs based on 055 with only flashplayer removed and the kernel trimmed along the wary small iso lines. Its still using the original jwm not that it looks like it.

I have gone a bit far with trimming the task bar (its gone) any ideas on how to get a plain taskbar with nothing on it, (just to catch the minimized windows as at the moment they are just disapearing lol)

sorted now thanks

Cheers

Stripe

stu90 · #394 Post by **stu90** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 17:16

Hi Stripe. re task bar do you mean like this?

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<JWM>


	<Tray  autohide="false" insert="right" x="0" y="-1" border="1" height="28" >


		<!-- Additional TaskList attribute: maxwidth -->
		
		<TaskList/>
			
	</Tray>
</JWM>

Stripe · #395 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 17:20

Thats brilliant stu

Thanks very much
stripe

stu90 · #396 Post by **stu90** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 17:26

forgot to say if you want to keep the minimal desktop look change autohide to "true" then taskbar autohides to a couple of pixels on the bottom edge of the screen and only appears when you move the mouse over it.

playdayz · #397 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 17:31

01micko, Spup 055 booted and ran fine--it selected the radeon driver for my HD3850, which is just right. But when I went to reboot (exit to a prompt) it exited but the screen was whacked--about 2/3rds white with lines and colors above that. It was still running because after a while it automatically rebooted. Kernel modeset and directfb are two things that come to mind. Sorry if this has already been solved. Thanks.

BTW, are you still wanting an ATI Catalyst pet--that's what I was going to do.

Stripe · #398 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 17:59

Thanks again Stu

Another bit of coding knowledge gained

Thanks playdayz I dont think that has been mentioned but I am sure 01micko will know

cheers

Stripe

Iguleder · #399 Post by **Iguleder** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 19:50

I guess spup is the easiest Puppy to customize ... see the screeny, that's WIP for Teh Gray Puppy 055

Stripe · #400 Post by **Stripe** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 20:25

Hi all

yes Iguleder it must be easy, even I can do it with the technical ability of a hamster

here's the two versions of python

Python-2.7.1-spup.pet (10.4mb)
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwWD08 ... ist&num=50

Python-3.1.3-spup.pet (18.4mb)
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwWD08 ... ist&num=50

Cheers

Stripe

01micko · #401 Post by **01micko** » Fri 14 Jan 2011, 23:54

Ah playdayz! Thanks for giving spup a spin.

Now I wonder if your trick of having "modprobe fbcon" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local would fix your issue? Of course you can't try because you can't save... maybe booting "pfix=nox", then running depmod && modprobe fbcon , then running xorgwizard might give you the ability to create a save and if so resolve an issue! It works fine on my old radeon out of the box, so it may not even be a video driver issue. The other alternative is to force "vesa" I guess. Darn, I did think that that was a nouveau only issue. Perhaps it is a modesetting issue in which case you would need an added kernel paramater to boot (and shutdown) successfully. I'll dig around to see what that paramater might be.

EDIT: I just checked lsmod and fbcon is loaded ok for me, I guess check it loaded

So that leaves the kernel or vesa.

Ok I just discovered this from TazOC's LHP thread,

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radeon.modeset=0

Here, so maybe try

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puppy pfix=ram radeon.modeset=0

HTH!

Oh yes, still needing an ATI-fglrx pet

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Stripe, your python may come in handy. I have been stuffing around with bluez, the linux bluetooth stack and while the backend appears to work fine I'm having trouble finding a suitable frontend. bluezgnome from the bluez developer works, but it is hamstrung, in that it only works one way, computer to device, no good. I can't get gnome-bluetooth to compile as it needs the latest glib which breaks a heap of other stuff, will have to wait till Slackware upgrade for that one. There are a few home-brew QT apps out there, but I'll leave them alone, kbluetooth is just plain too big which leaves blueman, dependent on python and py-gtk. It may well be the best option, though I seriously dislike python, it's slow and bloated, but if it works then why not? We'll see..

.(I might even write a gtkdialog frontend for bluetooth, will be hairy though!)

Cheers

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EDIT: I forgot to post this gtk theme I hacked out of the polished blue theme, it suits Eucalyptus and the green/earthy default look'n'feel.

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EDIT: I aslo forgot a critical fix to bash4.. I forgot to symlink it to /usr/bin which breaks ldd (..and who knows what else).

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ln -sf /bin/bash /usr/bin/bash

tubeguy · #402 Post by **tubeguy** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 01:06

stu90 wrote:Hi Stripe. re task bar do you mean like this?

Stu that wallpaper is awesome, is it posted anywhere?

playdayz · #403 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 05:20

radeon.modeset=0 did the trick. In /etc/modprobe.conf we put a file named i915.conf with the contents 'i915 modeset=1' that made the intel drivers behave. Maybe a file like that with 'radeon modeset=0' would work for all???

I appended radeon.modeset=0 to the menu.lst line that ends psubdir=spup-055.

Now I need the kernel sources. I'll look in the first message. Thanks.

Got the kernel sources. ATI Catalyst 10-12 is running on my computer in Spup. Do you happen to have Slackware makepkg? I have not been able to get in the Slackware repo for a month or more. Thanks.

James C · #404 Post by **James C** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 07:19

Just stopped by to grab the new theme.......

Nothing bad to report. Other than no Nvidia driver for this old graphics card,everything looks good. The Mesa pkg works well enough anyway.

Great job...this is a really solid release.

nooby · #405 Post by **nooby** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 07:25

I use this one in Fluppy, is it good to use it in Spup too?

i915 modeset=1

01micko · #406 Post by **01micko** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 07:36

nooby

There is no need of it because a file exists (as playdayz alluded to in lupu_520) that runs that line already in spup.

playdayz

There is also a radeon file in /etc/modprobe.conf/ with 'radeon modeset=1'.. I'll need to take a look at that to make sure resetting that value to "0" doesn't break the older radeons or else I'll have to come up with some sort of magic trick! Sorry, don't have makepkg but I intend to find it and include that, and the other slackware tools including amigo's src2pkg on the devx.

Cheers

Iguleder · #407 Post by **Iguleder** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 10:22

Customization ftw!!!

stu90 · #408 Post by **stu90** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 17:41

tubeguy wrote:
stu90 wrote:Hi Stripe. re task bar do you mean like this?

Stu that wallpaper is awesome, is it posted anywhere?

Hit Tubehuy - i just posted a few in the wallpapers thread

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 752#486752

tubeguy · #409 Post by **tubeguy** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 17:56

stu90 wrote:Hit Tubehuy - i just posted a few in the wallpapers thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 752#486752

Sweet!

Iguleder · #410 Post by **Iguleder** » Sat 15 Jan 2011, 19:05

Hey 01micko, here's my new pet-project: PetThing

Basically, it's a simple and straight-forward Quickpet-like application, built in UNIX-style: it blends my fetchpet and browser_installer packages, so basically I just wrote a "frontend" for the former.

This tool is built to be 100% generic: check /usr/local/petthing/petthingrc - this file has a list of packages in this format:

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category name:package,package,package+dependency,package

You can add more packages to one button using a "+" sign. In my case, I added my firefox_libs package to Opera, because Flash and other plugins won't work without some Mozilla libraries.

The PET has a configuration file with packages from my spup repo, so some packages won't work on spup unless you do some dirty hacks

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