Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes

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pemasu · #571 Post by **pemasu** » Mon 06 Jun 2011, 19:21

Of course there is a way. It is Radky`s application. Ask it in the Pupshutdown thread in the Software section or PM him with puppy forum pm post.

pemasu · #572 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 05:22

Musescore-1.0 compiled with my newer Qt4 libs. Some new included qt4 dev libs were needed.
This one was really difficult to get /usr prefix changed from /usr/local. No documentation howto change it and normal ways lead to errors.
But this one was important test to see if my qt4 libs are about ok.
I have uploaded the Musescore.
My newer qt4 libs are not yet uploaded. I will test clementine next because it is as difficult thing to get compiled also.
I have now documented some of my compiles so I can post needed steps in the future to the upcoming compiling section.
Why I am doing this. Well...I have vision to do Polarpup with included Qt4 libs and devel libs in the devx.sfs.

CoronelN · #573 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 08:15

Pemasu

018 did the trick it is running nicely i am gonna test battery life against fluppy but so far i am impressed.

a little thing thou: many screens / windows open bigger (as higher) than the netbook screen leaving the ok cancel buttons out of reach.

the resolutoin of the AOD260 is 1024 * 600 is there anyway to solve this?

pemasu · #574 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 09:59

Have you checked resolution options from personalize settings application. You find it from the menu. Next thing is exit to the prompt and run xorgwizard and check what resolution options does it offer.
After that it goes beyound my knowledge. I think there is other ways also to try to force wanted resolution but I havent had ever need to try to do that.

CoronelN · #575 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 10:21

I ran xrog wizard, however it is not as if the desktop goes out of boundaries the desktop is ok at 1024 * 600

but many windows open higher than 600 and cant resize them....

The other problem i am having is with the US_int keyboard for french accented words like

fran ç ais instead of ç i get the c with the accent on top....

pemasu · #576 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 13:05

Hmm...Are you more lucky if you use IceWm ? There is Wm Switcher in the Menu. Also when you press Alt-key you should be able to drag oversized application windows when you drag simultaneously.
I dont have experience of netbooks, my own laptop does not have oversized problem, so I cant tinker with problem.

Keyboard map problem. Well, I need to investigate that problem, when I have time.

CoronelN · #577 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 13:20

I had switched to IceVm cause i like it more, the ALT trick saves the day.

But i am wondering if there is a way to tell the WV to avoid population windows longer than the display....

Another thing i am looking forward is to disable touchpad when typing, UNR ad xandros do it.... no idea how...

An something that would be great is to take advantage of the new multigesture touchpads that are shipping with recent laptops.

pemasu · #578 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 13:53

There is Flsynclient Configure in the menu. You can disable touchpad with that. But then you dont have touchpad before you enable it again. More difficult if you dont have mouse also. Lol.
In my laptop Fn +F7 enables and disables touchpad on the fly.

CoronelN · #579 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 15:08

Pemasu what i was making reference to isd the hability to disable automatically the touchpad when writting.

The netbooks drivers have an option at least in xandros and win7 probably can be ported... dont know i need to look on it....

pemasu · #580 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 15:11

First time I hear about that kind ability. Do you have any reference for it ?
I would like to investigate it.

majorfoo · #581 Post by **majorfoo** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 15:28

really like your product

have done full install and added

seamonkey.2.0.11 pet
shermans aquarium -3.0.1.i486.pet
xscreensaver 5.12
wbar 1.33-lucid
puppy browser 1.1-lucid
flash player -0.9.48 for swf games
adacious 2.5.1-lucid.525

everything works great -

majorfoo

pemasu · #582 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 15:42

Disabling touchpad. Now I have read about it. Luckily Snow Puppy comes with syndaemon.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... le-writing/

When you read it to the end, you find right syntax at the end.

I made pet for it. It autolaunches syndaemon with touchpad disabling feature when writing. Please test and reboot. Remember to restart X after installing the pet.

CoronelN · #583 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 16:27

Sir you are a KING!

I changed the delay to 0.3 seconds in the startup folder as personally i find 1 second too much it works a charm!

I am getting to the point were i will format that pesky win7 starter partition....

I think that synaptics drivers are retro-cumulative... so maybe soon we will have multi/touch/gesture puppy drivers

pemasu · #584 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 17:32

CoronelN. Thanks to you. I dont have time to use other distros and this kind nice features comes through observant users with wish lists after using other distros.

CoronelN · #585 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 20:22

Pemasu my little requests do not compare to the effort made by many of you to deliver good things like puppy

But since you seem to dont mind I have found some little annoyances that dont know were to post them.

1) when using wbar on the bottom the drives icons tend to be covered by it and some of them cannot be clicked on

2) if you move drive icons somewhere else then disconnect / reconnect they reappear on the bottom left (being obscured by that little nice beautiful (bloody) wbar

3) IceWM (dont know if happens in others) when you customize the start menu and then install a pet that fiddles with the menu (i tried pshutdown as i broke it hacking it) the menu goes back to the original (very annoying if you did not have a backup in place....

On other topics:
I managed to remove the: "Remove CD on reboot" dialog (need to find a way to add a cancel button and a 10 seconds timer but i dont know how to do that) And addedHybernate and Suspend buttons to the power off option in PSHUTDOWN (also since 018 comes with Pcontrol panel and Papps i removed all buttons that where redundant between the 3 of them and replaced the lock screen button with a Control Panel button and the backup one I replaced with Settings for PSD.

I think it makes more sense that way and is more windows lovers friendly... (something that scares windows users is the 100000 ways of doing the same thing in linux....

)

pemasu · #586 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 20:50

Quick post before going to the bed.
/etc/xdg/templates/_root_.icewm_menu is the right template to do the editing. It wont be overwritten. After editing, run fixmenus in console and restart wm.

Nice hacking you have done to get shutdown menu to your liking. You should post your hacked scripts, I am sure someone would like to try them.

And I still dont know what broke puppyinstaller. I am clueless still after investigating and replacing many apps used by puppyinstaller. Mystery.

CoronelN · #587 Post by **CoronelN** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 21:01

Thanks mate will give a try at that menu location

I tried to post the hacked script in the psd post but the forum rejected it...
I never done a pet but i might learn

or i will host it in my server and post the link (my milleage may vary on caffeine levels)

Hope you find soon the culptrit of what is breaking 019 I wanna try it

BTW if i can help you testing/breaking something let me know, i am a noob in *nix with Xindows but I have lots of free time....

pemasu · #588 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 07 Jun 2011, 21:30

Right now it looks like 2 latest woof platforms seems to brake puppy installer. It can be even something in the init script inside initrd.gz which brakes it. I havent found any of my packages so far braking it.
I will revert now 2 woof download backwards and try tomorrow next test build.

CoronelN · #589 Post by **CoronelN** » Wed 08 Jun 2011, 12:34

Pemasu;

Do you have a changelog of what is different from 018 and 019 ? (just curious)

Also what is the goal/objetive of Snow Puppy ?

Also quick question;

how do <fn> are called for mapping and where can i map keys system wide and not dependant of the WM ?

same applies for the <windows> key

I have a great interest since almost everyhting works aut of the box i would like to try and create a .sfs addon for Acer Aspire One users that can install on top of your Snow for a full feature experience....

pemasu · #590 Post by **pemasu** » Wed 08 Jun 2011, 14:02

There wasnt big changes. Some application updates and Snow Puppy-019 was supposed to be bug fix release with updated syslinux and disktype binaries to support ext4 frugal installs to the usb boot medias.
But somehow I got broken puppyinstaller. Changing back those updated applications have not remedied the puppyinstaller.
So there isnt anything wrong with Snow Puppy-018 if you dont want to install to the ext4 usb boot medias.

Goal of Snow Puppy is simple. It is my main OS in my Acer 5820TG laptop, with Ice Puppies. I have uploaded it and compiled some drivers more and updated the applications and used latest woof downloads.
You can remap some keyfunctions with keybindings to the executable commands with xbindkeys-config found on the Menu. It is gui frontend for xbindkeys and creates .xbindkeysrc under /root for xbindkeys.

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