Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes

[pemasu]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[pemasu]

Haa, I think I figured out what is wrong with puppyinstaller and my updated packages. I got it working. Now I need to verify that the problem is fixed by making new woof build using latest woof.

[CoronelN]

Great! I am glad you found it hope it is totally solved, so you can lower your caffeine levels

q: xbindkeys

is that what you used for your keybindings? I would not want to end up conflicting with any other method you have implemented in the core.

I know that iceWM has a few keybinds of its own for example...

yet another question:

if i use the template for the menus in the folder you pointed will that only apply to IceWM or will it be independant of the windows manager ?

PS: I tried to remaster the current running snow i had to experiment with remastering cds etc and now it wont boot

[pemasu]

I use xbindkeys. You can see the existing keybindings when you open xbindkeys-config. You cant make another keybinding if there exists previous one before you delete the previous one. I believe so.
In that /etc/xdg/templates is template for jwm and icewm. Editing just one of them affects only to that wm.

[CoronelN]

I have not succeeded in recovering my frugal install... it wont boot whatever i do...

Kernel errors and filesystem panic...

I am sad, fluppy did the same but in that case was the installation of wbar...

Sad sad Sad as hell i am installing UNR once again to see if works faster with 2gB

[pemasu]

Snow Puppy-020 has been uploaded. JWM updated from 493 to 500-1. Pmusic updated to 1.8.3. Defaults Program chooser and commandline gongetit added. Puppyinstaller problem fixed.
Some minor edits also.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/SnowPuppy-020/

[mikeslr]

Hi All,

Just thought you should know:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 824#532824

mikesLr

[pemasu]

mikesLr. Thank you of the info. I have added your Xsane frontend simplescan to the ftp site under Pets. I renamed it to the simplescan-0.0.1.pet so that it is woof compliant.

[jim3630]

snow puppy 20 frugal hdd on ext2 install. added sea monkey21rcl with adobeflash, firefox 5.0b2 with adobeflash, google earth 6.03.217, celestia 160, all work as expected including the universal installer which recognized ext4 partitions.

Briefly tested adobeflash playing in FF and SM with streaming web TV. Worked correctly for those few minutes.

# glxgears
3375 frames in 5.0 seconds
3549 frames in 5.0 seconds
3186 frames in 5.0 seconds
3211 frames in 5.0 seconds
3186 frames in 5.0 seconds
3169 frames in 5.0 seconds
3231 frames in 5.0 seconds
3193 frames in 5.0 seconds
3220 frames in 5.0 seconds
3152 frames in 5.0 seconds
In Ice Puppy my gears numbers are about double.

Fri 10 Jun 2011 Operating System: Snow Puppy-020 Linux 2.6.35.7
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(R)Ironlake Mobile Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU P6100
Core 0: 1999 1: 1999 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx

pemasu, double monitors function correctly with both displays showing full screen unlike Ice puppy. It is not much if any problem for me. curious why occurs in one and not the other. Did you find anything in Ice Puppy to account?

[pemasu]

Jim3630. No, You had intel graphics so you were using intel driver. It should work ok in both distros.
I believe it has something to do with kernel module drivers.

I noticed that I had forget to remove Picture Viewer .desktop from my woof. You can remove it with /usr/share/applications/Pictureviewer..something.desktop file and then run fixmenus and restart wm.

I will reupload Snow Puppy-020 soon if there isnt any other small problems.

[Jim1911]

Just upgraded 019 save file with 020, worked flawlessly. This has become my most used pup. Everything just works.

Thanks,
Jim

[James C]

Snow Puppy 020 live pfix=ram on the old P4 test box.Everything working and looking good.

Fri 10 Jun 2011 Operating System: Snow Puppy-020 Linux 2.6.35.7
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)865G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS product: Intel(r)865G Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.7.1

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Core 0: 2793 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.

# glxgears
1910 frames in 5.0 seconds
2454 frames in 5.0 seconds
2471 frames in 5.0 seconds
2439 frames in 5.0 seconds
2427 frames in 5.0 seconds
2332 frames in 5.0 seconds
2309 frames in 5.0 seconds


-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 513MB (129MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 10 Jun 2011 11:26:07 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

[James C]

I generally don't upgrade during testing but........... manual upgrade of the frugal install on my main Linux box from Snow 018 to Snow 20.

Other than needing to redo the icons and changing a couple of numbers in conky.conf there were no problems.Everything previously installed is still working so looking good.

[James C]

Just upgraded the frugal Snow Puppy install on the old P4 test box up to 20 as well.........same result as the prior upgrade, no problems.

[majorfoo]

just completed full install of snow puppy 020

added several applications that i use on regular basis

everything works great - no problems

thanks for all your time to create this

majorfoo

[l2ulinux]

This new Snow Puppy is working great as all your PUPPY releases always do. I am about to do a full install but just had to do some looking around before installing.

Summary
Computer
Processor 2x AMD Sempron(tm) Dual Core Processor 2200
Memory 1943MB (218MB used)
Operating System Unknown distribution
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sat 11 Jun 2011 11:42:58 AM GMT-8
Display
Resolution 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 2.6.35.7 (i686)
Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 15 19:05:14 EET 2011
C Library GNU C Library version 2.11.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler Unknown
Distribution Unknown distribution
Current Session
Computer Name puppypc
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment Unknown (Window Manager: JWM)
Misc
Uptime 2 hours, 20 minutes
Load Average 0.61, 0.71, 0.55