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[sc0ttman]

[Puppyt]

Hey yer, sc0ttman!
good to see you feeling better - I'd hoped maybe you'd happily eloped with a nurse etc, rather than a horror relapse/secondary infection you often hear about...
I probably owe a decent feedback sesh on Akita8 - the kids had a great time with it over the school hols - ran without hiccup. Particularly noteworthy are puppyluvr's X-Toys pet and Asri Educations' OOo4Kids: the former had some minor WM screen issues (maybe corrected in the fixes I see you listed for Akita9), and the latter SFS was converted easily and faultlessly into something Akita could digest, and also runs without blemish.
SuperTuxKart is the major drawcard in the games department, though tracking down respective dependencies for various games was awkward on a machine not connected online . Thanks for your Boost, mesa/glx/OpenGL/other lib pets in your repository - later I saw that your PPM and repository notes had more info on what went with what, so our Akita is armed to the teeth with libraries!
I did have trouble with SoulFu - never got it working - and I think there was another game that called for OGRElibs (?) and other libraries, but I can't remember what they were.
I didn't get around to loading ANY DOSgames (or DBGL), though would be interested in getting NetHack souped up with VultureEye or other 3D perspective or detailed tiling - kids today just don't seem to have the imagination for ASCII...
In Haste,
Puppyt

[starhawk]

sc0ttman, it's WONDERFUL to see that you're back. I was worried that you were in the sort of state that would prevent such a thing

What happened? (I remember hearing about appendicitis IIRC and then... nothing.)

[Keef]

Good to see you back Scottman. Posting from Beta 9 right now, and haven't come to any harm yet....

[Mark_C]

I was going to try and move the .mozilla folder out of the save file area and then link it back but I got errors when trying to move the folder, tried some others and same thing.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but thought I would mention it.

Here are few of the error lines when trying to move the .wine folder

Moving /root/.wine as /mnt/home/.wine
mv: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/home/.wine/dosdevices/c:': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot create symbolic link `/mnt/home/.wine/dosdevices/z:': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/wineps.drv': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/mswsock.dll': Operation not permitted
mv: preserving permissions for `/mnt/home/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/dmsynth.dll': Operation not permitted

Done
There was one error.

[sc0ttman]

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[technosaurus]

My kids are still enjoying using v8 on their underpowered DecTops with the gtk1 standalone flash player 6 (gflashplayer) They have so little ram that I had to disable rox and use jwm for the desktop icons (actually though rox-gtk1 with imlib works too) so now I have another jwm tool that will generate pseudo desktop icons from *.desktop files in $HOME/Desktop looks good if the background is a solid color and the trays are the same color. If there is enough interest here, I can extend it to support other files similar to .lnk on ms.

[Mark_C]

[sneekylinux]

have just posted a new video on akita beta 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oltg-lqDpkA

nice.

[greengeek]

scottman - I've installed A9 to the hard drive of my Acer Aspire One netbook (D250 1.6ghz 1gig ram) and have some problems with the synaptics touchpad adjustments.

It works ok, but I want to turn off tap-to-click and scrolling etc but no joy.

As soon as I use control panel to open the flsynclient the touchpad stops working and I can't position the mouse pointer to make the changes I need. However, if I plug in a usb mouse I am able to set the flsynclient as i want it to be, and then I click on save, but the settings do not get remembered, so that after a reboot the touchpad drops back to the original settings.

Any ideas?

[sc0ttman]