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[Donut]

i just installed Puppy Linux on an old Dell Dimension 4400 that was just sitting around collecting dust.

1.6 GHz Pentium 4
2 20 GB IDE HDDs
640 MB RAM

almost got rid of the thing after installing Linux Mint..which was embarrassingly slow. then i remembered Puppy Linux and installed it. so far im enjoying how speedy it is and its a good way to put this old system to use.

just had a few questions, since im a little familiar with Linux but still learning.

*when trying to customize the desktop using the different pre-installed themes, the GTK theme shows fine but the JWM configuration manager doesnt seem to be working.
when i choose a JWM theme nothing happens. i click the Restart JWM Now option but it doesnt seem to do anything when clicked. the MENU button is still the default blue button and the taskbar stays the same. tried restarting X server, and even rebooting the machine but no change ever takes place.
is this a bug or am i missing something to make this work properly?

*when setting the desktop wallpaper, if an image is too small or centered , the desktop color is this greyish color. doesnt seem to match well with any image that isnt white. is there a way to make that be black, so that it doesnt distract when images are not full sized?

*not sure if this system is just old, is it normal for the CPU to always be 60% to 100% when doing simple things like typing this post for instance (in Firefox) ? or just when playing with the Rubix Cube. i mean i dont experience any slowness but the CPU graph in the lower right is always filled in green.
i figure this Dell is just slow but still had me curious if i got something running that has that CPU working hard.


hope someone can shed some light on this. havent had much luck with operating systems on this PC. hoping Puppy will be a keeper.

[bigpup]

What version of Puppy?
How are you running Puppy?
How is Puppy installed?

[Donut]

The latest release off the website . 5.2.8
Running it in the default setup.
Installed it on the HDD. 16GB partition for the OS , 1GB swap partition.

[rjbrewer]

Use desktop > window manager switcher, before using
JWM config.

Use Htop in the menu to see amount of cpu used.

[Donut]

oh! dang i dont remember having to do that before. though last time i used PuppyLinux was last summer.

oh well thats a handy tool. seems its just that this PC is slow.

Thanks for the info.

[bigpup]

Puppy 5.2.8 has two window managers.
Openbox (Default)
JWM

It uses Openbox until you tell it to change to JWM.
JWM config has no effect on Openbox.
It uses Openbox config.

The default panel, at the bottom, is Fbpanel controlled from Fbpanel config.

[nooby]

Cute manga? smiley? ^_^ how does one do such on the swedish keyboard? *_* Ooops now I see it ~_~ damn that fails too.
the title was a bit misleading I thought you wanted to teach me how to do that ^_^ thing