Guy Dog 5.0.1

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#106 Post by Iguleder »

Yep, there's a bug: put "feh" in /usr/local/bin/defaultimageviewer.
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#107 Post by pacer106 »

Found an issue with feh & .gif files.

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>defaultimageviewer "/mnt/home/working/nextras/anatomy.gif"  (10047)
feh WARNING: /mnt/home/working/nextras/anatomy.gif - No Imlib2 loader for that file format
feh - No loadable images specified.
>defaultimageviewer "/mnt/home/working/nextras/anatomy.gif" (10047) returned '1'

Use feh --help for detailed usage information

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#108 Post by pacer106 »

Thanks for the new emelFM2 pet Iguleder. It is probably a fluke but after installing it my internet connection issues seem to have gone away. I can not imagine why installing it would fix the problem i was havin lol. Either way im a happy Guy Dog user.

Edit: I tested the new emelFM2 pet in Next Puppy & it works great. I posted the info & the pet on the Next Puppy thread for others to get if they would like to.

Again my connection issue that I was having with Next Pup has vanished it seems. Going to do a few reboots to test & make sure its not just a fluke.

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Guy Dog now working with Ati Radeon 3100 Graphics -- Almost

#109 Post by mikeslr »

Hi Iguleder & All,

Wanting to try something, but not recalling that Guy Dog wasn't working on my main computer, see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 545#573545 I unthinkingly booted into it without a problem. Not sure what I did wrong before, or right this time. But I'm happy.(':D')

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Edit: Almost> Did something which might have closed all open windows. But thinking that I somehow had shifted into a 2nd desktop --I didn't know it had a second desktop-- I looked for a way to shift back. Unable to find one, I figured the best thing to do was restart X via Ctl-Alt-Backspace. That gave me the dreaded "No Signal" being received by my monitor, requiring a hard shutdown.

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#110 Post by pacer106 »

widescreen 1366x768
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guydog-discovery by J. P. Stunna, on Flickr

Here is the same cropped to a standard size.
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guydog-discovery-1024x768 by J. P. Stunna, on Flickr

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#111 Post by charlie6 »

Hi iguleder,
thanks for this Guy Dog !
tested on HP Pavilion w5260 desktop PIV 2.8GHz + ram 1024MB + nvidia NV44 GE6200s rev a1.

iso md5sum OK; frugal install by mounting the iso and copying to a guydog folder; grub bootup from that folder.

First bootup results:
1. at live-cd boot xorgwizard keepss "screwed" loading 'fbdev' driver, even if <Choose> whatever Intel or nv driver.
(see also forum member mandibule2005's post at end of page 1 this thread)
2. only vesa gives a working desktop (do not recall myself how I could get vesa working...). So here keep staying with vesa driver.
3. attempts to upgrade to Xorg 7.6 result in « ... http://ibiblio/..../pet_packages-5 Resolving distro.ibiblio.org ... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution wget: unable to resolve host adress 'distro.ibiblio.org.' »
4. Did not get Network Wizard working from Menu/Setup/Internet Network Wizard; only simple network wizard is working.

I appreciate:
- abiword, galculator and gnumeric in french locale straight configured (my keyboard config is be-latin1, french_belgium).
(firefox stays however in english )
- guy dog looks fast ...!

Cheers ! Charlie

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#112 Post by Iguleder »

1) Yes, Firefox has its own locales mechanism - just install a language pack, you can do this through the options.

2) Regarding "upgrading" X - do not do this, this version already ships with 7.6 ... and there's nothing you can upgrade to. This could install some spup or Wary package that is incompatible and break your system.

3) And the network wizard fix is already available (Barry uploaded it), so the next version will have it.

4) The NVIDIA driver is broken (I mean, nv, not the official, non-free one), so until you install it, you're stuck with vesa. Already fixed by rolling back X.

EDIT: doing the first automated build of 5.0.1, with all changes since 5.0.0. If it works well, I'll upload it and there you have the bug-fix release of the 5.0.x line. :)
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#113 Post by pacer106 »

Very cool lookin forward to the bugfix release :)

Here is another creation.

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guydog-mystery by J. P. Stunna, on Flickr

Standard size.

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guydog-mystery1024x768 by J. P. Stunna, on Flickr

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Some progress with XP Portables

#115 Post by mikeslr »

Hi Iguleder & All:

I made some progress in getting XP portables to run using emelfm2. Follow the instructions pacer106 gave for adding file types to emelfm2. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 12#573512. What you use in the category and label fields only matters to the extent that you’ll remember them. Place “exe
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#116 Post by Iguleder »

There's a way to do this, it's in the kernel. It's a module you load that tells the kernel which interpreter to run.

It's useful with DOS emulators, Wine, Python, etc'. I just don't remember its name since I don't use it.

Read here.

EDIT: the 5.0.1 build goes on and on, but it's almost over :)

There are tons of improvements in this version, I hope I'll be able to upload it today.
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Guy Dog 5.0.0

#117 Post by Billtoo »

I found that you can't copy and paste from urxvt in guydog.
I installed mrxvt and copy/paste works with it.

I think guydog with wbar and openbox/tint2 is great, I am a fan of
window maker but this is better I think.
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#118 Post by Iguleder »

Uploaded Guy Dog 5.0.1, a bug-fix release of 5.0.0. Has many improvements.

EDIT: uploading deltas - they're quite big, which means it achieves the goal of being a good bug-fix release. :)
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Guy Dog 5.0.1

#119 Post by Billtoo »

Manual frugal install to acer desktop.
Nv driver works now.
I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Thu 20 Oct 2011 Operating System: Guy Dog-5.0.1 Linux 2.6.39
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.7.7
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 285.05.09

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600
Core 0: 1603 1: 1603 2: 1603 3: 1603 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
50271 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10054.194 FPS
50308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10061.453 FPS
50280 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10055.919 FPS
#
I installed the mesa utilities from the debian repo in ppm in order to
use glxgears.
I compiled Ltris but it gives an error when I try to run it:
# ltris
ltris: error while loading shared libraries: libdirectfb-1.2.so.9:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
#
Ltris worked fine in guy dog 5.0.0

The network manager wouldn't work but sns worked okay.
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#121 Post by Terry H »

I just updated to guydog 5.0.1 from 5.0.0. Previously when I used pmount, the selected partition would be mounted and displayed in emelfm2. Today following the upgrade, the pattition is mounted, however an error is displayed that rox-filer is not installed.

Originally when I completed the upgrade I used the same savefile. I then deleted the savefile and checked again, the error still exists.

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#122 Post by Iguleder »

Yes, you could do yourself a favor and read the changelog.

Previously, /usr/bin/rox was a dirty hack that launched emelFM2 when ROX-Filer was called, but I decided to remove it because it's too dirty. Instead, I put a placeholder that tells you to install ROX-Filer if you want that functionality.
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#123 Post by dejan555 »

Hey Iguleder, just booted guydog, well version 5.0.0 was when I downloaded it, been wanting to try it since.
I wanted to report network wizard problem but I see it's fixed in 5.0.1

If I choose 1024x768 I get 800x600 res, but I can get higher 1280x1024
If I go to "Choose" tab and choose radeon or ati or radeonhd and then type xwin it doesn't start at all after that, have to revert to "Probe" -> Choose res.

I also get a smaller area on screen visible that is the size of my TV-out so it's kinda 1280x1024 desktop and then same wallpaper scaled to 800x600 begining from top left corner of screen :P

I like the minimalistic idea and that you change from usual rox desktop and file manager.

As with other newer pups everything works slower on my PC :( so that's not your fault
Pidgin works, at least for IRC, speaking of that
Why you no come to IRC anymore? :|
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#124 Post by Iguleder »

I visit once in a while, I just ... became a very important person :)

I work a lot and don't have much spare time.

Regarding the network wizard - I'll wait for Barry to fix it, since I'm not familiar with the code. While we wait for 5.0.2, I work on something nice, sort of a proof-of-concept project called Dogbox, a minimalistic implementation of many common executables, like Busybox but written independently with just important features.

Here's the binary - it supports both direct calling (e.g through a symlink with the applet name) or as an argument (e.g "dogbox cat /path/to/file").
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#125 Post by upnorth »

Hi Iguleder:

In the menu.xml file, one of my apps had execute option containing quotes "

But, all quotes in the menu.xml file are escaped with \.

Had to remove the \'s, or app wouldn't start. The only other app that had escaped quotes in the execute line that i could see was xfontsel. I removed those \ also, then ran Reconfigure from menu>openbox>Reconfigure.

xfontsel still works and is puke green now, and my app that wouldn't work with escaped quotes now works with nonescaped quotes.

Otherwise, things looking good.

UPDATE: I fixed my problem with escaped quotes in menu.xml by commenting out line 125 in /usr/bin/ob-xdgmenu. Tested with fixmenus and reconfigure and it worked. 8)
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