Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

sakamoto · Joined: 30 Jun 2012 Posts: 18

im a newbie puppy user (saluku 021). how do i change the font and size of this ugly 'loading please wait' splash message. i analyzed the whole control panel and was not able find a way of changing it. thanks in advance Very Happy

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

Jejy69 · Posted: Mon 02 Jul 2012, 15:09 Post subject:

Hello!

Thank you for your answer! I tried, without success, I relied on these changes yet.
But ...
I'll keep looking.

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1543 Location: Austin, TX, USA

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

Thanks for the tip Steve.

I loaded up /usr/share/pixmaps/loading.xbm in Gimp and just deleted the existing loading message replacing it with my own. Rebooted, and it appeared good as gold.

I didn't bother editing .xinitrc because having a file called "loading" seemed logical enough for its purpose, but your theory seems sound if anyone would have need to change the location of the loading splash screen Smile

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jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

I've tried to catch up on added apps to the repo. Let me know if I've missed anything.

Sylvander · Posted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 06:59 Post subject:

1. Tried Luki-021.iso
Made a "live" CD-RW that booted OK, and Saluki looked good, and seemed to be working well.
This is on a brand-new low-cost [£245] PC with mobo = ASRock H61M-S.
Dual core Intel Pentium G620T 2.2Ghz, 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz RAM, 250GB SATA HDD, DVD-RW.

2. Made the necessary configurations, and rebooted.
Made a lukisave.3fs, and saved 3 SFS files, all to sda5/saluki folder.

3. At reboot, got the warning = "Machine Check Error", and the PC went into a reboot loop. Sad

I'd never seen that error before on any PC.

4. Prepared to invest some effort to get Saluki working, provided it isn't a major task, because I have working already...Slacko-5.3.3.1-SCSI, Racy-5.3, Fatdog64-600rc. Very Happy

Is there an easy fix?

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

Hmmm - Not sure I'd blame Saluki for Machine Check Error. A quick google came up with:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=129838

Somebody else had an ASRock mobo on that thread ...

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1543 Location: Austin, TX, USA

Sylvander · Posted: Tue 03 Jul 2012, 09:51 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

I have a poor memory.
Is Saluki the best puppy for Eeepc?
Does it take care of the internal fan?
There is a thread about such here

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1543 Location: Austin, TX, USA

kickstart · Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 80

Just trying out a frugal install of 021 and really like the look & feel. Some really nice features. However, have found something missing in Midori. It doesn't display the maps on the UK Met Office site (one I use a lot with the terrible summer weather we're presently experiencing.) This has never happened with Seamonkey/Firefox/Opera I have in various other frugal puppies I have installed. Tried installing Flash player 11 and Mozilla libs 10 from the package manager (which I needed anyway) but made no difference. I don't see any facility for add-ons or plugins within Midori. Incidentally the installer reported missing libmozsqlite3.so which I believe is connected with SSL 3.0. For a former Windows user the task of locating and installing this missing library is proving far from intuitive. Any nudges in the right direction would be appreciated. However the missing lib doesn't seem to affect the general browsing experience. Of course I could just install Firefox or Opera and be done with it but this seems to rather go against the developers aims of keeping Saluki sleek and fast.

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

I'm compiling midori .4.6 with webkit 1.8.1. We shall see it's more stable but probably you're still going to want to install a sturdier browser.

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL