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KJ · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2012, 10:00 Post subject: unwanted auto saves

aarf .... there may be some help for your auto save problems discussed on pages 219 ... 223 of this thread.

I've been running a frugal "manual save only" mode (13) in Saluki (and other Puppies) using USB and SD flash drives for a long time with very little problem. Just by setting the save interval to "0" with no "+or-". You can check out /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown around line # 988 to see if it is set to "0" there. You can also change the time delay before "no save" auto shutdown in this section.

(In Saluki 22) I also had toI open /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d with 'defaulttexteditor' and changed line 9 from ramsaveinterval=30 to:

Code:
[ "$RAMSAVEINTERVAL" = "" ] && RAMSAVEINTERVAL=0 #412

That fixed the auto save problem for me. ... no problems since June. Hope this helps ....KJ

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2031

Any news from Jemimah, anyone?
She had "disapeared" before, but is good to know that at least she is "ok" and hopefully on other venues/priorities.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2856 Location: New Zealand

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 1561 Location: Queensland

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

starhawk · Posted: Mon 27 Aug 2012, 23:53 Post subject:

Of note... jemimah lives in Tampa FL according to her profile. She may have gotten affected by the floods a month or so back... and considering there's a hurricane AND the RNC headed towards that city, I don't want to think about what could happen...

Of note, I'm friends with lookinglass360, who lives in Largo FL and I've not heard from him since the aforementioned flooding as well. Sent him two PMs. I hope he just got his computers wet or something, and that he's OK and out there... I've long since lost his phone # so I can't exactly check up on him.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 378

I agree with what Geoffrey said concerning jemimah's absence. And to reiterate, until we know, we don't know.

Each and every one of us that have come into contact with jemimah may have reason to be concerned about her, But let's be responsible and not fuel speculation.

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2856 Location: New Zealand

Puppyt · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 569 Location: Gatton, Queensland

jemimah you so rock. Stay safe.
Best Wishes

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 378

Change extra Xfce desktop settings that are not available in the Control Panel with an easy to use GUI.

Change the desktop icon grid size, the icon text color, the icon text background color and/or transparency, and more. All without having to restart X Windows, so that you can make changes and see if it's what you want in a timely fashion, and then make more if you so desire.

Details available here.

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 731

unfortunately got this

# xfce_Power_Tools-0.0.3

(gtkdialog:1157): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_new_with_range: assertion `step != 0.0' failed

(gtkdialog:1157): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_spin_button_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_SPIN_BUTTON (spin_button)' failed
**
ERROR:variables.c:113:variables_new_with_widget: assertion failed: (widget != NULL)
/usr/sbin/xfce_Power_Tools-0.0.3: line 273: 1157 Aborted gtkdialog --center --program=win_main
saluki 023.

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 378

magerlab, which language locale does your Saluki use that you experienced this error on?

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 731

Russian locale

elroy · Joined: 02 Feb 2012 Posts: 378

Thanks for the feedback, magerlab.

I suspect it has to do with the locale representation of real numbers. I coded it using 0.0 instead of 0,0 -
a period instead of a comma.

I'll try to get an updated version out soon to address this. Thanks again for the feedback.