Lxpup 14 final 7-20-2012

[Jejy69]

@mufeed2012 : At the bottom of this post, I made a package for you, it fixes the default action for .exe applications.

Hi Peebee !

Thanks, really, I think I hate this bug !
There is a fix at the bottom of this post.
You are right about the GTK problem, I commented the line 126 of each theme, and now frisbee works. Could you confirm please, to be sure ?

On a lesser note - there don't seem to be any backgrounds available for the Mate 1.4 desktop??

No , I wanted to reduce the maximum packet size. Do you think I should add?

Really, really want this to work as well as the previous Precise Mate - especially the network handling which is so much better than "traditional" puppies....please say if I can supply any more info.

I'm rebuilding the package, for now FTP and others protocols are working, I use them actually. I upload package when I finished.
Promise ! FTP will works !

[Jejy69]

Ah Peebee, FTP works !
To use FTP and others.

1/ Right click on a either folder.
2/'Open with other application'
3/'Use a custom command'
4/Type 'caja'
5/Set as default
6/Ok
7/Works ! 'Places' in menu are fixed too.

[peebee]

Could you confirm please, to be sure ?

No , I wanted to reduce the maximum packet size. Do you think I should add?

Confirmed - your patch solves my gtk+ bug - many thanks

The backgrounds you had in Precise Mate were nice - I think a few would be good....

I'm not quite sure what I need to right click on for the connection open error - which only seems to occur on opens from the Places menu - from within the file manager they work OK.

Thanks for all your hard work on this - much appreciated - and a great addition to Precise.

Cheers
peebee

[Jejy69]

Peebee thank you, I'm glad that the problems have been resolved.
Yipeee !

[mufeed2012]

@mufeed2012 : At the bottom of this post, I made a package for you, it fixes the default action for .exe applications.

Thanks. This Works.

[yerc1]

@yerc1
Thanks you to try LXpup, I hope to best meet your questions.

Question 1 : You must go in Lxpanel preference, and reduce the size of icons, and space will be subdued.

Question 4 : I must admit that I do not know any other, but if you have something to offer as a replacement, I will be delighted to integrate it.
The default LXDE session manager needs Hal, which is fastidious to get it working.

hi Jejy69,

thanks for your response.

i was referring to the system tray icons (network, battery, volume, partition view) in my first question. please see attachment showing what the system tray looks like in barry's precise compared to your LXPup (i tried LXPup before barry's ). the LXPup screenshot also shows there is no way to edit System Tray properties in Panel Preferences.

carolina, by elroy and geoffrey has a nice shutdown dialogue, which may not work for other puppies, but your magic may convince it to work in LXPup. please view the attachment.

[pchan]

Unlike slacko_lxde, I don't see any "windows switcher" in precise lxde to download "mate 1.4"

How did peebee get mate 1.4? I like mate but how do i get it in precise_lxde?

[mufeed2012]

Unlike slacko_lxde, I don't see any "windows switcher" in precise lxde to download "mate 1.4"

How did peebee get mate 1.4? I like mate but how do i get it in precise_lxde?

It is given as an attachment in the first post. And Also attached by me now (Given Below)

[Jejy69]

Hello !

@ yerc1

I stand by what I said, ie right click on the bar, 'Panel Settings', 'Geometry' and put icon's size = 29.

Thanks for Carolina shutdown, I'll ask to Elroy and Geoffrey if it's possible to use it.

[pchan]

Unlike slacko_lxde, I don't see any "windows switcher" in precise lxde to download "mate 1.4"

How did peebee get mate 1.4? I like mate but how do i get it in precise_lxde?

It is given as an attachment in the first post. And Also attached by me now (Given Below)

Thanks for the link to windows chooser. I must have missed it in Jejy69's website.

I have down loaded it and will try it out tomorrow. I hope mate will not mess up precise with lxde. Lxde is a good base environment to run back to. It is light, comfortable to use and allows easy customizations to some degree. All praise for this marvelous work and idea of Jejy69.

[greengeek]

jejy69 - your website lists your Abiword version as 2.91 - does this version have the ability to read and write docx files? Have you tried it for that? thx

[Jejy69]

Hello greengeek,

I have not finished updating the site, unfortunately, abiword 2.9.1 is available in Slacko, Precise maintained version 2.8.6
Nevertheless, I will try to see if using the docx format is possible.

I soon finished preparing KDE 4.9.2, and I tried docx format as soon as possible.

[spandey]

Jejy69,
At sourceforge.net/projects/checkmatelxde/files the precise lxpup size is lizted as 190.5 mb but download zie is 180.5 mb, any ideas!!

[Jejy69]

Hi Spandey,

In fact, I suspect that this phenomenon is due to my score. The file system has an impact on the file size, the real size should be of 190MB but once on hard disk size is 180mo.
Strange is not it ?

[Jejy69]

The package Cinnamon is ready 95%, however, it will have to wait for Gnome Shell, it works during a session! After rebooting, it gets stuck on fallback mode, with the impossibility to use the mouse and keyboard. forced reboot savage ...
I guess it comes from Udev...

[peebee]

Hi Jejy69

USB memory sticks don't appear for me in the file manager in Precise Lxpup....

The 2 screenies show:
1. the usb stick detected in Precise-Mate
2. the usb stick not detected in Precise Lxpup in the file manager but will mount OK with pmount

Cheers
peebee

[okwellthen]

Sir Jerome:

You apparently have earned deserved respect from what I can read here on this forum... Wise beyond your years it seems!

Your Weebly site is PERFECT -- the simplicity and efficiency is refreshing to use/see! (having myself used Weebly in the past)


Thanks to all who might take the time to answer my sincere newbie questions...


slacko:

-is there font smoothing

-why after downloading other desktop (through wmchooser) does it not switch to the new desktop... and every time press (xfce for instances) it only asks to download (again) instead of switching?????

-why does slacko only see approx. 3 of my 8gig of RAM???


precise or slacko:

-which is more stable

-which is better to trust for long-term FULL-TIME use (I understand repos are different)


...once again TIA !!!!

[ I am used to using larger more power-hungry distros (Pear, Mint, Kubuntu, etc.) and want to better understand if puppy is good FULL-TIME use OS ]

[Jejy69]

Hello Peebee !

Thanks for the report, I will see.
Maybe, restartx after branch the USB key ?
I add problems with Pup-Volume-Monitor. I added a launcher at startup, in / root / startup to launch the process.

Hello okwellthenm and Welcome !

You apparently have earned deserved respect from what I can read here on this forum... Wise beyond your years it seems! Wink

Your Weebly site is PERFECT -- the simplicity and efficiency is refreshing to use/see! (having myself used Weebly in the past)

Thanks you !
It is true that Weebly is very convenient for those like me who do not know to program Html Css ...
It seems to me that you are the first to give me an opinion about the site. Thanks.

Thanks to all who might take the time to answer my sincere newbie questions...

I'll try to answer your questions at best.
There is never a stupid question, I imagine that come from heavyweights like ubuntu, Puppy must be disorienting.

-is there font smoothing
Slacko and Precise have font smoothing thanks to Lxappearance, LXDE's application.
Lxappearance -> Font tab.

-why after downloading other desktop (through wmchooser) does it not switch to the new desktop... and every time press (xfce for instances) it only asks to download (again) instead of switching?????
Normally, after downloading the package and its installation, a dialog appears to show the command to type.
It does not restart automatically, simply because I do not have the knowledge necessary to integrate command in the script.
I will ask advice to solve it.

-why does slacko only see approx. 3 of my 8gig of RAM???
Slacko, has got 3.1 kernel no PAE. This module is not present, the ram is not fully utilized, as a 32bit system.
However, the PAE module is present in the Precise version !
All the ram will be taken into account in this edition.
For your 8gb, it is better to use Precise.

-which is more stable
They are both. However, in view of your configuration (8gb ram), I advise you to use Precise, thanks to PAE module and the recent kernel 3.2. Personally, I use it for my PC : 6go ram, 1go Ati video graphic card, and I3.

-which is better to trust for long-term FULL-TIME use
For now, I think it's Precise.
Why ?
-Recent Kernel 3.2.29
-KMS enabled ( graphic card usable directly without driver from AMD, Nvidia ).
-All libs are updated
-I work on this version, and I will bring some new features like VLC 2.04, Gthumb 3, Kde 4.9.2, Mate 1.4.1, Cinnamon 1.6 etc.
So many updated softwares.
You can of course propose a software, if it is possible I will create a package.

I hope I have satisfactorily answered your questions
Don't hesitate ! I'm pretty available.

[okwellthen]

I hope I have satisfactorily answered your questions
Don't hesitate ! I'm pretty available.

Kind thanks for your rapid/courteous/informative reply!!!

[smil99]

Jejy69 wrote:

The package Cinnamon is ready 95% ...

Yippee!... Can't wait to try it.

My quote to you:
Success is never ending.
Failure is never final.

Cheers.