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Terry H wrote:I've been using Carolina 1.2 quite a bit over the last couple of months, so I thought I'd give X-Precise 2.3 a try The reason I am posting is there was an odd occurrence when setting up.

I checked the run internet applications as spot. When the next screen was displayed, it had a check box and 'seamonkey'. When Ithe set up was complete, I see that firefox is included, not seamonkey.
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Just thought I'd let you know. I didn't check whether firefox is set to run as spot. I'm back on carolina at the moment.

Ya, it seems a bit buggy. I think you can add "seamonkey=false" to /root/.spot-status and run loginmanager and it should show up, check it to enable. Uncheck firefox or remove the line from .spot-status if you don't want it as spot.

Edit: I just had a look at the setup-spot script and firefox isn't in it so it wouldn't work anyway.

Confirming that x-precise-2.3.1-update.pet fixed the PupsaveConfig issue which I came up against.
Using the non-pae version, frugal, from USB flash, the issue was that changes made in PupsaveConfig did not stick.
After using the update pet, I can now use option +0= ask at shutdown (reboot).
I have checked shutdown & reboot on P4, on Pentium M with & without pae support and on Pentium Core2.
It worked on all of them.
That it worked on the two Pentium M is contrary to rg66's experience as reported on the Carolina-1.2 topic.
My Pentium M are both Compaqs, the one which supports pae is a nc6220, the one which does not is a nc8000.

cheers
proebler

proebler wrote: That it worked on the two Pentium M is contrary to rg66's experience as reported on the Carolina-1.2 topic.
My Pentium M are both Compaqs, the one which supports pae is a nc6220, the one which does not is a nc8000.

cheers
proebler

Just a ditto here. I've been running and testing X-precise non-PAE quite sucessfully on my Fujitsu Pentium M (no PAE flag) all intel laptops. Quick enough with acceptably low CPU use at idle, though Lxpup 14.03 with openbox wins there by a nose

Here is a mirror link to download X-Precise 2.3
http://yadi.sk/d/97i3rugLLqvvm
For some reason Yandex is displaying Russian as default language in some browsers, if this happens simply click the button that has a down arrow ↓ to start downloading (you can also click the Russian flag at the bottom right corner and select En to display in English).

x-precise 2.3 is working well on my msi u270 netbook.

however, I am facing one problem.

When I unmount usb drive using pmount, the usb drive is unmounted and the power of that usb port is also turned off. In a way, that is a good thing for battery saving.

Problem is when i plug in the usb drive again, the port doesn't provide power for the usb drive until reboot.

Maybe, there is a way, a service or something to re power the usb port, I don't know. In x-precise 2.2, the usb port does not power off when the usb is unplug.

One other thing i would hope that someone can help me is how to make the cup print to pdf work. When i print a webpage to pdf, the print to pdf always gives me a failed message.

Thanks

@ pchan

I tried pmount and didn't get the usb power issue although I am on a desktop. Also I had no problem making a pdf with cups. Nothing major has changed since 2.2, maybe updating pup-volume-monitor did something but I doubt it. Are you using the 2.2 savefile? What happens if you run in RAM?

rg66 wrote:@ pchan

I tried pmount and didn't get the usb power issue although I am on a desktop. Also I had no problem making a pdf with cups. Nothing major has changed since 2.2, maybe updating pup-volume-monitor did something but I doubt it. Are you using the 2.2 savefile? What happens if you run in RAM?

rg66,

thanks for the reply.

Yes, I used the 2.2 savefile. I will try creating a new savefile and see how it goes. The powering down of my usb port was interesting i thought. But then again, it could be my hardware problem, I don't know. I have not tried the Ubuntu lately and i wonder if these kind of features (power down of usb ports when a usb device is unplugged) have been included to Ubuntu lately (from precise onwards) to help save battery.

If it is not a feature of the OS, the it might be some problem with my hardware. Anyway, I went back to using 2.2 but I will try to use 2.3 again. 2.2 has never let me down and to me it is almost near perfection.

Thanks

Frugal install to hard drive using Puppy Universal Installer.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sun 13 Apr 2014 on X-precise 2.3 Linux 3.9.11 i686
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GT216 Board - 0682vb12 Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 3840x1080 pixels (1049x292 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 GT 220/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 331.67

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Core 0: @2003 1: @2003 MHz

Updated PPM and added applications including Chromium (added metrotab
extension).

Been testing x-precise for a couple of days now. Y'all have done an excellent job. Works and looks awesome.

I'm running it off a 32gb stick on a Toshiba laptop with a i3 2.53ghz processor and 3gb ram.

dave

hello, rg66.

i've mirrored X-precise-2.3.1-update.pet, X-precise-2.3.iso, and X-precise-2.3-non-pae.iso

thanks.

AssuaultCube version 1.2.0.2

I installed this on a clean Xprecise, only the one dependency sdl-image was found to be missing.



assaultcube-1.2.0.2.pet 52.4 MB

libsdl-image1.2_1.2.10-3_i386.pet 28.3 kB

X-Precise 2.2 with latest Virtual Box 4.3.10. and all other stuff.
Working Superbly .

I have been using x-precise 2.3 again on my u270 msi amd netbook.

Everything works great just as x-precise 2.2

I am able to print webpage to pdf files using the menu File>print to file

my netbook hanged once when i shutdown by choosing no save option. It just stopped at the no save power down screen for a long time. The computer power off finally after i pressed on the power button.

I never had this problem with x-precise 2.2

All other things are working great so far.

pchan wrote:my netbook hanged once when i shutdown by choosing no save option. It just stopped at the no save power down screen for a long time. The computer power off finally after i pressed on the power button.

I never had this problem with x-precise 2.2

If you are running from flash there is an update pet that you need.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 067#767067

I did update pupsaveconfig, but haven't seen any issues with it. If it only did it once I wouldn't worry about it.

Yes, it only happens once in a while so I'm not going to be worried about it. In fact, it has not happened again after I reported it.

Thumbs up for another great x -precise.

I've added compiz according to your earlier instructions and now X- precise is giving me the best experiences of everything.

Also, thanks to Geoffrey, the Beautiful whiskey menu makes xfce puppy stands out.

Always loved the save or don't save options at shutdown. I don't know what else to request for in x-precise. Excellent puppy!

The only other puppy that might have the potential to become better than it in my opinion is x-slacko. But for now, I feel like comfortable with x-precise.

This is an amazing Puplet! Definitely the Puppy I've been looking for. Only real complaint so far is mostly cosmetic: the network tray icon doesn't seem to indicate connection if I'm using a tether (from my phone) -- the icon still indicates that network is disconnected even if connected to a working tether. I installed a network_tray-2.7.2 PET that now seems to properly indicate a successful connection, but it still doesn't blink on data transfer and the tooltip erroneously reports the active connection being eth0 instead of the tether I'm using. Apparently this happens if there's more than one wired connection or something, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I use Frisbee, SNS, or others to manage the connection. The weird thing is, the network_tray icon worked perfectly in Carolina. Anyway, I can live with this little bug, but if someone can point me in the direction of a fix, that'd be great.

So yeah, frugal install of X-Precise 2.3 to HDD, and everything is looking fine.

I am using now newest x-precise 2.3 - is there a posibility to install some pup, which allows me to choose during the shutdown to save or not to save (as it was at x-precise 2.2)?

Ascii Design

Ascii Design with the dependency figlet-2.2.5 included.

If you have other Qt apps installed that I first posted HERE, then you'll not need to install the Qt lib files.

Only requires libqtcore4_4.8.1-0ubuntu4.6_i386.pet and libqtgui4_4.8.1-0ubuntu4.6_i386.pet

For more fonts download this figlet_fonts.zip

To add them extract to /usr/share/figlet/ or anywhere you prefer and from the configure option change the path to the fonts.



ascii-design-1.0.3.pet

libqtcore4_4.8.1-0ubuntu4.6_i386.pet

libqtgui4_4.8.1-0ubuntu4.6_i386.pet

Tintii and Urban Lightscape

Two wxWidget image manipulation applications.





tintii-2.8.2.pet

urbanlightscape-1.3.2.pet

libwxbase2.8-0_2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2_i386.pet

libwxgtk2.8-0_2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2_i386.pet

baszek wrote:I am using now newest x-precise 2.3 - is there a posibility to install some pup, which allows me to choose during the shutdown to save or not to save (as it was at x-precise 2.2)?

What kind of install do you have, USB?

Download and install this fix and see if that helps.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 067#767067