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Nice Job!

#46 Post by sszindian »

rg66... 'nice job' on this precise!

Just started playing with it but so far all seems well except one small thing...

PPM says 'xsane scanner' is installed for my printer, for the life of me I can't find it in usr/share/applications or anywhere else? Where oh where might it be hiding?

'thanks'

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Re: Nice Job!

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sszindian wrote:PPM says 'xsane scanner' is installed for my printer, for the life of me I can't find it in usr/share/applications or anywhere else? Where oh where might it be hiding?
Since most scanners are integrated into all-in-one printers these days, I decided to removed Xsane but the sane backends are still there. Get the pet here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... -2-w5c.pet

I guess I'll have to collect all the packages I removed and have them in X-precise's quasi repo.
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xsane

#48 Post by sszindian »

rg66 wrote:

Since most scanners are integrated into all-in-one printers these days, I decided to removed Xsane but the sane backends are still there. Get the pet here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... -2-w5c.pet

'Thanks... that did the trick!'

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#49 Post by kros54 »

Wow, this is a really cool development...! And also like to have a lot of applications have been canceled. Very fast! I'm thinking of Hungarian translations and versions.

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#50 Post by rg66 »

kros54 wrote:Wow, this is a really cool development...! And also like to have a lot of applications have been canceled. Very fast! I'm thinking of Hungarian translations and versions.
Thanks, kros.

You might want to wait as v2.1 is coming soon, not too many changes but it will have acpi added so suspend to RAM works.
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#51 Post by kros54 »

OK, I'll wait a bit :-)

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#52 Post by rg66 »

Xfce extra panel plugins compiled in X-precise, 3mb.

Battery monitor
Cpu graph
Disk performance
Mount devices
Network monitor
System load
Weather update

http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-precis ... recise.pet
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java-environment

#53 Post by kros54 »

In many cases, the necessary environment for java. Unlike traditional Java application can be used in OpenJDK application. Members of the Hungarian Bigyula, made ​​one (which is still available only place dropbox.com) to the puplet is perfect. (eg run Libre Office, online banking, etc.).
Download: http://www.google.hu/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=& ... 6542,d.bGE


It would be a nice simple storage space is located...
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#54 Post by rg66 »

I've made an acpi .pet from the repo packages. I can confirm that suspend to RAM works but since my only pae laptop is broken I can't test any further.

Hopefully someone can test this and give feedback before I add it to X-precise-2.1

http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-precis ... se-1.0.pet

Thanks
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#55 Post by yr1945 »

@rg66... works great on my 7 yr old (pae) toshiba laptop a135s4527... keep up the good work... and, thank you...

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#56 Post by Marv »

rg66 wrote:I've made an acpi .pet from the repo packages. I can confirm that suspend to RAM works but since my only pae laptop is broken I can't test any further.

Hopefully someone can test this and give feedback before I add it to X-precise-2.1

http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-precis ... se-1.0.pet

Thanks
nudge nudge wink wink. Any chance of a non-PAE? I've pretty much made the split where the new(er) PAE capable laptop is 64b (fatdog) and the older non-PAE lappies are tweaked Carolina or alphaOS. Just curious,
Pups currently in kennel :D Older LxPupSc and X-slacko-4.4 for my users; LxPupSc, LxPupSc64 and upupEF for me. All good pups indeed, and all running savefiles for look'n'feel only. Browsers, etc. solely from SFS.

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#57 Post by rg66 »

yr1945 wrote:@rg66... works great on my 7 yr old (pae) toshiba laptop a135s4527... keep up the good work... and, thank you...
Thanks yr1945, I fixed my laptop today so I can test and make sure fan control etc... works. I saw a toshiba acpi/fn key package I might toss in as well.
Marv wrote: nudge nudge wink wink. Any chance of a non-PAE? I've pretty much made the split where the new(er) PAE capable laptop is 64b (fatdog) and the older non-PAE lappies are tweaked Carolina or alphaOS. Just curious,.
Good to hear from you Marv. Ya, there is a plan for non-pae after I sort some stuff out for v2.1.
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#58 Post by yr1945 »

rg66... on both Carolina and Xprecise I always remove the NEW shutdown-gui... then, add Saluki's shutdown-gui... it requires less clicks and maneuvering... just saying.

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#59 Post by Ray MK »

Hi rg66

JFYI - your acpi-Xprecise-1.0.pet works fine.

Suspend works via the shutdown gui - not when laptop lid id closed (that’s ok).

Resume works as expected - ie:(open the lid and then touch space bar).

Very nice puppy - many thanks.
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Feedback

#60 Post by borg286 »

First of all, this is exactly what I'm looking for.
On to a few hiccups and then preferences

Clicking on the Puppy universal installer in the control panel errors out with
Failed to execute command /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller2
Checking the sbin dir I see that puppyinstaller exists and does the right thing. Probably just an artifact from some alternate installation channel pulled in.
Pcur, after being launched, goes straight to the background when the mouse leaves the launch button's area. I suspect this is more a problem with Pcur than with the main control panel. The Pcur window is too small when it is launched. Please add a couple more cursor themes. If possible add a "restart X" button to Pcur.
As is common with the puppy package manager in other puplets, this one too does not resize well. When you maximize the window the main window for the list of apps does not resize with you. I'd prefer something a bit more graphical. I'd prefer quickpet_precise as a easy entry way to get some programs. Hopefully it fits in the goal of x-precise.
Adrive builder needs a better introduction statement as to what it does. Most of puppy is fairly verbose when it comes to walkthroughs. This is one of the few cases that does need it.


Preferences:
Removable devices checkbox in Desktop control app checked.
Panel config app is lacking apps. Please at least find a website where you can download some panel apps and add them.
For the Applications Menu's properties please have "show application description in tooltip" checked by default. This is a HUGE boon to people entering the Linux world.
In WIndow Manager Tweaks: Compositor, check "show shadows under regular windows". This really comes across as polish.


Overall I'm extremely impressed and view this as what puppy should be.

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#61 Post by rg66 »

Thanks borg286 and welcome to the puppy forum.

The puppy universal installer was an error on my part and will be fixed for the next release. Thanks for that because I didn't even notice.

Pcur should have been removed. Using "mouse and touchpad" in Control panel > hardware, changes the theme without restarting X. X-precise is supposed to be fairly stripped down so maybe an extra cursor theme's .pet will do.

The package manager was supposed to be changed to "ziggy" theme, which displays properly maximized. I'll have a look at quickpet, although it seems like an app that needs constant updating.

Not showing the drives on the desktop was a personal choice. I used an already made Xfce pet and after a reboot the drives don't show unless you re-check it or mount them. I just compiled Xfce-4.10 and will be testing it over the next few days so hopefully that will be fixed.

The second post has links to a few apps and one of them is extra panel plugins.

I noticed a few days ago that menu tool-tips wasn't enabled, that will also be changed.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm hoping that v2.1 will be out this week.
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#62 Post by borg286 »

It seems the default browser isn't working. Almost every app, upon opening a web page, opens it up in mozilla instead of chrome, my default browser.

Another thing that doesn't work on my laptop is disabling the touchpad in favo of the trackpoint. I realize this won't be high priority, but it'd be nice.

It also seems that dragging a webpage to the desktop (make bookmark a desktop icon) simply does nothing in mozilla, and results in an error in chrome.

Right cliking on the desktop and creating a URL there seems to crash the desktop appliction.
It seems the desktop appliction remains dead after a restart. How do you restart it?

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#63 Post by rg66 »

borg286 wrote:It seems the default browser isn't working. Almost every app, upon opening a web page, opens it up in mozilla instead of chrome, my default browser.

Another thing that doesn't work on my laptop is disabling the touchpad in favo of the trackpoint. I realize this won't be high priority, but it'd be nice.

It also seems that dragging a webpage to the desktop (make bookmark a desktop icon) simply does nothing in mozilla, and results in an error in chrome.

Right cliking on the desktop and creating a URL there seems to crash the desktop appliction.
It seems the desktop appliction remains dead after a restart. How do you restart it?
Try Control Panel > Desktop > Preferred Applications and changing Web Browser to opera.

At the moment I don't have a laptop that will run X-precise, let alone one with a trackpoint to test this issue on.

I get a thunar error when dragging a webpage to the desktop. This seems to be an Xfce/thunar issue. Right clicking and making a url link works for me.
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#64 Post by borg286 »

Try booting from the 2.0 iso, right clicking on desktop, create URL, then fill in the name and URL fields then click ok. for me the desktop dies. When trying to run xdesktop in the terminal it seg faults

# xfdesktop
Segmentation fault
# pwd
/usr/bin


Also the FFConvert utility fails to save screen capture movies to any destination. Perhaps there is something in the /tmp/ffconvert logs that seems like a smoking gun to you.

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#65 Post by rg66 »

borg286 wrote:Try booting from the 2.0 iso, right clicking on desktop, create URL, then fill in the name and URL fields then click ok. for me the desktop dies. When trying to run xdesktop in the terminal it seg faults

# xfdesktop
Segmentation fault
# pwd
/usr/bin

Also the FFConvert utility fails to save screen capture movies to any destination. Perhaps there is something in the /tmp/ffconvert logs that seems like a smoking gun to you.
I booted from the ISO in virtualbox and made a URL and it work without crashing xfdesktop.

Also made a screen capture movie with ffconvert without problems. You should check your ISO md5: 64000431e54341a1558c43be00fcfda4
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