First, a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all!
This is a first remaster for me, so it's bound to have round corners at
times. Don't hesitate to tell me. I shall welcome any and all constructive
comments.
A few years ago, I promised myself never to come up with a puplet, since
there were, even then, too many of them.
Why I'm opening this thread today is that I felt Puppy needed to show its
stuff with a tiling window manager, something more efficient and faster
(IMO) than our usual cascading wm's, our usual jwm and openbox.
So this puplet is essentially a showcase for echinus, one of the best and
most accessible tiling / dynamic wm's I know.
You can download my Puppy derivative, called
"UpupPrecise-3831-'echinus'", from here:
Edit, Jan. 9, 2016:
-- Removed -- (Project put on hold indefinitely. Sorry.)
(Please get rid of the previous iso if you downloaded it.)
(Please see at bottom of message for changes / version notes.)
I based it on pemasus's Upup_Precise_3.8.3.1* for a number of reasons:
-- the precise repos at ubuntu are still active;
-- the goal is to showcase a window manager, not to tackle cutting-edge
__ hardware;
-- pemasu's work has always been reliable and polished, so it's a good base;
-- his take on precise was different from the maintream PrecisePup, and I
__ like originality!
-- some other Puppy derivatives I tried to base this project on had video
__ card problems on some computers I tested it on;
-- I also felt the need to defend the practice of "good old re-mastering"**
__ with something substantial.
UpupPrecise-3.8.3.1''echinus' looks like this:
(Please see screen captures below.)
More later!
BFN
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* To those who need a devx to compile applications, beef up their
python or whatever reason: the devx to use with this derivative is
pemasu's original. It is located here.
** BTW, that entire thread on remastering, initiated by nic007, makes a
good read, IMO.
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Version notes:
* 0.1 * Following the comments of one particular feedback, I redid the desktop to
align icons vertically according to the Golden Rule. It's more than a pretty name and
an old math formula in this case: it offered me a handy way to take into account the
various screen resolutions users have.
Still not perfect, of course. If the icons, especially those on the right of the screen
appear jumbled, I included 3 PuppyPins in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer for various
screen resolutions. You'll distinguish them easily, they have screen resolution
numbers as endings. Pick the one that matches the resolution of your screen, and
then go down in a terminal in the /root/Choices/ROX-Filer folder and type:
Code: Select all
cp -f PuppyPin.(screen-resolution-numer) PuppyPin
rox -p $PWD/PuppyPinto echinus.
Among the general ones:
* A script called 'montees.sh' in /root/my-applications/bin will mount all your ext?
partitions in one go. This should save you many clicks going back and forth using
pmount.
Among the ones specifically for echinus:
* You cannot do a finer resizing of opened windows in the echinus window manager.
There, I've said it. However, the bottom icon, first column of icons at the left, is
called "Redim" for a reason: redimension (aka resize). Click on that and +/- ten
window sizes will be offered. Choose one, then when the crosshairs appear, drag it
to the window you want resized and left click.
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Lastly, once you have burned the iso to CD or DVD, and loaded it for the inital run,
do not use the 'save to CD/DVD' function when you exit. I'm still trying to
figure out what the bug is. Changes are saved, but on reboot, the changes are only
partially restored. The regular pupsave function is ok, though.
BFN.
jwm is just pushed 
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