FluxPup-1.6.0 Beta PAE

[davids45]

G'day oldyeller,

Very impressed with a Frugal install of your alpha-FluxPup.
My standard sfss and pets work well, plus sym links to run my Seamonkey and LibreOffice from a data partition.

Very minor triviality:
Spelling error on the "Install" button of the top bar (not 'Intall')

Will try a Full install later or with the next Greek letter version.

David S.

[Ray MK]

HI oldyeller

Extremely impressed - runs so well on both the asus 701sd netbook and the older acer travelmate 243LC.

Really low resource usage and low running temp on both units. Frugal installations.

Outstanding puppy - many thanks for this little beauty.

Very best regards - Ray

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Memory 8197MB (117MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System FluxPup - 1.10
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Tue 18 Mar 2014 07:07:06 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

I found out that devx_precise_5.7.1.sfs works and used it to compile
Dillo 3.0.3
Everthing seems to be working fine in fluxpup so far.

EDIT:
I've been giving PPM a good workout, no problems so far.

[Billtoo]

First problem.
I tried to resize the savefile but it didn't work.

[oldyeller]

Had some issues when I logged in today. Last night when I first used Fluxpup I rebooted several times and all was good.

Today when I logged in, I have no wallpaper and the font used on the desktop and panel has changed. Also the panel is different, 100 % instead of the reduced length. The wbar didn't start up also.

I have rebooted twice and same happened. I have deleted the save file and started again with a clean install.

I'll see how it goes over the next few restarts.

There is one other really minor thing, which is present in the original. The title for the Install Icon in the wbar has a typo error, it's missing the 's'.

Fixed the wbar misspelled word of intall to install. Also the problem with fluxbox going nuts should be fixed now as well.

Cheers

[oldyeller]

Just a note on the menu when a new pet is installed you will need to refresh the menu for it to show up. You refresh the menu by going to fluxbox Menus>refresh menu.

You can edit fixmenus script to run fluxbox_menu_refresh automatically.
Thumbs up for fluxbox puppy, I'll add it to my testing list, fluxbox is my favorite wm so far.

I did fix this now using the pet that you have provided.

Cheers

[oldyeller]

Also: You have email icon in wbar but there's no email app associated with it (set to defaultmail, which is set to sylpheed)

I loaded amarok sfs from here using sfs_load and it runs, listening to online streams atm. Simple gtk radio also works.

This is fixed now will open opera to setup mail and also chat.

Cheers

[oldyeller]

First problem.
I tried to resize the savefile but it didn't work.

I have fixed this as well by removing the pet that I used and went back to the one that zigbert did.

Cheers

[oldyeller]

All of the ones that I have fixed will be in the Beta release coming in the next week after I write one more program.


Cheers

[Billtoo]

Here's a download link to the Dillo 3.0.3 pet that I made in Fluxpup:

http://www.datafilehost.com/d/1557aca6

[Terry H]

Fixed the wbar misspelled word of intall to install. Also the problem with fluxbox going nuts should be fixed now as well.

Cheers

Great, I thought as nobody else reported any similar issues it was me. Look forward to running your next release.

[Jim1911]

Hi oldyeller,

Just discovered this, I will wait and test your beta release since it seems to be about ready. Will you be including your latest Manna program?

Regards,
Jim

[oldyeller]

Hi oldyeller,

Just discovered this, I will wait and test your beta release since it seems to be about ready. Will you be including your latest Manna program?

Regards,
Jim

Manna will be in the ppm, after I get it done I am in the process of rebuilding it so that it works the way that I see it. Just need to learn some more code

I do have bibledesktop and Alkitab in the repo along with jre

Cheers

[Billtoo]

Manna will be in the ppm, after I get it done I am in the process of rebuilding it so that it works the way that I see it. Just need to learn some more code

I do have bibledesktop and Alkitab in the repo along with jre

Cheers

I don't know much about Bible software but Bible Analyzer 4.8.1.21
runs under wine 1.7.14, I didn't try it with any wine version
available in PPM

[partsman]

Hello oldyeller
Looks good so far ! I have not used fluxbox a lot experimented back in the day on lucid puppy
I have used the ppm a lot all seems well but I did notice the quit & help buttons are not right on ppm gui ! I am sure you too have noticed No real issues to report All is good very nice fast ! Well done !
Looking forward to beta ! Keep up the good work !
If you have some other area of concern please do tell would be more than happy to test

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to hard drive.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sat 22 Mar 2014 on FluxPup 1.10 Linux 3.9.11 i686
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0
X Server: Xorg Driver: intel
X.Org version: 1.11.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Core 0: @1200 1: @1200 2: @1200 3: @1200 MHz

Added programs from PPM + pets, no new problems.

EDIT:
Running fontmanager in the terminal gives an error:
# fontmanager
** (gtkdialog:24011): ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 92, near token '</default>': syntax error
#
EDIT:
I tried fontmanager on my first FluxPup install and it is working, something that I've installed must have broken this one but I have no idea what that might be.

[Ray MK]

# uname -a
Linux puppypc963 3.9.11 #1 SMP Sat Jul 27 19:40:54 GMT-8 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# uptime
22:07:38 up 4 days, 11:58, load average: 0.44, 0.24, 0.19
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 505320 314356 190964 0 22784
-/+ buffers: 291572 213748
Swap: 0 0 0
#
All still seems to work as expected - nice.
Suspend / resume all seems good when used with the asus 701sd and an external monitor.
Opera works very well. Overall - an oustanding puppy. Many thanks.
Very best regards - Ray.

[slavvo67]

How did Billtoo get that 2nd, dare I say "W" like background? I couldn't get Blue Pup working but it would be nice to get that background on FluxPup, if possible. Is there a pet or is that 2nd background built into the Fluxpup?

Thanks,

Slavvo67

[Billtoo]

How did Billtoo get that 2nd, dare I say "W" like background? I couldn't get Blue Pup working but it would be nice to get that background on FluxPup, if possible. Is there a pet or is that 2nd background built into the Fluxpup?
Thanks,
Slavvo67

That screen is an extension to the Chromium web browser, to get the
latest Chromium you need to update Puppy Package Manager (then exit
and restart it), have it search for chromium and choose
chromium-browser_33.0.1750.152
Chromium can't be run as root so you need to edit the hidden
.spot-status file in the root directory, mine looks like this:

opera=false
firefox=false
chromium-browser=false
dillo=false

Once you've edited the .spot-status file save it and then open the terminal
and enter "loginmanager" without the quotes.

The iStart is a free extension to chromium but you need a google
membership to get it.
Under tools/extensions in the chromium menu you can search for iStart
and then choose to download and install it, it's here that you need a
google membership but I think you can get one easily.

I have an Acer Chromebook so I used my google info from that to get
the extension in FluxPup, I run the iStart extension on my Chromebook as well.

More trouble than it's worth maybe but I like Chromium and the iStart
extension so it's the main browser that I use in a couple of other pups as
well.

[slavvo67]

Billtoo:

Thanks for your help. Your instructions were absolutely spot on! Now, because I am running Fluxbox as a live CD, it will not save my login information and default istart options in Chromium. I understand the risks but do you or does anyone here happen to have a workaround?

By the way, I am really liking Fluxbox. It is working quite well. One think that I just noticed is that it has burniso2cd but only through terminal. I was using PBurn, instead not knowing my usual burner was hiding.

Best,

Slavvo67