Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[vicmz]

Keyboard shortcuts are practical, quicker, and they can give a break to your hands, you can use them to avoid the mouse unless you need it. In the first post there's a list of shortcuts configured in OBprecise to activate certain programs with the keyboard. However, many people don't know that software interfaces in general are full of sets to operate by keyboard, which was in fact the way things were done before the mouse was invented. If your wrists and fingers ache, or if you want to prevent those aches in the first place, you should consider this alternative. Let's see some examples.

Openbox and most window manages allow switching window focus by pressing Alt+Tab, and switching window tabs by pressing Ctrl+Tab. By pressing Alt+Ctrl+Q the Openbox right-click menu appears under the mouse cursor, and you can select entries with the arrow keys (up, down, left, right), then press Enter key to confirm.

In file managers/explorers, use the arrow keys to select a file and Enter key to open it with the default program.

For most program menus, press Alt plus the first letter of the menu you want to see, for example Alt+F for the 'File' menu, arrow keys to select and option and Enter to confirm.

By pressing the Tab key you can move to the next button/entry box. Page Up and Page Down keys, and arrow keys can be used to scroll through pages without using the scrollbars. Use Home/End keys to go directly to the start/end of a page.

Most applications have universal keyboard shortcuts to open a file (Ctrl+O), select all text (Ctrl+A), open a new tab (Ctrl+T), new window or file (Ctrl+N), close a tab (Ctrl+W), cut (Ctrl+X) copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) text or files, save modifications (Ctrl+S), and exit the program (Ctrl+Q).

Keyboard shortcuts may be a little different in some programs. Explore the menus and learn how to manage some functions with the keyboard. You can also search cheatsheets with lists of keyboard shortcuts of your favourite programs.

Finally, most Linux systems allow cursor movement by numeric keypad, press Shift+NumLock to enable/disable this feature. It isn't as fast as an actual mouse, but it does the job, and if your mouse doesn't work it buys time until you are able to replace it with a mouse that works. Click here to learn how to use mouse keys.

[nilsonmorales]

Reportando todo en orden nuevamente, instalé paquetes del repo de josejp2424 y por el momento todo funciona "ok" cairo-dock y beryl le dan un toque fino, claro todo y cuando se tenga una pc modesta,

La captura obligada.
Saludos.

[vicmz]

Nice one Nilson

For those who want to install VLC in OB Precise, OscarTalks VLC without Qt works fine:

http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks

If sound is muted for you in VLC, check this:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=793466#793466

If you boot to a black desktop (happens in some computers), most likely the desktop is not completely loaded, but it isn't locked, right-click and the Openbox menu will appear, select Restart X server. Also, make a save file big enough to avoid resizing it in the future (1 GB or more recommended) and install only applications most frequently used. This solves it 99% of the time.

In my computer this usually happens with JWM as well, and not only my derivative but official Puppy builds as well, so I suppose it depends on the hardware. However, in JWM for some reason I have to restart X at least three times (even pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE), sometimes doing something silly like opening a window, expanding it full screen and then restarting X, to get the desktop fully loaded.

[vicmz]

For those who use QuickPet Precise, 666philb has released an update:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83642

The Update button in the older version is broken, you'll have to install this QuickPet update manually.

[cimarron]

Very nice, vicmz. Thank you! Everything seems to work for me on a Dell Inspiron 5100 (with just 512MB RAM, so I love the very low resource demands). I made quite a few tweaks to the desktop, but was impressed how good OBPrecise looks out of the box.

These are thumbnails, click for full size:



Odd quirk, on this computer having the framerate synchronized to the vertical refresh resulted in a very low framerate (less than 10) which caused GL games to run slow. Didn't have that problem using GuyDog previously. But I was able to use "vblank_mode=0" when running a game and that solved the low framerate for me. When I booted OBPrecise on another computer, though, no low framerate problem at all.

[cimarron]

If anyone's interested, I found the kernel sources for 3.9.11 (for Precise) in one of BK's collections, here:

http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-3.9.11/ (accessed with his usual "puppy" and "linux")

I used the sfs to successfully compile the wireless driver for a new TP-Link TL-WN725N USB adapter. Thought someone else might want to know where to find the kernel sources.

Maybe this might find its way to the OB-Precise archive.org page too (3.17 is there, but not 3.9.11)?

[ally]

@cimarron

that was almost too subtle but I caught it! done:

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_linux_ob_puppy

I didn't know that repository existed, downloading now and will be uploaded to

http://rchive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Kernels

[cimarron]

Nice catch, ally. Thanks. Next time I'll PM you...

[Pelo]

Using mashup
Description: Arrange images and text on a layout page.
Select image files, add to a layout page using the mouse.
Images can be dragged around, resized and rotated.
Add text with any font, move around, resize, rotate.
Resulting image can be saved or printed.


OB Precise 14.07.26 : mashup crashes It's only an information, for getting mashup working ob-precise.
see mashup topic here

[Pelo]

Abiword 3.0.0 GPL V2.0 : saving documents seems no buggy... well.
A new icon set, yes, well done. Ardis devenait monotone, IceGlass will refresh the puppy's users.
Trying Istanbul, a video recorder. All packages and dependancies downloaded, but Istanbul not appearing on the screen. Checking that will occupy my afternoon. failure
This OB-Precise is not an empty shell, seems a good Puppy.
NDLR :
"Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records
your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you
click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon
again. It works on Gnome, KDE, XFCE and others."
SimpleScreencastRecorder is finally the easiest and better choice to screencast what you do. official site here. You just have to symlink to Qt libs aftfer having installed Debian packages ( 2 ea)
HOW-TO DO for english, spanish, and italian citizen (inside european community), ... and belgian too, sure, as it's a belgian application. Click (ez) le blue, please.

[Pelo]

after one month, i still enjoy this Puppy, no bugs. OBprecise does what she is foreseen to do.
Eh not so easy with recent Puppies ...

[Pelo]

gnumeric : unserviceable !
** (gnumeric:18731): CRITICAL **: gsf_xml_out_end_element: assertion `xout != NULL' failed
numerous times this message in terminal.

[Pelo]

quickpet precise some links (to wuala) are dead. Installing the new one proposed above
Grooveoff can be withdrawn, grooveshark is finished.
Gmusicbrowser via PPM
sh-4.1# gmusicbrowser
Can't locate utf8.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 20.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser line 20.
sh-4.1#

[Pelo]

Amarok Lucid plays on Precise, is it something Magick ?
Vicmz did a multipupose Puppy, everything works with it ?
It's not very clever to install Amarok (Xine Needed)? but passengers like to get their Puppy 'walk on the wild side'

Some KDE apps should run beside Amarok :
1. Play MP3's one at a time with AlsaPlayer or Manage a collection with Amarok.
2. Watch AVI's with Smplayer which you might have downloaded with Ktorrent.
3. Watch Youtube Video's with Opera 10 due to the Flash Plugin being included.
4. Read an ebook downloaded in PDF format with ePDF or Kpdf.
5. Talk to friends with Skype 2.
6. Write a letter with Abiword or Kword.
7. Do a Speadsheet with Gnumeric or Kspread.
8. Keep your Appointments, Addresses in order with Kontact.
9. Connect to a Wifi Network at Home or Away.
10. Keep track of your Finances with HomeBank
11. Manage your Photo collection with Digikam.
12. Do some Desktop Publishing with Scribus.
13. Manage a Project with Kplato
14. Play games like Mahjongg or Solitaire or fly a Aeroplane with Sabre Flight Simulator.
15. Play old DOS games like Wolfenstein 3D with Dosbox.
16. Surf the Internet in fullscreen mode with Opera
17. Receive and Send Email's with Opera's included Email Client or Kmail.

[Mike Walsh]

Hiya, Pelo.

For well over a year now, I've been using ETP's 'Chromebook' Pup, which is based on this very build. Out of all the 32-bit Pups, it's always been my favourite, because it just simply 'works'.

ETP tried to build it to emulate the performance and behaviour of a Chromebook, although I've re-modified mine back to a more standard Pup.....

https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Chromebook_pup




Mike.