The forum maintained by John Murga at www.murga-linux.com/puppy is a good place to stay in contact with other puppy users. The forum has lots of traffic and can be used to post questions about Puppy, to get help or to post reports about things that do not work.
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renaming drive icons in puppy 4.1rc
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I had weird icons on my desktop as well and Barry told me to delete all directories in .pup_event, which is in /root
I did it and on the next x server start I had my icons as it should be.
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Mounting a USB drive.
Probably SoftRAID/FakeRAID[ House Training » Beginners Help ( Start Here) ]
It would be helpful if you set the drive icons on the desktop.
Go to Menu -> Desktop -> HotPup desktop drive icons
Then uncheck all boxes and then check "all" ... after that, restart X. When you get back to the desktop you will see an Icon for each drive.
Click the drive you want, then a script will mount it, you do your stuff, and when you hit close it will ask if you want unmount the drive. (this done by ROX itself)
You can also use the "puppy drive mount" program (icon on the desktop) and that will allow you to choose the drive and hit mount. (I personally don't like doing this, don't know why... )
Btw... most USB drives are not formatted in NTFS, but rather in FAT16 or FAT32. So on the command line you would use mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ... Also, if you booted with a USB drive in, then it would likely be sda1.. otherwise it would another label. Try sda, sda1, sdb, sdb1... -
Puppy on home network: no hostnames, only IP address
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Mark this one as solved Woof. Just use yer noggin the way sideburns does.
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changing file associations in Puppy 4.1rc (not solved)
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Strange, but are you speaking of mht or htm files? quite a difference.
I found a mht file and it's recognized in set run action as message/rfc822 (whatever that means)
I also have htm files and they are recognized by set run action as text/html but not text/plain So the htm should open correctly with opera. For the message/rfc822 I'm not sure which program can open it.
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How to have a graphical GRUB (Updated Package Available)
like that in SUSE[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ][ House Training » HOWTO ( Solutions ) ]
After installing the .pet package, did you re-install grub via the menu & then edit your menu.lst
you will also have to then put your chosen message file in the grub directory.
Reboot and it should work
CatDude
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How to use Microsoft Sidewinder 2 joystick?
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I had actully forgotten about this...
Have to tried your latest pet yet. After that I can try the next one you linked to. -
How to speed up Puppy on a very old machine?
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The instructions were specific for that computer, which is very low on RAM.
How much RAM are you allocating to Qemu? You may not even have a speed benefit by using a swap device, if you allocate enough RAM.
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Petch-0.3.pet -- CLI Puppy repository search and install
CLI script that searches the various Puppy repositories[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ][ Advanced Topics » Cutting edge ]
Somebody made the remark that it would be nice to be able to indicate a save to directory, but there is no need for this.
Just open rxvt and go to the folder where you want the package to be downloaded and retrieve it.
Also a remark was made that an uninstall should be nice, but there is no need for it either as petch calls the regular puppy package manager and you can uninstall with it.
Just one thing, when a package is retrieved again, there is no checking if exists already. It's simply overwritten.
Not a disaster for small packages but a waist of time and bandwidth for large downloads. Specially when one is on a dial-up connection.
So here is room for improvement.
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youtube video downloader
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to download flash vids from you tube...
play the vid in a mozilla browser...
look in /tmp/plugtemp
see the growing file
when downloaded fully rename it whatever.flv
enjoy
been doing it for years
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Puppy web desktop
[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4 ][ Advanced Topics » Additional Software (PUPs, n' stuff) ]
I still welcome other recommendations but it may take me a while to sift through large collections to find new apps now that I have so many ... screen real estate begins to dictate that I choose App A over App B - becomes very time consuming when I have to go through the whole registration process and then figure out what the site does and if its even worth including. On the other hand if someone already knows an app is good - Cut, Paste, Post - done
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which media player is the best?
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http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=236014#236014
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Gzine does not work, can you recommend a media player.
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Hey clockworker, Your question gave me the incentive to go ahead and write up something I had been working on. thanks.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=236014#236014
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Improved Network Wizard (and rc.network)
New Configuration Infrastructure[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, ..., 18, 19, 20 ][ Advanced Topics » Cutting edge ]
I looked this up and it actually gave me a hint for more info you can provide:
The only buttons that get grayed out are the WPA buttons, which happens when the driver for your device does not support WPA... which raises a question: which driver is it that supports your NIC? Didn't you say it was a Broadcom device? That seems odd, since all the Broadcom drivers I'm aware of (bcm43xx, b43legacy and b43) support WPA, so it seems strange that your WPA buttons are grayed out...
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Why gxine???
It is not even the best xine user interface[ House Training » Users ( For the regulars ) ]
As I understand it, the gxine in Puppy 4.00 and 4.1 is two or three versions behind the current gxine, because all the more recent ones crash in Puppy. There is another disadvantage to gxine that I have just found, which is that gxine uses roughly twice as much cpu resources as the xine-ui (which is available in Petget).
Using htop (conveniently provided recently by aragon) I have been comparing the resources used by various media players and gxine uses more of them than not only xine-ui but more than any other media player! The numbers only apply to my 900MHz P3, but the relative values should hold. Htop also shows multiple tasks for each program, so that number also should be pegged to htop. It is the CPU number that caught my attention.
.....................CPU......................Tasks.................Mem
Base...........0.7%.......................14.......................49
gxine.......13.2%...................... 27........................68
Xine...........6.0%.......................33....................... 66
The Base is with Opera open and showing www.shoutcast.com and htop open. I then clicked the same station each time, Swiss Groove, and watched htop. The CPU numer varied around the median value I selected. I have obtained these same results consistently and the test is easy enough to set up so perhaps we could get some other numbers for comparison.
Since Xine is available and has quite a few pleasant looking skins, I can't imagine why I would use gxine.
I was testing players that play streaming audio, but for mp3's that are on one's computer, zigbert has built Pmusic. I left out xmms, which requires gtk1, which is not present in Puppy 4, plus xmms is not being maintained--the original developers are working on xmms2. I always liked xmms myself and it would run comparably to bmp (or even a little lighter). I also left out audacious because I got confused with all the dependencies. Additionally, although there are at least three different versions of audacious available on these forums, none of them are the current 1.5.1. There are already some strong alternatives to audacious and xmms which are much easier to install and use.
Here are some other results, for anyone who might be interested.
............................CPU.............Tasks...............Mem
Base...................0.7%..............14....................49
Realplayer..........7.9%..............24...................56
vlc 0.8.6h..........3.3%..............23....................54
vlc 0.9.2............3.3%..............27....................58
bmp....................2.0%..............20....................53 (beep media player pet)
foobar2000.......2.6%..............35....................65 (wine)
gxine.................13.2%...............27....................68
Xine...................6.0%...............33....................66 (Petget)
Beep-Media-Player and foobar2000 are audio only players; bmp had the lowest resource requirements overall (and played mp3's very well--but it did not play streaming aac+); foobar2000 beat everything but bmp, and that is running in wine!
Realplayer and Xine had more or less comparable requirements and in my experience approximately equal success in playing video formats (others will surely have more experience than I do at video formats). In my experience Realplayer is best at conveniently listening to real audio and video formats (such as on the BBC). I think that Realplayer does not play flac. Realplayer is also free but not open source.
The vlc players are not completely ready for Puppy. ttuuxxx and mikeb are working on them--and you can see their resource usage is admirably low. If they can be completely dialed in they would play "all" audio and video formats (providing a possible alternative to xine).
Pmusic http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1061960398&t=31206
Beep-Media-Player http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1144217813&t=20919
Realplayer http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1059912142&t=27761
VLC http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31890
foobar2000 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1416306669&t=32489
htop http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=33785
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Iron = Google Chrome - Spyware
Spyware removed by SRWare[ Advanced Topics » Additional Software (PUPs, n' stuff) ]
text entry is often messed up on windows too
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How to adjust keyboard repeat rate? SOLVED
Problem Solved, thanks gang![ House Training » Beginners Help ( Start Here) ]
Glad you're happy with puppy.
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How do I copy a file to the desktop?
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So the issue is solved then.
Can you change the subject line of your initial paost and add [SOLVED] to it, so everybody knows.
BTW, I don't know where you come from but pottedmeat in Dutch is potjesvlees, a nice ancient meal.
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VOIP
pjsip[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, ..., 9, 10, 11 ][ Advanced Topics » Cutting edge ]
Gazb
I am very new to this stuff.
I did come that far that the whitebook did found my provider *8260 voip.belgacom.be, but as there is a red sign with a little cross, I understand Belgacom is refusing incoming calls.
I don't know if it is the same for outgoing calls.
To have the gizmo help you talked about, do I have to install another program then psip?
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Dingo 4.1 RC Bugs
Dingo 4.1RC Sept 26[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ][ House Training » Bugs ( Submit bugs ) ]
I am (on a virtual PC, qemu) experimenting with puppy in full install.
I saw that when calling the bootmanager configure bootup and clicking on selection of sfs files I get a message saying: no sfs file found in /mnt/home.
Well yes that's logical. The way of using/installing a sfs in a full install is different.
The bootmanager script should detect it's a full install and give instructions accordingly.
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Boot problems
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Yo greasemonkey,
Welcome!
The title line will be shown on your boot menu. It is the way you select
which set of commands to use. You can pretty much put anything you
like in the title.
A description of the process you went through, including selections or
choices might help. Also, what exactly did you do to "wipe the hard
drive".
And, as Béèm said, seeing your menu.lst is needed.
But you are in good hands,
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disk defragger in linux?
i need a disk defragger in linux, any suggestions?[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ][ House Training » Users ( For the regulars ) ]
I use smart defrag for quite some time now.
It has a companion, smartRam.
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VLC 8.6h mediaplayer Lite 10MB pet
[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ][ Advanced Topics » Additional Software (PUPs, n' stuff) ]
Thats an excellent Idea, time to reset the pc, Since I compile live that means starting fresh. For my next project.
ttuuxxx
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Seeing Dog Puppy for Blind
New Puplet or Puppy[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, ..., 38, 39, 40 ][ Taking the Puppy out for a walk » Suggestions ]
Hi Trobin,
Since your putting the ribbons on the release, I'd like to suggest something. Since you have Links2 in the distro, maybe we can expand the project just a wee bit.
Links2 is at http://links.twibright.com/download.php
There are two magnifier programs that work under X. One is xmag or xmagnifier and then there is another onel One has a very small magnifier shaped mini-screen - this is not the one you want. The other one has a scalable subscreen. This is the one. For low vision you can launch links -g at the command line (or have a Desktop link to such a script.
If you've put X into the iso file, it should boot to no-x automatically, read (speak) "To go into Graphical Mode press X" and load links -g (graphics mode) - the other programs will run in terminal and be seen on the screen.
Note - I don't know how the graphics links will work with speech - but that is a non-issue because the only ones who would use it are sighted people and the magnifier will work for them. Of course having it be able to be read is a plus.
Once it is up and posted on the ftp site, I'll give it a real workout - I also have other blind people who are frothing at the mouth for this and they'll also do the same thing.
Some have promised publicity for this and web space - let's see if they come through with it. Sometimes it doesn't happen, but let's be surprised - maybe this project might unloosen their charity!
Best to you,
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Gnome 2.20.3 SFS (Only for Puppy4)
The GNOME desktop environment[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ][ Advanced Topics » Additional Software (PUPs, n' stuff) ]
Restart X.
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Compiz Fusion .pets [Puppy3] [Puppy4]
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Questions re pup_save on USB flash, display, OpenOffice
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A lot of Puppy "programming" is done in bash shell scripting.
Steve's Bourne / Bash shell scripting tutorial gets you started quickly.
Further, you can find an exhaustive overview of useful resources in the sticky thread Index of resources for Beginners Help forum
Explore, experiment and enjoy
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What other scenarios? The host has simple rules: He lets me pick a door. He then opens one of the doors that I didn't choose and that has no pizza. I've picked door two, and the pizza is behind door one, so the only door he can open is door three.
Same for case three, but he has to open door two instead.
The only time he has a choice is in case one, where he can open either door two or door three. But which one he opens doesn't affect my decision, which will always be to switch doors. So in case one I'll get rocks. But I get pizza in case two and case three.
I don't know where the pizza is for sure. I only know that it's more likely in the "other" door.
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Cannot save from Geany (or leafpad) anymore
puppy406 and puppy408[ House Training » Users ( For the regulars ) ]
@pizzasgood.
Not being sure if I did the test, I did redo the test to start with pfix=ram.
As expected no problem encountered, so the issue is in my pup_save file.
@general comment
I am really confused now.
In my mind beta testing includes:
- the newly generated base system and it's (newly compiled?) programs
- the already installed extra program, those being in the pup_save being migrated to the new version.
I am sorry if I missed somehow the message that it isn't allowed to migrate a pup_save from version to version, but only from release to release.
So in the actual circumstances, my 'stable' pup_save being 4.00 I can't migrate and thus not test, to the new release not being there yet.
Altho migration from the 4.00 pup_save to the 409 pup_save is in fact not allowed, I'll do it but I am pretty sure, I won't have the problems.
Only testing it will definitely give the answer.
Reason I say this is, as the pup_save migrated up to 405 did still work ok.
It's a situation I am not happy with. But so be it.
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usb DVD Burnner problem
usb DVD Burnner problem[ Advanced Topics » Hardware ]
Hello Please could someone help.
I am using puppy 4 and so far i think it is great.
I have managed to get everything working so far, but now am stumped with a problem getting my LG GSA-4081A DVD RAM drive. which is connected by USB to work.
if i look in system infomation the the drive is listed fine as a scsi0 device.
But I am unable to see it listed in Pmount.
I have tried using the default engine and the mut version.
But nether of them see the dvd drive.
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Firefox 2008 7.5MB First release :)
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Firepup browser.... that name works for me
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4.2 Upgrades
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the google custom search box seems missaligned also andkon.com has an extensive collection of flash games
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Debian-Vectorsigma: 1.8Ghz sempron 512mb ram nvidia geforce2 MX 400