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Hi all! So I'm running FossaPup64 on a MacBook Air (MacBookAir5,1) and cannot get the keyboard backlight running. Running Lightum, I receive the following message: /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness: No such file or directory It turns out that there is no applesmc....

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Sounds like users now have a choice which way they would like Pfind to work. Freedom and (relative) ease to modify...isn't that one of the main reasons ppl. choose Linux, and particularly Puppy?

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Proton upgraded their services at that time, it threw me for a loop as it affected all us Linux users who don't/can't use an "official" Linux release, at least those using the old CLI version. It's no longer supported.

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SOOOO sorry for the delayed reply! I just saw this reply. I've got to adjust my email prefs.... T-bird is not running as spot, although it is running through Tor. Firefox IS running as spot. I CAN drag the link to an open window, although that is no quicker than copying and pasting. I am hoping to d...

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I am running it via OpenVPN. Instructions are on their website. Contacting the Proton people, there is no lack of security doing it this way.

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Greetings! I set my default browser as firefox, run as spot. Now when I open a link in Thunderbird, Firefox always opens to the default page, not the link in an email. It's not fixed by adding "%u" to firefox, to firefox.desktop, or to the bash script I made to start firefox in spot mode, ...

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Ach! Silly me! http://mysterdee.com/smilies/rolleyes.gif I read too quickly and used the wrong port. All seems to be well now. So anyone wishing to run T-bird though Tor and not through the Tor browser -- using 90% less CPU -- the instructions are here . Just don't rush through it like I did at firs...

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Hi -- interesting to find this (so quickly!). I'm wanting to run Thunderbird email through Tor. This can be done simply by changing a few settings in T-bird and running it with the Tor browser also running in the background; however, I'd like to minimize resources by NOT opening the browser -- just ...

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@fredx181
@rockedge (???)

Ooo...we've 2 threads running at the same time....
Regarding not having permission to download using Brave, I'm running the Mac Air under FossaPup (the original Fossa, not the newer CE).

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@fredx181: Terminal output: root# /mnt/home/Brave-portable64/LAUNCH ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot read file data): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot read file data): i...

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Thanks! But unfortunately I navigated to /mnt/home/Brave-portable64/PROFILE/spot and checked the properties, they are the same as your screenshot. :-/ One step closer, I suppose....

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Hi all -- Mike, first -- kudos on all these portables!!! There's a lot of time invested here and so many benefit from you being so generous with your time. So -- I have Brave portable. When I download, it fails due to insufficient permissions. Looking at home/spot, Owner and Group have RWE permissio...

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Nice link, thanks, williwaw!

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Thanks, guys! @BarryK -- for the comprehensive answer. So spot = no access wherever. That will save me having to move to EasyOS ASAP in a production environment (i.e., no late nights learning and tweaking, I can experiment with Easy at leisure). @rockedge -- short, swift, and to the point. @williwaw...

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Hi! In my work environment I HAVE to access google (specifically, gmail and youtube). :x I've been trying to keep google from its nasty habit of pestering me even when I'm not using it and realized part of the solution is to use a different browser just for google (and youtube and whatever else I fi...

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BLUETOOTH & PIN The blueman included in F96-CE is a blessing! However, my phone requires a PIN confirmation to connect, and while I can confirm the PIN on my phone so as to commplete the connection, I could not do so on my laptop. Across my display I saw the PIN notice in a pink strip, but was g...

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@MochiMoppel Wow! That is so cool! Kudos, you've got mad skills.

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OK -- never thought of that, I'm used to being able to simply right click to execute options on a particular file (e.g., in rox-filer, right clicking automatically selects the file, then one picks to "open as text" or "copy" or whatever. Thanks, all -- bigpup Agreed..."the t...

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This I've noticed consistently through many, many iterations of Puppy. I search for a file using Pfind ((MENU>FILESYSTEM>PFIND FILE FINDER), see the file I want, right-click on it, choose "SHOW LOCATION," and receive the error message, "This operation requires single selection. Please...

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If you downloaded through the default setup of PPM, IDK why that would happen. You could uninstall, restart window manager, then reinstall xfburn. Personally, I use the "traditional, non-auto, user interface option" that forces me to look at the dependencies needed and check to install the...

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bigpup wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:36 am

OH - MY - WORD!!! Take me back, bigpup, WAAAAYYY back. How retro!!! Luvit.

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Ye--ah. That worked...sort of! I compressed the old Fossapup64save directory and saved it to the F96 folder as adrv_fossapup64_9.6. Booting into F96, I got my familiar desktop, icons, and several programs I had previously installed worked -- but not all. I couldn't even get on the net, blueman didn'...

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Thanks, Rockedge! When I installed Fossa last year, I put everything (vmlinuz, adrv, fdrv, etc.) in a directory called FossaPup; likewise, when I installed P96, I saved everything in a directory called P96-CE. When I set up both Fossa and then recently F96, I saved the session to a sub-directory, no...

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"UPGRADING" I've been using FossaPUp for some time, now planing to switch over to F96-CE (version 4). I know kernel upgrades are possible and fairly simple, but is it possible to "upgrade" from FossaPup to F96-CE, since F96 is based on FossaPup? I tried this out by installing F96...

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Trying F96 out via USB install. Bluetooth just WORKS! (OK, I fiddled a bit, but nothing one couldn't figure out.) So does PupMTP mount - kudos! I couldn't choose a place to save bluetooth files, I mean, if I could choose a location, they weren't there. I searched and found them in ~/spot/.cache/obex...

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I confess...databases scare me. The ONLY database I ever used (and loved it!) was a DOS program back in the '80s called FrEd Base -- Free Educational Database. It was SIMPLE, intuitive -- not intimidating. A couple times I've played with LibreOffice's database. How good is it? I wouldn't know. Withi...

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Hi vrgovinda,

I don't use XFCE, let me see if I can look into this the coming weekend. If I can, I'll reply.

Cheers,

SP

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Well...CTRL+C and CTRL+D didn't work -- and at any rate, now it's a moot point. Experimenting, I renamed my .config folder and rebooted, to see if the issue was in my personalized configurations. When I rebooted I got the message that my Choices had been moved -- an easy fix to move them back, but s...

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@some1: "pkill x" reboots the system, not what I'm looking for. @willwaw: I'm using xenialpup in both instances -- that is, my day-to-day xenialpup install is corrupted, but another xenialpup install that happens to be on the same laptop works fine. Of course, I can reinstall puppy or twea...

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Hmm -- it turns out there must be a kink in my system. On another install of XenialPup on the same laptop, "jwm -exit" exits X and drops to the command line. That said, am I logged out or still logged in as root? FWIW, on my regular install of XenialPup, although "jwm -exit" does...

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