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G'day, I have an irregular but minor problem with conky and pwidgets in regard to displaying pdingobats2 icons. Sometimes, on starting a Puppy (32-bit or 64-bit), I get the letter equivalent not the desired mini-icon. If I delete the fonts-scale and/or fonts-dir ? text files in /usr/share/fonts/defa...

G'day, Thanks all for your consistent advice. Loading the Fossa compatibility 32-bit libs sfs fixed my problem. My old Bionic 32-libs sfs was not working in Fossa and looks to have been my problem. I did not need to replace the wine in my wine+programs sfs nor fiddle around with the wine portable to...

G'day, Thanks for those quick replies :o , all encouraging that I'm the problem, not FossaPup :oops: . By the way, don't you Northern Hemispherians ever sleep - aren't the nights are supposed to be very long for you now? Or is it a Covid 'thing' keeping you indoors? Anyway, after posting my question...

G'day Exton, Thanks for replying to my post regarding printing and scanning not working for me in PuppEX Focal. I don't know how the Puppex Bionic showed in Conky - I use a shared profile for most things and was using PuppEX Bionic to try to fix my PuppEX Focal problems as PuppEX Bionic does scan an...

G'day Exton, Thanks for another comprehensive new PuppEx. I have only started to explore this one but have found two major (for me) problems: 1. CUPS won't log-in to its localhost (screenshot): I've tried varying the firewall setting to no avail; browsing is fine (posting from Focal64 now). My Epson...

G'day r96chase, If you boot from the hard-drive, why not install all Puppies you'd like to try and see which you prefer. None will take much room and you need not delete any you initially don't like, just in case you change your mind about your initial preference. If booting from a USB, again instal...

G'day, I have no problem with BionicPup64 and all other Pups (including 32-bit) accessing and using my networked Epson printer. I use the CUPS printer wizard (in the Setup Menu) and the default browser (usually seamonkey) with an installed Epson driver package for my model (WF-2510). Is your problem...

G'day vtpup, This may be irrelevant for your printer but with my Epson printers, I get this message when I'm missing a ld-lsb link in /lib: e.g. a link from ld-2.17.so.0 is needed as ld-lsb.so.3 in 32-bit Alas, in 64-bit, it is complicated by the range of lib directories and needs extra naming so th...

G'day Mike,
Link seems to be to Vivaldi portables, not Iron?
David S.

G'day Meta Master, When I get this problem, particularly playing with a new kernel, it's caused by missing firmware. Always self-inflicted in my case :oops: but I don't know if you've had a problem with the Puppy during the install. Check with Rox file manager what's in the /lib/firmware directory. ...

G'day, I run old HP desktops which use a particular smsc module to monitor these temps - not coretemp. In my collection of Pups, I haven't added pcputemp, just go with the one included by the deveoper of the Pup. In most cases, on booting, I get a message on start-up that the various-Pups-included p...

G'day peebee,
Just noticed you'd withdrawn k-5.8.3.
I've run it happily for a while in BionicPup64-8.0 last night and now this morning in a ScPup64-20.01-2T if this is of interest re its withdrawal.
Keen to see a fixed(?) version if offererd.
Thanks as always,
David S.

G'day peebee, I'm sorry if this post is not in the right thread but I couldn't find one for your latest ArchPups by themselves. Firstly, thank you for these two new-to-me Pups. I was impressed by the Arch32Pup, the only issue was a bit of an old one - CUPS is not working to allow setting printer opt...

G'day, I have a small problem with the pdingobats2 fonts in Conky and pwidgets where the display is of the conventional font (e.g. a letter or number) instead of the corresponding pdingobats2 symbol (e.g. hard-drive (:), thermometer (z), wifi icon (0)). Seems to occur in all Pups and kernels (32 pwi...

G'day, I'm trying to send a Personal Message Reply to which I want to attach several (well, 12) text files, plus two jpgs. I cannot find a Forum acceptable file extension for attachments. I've tried .txt, .tar.xz, .zip, no extension, even .jpg, and none get past the 'Add files' censor. The FAQ says ...

G'day 666philb, I done a bit more trial&erroring with fossa and its non-networking for my wlan0 adapter. I tried your script for the /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf file and it had no effect in allowing wifi networking. The original fossa config script was the same as in other working Pups and the ed...

G'day 666philb, Thanks for your reply to my post re fossapup64s not connecting unless I change the fdrv, zdrv & vmlinuz (ie to a different kernel to its supplied 5.4.47). With the working 5.6.18 kernel, I restored the original fossapup64's fdrv and the network connection was still good (using th...

G'day, Posting fron fossapup64-9.0.4-rc2, but as in previous fossas, could only get networking via my TP-Link USB dongle by switching to another kernel (ozsouth's 5.6.18) and replacing fossa's frdv with one just having the firmware needed for the dongle (ath9k_htc). I'll try another kernel, when I c...

G'day mikewalsh & wiak, Thanks for your posts. If/when I find some time in this present covid situation here, I'll try trials with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the troubled browser/Pup combinations. Some portables have this path option already in their start-up scripts, others not (that I can find). ...

G'day mikeslr,
Thanks for this. I agree it's one of the most reliable 32-bitsers available.
David S.

G'day Mikes, Thanks for the replies. I already have a portable Google-chrome running in all 64-bit Pups on this computer, plus the other Portables, the latest being a Firefox-ESR that seems quite good. I take it in turns to run one portable each day. Brave is nice, but the others are OK too. I have ...

G'day Mike, Thanks for these links - I "install" each portable in each 64-bit Puppy and most work without fiddling with lib files :thumbup: . "..most work.." :oops: : I have trouble with Google-chrome and Opera in some slackware-based Pups, mostly in relation to the version of li...

G'day rockedge,
As someone who's usually living in 'tomorrow' for many others such as those of a Western hemisphere persuasion, allowing 'tomorrow' sounds good to me (definitely today here).
Thanks for the new/extra Puppy forum site .
David S.