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davids45

G'day, I'm setting up a new old laptop (Acer Asprire E1-531) and have several 64-bit Pups installed on a Puppy frugals partition (sda3). I'm trying to use appimage or portable browsers from a data partition (sda5) and have a few running (e.g. Brave, Firefox, Librewolf) in Fossas and Slack Pups. When...

davids45

G'day, Is lm-sensors in Bookworm? Terminal shows no sensors and sensors-detect in this Bookworm in a new old laptop (Acer Aspire E1-531). Other Frugals on this laptop are fine with conky and sensors for the coretemp module showing CPU temperatures. If lm-sensors is not in Bookworm, is there a pet-sf...

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G'day, 4GB RAM sounds big enough to not bother with a swap file (I wish my computers had 4GB RAM :( ). Is the Firefox cache set to a suitably small size? Is this cache located outside the Save File area? Say, on a separate partition (e.g. on a sda3 partition for holding such temporary stuff assuming...

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G'day, A simple thing for a frequently used program is to drag its xxxxx.desktop file to the pinboard/desktop. Go to /usr/share/applications/ with a non-fullscreen Rox, find the gramps.desktop file and drag it to the visible desktop. You could edit the desktop icon text to be just 'gramps' if it ini...

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G'day superchook, Perhaps you can look at /etc/default/grub (text-file)? When I got lucky with my W10+Mint+Puppies converting of my Acer W10 laptop, this file enabled me to set the number for the default OS on the displayed start-up list ("GRUB_DEFAULT" - was '0' (Mint) but I set it to '4'...

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G'day, Thanks mikeslr for pointing me to where I could find out how to boot by default to one of my Puppies at the bottom of the grub list rather than Mint at the top of the grub list displayed on booting. I edited in Puppy (no sudo-ing needed :thumbup2: ) Mint's /etc/default/grub file to highlight ...

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G'day, Well that went well :thumbup: . Just a pause to find how to become 'root' in Mint ('sudo su' then remember my password :? ) to update grub in Mint, after adding shinobar's Grub2config boot file details into the Mint /etc/grub 40-custom file. Re-boot and my Puppies showed up at list bottom, Mi...

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G'day, Thanks all for your inputs. I see from superchook's helpful example, I should use the particular Mint /etc/ grub config file (the '40' one) for my extra OSs and edit this to point to my several Pups on sda9. I hope my usual tendency to syntax errors and poor assumptions will not stop Mint or ...

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G'day Phoenix, The BIOS and Windows10 show the Aspire's boot system is UEFI not Legacy. Early on, I had tried the Legacy boot but W10 would not run (Puppy did) and I'd like this laptop to be my Windows computer for the future (for quite a few years, I have used XP on a 2003 Medion desktop that still...

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G'day Phoenix, Thanks for the reply. Here's the error log text I think you asked for: /usr/sbin/grub2config version 2.0.1 Sun 16 Jan 08:40:04 AEDT 2022 splash start Searching. sda|931.5GiB_ATA_ST1000LM024_HN-M sdb|7.2GiB_Imation_Classic(Removable) 2 splash end Searching. Choosed:sda Checking sda... ...

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G'day, I'm hoping to convert an Acer E-51 laptop with Windows10 to a triple booter. Keeping a reduced Windows10, trying Mint, and then a collection of 64-bit Puppies. 1. With the W10 drive wizard, I shrank Drive C from 900GB to 130GB and made 3 new ntfs partitions, for Mint, shared data and Puppies ...

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G'day Mike,

Perhaps some examples of complete .desktops for different catagories? Ones for tricky situations that Puppians have encountered (and solved)?

And I've had many a whine about wine menus. So an example or two for common wine apps.

David S.

davids45

G'day xeroye2038, If you just want to turn a simple directory into an sfs, the attached script could do that. It runs in 32 and 64 bit Pups as far as I know. Remove the fake .gz from its name and copy/save it to somewhere you like (and can find again). Drag the saved script to the desktop and then d...

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G'day hundido, @davids45 In your post, you have a picture of a crossword puzzle with a menu. In the menu is "night mode". Is that a blue light filter? It's missing in my menus. How do I put it there? Thank you for those pictures. The Guardian cryptic puzzle was being viewed by a pdf viewer...

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G'day, Installed as usual OK and runs my all-apps sfs including 32-bit wine. HP DC7600 small form desktop circa 2006, with monitor 1600x900 HP but much newer.. But..... 1) Network set-up - normal Network Wizard window off-screen so lots of Alt-dragging to do scan and DHCP steps. - wireless not loadi...

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G'day zigbert, Very quick test of test5 in my TESTING-64Slacko70 Pup. 1) the 'Apply' button when changing the widgets lay-out or adding/subtracting a widget does not work correctly - leaves the old lay-out and covers the new lay-out. 2) Spacing widgets - my problem is wanting too many widgets in one...

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G'day zigbert, I think the default Temp-CPU widget was created by forum member Trio to watch for high temperatures in his EEE laptop. His widget was specific to only this computer. For running on any other computer, the temp-cpu pwidget config needs editing to use the data from the temperature repor...

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G'day zigbert, Pet won't run with '-test4' in name. Deleted that bit and pet installed in 64Slacko-7.0. Added the widgets I'm interested in and 'applied'. Screenshot shows: 1.) CPU-Temp is the very old version that needs better config script (compare with 32-bit pwidgets screenshots). Maybe it has t...

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G'day LLiam53, I don't think it will work as you want - the Full set-up is quite different to a Frugal in terms of using your own personalisations (e.g. added software) as well as Puppy's file structure, but you could install the Frugal to the same partition as your existing Full, so they are togeth...

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G'day zigbert, By coincidence, I'm running a 32-bit Slacko7 this morning so have taken a shot of my current pwidgets. Over the years, I think I've had most 'trouble' with CPU temps, wireless and weather widgets. I could post a config file of any you'd like to see from my slacko shot. I'm not sure if...

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G'day Lliam53, Welcome to 'our Kennel'. I find it's hard to explain what I'm having trouble with until I've solved it.... but then I don't need to explain it :) . So is the problem you're having involved with quickly locating where to open or save a file to from the dialog box in an application? Suc...

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G'day,
Posting from Opera-Mini in SLC64PUP. Needed a Java sfs and runs only from the terminal - desktop file not working so far.
Interesting diversion from the usual browsing.
Can bookmarks be imported as an html file or pasted as text into the Bookmarks page somehow?
David S.

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G'day norgo, Thanks for this Pup. Installed easily and connected to my printer, scanner and internet. My all-apps-via-links sfs loads and runs as usual. I'm having a strange problem with portable 64-browsers (Brave, Iron, Vivaldi) that work on other 64-bit Pups on my computer. The browser opens and ...

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G'day, Thanks 01micko for these well matured pair of Pups. Like Wiz57, I too found no drivers for my Atheros (ath9k_htc?) USB wifi dongle in the 32-bit Slacko-7.0. So I tried copying into /lib places, versions from the all-good Slacko-6.9.9.10 without luck (well, without actual knowledge on my part ...

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G'day, If anyone else has an infrequent font display issue then running these in the terminal may help: update-fonts-dir [path to your fonts directory] update-fonts-scale [path to your fonts directory] Example script - I keep my fonts in my sda5 data partition and link out to each Pup: #!/bin/sh upd...

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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...

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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...

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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...

davids45

G'day,
Is there a Wine (pet, portable or sfs) that will run in 64FossaPup?
For me, the 32-bit portable wine runs in 64BionicPup (and some other 64-bitzers), but not in 64FossaPup.
Thanks for any guidance.
David S.

davids45

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...

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