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mow9902

Governor

I don't use bookworm, but I do run the LibreWolf appimage as spot under fossapup64 9.6. Here's how I do it:

1. I have created a folder named /mnt/home/my-downloads and used the chown command to assign the owner/group to spot.
2. Download the LibreWolf appimage appropriate for your ...

mow9902

I too am using fossapup64 9.6 - and CUPS printing works for my hardware. On my system:
I have the file "32bit-compatibilty-fossa64.sfs" located in /mnt/home
I load this module on startup (see image)

I also identified the additional drivers/libraries I needed for some of my 32bit apps and ...

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Well I dunno ....version 44.0.2 works for me using either root or spot - per the setup I mentioned earlier. It does not seem to crash when searching. Here is a screen image of an instance running as spot:

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pp4mnklinux

You said:
Hi @mow9902 :

I tried to follow all your instructions, I worked with a fresh slimjet install, with the old one, with... and it was impossible for me made this software works.

I thought the error could be in the linked installation directories, so I modified those links, I ...

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pp4mnklinux

I am using fossapup64 9.6 with kernel 6.0.12

Slimjet is just a little different - mainly because (in my experience) it wants to be launched via the supplied "flashpeak-slimjet" wrapper. Also it is a normal 'directory of programs' rather than an appimage.
Not a problem - after ...

mow9902

This is not a recommendation or advice about how you should use spot for browsing, but simply an explanation of how I use it, and I am sharing it in case it is of interest to anyone else.

I use several different browsers for different tasks, and almost all of the time I use them as the root user. I ...

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@rockedge
Thanks rockedge ....I came to the same conclusion from the error message in the /var/log/messages file ...so I restored the /home/spot/.config/pulse directory from a recent backup.

Now working normally again. Thanks for the quick reply.

mow9902

Hi - I was playing around with pulseaudio - not sure what I did, but have screwed it up such that it is now not working; I get no volume icon in the tray, and no sound at all. Could someone help please.
My system details are:
Fossapup64-9.6 (been using for many months and has worked perfectly till ...

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glene77is

You said:
I have found several distros do things differently,
which cause my few problems problems when trying to run/test your "PSH" program.
For example, Noble Numbat uses an extra subdir in its /tmp system.
S15-64 releases its temp entity , so it cannot be "rm". Xterm shows the non ...

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glene77is

You said:
That is my suggestion, since you invited.
(1) Run the Tar.Gz based backup, and forget about making a squash file,
(2) Since Tar will capture (a) saveDIRECTORY and (b) file.4fs,
and will compress quicklly. (pk)Zip has been around since 1978.
Of course, this will not be your ...

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glene77is

Thanks for the close examination of my app, and your experiments to make a better version. Some brief comments on a couple of the points you made:

You said:
Experimentally, using my "PCB" ,
I have been able to cause the "nice -19' command to deliver a "data has been changed' message ...

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@fredx181

This should do the trick nicely. Thanks so much for the help.

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fredx181

Thanks for this. However I'd like to use this in several different situations, and need the code for just the second screen you showed ie to execute the mksquashfs command and pipe the progress to the Xdialog screen. I will try to play around with bits and pieces of your code to see if I ...

mow9902

Hi,

I often use mksquashfs to compress directories before I copy them to another disk for backup. This works fine. But, if the directory is large, then the command takes a long time. At the moment I simply display a splash message "Working.." for an estimated completion time while it is in process ...

mow9902

If you want a 'mozilla' type browser you might consider Librewolf - I've been using it happily for years ..https://librewolf.net/#what-is-librewolf

It offers both snap and appimages packages - so easy to download and use.

mow9902

Sorry - my mistake. It is not the appimage - I was confusing it with something else I was doing at the time.

It is simply the .deb package from their download site - https://www.slimjet.com/en/dlpage.php

Anyway - after extracting into a directory it works fine - except for playing videos. I ...

mow9902

I run Fossapup64-CE which has glibc version 2.31

For anyone interested, the slimjet v 44.02 appimage works fine for me.

mow9902

I have one irritating issue with the volume control app on the new laptop in sig, below. It is automatically changing its mute settings based on whether I plug in wired headphones or use bluetooth headphones. If I use bluetooth headphones, all is well, but if later change to wired headphones the ...

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..sure, I realize this is a bit 'crude' - but what I have also done is create a very small script called pcsleep.sh containing (amongst other things I want to do) these lines:
# sleep the pc
echo mem > /sys/power/state

I then just attached that to a desktop file called PCSleep.desktop and created a ...

mow9902

I don't use BookwormPup64 ..but it might be similar to other puppies. I use Fossapup64 and on this system - and all the previous puppies I've used - there has been a file called 00000080 in the directory /etc/acpi/LID

On previous puppies it has been this file which controls what happens when the ...

mow9902

As a bog standard user I would say Absolutely worth another upgrade! I know, easy for me to say, since I don't have to do the work - but frankly, F96-CE4 is far and away the best version ever on my ancient DELL laptop.

mow9902

Yep - you got it.

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I am using Fossapup64 F96 on a Dell Latitude. All is working perfectly including sound with pulseaudio.

In the pulseaudio volume control window it lists 3 output options:
Speakers
Headphones
Line Out

Context:
I often use an external audio conference speaker which plugs into the Headphone ...

mow9902

Did you check any of the help on this topic? https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=6929

mow9902

In many puppies there is a small utility named "Font Manager" listed under Desktop group. Not sure if this exists for Vanillapup ...but it is has the option to set a font size globally.
The default is usually 96 or 100, but I have mine set to 102.

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I often end up with my taskbar full of minimised windows and I cant read the window titles or drive label because they are truncated.
@rockedge had a recent post which prompted the idea of tiling all open windows - which I cannot do - but here is an alternative.
This "windowsteps" utility attempts ...

mow9902

..programming style is quite personal. I think you might also have an unclosed "if" statement.
Anyway - here's my preferred style - which I find more readable.

#gtkdialog3 --program=mpcpl --center

I=$IFS; IFS=""
for STATEMENTS in $(gtkdialog3 --program=mpcpl --center); do
eval $STATEMENTS
done ...

mow9902

Have you tried setting the "minimum" font size? This works for me ie any message I compose, or any message I read will show text at this minimum size.

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mow9902

I've had the problem under multiple computers and multiple kernels. I would have assumed the problem was a conflict with some other program. But as noted in my OP, it still showed up on an almost 'virgin' Fossapup64.

One of the reasons for the above qualification is that I've imported records ...

mow9902

I also run fossapup64 9.6 and am a constant user of osmo. I do not experience any problems with Osmo either adding, deleting or editing tasks. Could it be something else besides the F96 build? Kernel version? ...or something else?

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