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williams2

swap only between 2 windows - can I do that? If you are using jwm, you can switch desktop workspaces by pressing alt+1 and alt+2 (and alt+3) If you have 2 windows in your workspace, alt+tab will switch between those 2 windows. You can move windows to other workspaces so that just the 2 windows are ...

williams2

The matrix screen saver has 3D information built in. xlock -nolock -mode matrix Motion, even very small amounts of motion, can be processed by the brain to show you the 3D information built into the video. So yes, motion, even a small amount of motion, enables the brain to process the 3D information...

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Hopefully the answer is "don't sweat it" !!! Yes, the correct answer is don't sweat it Can someone provide some simple steps to Cleanly unmount at shutdown?? No. You can't unmount the file system because it is being used by the Puppy operating system. Like this: # mount-FULL -o loop bioni...

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# wget https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-1.0 --2023-01-09 02:34:08-- https://www.clamav.net/downloads/product Resolving www.clamav.net (www.clamav.net)... 104.16.218.84, 104.1 # Click the deb to install ... or unzip and copy to /usr/ Edit the config file # Comment or remove the lin...

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When X is running, you can change keymaps like this:

Code: Select all

setxkbmap fr

Type setxkbmap --help

There may be GUI programs to set the keymaps.

The programs that you are using set the terminal (console) keymaps,
when X is not running.

williams2

wmexit has a bug in Xenial and Bionic. The bug is fixed in FoassaPup and later versions of Woof ce. If the window manager is started from a script or from a compiled executable wmexit can not kill the process because it is no longer executing. oir example, if you type xwin jwn it can try to run jwn ...

williams2

3D Most video files contain much 3D information builtin. The brain is smart enough to see (using 2 eyes) that the television or computer monitor is a flat screen and so shows the picture as a flat picture without 3D processing. If the brain is tricked into not seeing the picture as a flat picture, i...

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Puppy is about as easy to install as it gets. To install Puppy I just copy the puppy.sfs file to my hard drive. That's it Puppy is installed. I add a couple of lines to my syslinux boot loader cfg file..Like this (these are the exact lines I just used to boot the Puppy I am now running) label b8 ker...

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looking for the arguments needed to generate a shutdown By shutdown do you mean shutdown an app like Firefox or do you mean shutdown the Puppy operating system ? EarlyOOM shuts down running applications like Firefox, Pale Moon,Geany, Abiword, mpv. etc. So you have enough free ram to keep going, and...

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Shutting down, Linux usually unmounts file systems that are mounted. Puppy's can not unmount a file system that is being used. Usually, the save file/folder is in use by the entire Puppy operating system, so the OS tries to unmount the save FS, trying to remount it ro, forcing a lazy unmount etc etc...

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Again, the kernel has a builtin out of memory killer. Which does not work well. earlyOOM does work, very well. earlyOOM uses about 200kb of ram. # ps5 Private + Shared = RAM used Program 152.0 KiB + 52.5 KiB = 204.5 KiB earlyoom It handles tail /dev/zero effortlessly. WARNNG, without earlyOOM, tail ...

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I think /dev/mem is what ram that the kernel can access. But the kernel will not allow you to see all of the ram in /dev/mem in case you are a hacker with evil intentions. For example: https://bakhi.github.io/devmem/ Directly Access Your Physical Memory (dev/mem) - Heejin Park bakhi.github.io/devmem...

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I simply do not understand how Puppy OS can be running from my internal drive when I boot from the CD and choose the copy to ram option. As I said before, this can only be due to a programming error on the CD. Can anyone explain this? I do not know what how Puppy OS can be running from my internal ...

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Many (or most or all) Linux kernels have a builtin Out Of Memory killer (OOM) which for most kernels doesn't work well, if it works at all. EarlyOOM works very well. My machine has not slowed down because of out of memory, since I installed earlyoom. See https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=...

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The pc speaker is a little buzzer on the mother board. Is it possible that you have made the pc speaker the default sound card? Typing in a terminal: lsmod | grep pcsp pcspkr 16384 0 shows that my machine has the pcspkr loaded. You can unload the pcspkr module by typing (copy/paste) like this rmmod ...

williams2

like the backend ie mpv and ffmpeg needs to updated There are static builds of ffmpeg. Most software that uses ffmpeg do not use the ffmpeg executable directly, they use the ffmpeg library files. Updating to a newer static build of ffmpeg might not update the ffmpeg libs. Installing a newer version...

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Freebasic can access hardware ports, for example serial ports.

i do not know if Freebasic can access usb serial ports.

Freebasic uses the same syntax that Microsoft;s Qbasic and Quickbasic used.

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can the current pc work be displayed in binary with bash or python? Python is very slow. Bash is very, very slow. I do not think either would work to write what seems to be a monitor program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code_monitor If you are trying to watch micro code as it is executing...

williams2

The default zoom value for your user configuration is probably in the user config file /root/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/prefs.js (change xxxxxxxx to your user path. If it is working, your personal ptrefs file is being overwritten, or maybe it is not being saved. The line in my prefs file is: ...

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If the BLUETOOTH standby function is set to ON, the orange CHARGE indicator will remain lit even when the speaker is powered off or has finished charging.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/suppor ... s/00142974

williams2

I shut down, I was not given an option to save anything - could that have anything to so with the mounting/unmounting of drives?. The way a big mainstream distro works, it's file system is a mounted file system in a partition, and anything written to the file system is written directly and immediat...

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Real time network traffic monitor for the text console It does not seem to show who is connected to what. This should list some of the networks connections netstat -utape I find iftop useful, and also nethogs (both executables are about 60KB, not compressed.) Also, ifconfig shows you total traffic ...

williams2

You should be able to create a file on a fat32 or ntfs file system and format the file to contain an ext3 or ext4 file system. In other words, a duplicate save file, just for portable apps, if you like. For example, I created a 512MB file on /mnt/home/ named save3 I formatted save3 with an ext3 vfil...

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I said: The window manager creates the title bar and the close, minimize and maximize buttons. and I think that it is true. For example, the Icewm window manager has configuration options to have the buttons appear at the top left or top right and what icon theme to use, etc etc. But GTK has theme o...

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FossaPup64 has the main pup.sfs, which is a small stripped down core, and an adrv.sfs file comes with the pup.sfs file which contains most of the other files in the FossaPup file system. FossaPup boots to xwindows whether the adrv.sfs file is included or not. I said that I use an adrv.sfs file with ...

williams2

If you want to know where the save file is,
typing mount in a terminal could tell you.

williams2

How does one kill an errant program in Linux?

If you are running an application in a text terminal, pressing ctrl+c once or twice might stop it.

There are many other ways, for example, htop.
or xkill if you have it installed.

williams2

My DVD/CD is via a USB port You seem to be booting using 2 usb drives (the CD drive is treated by the system as a us drive. FossaPup has a problem with booting with 2 usb drives plugged in. An ISO 9660 file system is read only (not writable) It is possible to burn 2 file systems to a cd/dvd disc. s...

williams2

The window manager creates the title bar and the close, minimize and maximize buttons. The default window manager in Puppy is JWM. If you boot with no save file, everything should work properly. If it does work properly, then you have a problem with your save file. You can try fixing the configurati...

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my computer sounds like a jet taking off This is why Puppy was created. There was Knoppix, but, Knoppix had no persistence Knoppix tied up the optical drive. Knoppix was slow and noisy (because the optical drive is slow and noisy) Knoppix was not suitable for use as a daily driver (too slow and noi...

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