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by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:17 pm
Forum: Re-masters
Topic: 10wt3ch and his latest distro? [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 65

Re: 10wt3ch and his latest distro?



It appears he is not on the forum member list anymore.

I downloaded his latest iso audio distro, but I was looking for the topic again and can't find it now.

Anyone have info on locating it/him?


It appears you have the name wrong, it's lowercase L.

Link to the latest release:
https ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:15 pm
Forum: Re-masters
Topic: jackalpup 0.0 - (rc3) plug and play audio puplet
Replies: 123
Views: 24919

Re: jackalpup 0.0 - (rc3) plug and play audio puplet


The only things I wish were part of it would be a layer wine-staging for yabridge use and a way to install wineasio.

What is the name of the dock animations and how did you do the glassy icons?


okay, like I stated above, this jackalpup distro is out of date on many levels, and no longer ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:13 pm
Forum: Re-masters
Topic: 10wt3ch and his latest distro? [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 65

10wt3ch and his latest distro? [SOLVED]

It appears he is not on the forum member list anymore.

I downloaded his latest iso audio distro, but I was looking for the topic again and can't find it now.

Anyone have info on locating it/him?

by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:07 pm
Forum: Re-masters
Topic: jackalpup 0.0 - (rc3) plug and play audio puplet
Replies: 123
Views: 24919

Re: jackalpup 0.0 - (rc3) plug and play audio puplet


@puddlemoon
Thank you for such an awesome remaster project!
It has nearly everything I could want for a distribution.
The only things I wish were part of it would be a layer wine-staging for yabridge use and a way to install wineasio.
What is the name of the dock animations and how did you do the ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:37 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"
Replies: 433
Views: 142471

Re: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"


What does all of this have to do with AI? :roll: :?: :?: :?: :?:


Within the details of that fine work of mine, The Great ISM War, are described the origins of the technate and Elon Musk's family roots in Technocracy Incorporated (a company that really existed.)

Of course AI is integral to the ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:32 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"
Replies: 433
Views: 142471

Re: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"


A nice analogy of the various ideologies of our times. This is exactly similar to explanation of the opposing discussions of Socrates and Plato...
Your article is clear and centers around a power struggle of the varied "isms" in a somewhat complicated tug of war....

Thanks for the thoughtful ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:55 am
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"
Replies: 433
Views: 142471

Re: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"


Our future, from my point of view, is one of dispair...

...The US's exposure is a re-enforced determination that greed (aka capitalism wearing a cloak of Democracy) will be the only way forward. Greed is the way forward for their leader and Fascism it their implementation via their War machine ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:52 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Area
Topic: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"
Replies: 433
Views: 142471

Re: AI is not coming, "THEY'RE HERE!"


I agree with you Clarity. The underlying problem is quite simple, really: greed.


But the levels of "greed" go far deeper than money.

The super rich don't need anymore money, what money means to them is something entirely different, i.e. power -- the use of humanity's resources to control ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:17 pm
Forum: F96-CE
Topic: Where to install HP printer driver? Into Fossapup64 CE or CUPS?[SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 116

Re: Where to install HP printer driver? Into Fossapup64 CE or CUPS?


I moved 'hplip-3.25.2' and 'hplip-3.25.2 run' away from Downloads to an external storage drive.
An error message appears when the script 'hplip-3.25.2 run' is activated. The message is "HPLIP-Install should not be placed as root". I chose not to continue.
How do I get the new driver into ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:59 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: FreeTube SFS - watch videos
Replies: 28
Views: 6780

Re: FreeTube SFS - watch videos


At 0.23.3.

All previous versions removed as they no longer work.


I've been using the portable versions from the FreeTube website, but it seems like every couple months youtube does something that breaks freetube and within 48 hours or so the freetube guys fix it.

I'm really spoiled using ...
by geo_c
Mon Mar 24, 2025 8:49 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Necessary basic QT6 libraries for average QT6 apps? [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 156

Re: Necessary basic QT6 libraries for average QT6 apps?


So, the compiler will tell you which modules are required when it fails to build.

This is for Qt6.8

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtmodules.html

If you start your application in terminal it should spit out the errors and you can then add the modules required.


I'm not actually building any ...
by geo_c
Mon Mar 24, 2025 4:09 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Necessary basic QT6 libraries for average QT6 apps? [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 156

Necessary basic QT6 libraries for average QT6 apps? [SOLVED]

As per my post on running Double Commander-portableQT6 in Airedale and Spectr here: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=14080

I'm following up.

It seems in Airedale, QT6-core and QT6-network along with one or two other QT6 libs were already installed on the system after all.

I went ...
by geo_c
Mon Mar 24, 2025 1:19 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently? [SOLVED] YES
Replies: 8
Views: 335

Re: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently?



I made the statements I did, acknowledging my lack of knowledge. ;)


OP had a simple question which has a simple answer.

If you don't know the answer, I don't understand why you're trying to answer it based on false or unrelated information. Suggesting that Qt5 and Qt6 are compatible (which ...
by geo_c
Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:20 pm
Forum: BookwormPup
Topic: Is undelete possible?
Replies: 54
Views: 1678

Re: Is undelete possible?


PS. @geo_c
If you respond to this post, I will not be reading it, nor any of your future posts.


I humbly respect the decision. The original plan to endeavor to keep quiet was perhaps the best strategy after all.

A Syllogism
a) It is my duty to speak up about "common sense issues"
b) "Common ...
by geo_c
Sun Mar 23, 2025 10:41 am
Forum: BookwormPup
Topic: Is undelete possible?
Replies: 54
Views: 1678

Re: Is undelete possible?


If you wish to contribute to a puppy build (or another distro at this forum), asking a question in a development thread "how can I become an effective tester?" would be useful.
Sometimes testing by "newbys" brings fresh insights to developers and experienced users alike, you do seem to have a ...
by geo_c
Sun Mar 23, 2025 1:13 am
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently? [SOLVED] YES
Replies: 8
Views: 335

Re: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently?

Everything I'm reading, which are mostly forum posts discussing software compatibility and backward compatibility between Qt5 and Qt6 seems to me to be indicating that both of them don't exactly coexist in the same environment.

It looks to me like upgrading to Qt6 means you're running Qt6.

But I ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:27 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently? [SOLVED] YES
Replies: 8
Views: 335

Re: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently?


Boot either of your KDE ISOs, install Double Commander, does it work? If so, this offers some insight. If you boot their ISO files, the time to do it and test is less that 2-3 minutes, max.

This may not be helpful, yet would be insightful as future KLs may all advance to QT6 as well as GTK4 only ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:00 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently? [SOLVED] YES
Replies: 8
Views: 335

Safe to install QT5 and QT6 concurrently? [SOLVED] YES

I'll post here since I'm running KLV-airedale and KLV-spectr playing around with portable versions of Double Commander

My installs are running QT5 and I haven't installed QT6, and it seems that portable DoubleCommander doesn't find libraries it needs.

Is it safe to install QT6 along side QT5?

A ...
by geo_c
Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:03 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Double Commander (file manager)
Replies: 2
Views: 209

Been using this for a day or so now, and it's very nice.

It's a great combination of many of the features of some of my favorite file managers. Like a cross between Midnight Commander, Xfe, Ranger, pcmanfm.

It's tabbed, does file previews, uses function key operation, highly customizeable both in ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:01 pm
Forum: BookwormPup
Topic: Does anyone have a work-around for the right-click file handling behavior in Rox? [unresolved]
Replies: 74
Views: 2091

Re: Does anyone have a fix for the right-click file handling error in Rox?




8<----snip

"The reluctance for people (in general) to acknowledge the obvious astounds me." -Governor


True statement, IMO. Many people (in general) have a problem with that. Not a secret.


A Syllogism:
a) I know something about what is obvious to me
b) I know nothing about what is ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:33 pm
Forum: BookwormPup
Topic: Does anyone have a work-around for the right-click file handling behavior in Rox? [unresolved]
Replies: 74
Views: 2091

Re: Does anyone have a fix for the right-click file handling error in Rox?




The reluctance for people (in general) to acknowledge the obvious astounds me.


Lurker here, but can't resist the urge to chime in. Allow me to state "the obvious" ...

In a nutshell, you want to use rox in double-click mode, while simultaneously expecting rox to operate in a quasi single ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:48 pm
Forum: BookwormPup
Topic: Is undelete possible?
Replies: 54
Views: 1678

Re: Is undelete possible?


It is not so simple for me to change OS. It took me two years to get to this point with first fossapup and now bookworm, and I do not relish the though of starting over again with a yet another OS. Also, my portable apps would likely be null and void.


A few things about puppy have been pointed ...
by geo_c
Fri Mar 21, 2025 1:10 pm
Forum: BookwormPup
Topic: Does anyone have a work-around for the right-click file handling behavior in Rox? [unresolved]
Replies: 74
Views: 2091

Re: Does anyone have a fix for the right-click file handling error in Rox? [unresolved]


Endlessly talking about this issue becomes very boring IMO.


Governor

In addition to what fredx181 said, here are three things to consider :

1) Since MochiMoppel took the time to read the manual and discover that the behavior you point out is in fact the intended Rox behavior, and it's not ...
by geo_c
Thu Mar 20, 2025 11:01 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Kennel Linux
Replies: 86
Views: 10431

Re: Kennel Linux

That looks really good! Easy to navigate.

by geo_c
Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:29 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Double Commander (file manager)
Replies: 2
Views: 209

Re: Double Commander (file manager)

This looks really nice!

I haven't tested and run anything, but downloaded portable gtk2, qt6, and appimages and booted up portable gtk2 on KLV-airedale!

It looks like a nice cross between Xfe and midnight commander, and running gtk2 uses the system theme. The top bar has all my loaded KL layers in ...
by geo_c
Wed Mar 19, 2025 10:48 pm
Forum: Desktop
Topic: pekwm Windows Manager as an option in Puppy Linux
Replies: 4
Views: 227

Re: pekwm Windows Manager as an option in Puppy Linux


@geo_c Cortile with xfce4 is the better option for sure. I really like it and the boost in organizing potential during critical phases o f work is significant. Once one gets hang of the controls and how to use it. Love the diagonal bottom corner mouse gestures to alter the size of the focused tile ...
by geo_c
Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:27 pm
Forum: Desktop
Topic: pekwm Windows Manager as an option in Puppy Linux
Replies: 4
Views: 227

Re: pekwm Windows Manager as an option in Puppy Linux


First compile it or maybe try the binaries first with Puppy Linux.....maybe NoblePup64.......a little side project....... :geek: :shock:


It does look like an intersting window manager. I wonder how well it would play with cortile, which I have been keeping updated and running in KLV-airedale ...
by geo_c
Wed Mar 19, 2025 7:21 pm
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Kennel Linux
Replies: 86
Views: 10431

Re: Kennel Linux



And it would be nice if every time you hovered over certain areas, giant pop-ups cover the entire screen with tiny cancel buttons hidden in the corners.

That would bring it up to the level of most websites nowadays. :D


I have no idea what types of websites hide cancel buttons, to force you ...
by geo_c
Wed Mar 19, 2025 1:22 pm
Forum: Graphics/Video
Topic: FFMPEG desktop recording / streaming
Replies: 4
Views: 185

Re: FFMPEG desktop recording / streaming


@hikohan - s15pup64 (& some other pups) have ffconvert in the Multimedia menu. This also has an option to screen-capture. Not all settings are straightforward, but I found with preset mp4, changing detail to mpeg4 video & aac sound produces decent mp4's. Fossapup64 & Bookwormpup64 have Simple ...
by geo_c
Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:47 am
Forum: KL-Dev_Work
Topic: Kennel Linux
Replies: 86
Views: 10431

Re: Kennel Linux



I feel that the light theme is too light and could, potentially, damage a users eye sight, especially if their laptop screen is fully turned up to 800nits! On the other hand I do tend to think the dark theme is too dark in the domain of modern linux desktops and could potentially make users feel ...

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