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it would be helpful, to know your system and your version of Jwm ;-)

I'm on Fossapup64 and had only troubles with jwm while
compiling / adding some things to it. Now It's ready, working, no crashes.

One tip 'in the blue sky' is, mostly the configfiles are the reason for troubles.

Jwm starts with ...

my experiences:
I use Puppies long time. The first booted from CD
When I put that on my Harddisk, I take the bootparameter
as they were for CD-Boot.

the 4.12puppy was very quiiickkkk :-)

but what I don't had recognized: the whole sfs-file
was copied to RAM.

So check what gets written at bootup ...

my experiences with fossapup64 running frugal without a save-file are:
mostoften the probs are the handling of real-ram and swapspace-ram.
If my Ram (4GB) gets hardly used, the system begins to swap out,
copies lots of Data out of Ram to swapspace, if you go back to an
other application, the sytem ...

Hi all :-)

As I worked with Upup-EF, I had also problems configuring the mouse senitivity.
There I changed the script /usr/sbin/input-wizard :-)
The changed version you can download at http://www.eastler.de/tmp/input-wizard

Save that script (in Browsermenu page save as.... ) anywhere (but not at ...

A way to find xorg.conf:

go to terminal,
root in ~ #: cd /
root in / #: find * -iname xorg.conf

hope it helps - Eastler

hm, if I'm right in my older times working with Bios,
than its normal, that switch on, fan begins to run,
and after a short time it stops.
You switch on, for security fan gets started,
the bios loads complete, gets Info about the
temperature of the cpu -oh its cold- no fan needed
at the moment ...

to edit the content of an sfs file:
Copy the sfs to a (new empty?) directory,
jump in console which cds in that directory,
and type: unsquashfs [your].sfs
In that directory comes a new folder, named squashfs-root,
in which the whole content of your sfs lays editable as files.

After you have done ...

if I understand all here right, then you open a png file,
work with it and then you want to save it as jpg, right?

In that case, its not the 'Defaut of mtpaint' to store in png-format,
it is because the opened file was already a png.

Same, if you create a new blanc image to paint in it.
The 'new ...

puhhh, I'm ready with the programmings.

Had done greater changes to jwm, so that
the Hotkeys for the Window-menu can be
defined in .jwmrc.
And, additionally jwm shows Hotkey-letters
in the Win-meny, they also can be defined
in .jwmrc.
This all should work if you, or if you not
use gettext ...

It seems to be a frugal-install, a full install (as I know from older puppies)
dosn't load the puppy....sfs files.

There are many possibilities causing that error

I think first you have to check, if the change to that error
is in your savefolder.
Your screenshot shows, that this is
[sda1 ...

. .. . I have to go to supermarket and by a new brain . . . :o

Sorry, what I didn't have done is a deep test of the new jwm.
Yesterday I saw, it doesn't do all like I want.
There are conflicts with the actual state of the window,
so that restore and maximize doesn't do their job
in every ...

on the Desktop, have a window of a programm (Geany, Console etc) open,
press leftAlt+Space and release them, the windowmenu should open (as if you rightclick in the Windowtitlebar),
now, when Windowmenu is open and active it listen to the keyboard and should
react on single n key with minimize and ...

here ist the petfile with ONLY the binary
(you need to have jwm with all his config-/imge- files in your system)
http://eastler.de/tmp/jwm-2.4.2_WithKeyCodeWinMenu_onlyTheBinary.pet

You can check it with
jwm -h
in console, the output should be:
#: jwm -h
JWM v2.4.2 by Joe Wingbermuehle
with ...

oh, damned, my brain :thumbdown:

There is a much easier way: The Var $$

for example go in a shell, do:
echo "$$"
it shows the pid :-)

to get it in a var you can do:
myVar=$(echo "$$")

if you need that in called commands/scripts
you have to export the var
myVar=$(echo "$$"); export myVar ...

an used way to get the pid of a called command/script is
to put the content of var $! immediately after the call anywhere.

let's say for example we call a second urxvt:
urxvt

When it starts, the var $! gots filled with the pid.
To set that content anywhere, we have to say
the commandcalling part ...

many thanks for your answers.

At the moment I had only little time.
Tried to load additional modules, all which seem to belong to 'reading disks'
but no success, whether in normal menu comandlist nor in comandlist with the legacy_* commands.

But I have written down the detailed Error message :D ...

Hello all :-)

on my Lappy are many Puppies, also an old one, I think it's name was Puppy 4.20,
installed as fullinstall on a own Partition.

after that I also installed PrecisePuppy, which was the one I worked with.
Online Banking wants a 64-bit OS, so there comes Tahr-Puppy,
only used for banking ...

Yeah
as expectet, with the sources of JWM_2.4.2 (got from archive.ubuntu.com)
all works as whished
And that sources comes with a .configure Script,
the 2.4.0 before didn't had any.

Great Thanks again for your help

very interesting answers :-)

Great thanks Jasper. Allthough I did not change any config files
(I simply swap new and original /usr/bin/jwm), it gave me the
hint, to check, which config files the new jwm uses :-)
but no luck, the new one uses the same configs as the original.

Great thanks to Dry ...

Hello all :-)

in the puppy 'Fossapup64'
i had self compiled the windowmanager jwm,
with some edits in the source, to get
hotkeys in the Window/System-menu.

The sources are from packages.ubuntu.com, jwm-2.4.0
should be the same, as installed in original FossaPup.

After compile, and copy the ...

:o :o :o :o :o
boahhhhh, havn't seen the wood because of the trees in front of it :cry: :cry: :cry:


the solution was e2fsck on the boot-partition, where the Fossapup64-files are stored / booted from

It was no mistake in the Puppysystem, there were errors on the harddrive


Thanks for your ...

additional infos, just found:

it's not only defaultbrowser, which gets changed, here a little table with some examples, what gets changed:

File | in puppy...sfs | after boot in running Sys ...

Hello all :-)

Since many days | some weeks I'm looking for the reason of a mystic change of /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser.
Seen maaaanyyy files, didn't find the place, where it gets changed :-(.

What I had done:
- Taken Fossapup64-9, did some changes in the puppy...sfs, most optical things, all ...

Hatte auch so ein Open-GL-Problem mit einem Acer,
allerdings mit dem 32bittigen UpupEF.

Somit kann ich dir meinen Neuen Kernel nicht anbieten,
(zumal der noch nicht ganz fertig ist, eine Sparlösung davon läuft derzeit)
du brauchst 64bit.

Poste mal bitte deine /etc/X11/xorg.conf daß ich vielleicht ...

. . . for newest blender on grafic-hardware, which doesn't do OpenGL => 3

simply start blender (2.93) with a script, its content should be:

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true ./blender

( = put in the environment-Variable
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE
the value: true
and start blender
It starts in all cases ...

. . . Seamonkey 2.46 is now 5 years old . . .

for long time, I didn't update Seamonkey above 2.46,
because the newer ones feel big and blow up on my
old Lappy, 32-bit Puppy (Precise and Tahr...)
(Cpu is 64bit, but Ram ist max 4GB)

some time ago, when I 'worked' at my new UpupEF-Puppy 32bit,
I ...

hello all,

Im not sure with your Puppy-Version,
I had read something about UpupBB, which is based on Bionic.

If you have UpupBB, then its the same as i my UpupEF:
The standardbrowser is stored in the file
adrv_upupef_20.04.sfs
in the same place, where the booting puppy_upupef_20.04.sfs stays ...

there are paremeters at boot-time to give puppy.

for Puppy 4.12 Linux 3.9.11 [i686 arch] grub has in his menu.lst:
-> title PuppyDEas008pre1 (sda3/full)
-> root (hd0,2)
-> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ahci=on uhci=on ehci=on noacpi

ahci uhci ehci = USB
good try is noacpi

Didn't test if ...

ohhh, win is now 11 ? ups. here I have a XP - but don't know if it already starts,
since Puppy I do not need them.

I love the Puppies, because they start from a sfs-file.
All your changes of systemvalues are stored in a separate file,
if you choose that at shutdown puppy.

I do not save at the ...

You are right :-)

with *.png-Format it works - as long as the transparency-index is >= 0
The transparency-Index is the Color-Number in the "Palette" left side of mtpaint.
As long as the image is in Palette-Format (indexed), you can find the color-index-number for transparency there.
If you choose ...