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If there was a way of prioritizing the lxterminal process or reserving memory/CPU for it that might be even better than fixing the bug. All versions of puppylinux I've used seem to rarely crash, but to often let some application use up all the system resources until the mouse can't be moved to ...

PuppyandCo,

In the desktop image you posted.
I see other stuff running in other virtual desktops. It shows you have 4 virtual desktops.
What is running in the other virtual desktops?



on that screenshot it would have been jwm folder windows
usually there is Thunderbird, Firefox, and sometimes ...

hi yes, at least I think so - ppm is now showing ff62 rather than 92 but I guess the upgrade done inside the app doesn't update the list in ppm

https://i.ibb.co/d4Jbh2X/firefoxuninst.png

FF is usually the only program running when this happens. It does seem to happen more when I have Qoppa ...

I use Tor Browser as a fallback for Firefox

- they are nearly the same in how they work so I don't have to learn much new stuff
- Tor Browser is less "instally" and just runs out of whatever folder the files are sat in
- Tor Browser often continues working when Firefox breaks, whether it is ...

I use an old (~2014) laptop for web browsing and writing.
This might not be a full list.
I'm not necessarily recommending them to anybody.
Many are unduly difficult to install or have astonishing drawbacks.

Things I find essential:-
Firefox
Thunderbird
Tor Browser
Qoppa PDFStudio (licenced ...

After reinstalling from the Quickpet it's doing the same thing but with slightly different error messages.

as you said, apulse no longer needs to be entered - and links in Thunderbird work again as they hadn't been, so that's something



###!!! [Child][RunMessage] Error: Channel closing: too late ...

I was using puppy on modern hardware... but then the hardware wasn't modern anymore ^^

For me the priority is portability - I can put a puppy usb into any PC at home or at work and it's got a configured desktop/apps/etc
Also backup:- if anything on the USB breaks it can be recovered from a disk ...

bigpup wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:16 pm

Firefox 92.0 was installed how?
Specific details?
Is this a Windows version of Firefox or a Linux version?
Is Wine installed or was it ever installed and uninstalled?

Firefox 92.0 installed from Puppy Package Manager
Linux version
Wine is available if the windows version is better?

Has anyone seen this Firefox / X error before on Puppy?
I eventually get crashes in most sessions: the memory (and I think also CPU) usage shoots up, and unless Firefox is closed quickly enough it prevents the mouse moving, the X session being changed, or a keyboard shortcut I have set up to "kill ...

Actually for a Puppy solution for all modern WoofCE released PUPs,
[...]
Puppy developers did all the work in December 2019 so its there if you choose to take advantage.


Most of the official isos offered on www.puppylinux.com are older than December 2019 though.

(Straight away they're undated ...

wouldn't charging for puppy in an ISO automatically breach GPL? It wouldn't matter what else was added to the GPL code inside the ISO, any GPL code in a software product makes the product (in this case the ISO) subject to GPL, this is the whole point of GPL

pre-installed puppies must overcome the ...

there is Boot-from-LAN, soon maybe Boot-from-WEB

keep puppies in the cloud and scan their addresses into the BIOS with a 2D barcode

As to the marketing - this should align to where the value is created, which I think for Puppy is in freedom and versatility, being able to quickly/conveniently make task-dedicated PCs for any conceivable role, and with root as single-user for those who prefer this to the other Linuxes. And for your ...

like Strelec but a puppy, and paid-for?

https://sergeistrelec.ru/bootable_flash/

Windows shouldn't need to be backed up - users only need it for the few things we can't Puppify.

It's one of the most useable fileservers - requiring no configuration to turn anything made since ~2010 into a solid ...

The reason for Clementine is it's more of a jukebox than just a player

Bionic was the newest official 32-bit version I saw on the homepage - I haven't looked through forum though

The wmas might have been differently formatted - I've read there is a lossless version (.wmal ?) that it definitely can ...

Do users update their WinOS beyond the service packs & auto updates, or do they just buy a new machine?


This depends doesn't it? Each windows release they try to support 'enough' existing users' hardware, and 'most' of those users will update to the new version.

Win11 seems likely to have ...

is this test-marketing? I can't see what the Puppy USB would do to recover Windows - is it like the Windows 7 recovery disk but more verbose, less likely to crash, quicker?

as to backup, the desktop paradigm is changed by puppy more radically - I don't need to back up my Windows pcs any more as my ...

This is on BionicPup32, in an x86 machine. I don't think I can use Strawberry as a more up-to-date alternative because there are only 64-bit packages

This is a common error I've seen it before and it is on many forums for many distros

I've installed the (opaquely nomenclatured) good, bad and ugly ...

And a Puppy ISO used to be 100MB. Now it's 400MB. Talk about bloat!

What happened to the good old days when Puppy would run on a Pentium II with 128MB RAM?


The penalties and risks of carrying on using that PC in 2021 are small though. As the junk PCs pile up, I stop wanting 1 updated PC that ...

This relates to older versions of Puppy e.g. BionicPup32

The Simple Samba Management tool has slots for three shares, but can additional shares be added easily to smb.conf, e.g. by just copying and pasting one of the three existing entries and giving it a new name?

The tool seems like it might ...

(WORK IN PROGRESS)

Similar to my last post about problems installing Bionic64 to ssd.
I have Bionic32 installed to usb and am trying to frugal install to an internal blank SSD

The first time the installer only added the sfs files to the ssd, no actual linux files. I copied these across from the ...

I today tried to do a frugal install of Puppy to a Samsung EVO 850 (120GB) SSD.

The installation options for this are not reasonably clear, which should be considered a bug. :!:
The options provided under Menu>Setup>Puppy Installer are:-
Universal Installer or Install to Flash Drive... I choose ...

In case anyone else googles to this due to similar problems:-

The Aspire E13 ES1-311-C4Q6 is quite easy to open. The touchpad is underneath the battery which is very long and flat, and totally unmarked, the battery is held in with just a couple of small screws at either end, plus some plastic clips ...

@PuppyandCo :-

Merely to satisfy my own curiosity, like.....what happens if you plug in & use a conventional USB mouse (wired OR wireless)?

Mike. ;)


using a wired usb mouse and not touching the touchpad seemed better at first - but when the touchpad would glitch, the wired mouse freezes up ...

What are you using to move the mouse pointer around when this happens?

I assumed you had an external mouse plugged into the computer.

Go into the computers bios setup and see if it has any settings to enable/disable any of these built in controls.
The touchpad or the pointing stick.


touchpad ...

On other linux OSes, this type of problem can be caused by the touchpad driver, but I don't know how to troubleshoot this.

- with keyboards in x it is possible to visualize the keypresses in the terminal (which I think is by running a specific program) but is there is similar program to display or ...

I would like to understand more about this too

I remember puppy used to come with Xfce and liking it so much I moved from regular Ubuntu to X ubuntu because Gnome felt 'spongy' by comparison

Xfce I still use on my desktops and to me it's noticeably less responsive than JWM. Puppy actively switched ...

It turns out I can fix this and regain control of the mouse by using the laptop's Fn+F7 combination to turn the touchpad off and on again.

I don't know much about these keyboard shortcuts and whether they are handled by the OS at all or if they work at a lower level underneath it.

After this is ...

If I am using a mouse on a laptop.
I always turn off the touchpad.

It is easy to accidentally do something on the touchpad and have it try to take over control of the pointer.


On laptops like the Lenovo Thinkpad that have a touchpad and also a 'pointing stick' in the body of the keyboard, is ...

impossible to regain control of the mouse pointer, requiring a hard reset

You should be able to restart X (Xwindows, Xorg) by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X
then typing xwin then press the Enter/Return key to restart X (and the mouse).

If you kill X, you can type reboot, or poweroff to ...