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theroar84

Thanks for all the tips. I missed fat 32 before "boot partition". Sorry about that. It is CE4.

Asus Model is UL50A

I used diskpup. Did not modify the bootloader at all. Just put it on the 250meg fat 32 partition. Confirmed msdos, not gpt.

The only os on the machine is Puppy.

Will double check ...

theroar84

I have an Asus laptop that I added Fossa 96 CE to. Simple Fast Frugal. SSD with a fat 32 boot partition and the rest is ext 4. For some reason it has a 10 minute pause during boot. 4 GB or ram. Intel Centrino.

I made this YouTube short that shows the boot in 40 seconds.
https://youtube.com/shorts ...

theroar84

I had a user ask about opening a docx file in Puppy so I created this video to make it as easy as I could.

https://youtu.be/t2_JsxMFBnw

Feel free to let me know if there are better ways. My school ditched Microsoft for Google about 10 years ago... I had not spent a moment thinking about docs since ...

theroar84

Simple steps to get a VM setup. A great way to explore different puppies.

theroar84

Bring a Laptop back to life. USB stick & Fossa96-CE. 9 minute video helps with creating a USB flash drive and getting Fossa installed via Frugal to the hard drive.

It's quite possibly the world's dustiest laptop screen too.

theroar84

Ahh! Screensaver Password! Thank you.

theroar84

I have a user who wants their laptop to wake up from being closed without needing a password.

I searched for password and sleep but nothing fit.

Any tips?

Thanks for your time.

theroar84

And... 1 hour later I find the Conky settings. Is there a bonus to changing the permissions over disabling in that tool?

theroar84

Thank you all! Love having all those options. 💯👍I consolidated the steps if anyone else is interested.

Changing the permissions of these 4 to non executable was simple enough. Thanks radky for the solution!

Rather than deleting the default conky executable scripts, you could make them non ...

theroar84

Simple steps to bring an ancient computer back to life using Fossa64 96-CE CD edition.
https://youtu.be/Fdrc-1WD4lw?si=3SjCUc7DIZ_6EzLw

My goal is clear and concise content. I always welcome feedback. I have learned a ton from this group and appreciate the tricks and tips that are shared.

This is ...

theroar84

I have a user that is bothered by this system info. I tried to search for it... but not knowing the name makes that really tough. =) Is it easy to disable?

theroar84

Thank you both.

fredx181 wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:19 pm
Great Video !!

Could not have done it without the fine work by you and Mike W.

theroar84

First, thank you to everyone here for answering questions so helpfully. I have learned so much from all of you.

I have started taking what I have gleaned and putting it on YouTube. My goal is clear and concise content.

Today's video walks through adding Chrome. It points at the forum, and gives ...

theroar84

Thanks for all the fantastic info! I always appreciate the assistance.

As far as the download, I grabbed CE from ibiblio directly. It would have been smarter to have used the links here. 🤦‍♂️

The links on the https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ were not functioning correctly that day ...

theroar84

I have used Fossa64 a ton. Just tried CA using a CD, but thought I would try USB too.

When I added the F96_CE_4 iso to Rufus it showed this warning message. Should I be switching to Bookworm? I made a USB with the latest iso of that and did not get a warning. Thanks in advance!

https://imgur.com ...

theroar84

This is my grub.cfg. Nothing fancy. It auto boots Fossa... but how would I code it to pick one of the 3 frugal installs automatically? I can create code for a random number, but I do not understand how to send the 1, 2, or 3 to the system.

Any tips? Thanks for your time.

#
set default=0
set ...

theroar84

I am stuck it seems. The user in the post below does not seem to be using Puppy, so I could not find the files in the locations they have shared. (Edit /etc/default/grub and add the following line:)

I would still love to have the Frugals picked by day of the week... but I am now flexible and ...

theroar84

Thanks tons! Good point on accidentally deleting stuff. I will keep that in mind.

theroar84

In Windows I can hold Shift and Delete an item without confirmations. Is there a key I can hold while choosing delete in puppy to get a similar experience? I have tried Shift, but no joy...

Currently I have to click these after choosing delete.

theroar84

Thanks for explaining it. 👍 Makes sense now. With my lack of knowledge, but willingness to guess and check, I can get a ways... but I am always missing the building blocks.

My reason for pushing that window so far to the right has to do with screen real estate. I have several scripts stored in ...

theroar84

This code worked great. You were spot on about rox not being able to go to 200... turns out all I was doing to get the result I wanted was to move the window so far to the right that I had the 200 pixels I wanted visible. I swapped the rightmargin 50 with a -150 and it works perfectly.

The line ...

theroar84

Thanks so much for the scripts and tips! I have no idea what I was thinking with how I first titled the post. Thanks for cleaning that up as well.

I like the options with the code. It is very possible the script I had is stopping at 236 and I just could not tell the difference... 🤦‍♂️

Thanks again ...

theroar84

I want a script that launches the /mnt/home location (drive partition) and moves it to a spot on my desktop. Currently I modify the script for pc's with different monitor sizes/desktops.

#!/bin/bash
rox -d /mnt/home
xdotool search " */mnt/home" windowactivate windowsize %@ 200 600 windowmove 1150 ...

theroar84

Thanks for all the input. Pschedule is slick, but I like being able to take my working root and just move it to the other Pupsaves.

Will see which tips work better for me. Thanks Herrbert and Trapster for the options!

theroar84

I have created a chron schedule that I use on a few PC's with multiple Fossa64 frugal installs per pc. I created a script that will copy the new root into the chron folder. Works like a champ, but I have found that the previous chron schedule still runs until I reboot.

Is there a restart chron ...

theroar84

This is the fixed script.

#!/bin/bash

y=250
for (( j=0; j<3; j++ ))
do
x=450
for (( i=0; i<4; i++ ))
do
xdotool mousemove $x $y
sleep 1
xdotool click --delay 800 1
sleep 1
x=$(( x + 175 ))
done
y=$(( y + 175 ))
done

ChatGPT even explained the fixes...
Replaced lt with < in the loop ...

theroar84

I think I am all set. I posted my code to ChatGPT and it actually converted it to a script that is not popping errors anymore. I will keep you posted if I get it all working like I expect in a bit.

Thanks again for the help.

theroar84

I would like a script that can use xdotool with variables.

This is a sample of what I have created. I have been searching for the correct way to setup a loop with variables that grow in a bash script. Any tips that can get me moving in the right direction would be awesome!

#!/bin/bash
y=250
for ...

theroar84

Thanks tons for all the input. I almost did not post it as I figured it was just not possible before the sys booted.

Thanks again. Will share if I get it all working as expected.

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