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Would you mind very much clarifying this for me? What EXACTLY is it that this final "$@" does When you launched your old script with LAUNCH www.google.com www.bing.com , the browser (hopefully) would start with a Google and a Bing tab. You passed the URLs to your script and the script automatically ...

Okay.....gotcha. No "$@" inside a function..! That's NOT what I suggested Just tried it with that bit commented out; starts & runs happily, so....fair enough Runs happily? Not as happy as before, because now you can't start your script with a passed URL anymore. Heh. O-kayyy... One step forward ...

MochiMoppel :- Good morning, Mochi. https://i.postimg.cc/MH8Y4dHX/hattip.gif I've got two examples (both of which WILL work, apparently). Apparently? You've got "$@" parameters at the end of your command. Be aware that these are NOT the same parameters as you would use in your main script. Unless ...

I had found this a while back on the intel website (my cpu is the n3350) audo-firmware-blah-blah-n3350-processor-on-yocto-project I'm not sure what the phrase "on-yocto-project" means but the *zip file has a *tar and some documentation. There are some *.bin files in the "driver" folder.... and some ...

fredx181 :- Yup; take your point about the final exec clause. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is there for older Pups that need the additional dependencies; the final 'catch-all' is for newer Pups that already have it all built-in. No, the YAD script doesn't need a 'function'. You're right about that... Mike ...

fredx181 :- Fred; thank you , mate. That's EXACTLY what I wanted to know! :thumbup: Just a couple of points. Would it be okay to combine the LD_LIBRARY_PATH stuff with the exec line, all in the same function.......or would it be technically more correct to keep them separate (as in your example ...

Trapster :- Have a squizz through the attached 'LAUNCH' script. I've got several others that are similar; this is just an example. You'll see the same identical clause repeated several times.....once for each 'if...then' condition. (The '--switches' aren't just 'virtually the same', they are the ...

MochiMoppel :- Hallo, Mochi. Okay. Well, 'functions' are a new one for me; I've seen them used in various scripts over the years, but at those times didn't really know what they were OR what they were supposed to be doing. Now; following this tutorial here:- https://linuxize.com/post/bash-functions ...

Morning, gang, I'm attempting to tidy-up some of my portable-browser 'LAUNCH' scripts by using the case statement. At present, depending on the Puppy in question, various options - including whether the included 'lib' directory is required or not - are handled by long strings of "if....then....else ...

@sonny @bigpup This program is OK if you want to install a Puppy version on a USB drive to try it out. There are some Puppy versions that will not work with Etcher, so best not to recommend it unless success has been confirmed. Also, users will have a difficult time reformatting the ISO9660 back to ...

This program is OK if you want to install a Puppy version on a USB drive to try it out. But it formats the drive in a read only iso9660 format. The complete drive is read only. Most of the drive is unusable for anything. ....which is why I stick with UNetbootin, despite that most reckon it's 'old ...

clm1919 :- Heh. Oh, we know ALL about Ventoy. At least one member here thinks it's the best thing that ever happened for distro-hoppers.... https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8677 Me, I've tried it.......and personally, I can't see what all the fuss is about. But then, my distro-hopping ...

Governor :- Getting back to the serious stuff now, let me ask you a question (you may have stated this elsewhere in other posts/threads, but I've not been following the saga right from the beginning and in all honesty I'm completely lost in the sea of problems you've been reporting). Picking up on ...

tryPuppy :- Okay. Bear in mind that I state, once again, that I'm no "expert".....although I HAVE picked up a few things in over a decade with Puppy. (best logic here---but guessing) NONE of them tried so far give you the *OPTION* (no CHOICE @ startup) so either, 1) detected, or 2) setup 1 way ...

"Round and round the mulberry bush...."

Here we go AGAIN. Oh, boy.....

I can't believe it's possible for anyone to have so many "issues" in such a relatively short space of time.

Mike.

buggingmjjjn :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels"! Mm: well..... TBH, you should be okay with the 470-series driver....specifically, 470.256.02 :- https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/226760/en-us/ I have a 'silent', passive-cooler GT710.....the 'poor man's' relation to yours ...

In all honesty, it DOES kinda "beg the question", doesn't it; how the hell does an anonymous, random pop-up KNOW that your system is "infected".....unless IT has something to do with it in the first place? Simple common sense will tell you that (and this one is glaringly obvious to anyone with half ...

@Jasper :-

Edited to remove the "spam info" that was added. See above.

I can't really ban the poster for this because it WAS their first infraction.....and it wasn't even an actual link. Not yet, anyway....!

Mike.

geo_c :- Looking into this further, you may find this worth a read:- https://linux.die.net/man/7/symlink .....or you can access it via man 7 symlink ...in the terminal (opens with your default browser). Other reading suggests that, although in theory Linux will traverse any number of sym-links till ...

tryPuppy :- I think it's true to say that there is no Puppy produced either now, or in the distant past, that will ONLY boot with UEFI. All Puppies/Dogs/others supported here on the forum can - and will - boot from either MBR or UEFI, starting with the Tahrpups (c. 2014 - about 10 yrs ago). Prior ...

TBH, the only 'security' item I ever install is AdGuard. I visit all kinds of sites, and I don't go out of my way to be "careful", either. In over a decade with Puppy, not once have I ever had any kind of issue with 'nasties'.

Perhaps I'm getting overconfident.....

Mike.

geo_c :- Should work OK IF it's always the same KL variant, I would have thought. But; a word of caution. Sym-linking doesn't always work quite the way you think it's going to.... I have personal experience of this! :roll: Still, sounds like you have plenty of "originals" to fall back to. Give it a ...

I have the system installed fine , full install , not "frugal" Jasonbc :- I'm sure it's not what you want to hear, but that ↑↑ right there ↑↑ is more than likely the issue here. The "frugal" install is equivalent to a 'full' install in every way. Almost everything packaged and/or developed for Puppy ...

Try here: https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=111376 Yes, I think so too that's about the problem (grub4dos doesn't like booting from ext4 partition formatted with '64-bitness') read the post(s) there from the old forum for a possible fix. Yup; have to agree with this assessment. And ...

williwaw :- I've only once found a "special" SATA-to-USB 3.0 cable to be needed. Shortly before the old Compaq desktop rig expired in early 2020, I'd treated her to a brand-new DVD/CD re-writer. This unit, a LiteOn tray-loader, was hardly used.......so I decided to re-purpose it as an "external ...

jp734 :- Y'know, this is starting to look more and more like it's to do with the "bridge" card. I'm assuming this is a 2.5-inch HDD - one of the small ones you can put in your pocket - like a WD 'MyPassport' or summat similar? These things have what's known as a "bridge card", plugged-in to the HDD ...

jp734 :- Hmm. Sounds familiar, somehow... Haven't done so for a while, but going back several years when I was still running Ubuntu and a few of the 'flavours' from the internal drive on the old Compaq desktop rig, I'd just bought a Seagate external USB 3.0 portable HDD. Around the same time, I ...

Afternoon, gang. As suggested by fredx181 , I'm giving this one its own thread.....to save it from getting "lost" as just a reply to someone else's thread. "SimpleVideoTrimmer" https://i.postimg.cc/Fs8LrV26/Screenshot-436.png Inspired by greengeek 's "VidXtractor" - nice one, Ian! :thumbup: - I ...

Chelsea80 :- Ah, good, good. Glad to hear it's working now. Sorry about any "kerfuffle", but despite the small size I had in fact zipped this one. IF anything I publish just has a 'false' suffix on the end, I will always make this clear. There's not much to it; it's basically just a bunch of ...

Chelsea80 :- Umm.....you've caught me there. You're getting no response at all? Can't be YAD that's the problem, because the GUI has appeared... I'd advise re-downloading it, because it's undergone a few alterations this evening, but as to why you're not getting anything happening beats me. Could ...