Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

fredx181 :- We both posted at the same time! :D User :- Quite simple, really. The "pkg" script is called from /root/Startup.....by the script "PPMupdatedatabase". Just remove the 'Exec' permissions from this; rt-clk -> Properties. Untick all the 'Exec' boxes down the bottom, the...

boof :- Well, I'm not the moderator in question, so I don't even know what the original title WAS. Be that as it may, let's see if we can sort your actual issue out. Correct me if I'm wrong; it sounds like you've got a 'launcher dock' at the top of the screen.....and your taskbar is opening on top ...

I don't see the 2 Windows partitions here so maybe I have the wrong file? The menu.lst came from the 1st partition (Windows Vista) root folder. Nope, that's perfectly normal. Puppy's build of Grub4DOS modified the source code somewhat to allow searching two layers deep for a bootable kernel - inste...

It's been under test for quite some time because on the odd occasion, it tells you everything's been updated, then immediately turns round and tells you - at the next launch - that a new version is ready for download.....as though the update never occurred. HAHA.. funny coincident that I just PM'd ...

Right, boys & girls. Now then:- The auto-updater is now back again, thanks to the ever-resourceful fredx181 .....who took it upon himself to get it all functional again, then presented me with it as a fait accompli about 6 weeks ago - since when I've been testing it out. It's been under test for...

oliverjames :- Huh. We had a play around with NoMachine a while back.....it proved utterly impossible to get running by all the conventional methods. I - and others - just gave up on it as a bad job. For remote access, we tend to recommend AnyDesk nowadays. We used to have TeamViewer packages avail...

JusGellin :- As they come, OOTB, the Chrome, Brave and Ungoogled_Chromium 'portables' all run-as-spot, with their own self-contained, 'mini'-spot directories for the browser profile. The profile is written within the browser directory; any downloads, etc, are written to /home/spot (which is nowaday...

You can use the following as well, instead of mkdir -p /home/spot/.config/dunst/ && ln -s /root/.config/dunst/dunstrc /home/spot/.config/dunst/dunstrc : mkdir -p /etc/xdg/dunst rm -f /etc/xdg/dunst/dunstrc ln -s /root/.config/dunst/dunstrc /etc/xdg/dunst/dunstrc This links /root/.config/dun...

Guys:- Wouldn't the simplest & easiest way be to install Puppy to a good-quality flash drive.......followed by going into the BIOS/UEFI/whatever and setting the device boot order to be USB first, internal drive second? That way, you plug your Puppy flash drive in, it'll boot from that.......boot...

@fatdoguser :- Um....heh. Good guess, but no cigar. This is on a 1920x1080 22" LED monitor. It's simply the one that came with the HP Pavilion desktop rig when I bought it around 4 years ago. I'm curious as to what made you think this was a smaller monitor? What is it about the layout that sug...

sparky1234 :- :welcome: to the "kennels"! Pounds to peanuts Oz is right about the wifi firmware. Yes, eeePCs are different to most others.....but they're not THAT different. Most of the weirdness revolves around how tiny they were, and the ridiculous eMMC "hard drives" the early...

Jasper :- Personally, I tend to agree with bigpup on this one:- For me, the best network connection tool for Fossapup64 9.5, was the full version Network Wizard. .....although I'll go one further and say that I always use Network Wizard, regardless of Puppy - or generation - for the simple reason t...

fatdoguser :- Um....heh. Good guess, but no cigar. This is on a 1920x1080 22" LED monitor. It's simply the one that came with the HP Pavilion desktop rig when I bought it around 4 years ago. I'm curious as to what made you think this was a smaller monitor? What is it about the layout that sugg...

Clarity :- I cant see if something copied over wrong or if command use is wrong or ??? But, I think its an error that I created somehow. Nah. I doubt it. Some of those errors are a bit of a giveaway... What version of YAD d'you have installed in.....Slacko 7, I believe you use most? Pounds to peanu...

Personally, my take on the matter is that quantum computing will end up being just a massive "red herring".....and will eventually disappear into the mists of time along with so many OTHER "what-ifs" and "maybes" the tech world has been sidetracked by over the years... ...

@mikewalsh Thanks for the feedback ........ I am embarrassed to say I was working on a laptop at the time which was running UpupJammy64 not FP95 :oops: I have corrected my initial post and updated the details. Aaahh...... Actually, I doubt this would have worked anyway. We desktop guys have one maj...

Jasper :- O-kay. Had an issue with this last night before turning in, so I've returned to it today. I'm getting this Python error:- root# cd ~./nerd-dictation bash: cd: ~./nerd-dictation: No such file or directory root# cd ~/nerd-dictation root# ./nerd-dictation begin --vosk-model-dir=./model &...

ozsouth :- Hm. Interesting..... I've been in my much-modified Slacko 560 the last few days. When I first tried these out, yesterday, I wasn't getting any readings at all. Further investigation revealed that the version of PupSysInfo that came with this, OOTB, was version 2.3; it appears that at thi...

ozsouth / bigpup :- You could of course set this to run from an icon in the notification area. I do this a LOT for various wee utilities.....like the spot-to-root permissions changer for moving stuff in and out of spot, or the Inxi 'portable' systems profiler I posted about the other day (to name b...

Jasper :- Hm! "Sounds" interesting.... :lol: I may very well try this one out myself. Text-to-speech seems quite common - I have at least 3 Windows TTS apps running happily under WINE, including what used at one time to be the 'industry leader' in this field, TextAloud! (before Dragon Nat...

fredx181 :- Just a thought, Fred; I know the Dogs are rather outside of my experience, but would the portable builds I put together using the AppImages trister found for us on Github work here without messing about too much? https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=1754 As I said, it's just an ...

Mike, no need to do anything. You may have already sorted it. It is now --as it should be-- its own thread rather than a reply. But I still recommend it be made a 'Sticky'. Missing firmware is not an infrequent problem. Yah, I tend to agree with you. So as of now, I'll "sticky" this threa...

greengeek :- Going to have another look at your suggestion on the other thread (64bit compat libs) as that sounds more lightweight? Frankly, it IS lighter if your Puppy will run the SFS directly. Just the extra libs - coupla hundred MB or so, plus about the same for one of the 64-bit portable brows...

Mikewalsh's suggestion to use fred's 64-bit compatibility SFS works, and not only for web-browsers. But it does take a toll on RAM usage. Peebee, Mike.....not Fred! :D But in all honesty, unless you're running very old hardware with limited RAM/ability to upgrade the RAM, most of us are no longer i...

greengeek :- Right. To assuage my own curiosity - and to save you a bunch of messing-around! - here's the proof of the pudding. peebee's 64-bit_compatibility SFS does indeed run very nicely in DPup Stretch 32. I thought it should, for the above-stated reasons. I'm using Fossapup64 9.5's 64-bit k5.4...

greengeek :- Regrettably, Ian, under normal conditions NetFlix is indeed inaccessible via any 32-bit browser. Reason? Google - in their "wisdom" - decided to deprecate 32-bit Widevine (required for decoding NetFlix's DRM content) some 3 1/2 years ago now. 'Twas all part of their rationali...

mikeslr :- That's WHY you couldn't delete your post, Mike. Once Oz had posted, the ability to do so became null & void. You can always delete your posts so long as it is the very last one in any given thread (you'll still see the "x" at the top right corner).....if it isn't, only we m...

IdfbAn :- DeaDBeeF's GUI only works if the devx sfs is loaded... That's very odd. I've never yet come across a Puppy that won't run the GUI; the 'portables' all run fine, but this is of course a very early-stage build.....and unfortunately, I never get involved with ANY Puppy this early in its life...

greengeek :- In this case, Ian, it mostly boils down to how much RAM & storage you have available! Don't forget; to achieve this effect - running 64-bit browsers inside a 32-bit Chroot, then accessing those browsers from your 32-bit Puppy - you're essentially running two Pups at the same time. ...

mikeslr :- Heh. It's not that straight-forward, Mike.....unfortunately. AFAIK, there is no one, single bash command that will automatically tell you everything you want to know. Firmware is used all across your system/mobo, etc., and you have to use a selection of different commands to pull in the ...