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Morning, gang. v0.19.1 now uploaded. and the location has moved.......we're now back at MediaFire. New link at the bottom of post #1.

Enjoy.

Mike.

Les Kerf :- Hmm... I'm starting to realise that opening a MEGA a/c may not have been such a good idea. A lot of people here seem to have issues when downloading from it..... I've uploaded the v7.0.3.1 LibreOffice 'portable' to my MediaFire a/c; this weighs in at a total of 286 MB. Since it's based ...

@Newpupuser289 :-

Hallo.....and to the "kennels".

Glad you're enjoying it so far. It's great to see the enthusiasm; stick around, 'cos it will only get better!

Nice to have you onboard.

Mike.

Narvic :- As you're probably aware, it's always been possible to run 32-bit apps under a 64-bit OS by means of the 'multiarch' stuff (in 'mainstream' distros).....and by use of the 32-bit_compat_libs SFS in Puppies. But did you know that it's now possible to run 64-bit applications under a 32-bit P...

OscarTalks :- And that's the way I've always approached glibc upgrades myself; copy, then open up the main Puppy SFS, do whatever's necessary - there's no substitute here except to delete and replace, file by file, as is required - followed by re-packing and testing out. In fact I go one further; I...

Hm. O-kayyy.... Examining the recompiled glibc 2.38, it looks as though the sym-link business has been done away with in /lib64. No "numbered" components at all; instead, each 'real' component is now labelled as its own soname. In fact, it's a trick I often employ myself when I need to add...

OscarTalks :- The other thing that looks wrong to me, Oscar, is that there's no version number attached to the key glibc components that used to sit in /lib (and which I suppose now sit in /usr/lib, sym-linked back to /lib?) I would expect to see - for instance - in /lib (or /usr/lib, sym-linked ba...

sonny :- Nice one! Personally, I always do this manually.....but then, I've done it enough times that I know exactly what I'm looking for; what's got to be removed, what's got to be replaced. I guess it would depend on where it was compiled as to how easy it would be to turn it into a package. Is t...

Les Kerf :- I've tidied-up the LibreOffice directory. There was some older stuff there, plus some duplication; not always easy to keep on top of things - given that I changed compression methods a while back - especially with 3 cloud a/cs all containing 100s of items! So; go into LibreOffice -> 64-...

mingovia :- Yup; m'colleague's right. With Puppy, you need to develop a slightly different "mindset". Installers for most of the mainstream distros tend to do everything for you.......from deletion of any previous data already on the disk, re-formatting of the disk, copying & setting-...

trawglodyte :- If you're used to having lists of codecs and other stuff available to examine before you even start on a project, no; Openshot doesn't do that. But when you're ready to render a project in Openshot, THEN everything appears before you hit the final 'OK' button. That's when you get to ...

Afternoon, gang. I swear, guys; the older I get, the crazier & more convoluted my thinking processes become. https://i.postimg.cc/k4j1B7St/Screenshot-366.png ['Malcolm Reed' from Star Trek "Enterprise" - the modern 'fore-runner' to TOS (the original series)] Here, mes amis, we have Net...

greengeek :- Umm.......no; you wouldn't need a re-boot. But a re-start of JWM wouldn't do it, either. " jwm -restart " or " jwm -reload ", these will refresh/restart the window manager components (as is to be expected). But the PuppyPin file is all about ROX-filer's pinboard gri...

And I've been a happy Epson owner/user for the best part of 30 years. HP printers? Nah.....I don't think so. I like their PCs.....but I don't like the way they think when it comes to "consumables".....or their attitude to customers (whom they plainly see as little more than 'cash cows'). T...

trawglodyte :- Shotcut is far from my first choice, but I always keep a 'portable' copy of the current release for newer Pups. I also have an older 'portable' build for older Pups, where they can't satisfy the requirements of the newer build. Most of my Pups have linked Menu entries for 'portable' ...

greengeek You can customize the JWM tray by editing: /root/.jwmrc-tray. Here's an example on BookwormPup64, the drive icons were moved using Event manager. The .jwmrc-tray file is attached and the first line was edited as follows: -deleted: valign "bottom" #this allows the tray to be move...

vtpup :- These 'staging' AppImages can confuse folks. As built, they're designed for use in 64-bit systems.......but, just as with 'standard' WINE that most of us have used for years, the internal WINE itself is in fact a 32-bit build (and, as t'other Mike has pointed out, also contains all the req...

MochiMoppel :- When I used to run Slacko 560 the first time around, some years ago, I quickly discovered that most of the scripts were the older, less 'functional' ones. I'd got used to the newer GUI 'front-ends' - with the additional features - in the 6-series, i.e., Tahrpup. A little bit of exper...

Trapster :- It should be......at least, it is for me. I'm starting to use gxmessage quite a bit for 'Help' windows when I build packages. If there's a lot of info to display, gxmessage respects the screen dimensions, makes itself into a window that fits the screen and becomes scrollable. [Click to ...

greengeek :- RE : Re-positioning drive icons I don't know the exact name of the particular "dumb" script that controls it - MochiMoppel probably does, better than I do :) - but you may have seen my more recent Puppy desktops, where I run with the drive icons more towards the bottom centre...

Narvic :- Indeedy.......nice to see ya back again. :welcome: to the "kennels" once more..... You'll recognise many names. There's also quite a number who, like yourself, are old-timers but have decided "New forum, so new handle". We're always happy to help. Just remember to fill...

I just successfully started the Kdenlive-17.12.0d-x86_64.AppImage downloaded from the Kdenlive site archives above on a stickpup instance of F96-CE, and it seems to be running flawlessly so far on my old alptop (in sig below). Getting very happy with F96 so far in tests. vtpup :- Probably related t...

I've also been using AI tools in my coding, and they help. They make coding faster and easier, especially when stuck on a challenging problem. It's astonishing how they better understand what I want to do with my code than older tools. The only problem with doing that is that you never truly learn ...

Other OSs I tried on the new overpowered gift computer: the problem I ran into with Bookworm64pup was that the present official synaptic Wine version is 8, and latest OpenGL together wouldn't play wit my SketchUps. I tried some earlier Wine versions and they wouldn't run at all with that computer o...

greengeek :- It's quite possible Clarity might have some ideas in this respect, Ian. I've lost track of the number of times I've seen them posting about HDMI with TVs, and using the built-in speakers, etc.... https://i.postimg.cc/Z541f8jM/nod_40x40.gif Mike. https://i.postimg.cc/t4ZjBxgb/hat-tip5.g...

bigpup wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:45 am

what is the issue you are maybe trying to fix?

What specific Puppy version you using?

What is the graphic hardware providing input to the monitor?

Mm. I was going to ask the same thing. Is this a built-in graphics chip.....or is it a separate, discrete GPU?

Mike.

MochiMoppel :- You may be aware of this, you may not.......but much of the current Linux layout (certainly prior to the 'usrmerge' nonsesnse) dates all the way back to the early days of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie's system only had two very small hard drives, neither of which was large enough to contain t...

trawglodyte :- Mm. Bigpup's right, here. Usual practice in the Linux world is to always run the very newest kernel. This is for up-to-date system support, security patches/fixes, etc. It doesn't occur to these people that sometimes, folks have no choice but to run elderly hardware........most of th...

geo_c :- Ayup. Yes, I DID neglect to add that you should not do this from a running Puppy. That way lies corruption..... :o Added this info to the above post. Good catch, mate. (I'll always back-up the rest of the kennels from one Pup.....then boot into another to back-up this final one.) :) Mike. ...

trawglodyte :- Personally, I don't remember ever using the Backup utility in all the years I've run Puppy. And I never save backups to the same partition - or drive - where my Puppy installs live. I always make backups to a totally independent drive; in my case, a 500GB Seagate USB 3.0 external HDD...