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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...

trawglodyte :- This is all part and parcel of what I was saying the other day. That when you get right down into the 'nitty-gritty' of what makes Puppy work.....down into the weeds, natch! - you start to realise the differences are a bit more than 'skin-deep'. The most fundamental differences are m...

@mikewalsh FALSE ALARM. My HDD partition ran out of space when it was loading, DUH :oops: . Soon as I fixed that it runs. (D'oh!) https://i.postimg.cc/j5Gb8HLj/blink.gif My bad. Thanks for the portables, makes lots of things simpler. wizard Ah, good. I thought it ought to have done. You know what I...

wizard :- Hm. 'Kay, so.....well, I have to assume there's summat different about the way the 'run-as-spot' stuff functions in these newer Puppies. For me, running it via my standard run-as-spot wrapper is working A-OK; I'm posting from it now. (It's quite possible there's a conflict somewhere betwe...

.....and - as per the above - in 'portable' format......for anyone who's interested. Included libs allow it to run in Xenialpup64 and Tahrpup64. I'd best qualify this by saying that my own copies of these have been heavily modified; much newer kernels, upgraded glibc, and the Nvidia drivers. I can't...

Jasper :- Ah. Ok; I see. Investigation shows that I'm "immune" to this particular "choice"; none of my Pups are sufficiently new enough to have this particular addition to the /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal file...... Being an idiot (!!) and NOT running the very newest releases - by ...

^^^ Lololol!!!

Touché, mon ami......

I asked for that, didn't I?

Mike.

Jasper :- I find what usually works for me is to simply make the browser window smaller. Upon shutdown, it should remember this. When you launch the browser again, it should re-open as you left it..... I assume you've already tried this? I've been running Pale Moon for years, and I've never needed ...

@mikewalsh You got to admit the OP gave us more information than about 90% of the request we get. You got cake and complained it had no icing. :lol: :lol: :lol: wizard wizard :- I was just.....gobsmacked, mate! I don't ever recall anyone in this community ID-ing their processor quite like that befo...

Insanitor :- CPU? Intel SL9KE Socket 775 Yikes. Would it really have been so hard to tell us that this was a 3.4 GHz, "Cedar Mill" Pentium 4 (651) with H/T instead? :lol: Most people don't know what "SL9KE" refers to.......much less be aware that this is what's known as an Intel...

GNU2Linux :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels". Nice to have you here with us. Um.....as mentioned above, it IS purely down to personal choice. As trawglodyte says, he's been putting Puppies onto his internal drive for the simple reason that, up until now, he was always used to per...