Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Can anyone point me in the right direction for this question? “What then is the “correct” way to get bug fixed for an existing puppy? Again, sorry for my rudimentary questions. (So much to learn, so little time.)” Again, the "bug-fix" was an exclusive idea that was only ever used by PhilB...

fredx181 :- I do recall we had an issue with this a few years back.....it was discovered it was related to the glib-schemas stuff in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas (specifically, the org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser.gschema.xml file). As I recall, however, it mostly seemed to affect the 'zilla-based brows...

HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")" AUDIO=$(cat $HERE/SOURCES/CONFIG/audio.txt) ... If there are one or more space(s) in the $HERE path, cat cannot find audio.txt, so should be with quotes around $HERE e.g. AUDIO=$(cat "$HERE"/SOURCES/CONFIG/audio.txt) Oh...

darksun :- TBH, DeaDBeeF's improvements over the years have been pretty minimal. For what most will want it for, OscarTalks' elderly 'static' 0.7.2 will do everything that the current 1.9.6 is capable of. I often strip out the newer builds and replace 'em with an older one.....but that's just me. &...

Marv :- Just a note: Slimjet version 43.0 (I run as portable) has outrun the glibc in all the fossapup64 derivs I run and in F96-CE_4. They all have glibc v2.31 and it wants 2.33. Slimjet version 42.0.3.0 is still OK in all of them. Which is stupid considering that Google always take the opposite t...

dimkr :- Thanks for the 'explainer'. Much appreciated. My two devices fall at pretty much opposite ends of the scale. The main desktop rig has a relatively powerful CPU, buckets of RAM (32 GB DDR4) and so much storage it may seem ridiculous to some (5 TB+). In that respect, for a Puppy user, I'm pr...

dimkr :- SFSs consume RAM not because they're added to the aufs/overlay stack, but because initrd copies the SFS from disk to a tmpfs in RAM (and then mounts the copy). It's not squashfs, aufs or overlay that do this copying, but initird (unless you specify pfix=nocopy ). If mounted directly from d...

p310don :- The very first laser printer I owned was a Star WinType 4000. It stopped working when WinXP came out, so I threw it out. I bought it when I was in high school, printed uni assignments on it in the 90s. Cost me $999. That was 25 years ago. I annoys me that that printer *MIGHT* have been a...

darksun :- Glad to hear you're sorted for now! The thing to understand with the PuppyPin file is that it's what's known as a "dynamic" file. In other words, it's written to - immediately - as and when you move things on the 'desktop'.....in REAL time. Yet another of "our Pup"s w...

geo_c :- I think you can also use 'round' brackets - not 'square' or 'curly' - like the following example. It's part of a script from my CamRecord 'portable'.....where it sets up variables for the final 'exec' line, calling these from wee text files saved within the app itself:- HERE="$(dirnam...

darksun :- Oh, this brings back memories, this does! Some 2-3 years after I started running Puppy full-time - 7-8 yrs back - I had a spell of this happening with every single Pup in the kennels. I got SO p***ed-off with re-setting up a highly-customized desktop every time that I made some modificat...

@mikewalsh This HP Pavilion desktop has a single M2 slot (@ 2280) for an nVME drive. I see precious little point in bothering with it, however. On a hardware like yours meant to use a NVME, you would see a noticeable speed up. Even on my old Intel dg31pr motherboard with PCIe v1.1 the NVME Puppy bo...

...My conclusion, after doing the testing, is most users will do better just using a SATA SSD to gain a speed increase, since they require no special tweaking. As of this writing there is no real cost difference and the NVME speed advantage, particularly for Puppy, is measured in seconds. Have to a...

davids45 :- G'day, David. Long time no see.... 'Portables'. Okay. Well, I can't speak for the 'zilla-based browsers - I don't use them very often - but there's an easy way to copy bookmarks with the Chromium-based 'clones'. IF you already have one set-up with all your bookmarks the way you want it,...

Uh.....thanks for the direct copy/paste from the LanXchange website (I guess!) What's this supposed to prove..?

Mike.

jp734 :- Have a look in /usr/share/applications, and locate the nvidia-settings.desktop file. Open this up with Geany; what does the 'Categories' line read as? Mine reads as:- Categories=Application;Settings;X-SetupWizard; ....and after running fixmenus .....followed by jwm -reload .....it then sho...

^^^ +1. jp734 :- I concur with my colleague. I've compiled several of these Nvidia .run files with Shinobar's getNvidia utility for my GT 710; without exception, the Nvidia Settings panel has always been present after compiling / installation, since it's an integral component of the .run file itself...

rolandradio :- With regard to the task-bar icon reading zero, but audio volume being present, take a look at the settings in Retrovol (rt-clk on the volume icon -> Config window -> Tab 'Tray'). I'll bet you pounds to peanuts that the setting for 'Tray Slider' is wrong, and that 'Master Playback Vol...

@Jasper :-

D'you know, I'm hanged if I can see any difference.....but then, my eyesight is not what it used to be these days. What's the difference supposed to be, or do?

Mike.

rockedge :- In our case it's just a small semi-detached bungalow, Erik; 5 rooms plus the hallway. The only 'divisions' the breaker box performs are for lighting, power, cooker circuit, and two other separate ones.....one for the garage supply (which then has its own wee breaker box), and one for th...

mikeslr / wizard :- TBH, guys, if that was me I wouldn't bother with all that farting-around with wireless. I'd just run an Ethernet cable down into the basement & call it a done job! Way more stable, too... :) Probably the easiest way of doing this - I can never remember what they're called - ...

rolandradio :- Where are you getting the Pale Moon SFS package from? It's entirely possible the SFS package has a sym-link for Pale Moon in /usr/bin.......and a sym-link cannot overwrite a regular file. So the original file will always take precedence, and if you haven't removed the built-in versio...

rcrsn51 :- Thanks, Bill. Small and simple.....and does what's needed. :thumbup: mikeslr :- Might work if it was built like firefox-portable with a fleshed-out extra-libs folder and a command in the LAUNCH script to use it. I doubt it, Mike. AFAIK, Qt is a bit of a special 'use-case'; even if you co...

shinnen :- Hey, nice to see you over here! Is this a "temporary" migration, or something more permanent..? :D You're in good hands with m'colleague, bigpup ; he spends a lot of time with the newbies. He won't lead you astray. IF you specifically want Inxi, I've built it into a 'portable' ...

mikeslr / everybody :- I'm withdrawing this particular portable. I completely forgot to test it against a 'vanilla' install.....and discovered it needed at least another 300MB-worth of libs to get it working. That's the size of a complete Puppy! The 'dukto' binary itself is tiny, yet wants a ton of...

Okey-dokey, guys. In response to Mike's first post about the newer port of Dukto, I've tracked down the Launchpad repo of the Qt5 developer, and downloaded the Ubuntu 20.04 build. This is 64-bit ONLY; the new developer hasn't provided any 32-bit Linux builds, I'm afraid. This being the Fossapup64 9....

mikeslr :- Ah, right. So, the old Qt4 port is no longer supported, because Canonical have dropped support for Qt4? I can't say I'm surprised; I was expecting this sooner or later, since the previous general release to the current one appears to be supported for around 5 years or so. This being the ...

mikeslr :- Where it says "addresses", Mike, that simply shows your Puppy's IP address. To connect, you use the 'IP connection' button; all you do is enter the 'local' IP of the machine you're sending it to. (In other words, "192.168.1.x".....which always denotes a 'local' connec...

@williwaw :-

He means it's a PITA to keep trotting back & forth between machines with a thumb drive...

Mike.

Firewall details here, if required by anyone:-

https://github.com/localsend/localsend? ... file#setup

Don't know if this is applicable to you, @Marv ? Incoming/outgoing requirements are different, apparently...

Mike.