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- Tue May 21, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Users
- Topic: How to remove unwanted menu items?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 24
Re: How to remove unwanted menu items?
bigphil :- Um. O-kayyy.... Are you just wanting to 'tidy up' the Menu (easy to do).....or do you also want to completely remove the associated, offending software that the Menu entry will launch? If the former, there's two routes you can take. 1) Remove the appropriate .desktop files from /usr/shar...
- Tue May 21, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Whats up in Puppy World
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2103
Re: Whats up in Puppy World
dimkr :- Reading your musings at Github has kinda left me "hanging in the wind" a bit! Whilst I agree with some of your proposed - and already implemented - ideas, it seems to me that the general idea is for the future of Puppy to be based around Debian, yes? Not that this is a bad thing ...
- Tue May 21, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Area
- Topic: News Flash: Windows+Copilot AI PC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 105
Re: News Flash: Windows+Copilot AI PC
.....as though AI is the "be-all & the end-all" of everything . :roll: I'll give it 10 yrs - 15, tops - and everyone will have found a new toy to go ga-ga over. That's just my jaded "take" on the matter.... Ho-hum. Mike. https://i.postimg.cc/JhjzX9jz/yawn-small.gif
- Mon May 20, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: Utilities
- Topic: UExtract-4.13 - A Universal/Utter/Ultimate/Uhatever Extractor
- Replies: 118
- Views: 16346
Re: UExtract-4.13 - A Universal/Utter/Ultimate/Uhatever Extractor
@JakeSFR :-
Thanks, Jake. Excellent work as always. Can't imagine life without this, y'know?
Mike.
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Other Distros
- Topic: ChromeOS
- Replies: 65
- Views: 4476
Re: ChromeOS
I continue to be impressed by ChromeOS-Flex. Really..!! One advantage of a 'cloud-centric' OS like this is that it 'remembers' your system settings from your previous installs.No need to have to set anything up, because it's all re-applied when you log-in at boot-time. I did some jottings in Google ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: amethyst (a long time member of this forum) has decided to stop posting
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3492
Re: amethyst (a long time member of this forum) has decided to stop posting
Personally, I feel that if a member wishes to take 'time out' for themselves then this should not be questioned. Hopefully, it gives time to reflect on the situation and make a decision if they wish to participate or not. Members should be able to 'drop in and drop out' and get involved if they wan...
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Vanilla Dpup
- Topic: annoying horizontal scroll bar
- Replies: 6
- Views: 220
Re: annoying horizontal scroll bar
I could be wrong - probably AM - but I suspect it may have summat to do with the gtk3/4 stuff. I've noticed that with any Pup built with Woof-CE from the last 2-3 years, many windows/popups/etc in many traditional Puppy apps & utilities seem to be a HELL of a lot wider than they ever used to be....
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Some questions regarding .pets and .sfs files
- Replies: 14
- Views: 363
Re: Some questions regarding .pets and .sfs files
I concur with Jasper , above. Kernels aren't usually the issue; what invariably throws a great big spanner in the works is the version of the glibc in use (the General 'C' library, against which everything in the distro is compiled).....over time, as new distro builds appear, the glibc tends to incr...
- Fri May 17, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: File Management
- Topic: Using exFAT in Puppy....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 112
Using exFAT in Puppy....
Evening, gang. Now then; most of you have probably heard of exFAT, but may not necessarily be quite certain what it is. It's basically an 'upgraded' FAT32.....and one of the most important aspects is that it's NOT limited to a max of 4GB file-sizes (unlike its older relative). I looked into using th...
- Fri May 17, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Other Distros
- Topic: ChromeOS
- Replies: 65
- Views: 4476
Re: ChromeOS
I wiped ChromeOS off the SanDisk thumbdrive a few months back. For quite a while, the salvaged 64GB Kingspec PATA/IDE SSD from ye anciente Inspiron - the one I repurposed into an external SSD via a USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter and a PATA-to-SATA convertor widget from Amazon (for all of £3!), then mounted...
- Fri May 17, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Some questions regarding .pets and .sfs files
- Replies: 14
- Views: 363
Re: Some questions regarding .pets and .sfs files
FloraMae :- As far as the 'portable' browsers are concerned, these IS no official 'documentation' as such, because it wasn't an 'official' development. We hashed the whole concept of these together between us, here on the Puppy Forum. It was - if you like - a joint community development; input came...
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Some questions regarding .pets and .sfs files
- Replies: 14
- Views: 363
Re: Some questions regarding .pets and .sfs files
FloraMae :- In general, your final assumption is correct. Small apps/utilities are usually easier as a .pet; they won't occupy much space in the 'save'. Larger apps are often better as an SFS; however, things like browsers - which update frequently - are NOT. Because an SFS is a 'read-only' file, y...
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: BookwormPup
- Topic: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 230
Re: Graphical glitches in the system tray, any way to fix?
FloraMae :- Like m'colleague, I too can see nothing wrong in the screenshot. Doesn't mean it can't happen; I've had this occur myself. Sometimes I'll get a notification come through in the T-Bird "BirdTray" launcher icon in the tray.....and for several minutes afterwards, the adjacent ico...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: WINE 64 BIt
- Topic: Portable build of WINE "staging" - AppImage-based - currently at v9.8...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 816
Re: Portable build of WINE "staging" - AppImage-based - currently at v9.8...
Thanks Mike, but I found the link a bit hard to find in the first post. For any other strugglers, its here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ccpujfjpvboa3/WINE-AppImage_portable_builds Aye. I agree. It's not that clear, is it? So; I've made the MediaFire link - in the first post - much larger &...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:33 pm
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Lowest RAM and CPU puppy?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 547
Re: Lowest RAM and CPU puppy?
FloraMae :- Heh. Dare I say it.....you're a bit behind the times there. The last Puppies I remember that were supposed to be fully "comfortable" with 512MB RAM would have been around the time of Lucid Puppy/Upup Raring/Precise 5.7.1. Well over a decade ago, some time before even I joined ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: WINE 64 BIt
- Topic: Portable build of WINE "staging" - AppImage-based - currently at v9.8...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 816
Re: Portable build of WINE "staging" - AppImage-based - currently at v9.8...
Right, guys. Here's the current 'staging' AppImage build of WINE from mmtrt - WINE 9.8, built into my usual 'portable' format. Download from the above link in post #1.
Enjoy.
Mike.
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: WINE 64 BIt
- Topic: Portable build of WINE "staging" - AppImage-based - currently at v9.8...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 816
Re: Portable build of WINE 9.3 "staging" - AppImage-based...
The mediafire link for this 9.3 version is not working. Any chance of a new link? Perhaps a git hub page would work better? Thanks, Bogie Ah, hell; my bad. Good catch. I had a huge clearout over at MediaFire the other week.....had a ton of files nobody had downloaded for literally years, so I decid...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Vanilla Dpup
- Topic: working redshift, how? (SOLVED)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 826
Re: working redshift, how? (SOLVED)
I can't speak for the very newest versions of Puppy, because I haven't progressed that far yet! Unlike many who get really excited about new releases of their favourite OS, and go out of their way to help test/fix/polish & refine these newest members of the kennels ASAP, I still apply the same v...
- Mon May 13, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Why does quickpet want to install Firefox after I already did?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 366
Re: Why does quickpet want to install Firefox after I already did?
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...
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Browsers and Internet
- Topic: Google-Chrome 'portable' 64-bit browser - (with updater!)
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108779
Re: Google-Chrome 'portable' 64-bit browser - (with updater!)
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...
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:00 pm
- Forum: Browsers and Internet
- Topic: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
- Replies: 133
- Views: 14256
Re: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
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...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Vanilla Dpup
- Topic: DeaDBeeF version
- Replies: 3
- Views: 188
Re: DeaDBeeF version
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. &...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Browsers and Internet
- Topic: Slimjet-portable : Now includes manual updater from Fred...
- Replies: 149
- Views: 69207
Re: Slimjet-portable : Now includes manual updater from Fred...
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...
- Sat May 11, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 281
- Views: 12726
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
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...
- Sat May 11, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 281
- Views: 12726
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
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...
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Technical Differences in Printing Labels - LibreOffice vs PDF
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1095
Re: Technical Differences in Printing Labels - LibreOffice vs PDF
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 $999. That was 25 years ago. I annoys me that that printer *MIGHT* have been a...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: BookwormPup
- Topic: Clicking on desktop makes all icons disappear; again and they reappear
- Replies: 16
- Views: 619
Re: issue with rox/pinboard
darksun :- Glad to hear you're sorted for now! The thing to understand with the PuppyPin file is that it's what's known as a "dynamic" file. In other words, it's written to - immediately - as and when you move things on the 'desktop'.....in REAL time. Yet another of "our Pup"s w...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Browsers and Internet
- Topic: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
- Replies: 133
- Views: 14256
Re: Brave 'portable' - 64-bit only - now includes manual updater from Fred...
geo_c :- I think you can also use 'round' brackets - not 'square' or 'curly' - like the following example. It's part of a script from my CamRecord 'portable'.....where it sets up variables for the final 'exec' line, calling these from wee text files saved within the app itself:- HERE="$(dirnam...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: BookwormPup
- Topic: Clicking on desktop makes all icons disappear; again and they reappear
- Replies: 16
- Views: 619
Re: issue with rox/pinboard
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...
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Install
- Topic: Using/Booting NVME drives on old desktop computers.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 349
Re: Using NVME drives on old desktop computers.
@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...