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greengeek My iPhone 5 works fine when logged in as I have to be just now in order to reply to your post. As the screen on this phone is small by today's standards I tend always to look at the forum in landscape, however, just turned it through 90 degrees and end up with a similar display to the one...

greengeek I'm not sure this will be of any help but on my old iPhone 5 "links" appears in the normal position and when clicked on produces a drop down menu. "Quicklinks" also appears normal but it does not show the "links" arrow that yours does. Could this be a browser...

@Duprate

The idea is to make something very simple, so that anyone can copy, remake and improve it.

That sounds good. I look forward to trying it.

Regards,

Ken.

Hello! I will update to the latest stable version (Clamav® 1.0.1-1) and make it available again on the drive. I regularly use the anti-virus, but due to little interest from other users, I stopped making it available. When you download it, click on "Update Virus database". https://drive.g...

@bigpup

At the top of the forum, you are not seeing a link "Topics list"?

Ah thanks for that. Have had a quick look and it looks quite good but am on my very old phone just now which has it's limitations. Will have a better look later.

Ken.

I'm not sure if you're looking for a reply to this post but I thought it worth confirming that the icon can be seen by others.

Ken.

Can I ask if those of us that are but mere mortals should be able to see any of these "Topics Lists" and if so could somebody please explain how it's done.

Regards,

Ken.

@mikewalsh
Thanks Mike, I appreciate the effort and as you say it's now working.

Ken.

mikewalsh Ken, I've just put together a .pet with all the necessary GTK 3.0 stuff for Oz's Fossapup-bas. Hello Mike, Thanks for doing this, however, when I installed it Firefox-portable still did not open. I ran it in a terminal the output of which is shown bellow. root# ./LAUNCH XPCOMGlueLoad erro...

@ozsouth

However, I will look at mikewalsh's portable & see if I can resolve this.

Thanks very much for that.

Ken.

ozsouth On the issue of running Firefox I would like to run Firefox-portable provided by forum member mikewalsh however it does not run. Below is the output from my attempt to run it in a terminal. root# ./LAUNCH XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /initrd/mnt/dev_save/Portables64/Firefox-portable64/firef...

@jamesbond
Thanks for answering my questions. I have now had time to do a little more and perhaps you'll not be surprised to hear that I have more questions but as they are not about booting I think it best to start a new thread which I'll do when time permits.

Ken.

jamesbond menuentry 'Fatdog Linux - 900 alpha nano' { search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid 4af42c9e-ef64-4453-a3c3-96da260b25e0 linux /900fatdog64ssd/vmlinuz rootfstype=ramfs mergeinitrd1=local:/900fatdog64ssd/initrd initrd /900fatdog64ssd/initrd-nano } The above worked and boots up prety quickl...

step That did it. Have just booted into Fatdog. It took ages with nothing on the screen. I would have given up if I had not read it took some time. Might put some "echo" comments into the boot code. I have done some setting up and made a savefile. Initial impressions is that it's quite di...

jamesbond Thanks for the link to the Grub2 configuration manual. I am not familiar with Grub2. I am only using it as I installed Mint linux to a new ssd and now have to use it's Grub2 to boot everything else. It's a bit of a pain having to make changes to it via Mint. I much prefer grub4dos. Howeve...

@step, @jamesbond the documentation includes a primer specifically for Puppy Linux users. Link to the online version (the offline version is on the Fatdog64 Desktop). Yes thanks for the link which I had already found in my search. I got the code below from that source. I then tried to adapt the cod...

step , jamesbond the documentation includes a primer specifically for Puppy Linux users. Link to the online version (the offline version is on the Fatdog64 Desktop). Yes thanks for the link which I had already found in my search. I got the code below from from that source. I then tried to adapt the...

I have never used Fatdog but having seen this new version I thought I would try it. I have downloaded the fatdog.iso and checked the md5 checksum. I wish to make a manual frugal install on a ssd booting with grub2. I have legacy bios. I also have other pups on this ssd as well as Mint Linux. On moun...

@puppy_apprentice
Yes this time it did take me to your post but I read it on my phone this time. I go and try it on my PC and see if it works there as well. I'll edit my previous post. Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Ken.

rockedge I feel my previous post to you may not have been clear. My suggestion then perhaps for consistency we should remove all such hierarchies. This would include special colours used for the names of moderators or the site administrator herself/himself or indeed remove nomenclature like moderat...

rockedge I am now confused by what has happened to the forum based on this thread. As far as I can see the post count is still in place and the little "thumbs up" box that allowed you to thank a fellow forum member is still in place and would appear to be working but the "thanked&quo...

Like others here I have "thanked" other forum members for the help they have given me in answering my posts. I find it useful if used in moderation. I have also thanked people in my posts. I think it is a simple courtesy. I also think it is useful to be able to thank somebody for their pos...

Marv chown -R spot:spot "/home/spot/Downloads" The above code did it. The permissions for/home/spot/Downloads have changed from root:root to spot:spot. Please see below. root# ls -l /home/spot total 19 drwxr-xr-x 2 spot spot 4096 Jun 26 16:21 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 spot spot 4096 Jun 27 18:...

Marv Thanks for that. I now think we might be getting somewhere. Within /home/spot is there a directory named Downloads? Yes but it's permissions are root:root. I've tried to change the permissions to spot:spot by right clicking on the "Downloads" directory and selecting "permissions...

ozsouth Thanks for your instructions which I think I can follow and certainly explains why I lost my browser settings. I now have version 32.2.1 of Palemoon. I have been starting Palemoon from the desktop icon. If I right click it and choose "edit item" I get "Clicking the item opens...

ozsouth Made a manual frugal install on an ssd booting with grub2. Have had a number of problems though. 1. I setup palemoon browser then got a message about updating the browser. Used Menu>Internet>Update Palemoon. Update went OK but lost all of the settings I'd made. I can't remember seening this...

fredx181 The grub.cfg you posted earlier doesn't have set timeout_style=menu so it's added after you made the change in /etc/default/grub . Yes should have thought of that coupled with the fact that I also kept a copy of the original grub.cfg file :oops: edit: btw, when running update-grub, it chec...

fredx181 To summarize what I think you did: editing /etc/default/grub: - Change GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden to GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu - Change GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 to GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 - Run: sudo update-grub Right ? Correct. Later I found that in my grub.cfg there's a line set timeout_style=menu, I guess th...

Geek3579 Using 40_custom requires a sudo update-grub to fix changes, which is annoying if you are tweaking a boot code and getting it to work, needing to boot into the host OS just to run grub-update. I agree the above is a bit of a faff. However my problem with the above was that the menu does not...

@wiak
Thanks for the information on update-grub2 and the link which I found useful as I had wondered if I added other menuentrys whether I should leave a line between each entry or not and this answers that question though perhaps it doesn't matter.

Regards,

Ken.