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I ripped a big chunk of my big toe-nail off.
I placed it back and wrapped it up.
Amazingly it all healed well.

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New version PUP Diary 1.4

-Compatible to gtkdialog8.5.3c (found in Bookworm64)
-entry fields are narrower to make the window look more attractive

New version PUP Diary 1.4
-Made it compatible with gtkdialog 8.5.3c
-removed hidden entry
-new diary entries continue to be at the head of file.

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The reason why it was taking so long --->

it was checking every file connected to compute by SAMBA server.

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Personal computer maker Raspberry Pi appointed bankers at Peel Hunt and Jefferies to prepare a London initial public offering, a listing that would be a win for the UK capital after an exodus of companies to the US. Raspberry Pi is in the early stages of preparing for listing on the London Stock Exc...

I believe that Perl language also needs DEVX SFS

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I'm booting into a fresh frugal install of easy-5.6.7, and I want to install nvidia_5.15.138-525.147.05_amd64.sfs I have frugal install and no internet connection but I was able to install nvidia driver. Because I have no internet connection I MUST shut off ethernet in the bottom tray. But that doe...

thanks for info

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gtkdialog 0.8.5c
Two differences I have seen

1) COMBOBOX widget is ignored
2) ENTRY widget width can't be changed
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 6f#p695709

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Bookworm Pup64 has 'upgraded' its version of gtkdialog Bookworm Pup64 10.0.1 Changelog • New Woof-CE build of BW64 including Debian 12.1 binary/security updates (thanks dimkr) • New 6.1.38 kernel build (thanks dimkr) • Update gtkdialog to 0.8.5c and WeeChat to 4.0.3 (thanks dimkr) Quite a bit differ...

New version PUP Diary 1.3

-rewrite so it will work with gtkdialog4

• I started an entry with 3 hash characters to remind user
  to start with a heading. Useful when converting to HTML

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I tried out MoManager app - script translator It is launched from start menu (or terminal) I found I could make translations very fast in multiple languages!! by changing the locale --> clicking on the setup icon on desktop was easiest method, since the Start menu can be hard to use when using a for...

I looked at Thunor's examples... There is one example explaining focusing but focusing isn't useful to me https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=82059 ________________________________________ So I rearranged the widgets and made the PUPDiary package again. It should be useful for people who...

After creation of pupdiary.html in home directory by clciking create button, you can edit the file in seamonkey editor program and open it to see final effort with built-in 'htmlviewer' program I put hash characters at beginning of line as explained in markdown manual Even images could be added alth...

Note to fatdog users:

There is an app called 'htmlviewer' built in
Make a right click menu item to open HTML files quickly

Looks like this doesn't work with modern gtkdialog versions as used in BW64 Tested in fatdog64 and Easy OS which have different versions of gtkdialog I guess?? The purpose of exercise was to show nothing selected and force the user to click in the editor widget. I'll try <edit has-focus="false...

New version 1.2 Markdown program 64 bit is included in package.. Output to HTML is now possible by clicking "Create" button The text file goes through a C program called Markdown cat file.md | markdown > file.html # write HTML to file _________________________________________________ Instr...

I wanted to force the user to click in an edit box to see a cursor prompt. I found I could hide the cursor when launching a gtkdialog window using a little trick---> Squeeze an unused ENTRY widget to the left of window and put "1" in entry field to make it as small as possible. The result ...

There is a small perl script that works to convert md files to html I found that it won't work with older glibc found in old versions of fatdog64 but it works fine in Easy OS EDIT: requires perl5 package to be installed cat file.md | Markdown.pl # print HTML to console cat file.md | Markdown.pl > fi...

I was able to get shotcut video editor to work in Easy OS thanks to a forum member
who found the needed wayland library

viewtopic.php?t=9346

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Huawei is abandoning the Android operating system.
It is seeking developers for Harmony OS.
Previously it was integrating Android inside of Harmony but it looks like it wants
a totally new OS

https://www.rt.com/business/591068-huaw ... armony-os/

How to change the color setup of AlsaMixer?

I think BarryK wants to avoid alsamixer.
The audio mixer you should choose is at the bottom of window in the tray bar.
Middle mouse clicking the icon will control muting.

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Xdialog has a restriction of the number of characters

https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=114156

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GTKDIALOG and YAD are popular.

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I found a good mdview appimage that will open the diary properly when it has links in it, but it's very big in size. https://github.com/c3er/mdview/releases/download/v3.0.2/mdview-3.0.2-x86_64.AppImage Here is an explanation of adding links to a text file for example, *[foo*](url) is a link https://...

SAMBA and ssh not working possibly because the firewall is misbehaving. First setup shows I have an address on my ethernet network. I can ping that address and packets are transferred. samba daemon is working but when I launch EasyShare --> the firewall runs but the samba setup button doesn't work. ...

mdview is used in fatdog64 for its help system The most recent version in fatdog64 is HERE The version in EasyVoid is old and oddly when I checked with pfind I discovered 3 versions , all are old . (see image) screenshot-mdview2.png ___________________________________________________________________...

mhwaveedit 1.4.23 also freezes like version 1.4.24 when recording, but I noticed that when relaunching
it found the audio and opened it.
gwaveedit worked fine.

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If your computer has grub already installed...

try a frugal install to a ext4 partition. Very simple.
UExtract should open the image in most puppies.
https://easyos.org/install/easy-frugal- ... ation.html

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Download: Size: 47k PUPDiary-1.4-x86_64.txz https://drive.google.com/file/d/17BHskxXM-sKm6sj4ExyYFbz15thXtTx3/view?usp=sharing _________________________________________________________ Pet version - https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=10415 A simple diary program for taking notes that are d...

It is possible to put a clickable link in a text file, Fatdog64 has done this and created an app to open the file --> https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/packages/900/mdview-2023.10-x86_64-1.txz But it doesn't open the diary file very nicely--- > so limited use. _______________________________________...