Exactly as the subject says, I know there's a lot of forks of puppies out there so I'm just wondering if there's any that already come with xfce and apt or if I can install them and which one would be best for that
Is there any version of Puppy with XFCE and apt package manager?
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Re: Is there any version of Puppy with XFCE and apt package manager?
It's hard to keep up. There have been in the past, and I believe @peebee created them.
vanilladpup comes with JWM, but I installed Xfce on it, and it runs well, the menu ends up with a lot of stuff in the "other" category. But vanilladpup comes with synaptic in addition to ppm, not apt. corrected: and apt!.
KLV is a great up and coming distro that is 100% slick Xfce, but it's based on void and comes with xbps package manager.
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Re: Is there any version of Puppy with XFCE and apt package manager?
apt and Synaptic, not just Synaptic.
To install Xfce, you need to:
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apt update
apt install -y xfce4
echo xfce4-session > /etc/windowmanager
restartwm
(or, do this slowly using GUI)
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Re: Is there any version of Puppy with XFCE and apt package manager?
Have you tried incorporating the packages I published here, viewtopic.php?t=2508. I haven't tested it with recent Puppys, but can't think of any reason it wouldn't 'rationalize' menus under them.
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Re: Is there any version of Puppy with XFCE and apt package manager?
For XFCE4 the Category=
entry in the .dexktop files need to be altered so XFCE4 can organize the menu entry position.
This is also the case in KLV-Airedale where it is important when importing packages from other distro's to modify the .desktop files to include the correct standard.
this entry in xfce4 ends up in the "Applications->Other" category
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PuTTY
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/putty48.png
Comment=SSH-Telnet
Exec=putty
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-Network-transfer
GenericName=PuTTY
This entry will be in "Applications->Internet"
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PureFTPd FTP server
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/puppy/internet_connect_yes.svg
Comment=PureFTPd FTP server
Exec=/usr/local/bin/run-pureftpd
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;
GenericName=PureFTPd FTP server