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.. ahh faces. This one is more enigmatic, it has been on my old P4 desktop for a very long time. I still like it !

I hope u like.-

Have a nice day, my frineds

I saw that people were using some earlier puppy wallpaper, and also faces so I thought I'd make an attempt with the new Dpup Beta.

dasouth wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:00 pm

I saw that people were using some earlier puppy wallpaper, and also faces so I thought I'd make an attempt with the new Dpup Beta.

Looks like an invitation to boot - minimal icons with 2nd trays for users & conky for technical folks with a great backdrop is the way to go.

My own Frankenstein version based on precise571 named "Precisely 5.8" with wbar 2.3.4 conky 1.10 glibc 2.30 JWM 2.3.7 and many other updated packages

@PipzDex

Excellent work!

Slacko5.7 AtomicPup21

thats not supposed to be blank!

QuickPup 21.04

Slacko64 7.0:

More Menus:

HerrBert wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 5:35 pm

Slacko64 7.0:

Excellent setup of menus.

TerryH wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 6:21 pm

Excellent setup of menus.

I see, here is where you meant. Yes looks good, like taersh explains.

This should be standard JWM.

dasouth wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:00 pm

I saw that people were using some earlier puppy wallpaper, and also faces so I thought I'd make an attempt with the new Dpup Beta.

Hi, is this Dpup OS rolling developed by dimkr? Looks interesting. I think I'll try it out someday.

@HerrBert

Nice work!!

Fatdog64-811 with multisession .sfs on usb.

dasouth wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:00 pm

Is that background in Wary? There are so many versions. I downloaded 5.5 and this is all I found:

Jaspup isn’t it in Precise? It’s one of my favorites

GMBudwrench wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:35 am

Jaspup isn’t it in Precise? It’s one of my favorites

Precise 5.5 set:

JASpup wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:05 am

@mikewalsh the only menu editor I see is simple yet doesn't look very flexible. A linear list of every app in two columns for active and disabled?

I have another directory full of nothing but custom-made MenuEntries, so I can link any Pup into an externally-mounted partition with loads of portable apps that I share between Pups, and means I can quickly populate the Menu with useful launchers.

Is every JWM menu customizable? How do we do this?

@JASpup :-

Sorry, mate.....I completely missed this enquiry of yours back before Xmas.

These "custom" Menu Entries are built from the ground up. Each one consists of a simple 'launcher' script in /root/my-applications/bin, a .desktop entry for /usr/share/applications which points to the 'launcher', and an icon that goes in /usr/share/pixmaps. (I don't like using /usr/share/icons, because you then have to provide a selection of differently sized icons each & every time. My way, you only need to provide a single one; ROX/JWM will re-size it in the necessary places. I usually create these at 256x256; the larger & more detailed the original, the less fuzzy they get at small resolutions.)

(I use a 'launcher' script in /root/my-applications/bin for the simple reason that if you want to change the location of any program/app, you only need to edit this one file; you don't need to touch the .desktop entry, since it's still pointing to this item. If you edit the .desktop file, 'fixmenus' & a restart of 'X' are required for it to show up in the Menu.)

I then use Trio's 'PetMaker' to knock up a .pet for each 'MenuEntry'.

I've attached a 'random' example below. Extract it, and study how it's put together. The same layout will work for any JWM Puppy, though you'd probably need the full, much more complex, 'standardized' .desktop entry if you're using MATE or XFCE. (A lot of the lines in a 'standardized', 'mainstream' .desktop entry simply aren't required for Puppy; these are almost always built to work with every possible variation in a given distro's full range of 'flavours', different desktops needing different command structures). You can find Trio's PetMaker here, at the old Murga forum:-

https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... =40457&i=1

Gives you a nice GUI to easily put together .pet packages, yet despite being built & released several years ago, it still works just as well with bang up-to-date modern Puppies as it will with really old Pups.....because its 'backend' uses the same basic built-in commands that Puppy has always used for this process (chiefly 'dir2pet', I believe). I've been using this for ages, 'cos I'm a GUI man at heart!

Hope that helps.

Mike.

@mikewalsh First review I get the gist of your setup.

There's fog around the .pet maker, ie, why you need it.

And you're launching all portable apps?

I don't recall the complete context of my question, but my general orientation is around the ardousousness of simplying & customizing JWM menus for any Puppy I might boot.

E g , I started on 32 Xenial, one of three pupsaves. How compatible is 64? XFCE?

I think XFCE populates the same way, but menus are more easily modifyable.

Perhaps this is the reason as others have suggested to focus on one distro.

The dissonance now is just the WM in 64.

Summarily I don't know what I knew then, but I today I can make a nice menu setup for one distro with a lot of work.

Managed to install bspwm window manager in fossapup64. Works well with tint2 bar, pcmanfm and rofi. Like it and I use it as a daily OS.

It's the default, same as my copy of FossaPup. This is my "heavy lifting" set up, FossaPup is for play.

GMBudwrench wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:28 am

It's the default, same as my copy of FossaPup. This is my "heavy lifting" set up, FossaPup is for play.

Great pups. Which xenial - 32bit or 64bit?

@GreenGeek 64 bit.

Thought this would be a good place to put this.
Thanks to a couple dd-wrt routers I had laying around, bridged as client, and MPV, I can now count the specs, (currently flies) on my beehive.

Still have to aim the camera better and tweak a couple things, Might want a copy of zoneminder at some point to set up alerts.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

@peppyy Nice!!!!

When you need some help or advice with zoneminder, I can help, otherwise lots of info on the ZM Slack channel or ZM forum.

@rockedge Runs fine on the Tahr version you made. I had issues installing ZM from PPM. I would like to have it on Fossa64 to adjust the settings on the camera though. I can log into the camera directly however it doesn't allow me to change a lot of the settings without the "Plugins".
Still making sure I have everything solid. Currently have 3 cat5e cables coupled but ordered a 150ft cable.
The routers are performing well and no glitches so far. I am almost ready to boot an older laptop to the live cd again and see just what kind of control I have.

Thank you for all the help so far, and even though I am getting older, I am getting braver , and as they say, (you are not getting older, you're getting better).

@peppyy it is almost impossible to install zoneminder from the PPM unless one really knows what they are doing. It mostly is a matter of tracking down and installing the dependencies and that can be done with the PPM. Although for Fossapup64 it is best to add the ZoneMinder Ubuntu PPA. ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-master and install ZM with PKG-cli on the command line. I have 2 scripts that will automate an install of the latest greatest ZM version 1.37 on Fossapup64.

I am fine tuning the scripts (which can also be used as a guide for step by step manual install) on a woof-CE built Fossapup64-9.6

I might just take a stock Fossapup64 and install ZM and the LAMP or LHMP stack then remaster the whole thing into a ready to go right away Fossapup64-9.6+ZM (Fossazone64)