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Sofiya, I got a kick out of your composition: A leopard staring intently and trying to figure out what to do with a bumblebee sized puppy.

By the way, I've employed your Aroma_coffee icon-theme in a couple compositions of my own. Thanks for publishing it.

FWIW....

Pretty plain -- but that classic "think linux" wallpaper is more appropos than ever now that I'm using Puppy on a old (and perfectly-sized at 11.6") MacBook Air.

Experimental installation of Xfce on Vanilla Dpup 9.2.x

Hi Sofiya

You do seem to know an awful lot about customisation and it's very different all the time. Is this due to multiple Oses that you use?

I did want to ask you a question on how you updated your Conky settings here:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 611#p65611

What I would like to do which additional lines I would need to add to my Conkyrc file to do the same?

I am using FossaPup64 if that makes any difference at all.

Just looking through the last few pages................no-one has a Halloween theme

Jasper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:53 pm

Hi Sofiya

You do seem to know an awful lot about customisation and it's very different all the time. Is this due to multiple Oses that you use?

Hi Jasper
Yes, I use different OSes, but it looks different because I adjust it to the style: wallpaper, etc .....
Yes, and this is not Conky, but Рwidgets-2.6.0. http://wikka.puppylinux.com/Pwidgets
I can post the file for you here, but not the fact that it will work properly for you - since all settings depend on your hardware, and not on the installed OS.
You will also have to find and install the fonts, since all the icon are taken from the fonts

Hi there Sofiya

Ahhhh, that makes a lot of sense now to me

Thank you for the offer, that's kind of you. However, I think I will stay put for the moment. It has been a huge learning curve already and I dislike having to spend too long getting back to normal. Only just begun remembering to make incremental backups of my savefile.

It's great what you have done and shows me how customisable Puppy is and makes it very individual.

Jasper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:16 pm

Hi there Sofiya

You can try the file - but don't forget to keep your original one. I had this on Fossapup-64

- remove false.tar.gz

Sofiya, bless you!!

Thank you so much for sharing. It worked first time.

I have to admit, I was a bit unsure as where to put your file but managed to work it out.

There are some unknown characters in the text. I am guessing their your native language??

Jasper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 9:13 pm

Sofiya, bless you!!

Thank you so much for sharing. It worked first time.

I have to admit, I was a bit unsure as where to put your file but managed to work it out.

There are some unknown characters in the text. I am guessing their your native language??

unknown characters -- are not installed fonts
You need to install fonts
font names:

Doggy Print AOE
Cadillac Sans
digitalk
Font Logos Technology
StyleBats
Poky
PizzaDude Bullets

Hi Sofiya

I feel embarrassed about the comment I made regarding the unknown characters Apologies if you took offence.

Doh! Of course unrecognised fonts would of course look strange to me.

Thank you again for the fix

Have a great week ahead.

Jasper, when possible I always use pwidgets. But the same version doesn't work on every Puppy version. If you tell us which Pupp(ies) you want pwidgets for I'll provide the link(s) or --if I've had to modify it-- upload my modified version.

The vanilladpup Blue Light Special: I just made a screen shot with the print screen key to mtpaint. Do all pups do that?

Vanilla Dpup XFCE

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:31 am

Vanilla Dpup XFCE

So how did you add Xfce, through the package manager? Or is there an sfs module for it? Or one of the vanilladpup releases?

I've been working on KLV backgrounds:

geo_c wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:06 am

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 3:31 am

Vanilla Dpup XFCE

So how did you add Xfce, through the package manager? Or is there an sfs module for it? Or one of the vanilladpup releases?

1) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-notifyd 
2) echo startxfce4 > /etc/windowmanager
3) restartwm

in order to switch between OS installed wm switcher

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:00 pm

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1) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-notifyd 
2) echo startxfce4 > /etc/windowmanager
3) restartwm

in order to switch between OS installed wm switcher

I never imagined adding a second window manager could be that easy.

geo_c wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:27 pm

I never imagined adding a second window manager could be that easy.

synaptic works wonders

Vanilla Dpup XFCE

Hello! With VanillaDpup64-9.0.47, very happy! Often, the first idea is the best!

Duprate wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:29 am

Hello! With VanillaDpup64-9.0.47, very happy! Often, the first idea is the best!

What icon set is that? I've seen it before.

genteelpup64

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:00 pm

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1) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-notifyd 
2) echo startxfce4 > /etc/windowmanager
3) restartwm

So I ran the first command and it returned this output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package xfce4
E: Unable to locate package xfce4-goodies
E: Unable to locate package xfce4-notifyd

I'm on vanilladpup-9.2.17, do I need to configure the package manager?

geo_c wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:34 am

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:00 pm

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1) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-notifyd 
2) echo startxfce4 > /etc/windowmanager
3) restartwm

So I ran the first command and it returned this output:

I'm on vanilladpup-9.2.17, do I need to configure the package manager?

Are you running vanilladpup-9.2.17 for the first time???
try like this:

0) apt update
1) apt upgrade
2) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4
3) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4-goodies
4) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4-notifyd 

Sofiya wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:48 am

Are you running vanilladpup-9.2.17 for the first time???
try like this:

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0) apt update
1) apt upgrade
2) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4
3) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4-goodies
4) apt install -y --no-install-recommends xfce4-notifyd
2) echo startxfce4 > /etc/windowmanager
3) restartwm

Thanks! That worked perfectly. I'm getting used to the slick look of Xfce4 using KLV so much.

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:00 pm

in order to switch between OS installed wm switcher

I haven't been able to find wmswitcher using command line apt, or the puppy package manager. Is it called wmanager_0.3.0-2 'window manager selection tool used at X startup' in debian-bullseye-main?

geo_c wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 1:11 am

Duprate wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:29 am

Hello! With VanillaDpup64-9.0.47, very happy! Often, the first idea is the best!

What icon set is that? I've seen it before.

Hello! I'll find a way to make it available to anyone who wants to use it ..... soon!

geo_c wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:43 pm

Sofiya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:00 pm

in order to switch between OS installed wm switcher

I haven't been able to find wmswitcher using command line apt, or the puppy package manager. Is it called wmanager_0.3.0-2 'window manager selection tool used at X startup' in debian-bullseye-main?

this is a custom script

geo_c wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 1:11 am

Duprate wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2022 12:29 am

Hello! With VanillaDpup64-9.0.47, very happy! Often, the first idea is the best!

What icon set is that? I've seen it before.

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