hi all tracked down the module i needed but although conky starts transparent it reverts to a black background. the only way ive been able to get it transparent is if it is set to; 'own_window no' but although it then acts as text and graphs on the background pic it wipes out all the desktop icons. ...

nice one catdude

just tried your splash tut. worked first time!!

hi all well ive ported my conky file across from my PC to my laptop. installed conky 1.5.1 installed the 3 library's as mentioned in here. my only problem is that conky will only open if told to from terminal and if terminal is then closed so does conky. on my PC i have ubuntu 8.04 and the trick the...

wooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo! thanks all for your input. it works lovely. now im just going to get the ndiswrapper done again with my usb wireless (nice interface btw for setting the wireless up) change my background port my conky script across from my PC and we're laffin. one question can you s...

hi there

thankyou gentlemen. im working on it now. ill let you know what occurs. i started to get vague inkling that i needed to mark the main partition as 'boot' but i havent had to do that before so was a bit off guard.........<packs brick wall back in box and bandages head>
see ya in a bit.

hi there

ive been digging in the files and it looks like theres no boot/grub folder!!! so im not sure whats occured. also the fstab file has no strings associated with the HDD either. HELP lol


scrap that found the grub. im reinstalling yet again in an effort to get a cd free auto boot.

hmmmmmm whats going on then? both are installed to the HDD but it will only boot if the cd is in. if the cd is left out it sticks at the grub screen.

hi there thanks for your help here. the HDD was and has been formatted to ext2 using gparted. ive just been checking my ISO's and it looks like i may have downloaded the wrong puppy. so i have just downloaded puppy 4 and burnt it to a cd. its only 80+ in size the other was over 200.. ok ive reinstal...

ok ill do that. i didnt get an option to save anything that i noticed. i have looked at the menu.lst and got the timout active. other lines are; title windows ( on/dev/hda1) rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 ------------------------further on title linux (on /dev /hda3) root (hda,2) ker...

hi there yes i get the bootlist. but i have to hit enter to boot and then i have to select the correct keyboard (uk) and then select the xorg and resolution then its all systems go. the bootlist looks like this and i followed the system grub guide. Linux (on /dev/hda1) install GRUB to floppy disk (o...

hi all second post already lol. this time i really dont know how to sort this out. ive installed puppy onto my laptop. it is the only OS and has the whole drive. i ran the grub setup but puppy doesnt auto boot. this is not puppy's fault i know. so could i have a helping hand getting it to boot up pr...

hi all im new to puppy but am running HH 8.04 on my PC. for my laptop ive been hunting for a linux OS that runs fast and in puppy i seem to have found the answer. previously it had XP on it. now i have a usb wireless adapter that has run under ndiswrapper with dapper drake egdy eft and a few others ...