@US, I was just providing some personal tips, and the wine drive location. Not how to make things user-proof. Up to you on that. BTW it won't take only an impatient individual to shut down improperly. Somebody's laptop battery will run out while on standby, or someone else will get a browser/cursor ...

BTW, if you're using wine, the wine "C:" directory is actually /root/.wine. Note that the above is a dotted directory (hidden). I actually move .wine to /mnt/home/ myself, and link it back to /root/ which takes the C: directory out of the pupsave file. But in your case since you favor a gi...

Nope, you're just possibly used to how some other Linuxes work. I had a recent experience with GalliumOS where the drive (partition) icons could be made to appear on the desktop, but clicking on them put up an error message ("No such drive"). Same thing happened when plugging in a USB driv...

If the launcher is in the PuppyPin it will be on the desktop.

Clicking on the windows share partition icon on the desktop mounts it, whether it was mounted beforehand or not, and opens the windows share directory in rox filer.

Which is presumably what they would expect it to do by clicking on it?

Just drag the script onto the desktop. Under the hood, the JWM/Rox desktop launchers are always maintained as simple links in a single xml file, they are not new copies of the linked object maintained in a "desktop" directory, unlike Windows etc. Technically that file of links (and the des...

Set a new UUID on the stick. Then you'd know what it was.

How about:

Excellent advice all around.

Heh, Unca Scrooge, you're on a steep learning curve!

But what other distro has this kind of nuttiness available, along with a community of non-conformists, and mad scientists messing with every aspect ot what's possible?

Try it. I would suggest re-mastering your main puppy first to include every piece of additional linux software you intend to have aboard as standard. That will make a large (fat) puppy, but there's no need to encrypt all of the working portion of your installation. Or am I forgetting that was a com...

Try it. I would suggest re-mastering your main puppy first to include every piece of additional linux software you intend to have aboard as standard. That will make a large (fat) puppy, but there's no need to encrypt all of the working portion of your installation. Or am I forgetting that was a comp...

I'm not answering your question, Unca Scrooge, but I do suggest you read the following initial FAQ re. Luks (especially warnings section 1.2) for possible problems to avoid which could yield irrevocable data loss:

https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetu ... dQuestions

yep, I think win will see the ntfs partition if you make it follow your first fat32. (ie make it the second partition.) ps also recently used clonezilla to replace the old HD with a new larger drive on my laptop. It faithfully imaged the system, lock stock, and barrel, errr...win7, multiple pups, an...

Apologies, it's a lost cause in general, there was no point in my bringing it up. I await with stoicism rather than anticipation, my increasingly brief stay in the future.

It's okay for such a security-conscious company that Google is in on whatever they do?

UncleScrooge, seems like you're facing the same task I tried: to convince our local public school system to use linux when they were considering dropping expensive apples, and buying a truckload of chromebooks for students. I was on a tech committee trying to convince them to, okay, buy the chromebo...

Thanks Fred for this. Question (re. Tahrpup32 6.0.5): I fooled around for a short time trying to run ff as Spot, as I do with Seamonkey (my default browser). Couldn't get it to work for me. In Seamonkey's case I added "run-as-spot" to the exec line of /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser, and cho...

Well the thing is that you have to type the exact name of the file between apostrophes so it's a bit cumbersome Not sure what this means..... I don't have to type an exact name to do a search. 1.) Pfind part of the name, 2.) Choose the particular hit you want, right click on it, 3.) "Show loca...

Thanks, rockedge. :) (oops.... one z in mozilla) worked perfectly after that. Everything in Seamonkey 2.53 with old bookmarks, extensions, preferences, mail, etc. now works as Spot after changing /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser to: #!/bin/sh #exec apulse /opt/seamonkey/seamonkey "$@" run-as-...

Kdenlive + VLC sfs installed via Quickpet in Bionicpup64 v. 8 : VLC runs, but kdenlive errors out with:

Out of curiosity, I'd like to move an existing .mozilla from ~/root to spot's home directory. But ownership of all those files is root's. Can someone give me the code to do the conversion? Thanks!

With the recent addition of savefolders as opposed to puppy savefiles, can save folders be encrypted? Or are they in any Puppy variant?