Hi - recently made a frugal install of Slacko 5.5 to upgrade my EeePC 900A from 5.4. GREAT OS! Everything works OTB. Thanks, Mick! I have one suggestion, though. Perhaps the note about using Packages-puppy-slacko14-official could be in the release announcement? I had some problems with Gnome-Mplayer...

Hello - I'm using fernan's solution to getting Dropbox to start correctly (except that I put a link to ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd in my Startup folder, rather than a script). I have a question, though: Why does this work? Why does moving the .dropbox folder to /mnt/home change anything? I'm not sure w...

No one posted a reply to my problem, so I'll reply. The following make things work the way I wanted: 1. Put the following line at the beginning of /etc/acpi/actions/acpi_poweroff.sh touch /tmp/nosuspend 2. Put the following lines at the beginning of /etc/acpi/actions/suspend.sh if test -f /tmp/nosus...

Hi - I'm trying out Slacko 5.3 on my Eee PC 900A, and am finding it GREAT! One thing puzzles me, though - if I shut down by pushing the power button, then close the lid, it suspends, so later when I open the lid and push a key, it completes the shutdown. If I run wmpoweroff directly, this doesn't ha...