its weird, right ?! I was going back and forth on all the startup scripts and got lost, so i went back to the conkyrc file, commenting out rules and it seems that the rule that allows this is own_window_type override (none of the other options exhibits this). According to the conky configuration pag...

just tried the pet on lupu 528 and installed flawlessly -- many thanks to sheepy . installed the tor browser alongside my firefox 12 and everything looks ok; both browsers connect and even work concurrently, one through tor and one through my ISP. checked my IP with tor and among the usual stuff, it...

battleshooter, appreciate the feedback. its the openbox that comes as the default wm in lupu, specs say openbox 3.4.11 , repo has it as openbox_3.4.10-1 . the xdgmenu that also shows up in repo composes the start menu so it shouldnt (probably?) be necessary. Tracking down the transparency command so...

glad to see aa's(and i suspect others) issue with transparency in openbox was resolved, thanks to battleshooter. First off, im on lupu 528 ver. 005 with openbox as wm. i had set up conky working , then i uninstalled/moved/edited something and the transparency started acting up. As i was testing the ...

aa, if the black window is persistent, check the position of feh --bg-scale /root/.background in /root/.xinitrc . the code line: rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin appears at least twice (i remember they reside in an if - else statement), so try to place it before the other instance. (this is w...

And lo and behold, lucid puppy supports USB DSL modems using PPPoA protocol. All thanks to tempestuous for compiling the pet packages (at record time too!!). I know this is how forums work, but i am always in awe of other people's knowledge and expertise. Thank you and since tempestuous did all the ...

I have been using an DSL usb soft modem - Baudtec C802 USB(Conexant)- ,a throwback really from my Win days, for connecting on the internet with success on a number of Ubuntu-based distros, specifically 10.10 and 11.04, as well as Bodhi 1.3(which is a 10.04 Lucid fork) . Given the problematic support...