sorry but Terminal is a necessary part of linux. even the larger Distro's have Terminal. There are just to many things you need it for.

yeah i know i am using Gnome 2.20.3 on top of Puppy431-broadcom4312. with all kinds of Bloat. I use Puppy because well to steal a phrase " It just works". 8) . but i would dearly love to get my "paws" :roll: on Gnome 2.30 and 3.0 when it comes out. Of course i understand the desi...

I just downloaded Puppy 5, Its pretty good. of course i would like to see a few things added before I install it. 1. add the modded broadcom drivers from http://puppylinux.ca/members/choicepup/Puppy431-broadcom4312/pup-431bcm4312v3.iso I looked into the petget in 5 and saw that alot of the Gnome pac...

it seems they were always bad .png's. 4.2.1 would still read them is all. unfortunately the only fix is to copy the bad files to an empty folder, load 4.2.1 and fix them using 4.2.1's image viewer. what a pain in the rear.

viewnior will not read them either.

thought of that so i copied versions from a known good drive with same results. these .pngs will read in 4.2.1 but not in 4.3.1 (or at least the one modded for broadcom.) interesting bug these .png's will read if i use firefox to read them. but not other graphics programs. even though they come in t...

what are the programs responsible for graphics handling? I have a little glitch of not being able to read certain .png files and need to know which files to replace, and where they are located

seem to have fixed the issue, as well as a few others.

current system :
I am using pup-431bcm4312v3 as a base.Gnome 2.20.3 as desktop.
soon i will be setting this to a frugal install on hd.

well i am now applying all of your information.

well i can. i just think its better. my way allows me to just fix one part if necessary, not the whole thing. I have a habit of crashing my system. otherwise there is no particular reason.

thanks , but i still have one more question. How would you get sda2 to automount at boot so that the boot sequance can read the information from the pup_save.2fs and load. I am pretty sure that this cannot be accomplished by editing .xinitrc and adding a mount command for sda2 as any changes would b...

I will try this out as soon as is possible. the question is how would you go about saving and loading the pup_save.2fs file on sda2, or can this be set up during installation.

I am wondering if its possible to run puppy by just copying the contents of the cd to a partition, and then installing any other .pets to a second partition. this way the puppy files are write protected. this would also allow a user to repair puppy in case of crash, or upgrading the main puppy witho...

yes and it converts perfectly

I know that I am stuck on this, but maybe an official Gnome package. As well as official packages of other WM's. I know there is .sfs of Gnome,KDE,Enlightenment, as well as others, but official releases would be nice.

problem wasn't in 4.2.1 i think. looks like the hd might be dying. i have another drive in now. Hopefully thats all it is

just open the .sfs and copy contents to / ,at least thats how i do it. yes it works in 4.3.1 as well, though you have to convert the .sfs to .sfs4 to read it.
either way follow the instructions to the letter. I just wish it had gnome do and docky as well.

thanks all i seem to have fixed the issue by downgrading to 4.1.2. The video still hangs, but doesn't completely freeze. So its no more then a minor issue now. I did try 4.2.1 retro(thanks looseSCREWorTWO & Sylvander), but it was missing my wifi driver. Maybe it would have worked with xvesa inst...

well i am now using 4.1.2. seems to be working, video locked up, but continued to shut down anyway. no icewm hopefully this works

i am going to try the first option and see if 4.2.1 retro fixes the issue. I am fairly sure its not a memory mismatch as i removed the second module and it still did it. Oh well we will see