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melmc · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 12

Can you tell me how to set up Firefox to print to pdf like it does in Puppy 2.17?

tazoc

melmc,
Here is another possible remedy:
Close Firefox. In /usr/local/firefox locate active-update.xml and updates.xml and rename them (updates.xml -> Xupdates.xml , etc) or move them to a backup location.

I found this at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updates_reported_when_running_newest_version and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update#Software_Update_not_working_properly
-TazOC

tazoc · Posted: Fri 17 Aug 2007, 20:00 Post subject: print-to-PDF

tazoc · Posted: Sat 18 Aug 2007, 02:08 Post subject: print-to-PDF

See also this post on PDF printing www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=20902

melmc · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 12

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 298 Location: Montreal.ca

hi,

First a big moan. My welcome to this pup version was a crap rapper singing the F word five times every ten seconds. It seems I have been automatically connected to Clan Radio.

After twenty minutes of trying to remove this annoyance without success I was using the F word myself.

Please how do I do it?

Regards Tony.

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 298 Location: Montreal.ca

OK, got it.

Found the file /root/autostart and deleted xmms from it.

regards Tony.

tazoc · Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2007, 15:05 Post subject:

@melmc,
shoot, no difference huh? I need some clarification:

Which update is it installing? (can you note the exact update message or does it flash and disappear?)

by new session do you don't mean livecd/first boot do you?

Have you tried disabling the autoupdates on the FF Advanced Pref Page from earlier post? Be aggressive, experiment with disabling all items on that panel and also try Help | Check for updates.

@tony,
After a few weeks of Xmms-p autostart I also disabled it and created a folder within autostart '/root/autostart/DisabledItems' so that I can move items in and out to disable and enable as desired. This is one of many updates planned for beta 5 and posted in my blog 7/21/07 at www.lhpup.org.

More info on beta 4's XMMS and autostart locations here, scroll down near the bottom on both pages:
www.lhpup.org/tips-lhp.htm
www.lhpup.org/release-lhp.htm
TazOC

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 298 Location: Montreal.ca

Hi,

I am trying to install Kshisen in Lighthouse and am stuck with a missing library:-

libkdnssd.so.1

can anyone help? regards Tony

tazoc · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2007, 20:21 Post subject:

I'm busy with something else and not able to boot into puppy right now but will look into it for you later. (It's my birthday!) Anyone else feel that can help please do. I did jump over to packages.debian.org just to see what that lib is about and here is the lowdown:

tazoc

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 298 Location: Montreal.ca

Thanks for the link Tazoc.

The reason I tried Kshisen was that I hoped to get a program that could use alternative tilesets, as for Kmahjong. Unfortunately this is only in the very latest KDE so I ran into trouble not only with dependencies but with versions.

One of the problems I find with puppy is that it changes rapidly but is still locked into older software. It's fun if you like playing around with the system but difficulties arise when you focus on doing something specific.

Still it's kept me happy for a couple of years.

Regards Tony

KF6SNJ · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2007, 02:49 Post subject:

My father in law wants me to come down to his place and fix his computer, which my half brother built for him. Sadly, this brother of mine installed a hacked copy of windows. I have been looking into LighthousePup as a possible Linux distro for my father in law given his love of lighthouses. I am pretty well impressed with what I have seen and I am downloading a copy of it for him. I figure that I can add a couple of additional packages as pet files and have him up and running fast. I have been using puppy since version 0.7 and I have been overall impressed with everything that keeps coming out. Barry gave us a beautiful OS. The derivatives of this are just amazing. I hope I can show my father in law the beauty and power of this and convince him to make the switch to Linux, with puppy power.

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 298 Location: Montreal.ca

Hi,

I used this link to put WINE on my Corsair flash stick:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=445150671&t=20548

Then put Daniel F Valot's shisen program into it. It worked well and terminated well.

Will be taking the stick to Toronto later this year to see if it will perform on my sons computer. (If he will let me )

Regards Tony.

melmc · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 12