(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

groundhog · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

Thanks to all who are responsible for the latest puppy 3.01. I'm enjoying it very much.

However, as a new user who's trying to make the transition from windows to linux, I would very much like to see a wpa encryption setup that doesn't involve my having to mess with the wpa_supplicant.conf file. I still haven't figured it out, but I'm hoping that any new releases will have this improvement.

MaZZly · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 23

i wish for firestarter support so that i can share internet easy and fast without the problems im having now.. Very Happy

also i would like to have a function on the clock so that it syncs with some server or something.

Béèm

I don't know how the sequence is to present this list when booting, but I would prefer to have the list in alphabetical order.

conradcliff · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 42

I don't know if people just get sick and tired of hearing this but I think it would be mighty cool if better support for toshiba laptops was added in the next release...

Flash · Posted: Thu 27 Dec 2007, 16:23 Post subject:

Well then send Barry a Toshiba laptop so he won't have an excuse. Laughing

Pick · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

My case is probably not unique. I am running from a USB stick with a swap file on a HD. Because my devices are static I put a mount statement for the swap file device in rc.local followed by a swapon /mnt/hxx1/pup.swp statement. Cool. Now I have an automatic swapfile brought up at startup. I could build an desktop link to a script to swapoff and umount (Actually I did this) but then I'd have to remember to pop that button before hitting reboot or shutdown.
If I read it correctly, rc.shutdown does a universal umount as it's last act but if the swapfile is still "on" I get a disk error complaining about the partition table when trying to restart..apparently has no consequence but I get nervous when I see HD error messages about partition tables.
The code to find an existing swapfile and swapoff it, would seem to be a relative easy addition right before the busybox umount statement in rc.shutdown. (I guess this presumes there is an easy way to find the *.swp file location) That way if a swap file were inadvertently left on at shutdown it would get turned off before the swap device was unmounted or more probably actually not unmounted before power off.
In my case since I know the location of my pup.swp swapfile I just hard coded a swapoff for that file into rc.shutdown and viola fixed. Not elegant but it works.

changturkey · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 67

Maybe a combined repo for slackware and .pet packages? And maybe the combination of PSI and Gslapt..?

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2307 Location: Wyoming, USA

The new Gnumeric stable release, 1.8.1 (or whatever the latest is). The old Gnumeric is getting pretty long in tooth and is severely lacking in features.

Encryption via dm_crypt, dispensing with the older encryption tools if they burn too much space (because they are kinda feeble).

GPG and Enigmail for Seamonkey (could be a pet package).

Truecrypt (could be a pet).

A convenient way to back up pup_save files.

Inuyasha · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 118

1) Desktop Wallpaper

I want to be able to change the Desktop Wallpaper without it requiring an install.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1421813424&t=25122

2) .bashrc usage

I freaking want to use my .bashrc file!
Can we somehow, please, get the console to be preset to bash?
Or perhaps just have a way that .bashrc is used?

It seems like I have to hack all the GUI features to use that file.
Otherwise, I would have to type "bash" everytime I want to use it.

3) The help file

What's the possibility of making a more professional help file?
Perhaps something with frames?

4) WMA format for gxine

Can we get a WMA plug-in for that? Perhaps some kind of advice where to get it?

5) Internet connection sharing wizard

This would be awesome. I think I saw that ecomoney made something. But if it could also involve using a wireless device as a host and sending the transmission to a client via ethernet, then it would make things so much more awesome.

6) THIS!

Inuyasha · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 118

In part to number one, I think something is wrong with the .xinitrc file

I'm thinking it's this section:

Th3_uN1Qu3 · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 141 Location: Bucharest, Romania

rastapax · Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 29

I am working on a set of icons to improve the interface without increasing weight if puppy

Is my small contribution

PS? You can make a logo or something interesting that although not much a greeting something .... Smile

For example, when you put ubuntu do not see numbers while loading time icons or percentages
During his instalcion
To think that there is a puppy OS that installs and installs easily and that would be a plus
''Or not
I am not an expert on linux user's basic love make it accessible and friendly

www.12design.cl/puppy
www.12design.cl/puppy

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=183096#183096

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 986 Location: England

For Puppy 3.02 (Chihuahua):- I have a Canon i965 printer, not supported by Gutenprint etc, so I have to use Canon's own driver. In 2 and 3 series Puppy, Abiword and GIMP will not print. But in Dingo a7 Abiword does. Can this feature be backported to 3.02? And if I get GIMP working in Dingo that may work too.

Gerry

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 986 Location: England

Please put "Booting Puppy xyz" immediately above the "Choose a pup-save file" line at boot-up. I use live cd, and sometimes have to extract the cd to see which one I'm booting.

Gerry

KJ · Posted: Fri 02 May 2008, 23:45 Post subject: