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wallpaper wont stick
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solarcontrol
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PostPosted: Tue 31 May 2005, 21:53    Post subject:  wallpaper wont stick  
When I change wallpaper form the default, it changes fine, but when I reboot, it has returned to default.

How do I make it stick?
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Guest
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PostPosted: Tue 31 May 2005, 21:53    Post subject:  
errr. 'from' the default.
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rarsa


Joined: 29 May 2005
Posts: 3053
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
PostPosted: Tue 31 May 2005, 22:51    Post subject:  
Do you have a partition to save your session data?

Puppy runs 100% in memory (ram disks and all) if you have enough memory.
Puppy normally creates a pup001 file where it saves all your personal data and configuration. If it cannot find a place where to create this file it will show a message at boot time (you need to pay atention).

If you are booting from CD on a computer that has Windows XP using all the HDD formated as NTFS read the first entry in the puppy faq
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Guest
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PostPosted: Tue 31 May 2005, 23:56    Post subject:  
I should have mentioned I have it installed to hard drive.
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005
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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 01:58    Post subject: resolution  
I have this bug too

It may have something to do with the resolution. Are you running at 1080x1024?
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Guest
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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 02:14    Post subject:  
AHA!!
I figured it out.

Left click desktop, select "modules", then select "save desktop".

Voila.
Change stays.
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Guest
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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 02:17    Post subject:  
I spoke too soon.
On reboot it comes up with my new wallpaper for just a cpl seconds and then switches back to the default by itself... Confused

Crazy.
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Guest
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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 02:21    Post subject:  
Also, it wont shut down the computer.
When I select power off it goes through the halt command and after shutting off hda, it gets a kernel panic error and stops there with the box still running.

Gotta do it manually.
(Maybe it has something to do with the motherboard. It is a rather old P2 Celeron on an MSI ISA/PCI board.)

Anyone else have this trouble?
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Guest
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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 04:15    Post subject:  
And why wont my windows partition auto-mount when I add it to fstab?
I have done it many times on many other distros so I know I'm doing it right.
It just wont do it.
I have to manually mount it.

Thanks for the little gui mounter app though.
My 8yr old uses that box and he aint ready for command line just yet so I suppose it's the next best thing to having it automount.

Also thanks for adding GRUB.
Having to boot from a floppy kinda defeated the purpose of installing it to the hard drive (and I hate floppies because they're so vulnerable).

Now I love it.
It is the only distro besides Libranet that will recognize my old ISA nic but Libranet is more like a St Bernard than a Puppy on that machine (433mhz P2 Celeron, 512mb PC133 ram, 128mb SiS315 video card, 4ch Yamaha sound card - its as beefed up as I can beef the old grinder lol).

Your desktop environment is also easier to use for my kids than any but KDE (and KDE is too much for that old box) and its just as fast as Flux.
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Bruce B


Joined: 18 May 2005
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Location: The Peoples Republic of California
PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 06:29    Post subject:  
Anonymous wrote:
And why wont my windows partition auto-mount when I add it to fstab?


I don't know for sure but I mount my partitions in /etc/.rc.d/rc.local

Using mount points like hda1 hda2, etc have more meaning for me so I make the mount points then mount the partitions as follows:

mkdir /mnt/hda1
mkdir /mnt/hda3
mkdir /mnt/hda5
#mkdir /mnt/hda6
mkdir /mnt/hda7
mkdir /mnt/hda9
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -t vfat
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 -t reiserfs
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 -t vfat
#mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 -t vfat
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 -t ext2
mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 -t ext2

BTW - Is the wallpaper still a problem?
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005
Posts: 7047
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PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 06:59    Post subject:  
Anonymous wrote:
AHA!!
I figured it out.

Left click desktop, select "modules", then select "save desktop".

Voila.
Change stays.


Do this:

Start -> Control panel -> desktop background image
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Paradox Realm
PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 08:11    Post subject:  
If I do that and stretch the image to fit the desktop, the desktop goes white.
If I select the next option which keeps the proportions, I get a band of white (the background colour) across the top of the screen . . .

Smile
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dvw86


Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 636
Location: Washington State
PostPosted: Wed 01 Jun 2005, 08:21    Post subject:  
Lobster wrote:
If I do that and stretch the image to fit the desktop, the desktop goes white.

Same here.
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Guest
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PostPosted: Thu 02 Jun 2005, 20:06    Post subject:  
I did use ctrl panel to change it.
Upon reboot, it goes back to default.

The "save desktop" function on the "modules" part of the left click menu doesnt help either.
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Guest
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PostPosted: Sat 11 Jun 2005, 03:14    Post subject:  
anyone?
Is there some conf. file I could edit to make this work?
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