Puppy 4.2 Alpha4 Seamonkey Bugs & Fixes

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#21 Post by ttuuxxx »

if you look at the image I posted, I have freememory applet, it says 8.9 gigs. because I'm not using my large pupsave file yet :)
the only thing I closed before the image was taken was the xpad splash screen. So thats what a pristine looking default boot should look like. I don't know why you don't have free memory applet, what happens when you click on the bin located
/root/my-applications/freememapplet_tray_puppy215ce/freememapplet-tray

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#22 Post by `f00 »

@pa David
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Oh, and one more little thing: What if I don't want an analog clock and a calendar on my desktop? How do I get rid of them? :roll:
Clear pwidgets and Apply - imo, this should be user-set and not a default startup on initial boot. Also if it's like it was in a1 and I believe a3, it has a script in /root/Startup dir that may still run fixwidgets ..

*yawn*, dl on dialup is taking even more forever than previously (8 hours now and still only 30% :P )

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#23 Post by ttuuxxx »

pmount isn't working properly, its not letting me mount my sata2 hard drive, this is a first for puppy :?
also I thought the reason why we have tcl/tk was to get mut working, well the gui doesn't work either for mut, the command line does, ummmmm maybe I can see a alpha 5 emerging, lol
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#24 Post by jrb »

WhoDo,
I renamed /OpenWith/ to /SendTo/ as per your instructions and Rox right-clicks works fine.

I have reconfigured the load_sfs.pet for 420. It now puts a link to load_sfs in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/.application_x-squashfs-image making it work in Rox right-clicks.

I also included /sbin/ldconfig in the pet and script. Apparently it loads library files.

Typing this in opera-10.sfs loaded with load_sfs-420 in Puppy420a4.

P.S. I'm totally impressed with what you guys have accomplished so far.
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#25 Post by ttuuxxx »

ok I compiled mut2/pmount and removed the mut since it didn't work, and then i tried the pmount, well that works, but its the older version, but atleast I can use my sata2 again, the problem is that I have to click on usr/sbin/pmount If i use the desktop icon, it opens the file too quick and doesn't actually read what the system has, but if I go to usr/sbin/pmount
and click on that with this pet installed, it works, minus some icons that were removed from puppy. I think the main issue is the desktop drives issue that I had too many icons, if anyone has the same issue install the pmount below and use usr/sbin/pmount to run the application.
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#26 Post by Pizzasgood »

Is there a particular reason for not using the 'flat' look on the default IceWM theme (sorry, I forgot the name). While I was testing it I change it to flat (I think it was gtk) and it looked much nicer. Otherwise the borders on the taskbar buttons are kinda choppy.


@WhoDo: Maybe you should set up Qemu and give the isos a quick test-run with it before uploading them, so you can verify for sure whether or not your partitions were included before it's uploaded. When you use Qemu, it doesn't see your partitions anymore, so if they still turn up, you know something is wrong. Just a thought. Qemu is also really handy for testing things like the boot scripts, so that you don't have to actually keep rebooting your machine over and over. It made things much easier for me when I was doing that Syslinux stuff.

Maybe we should even add a Qemu package to the official repository, so people who want it can grab it easier.
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#27 Post by ttuuxxx »

ok I just compiled cups and add a few things, its the full version, but its a start, I'll reduce / modify it as time goes on.
I tested on my wifes pc and it worked.
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 386-v1.pet
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Ps I could use a few dedicated testers on this cups project, It doesn't bother me if I have to repackage it 20 times :)
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to start cups click on
menu/System/Manage Printing
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#28 Post by ttuuxxx »

Pizzasgood wrote:Is there a particular reason for not using the 'flat' look on the default IceWM theme (sorry, I forgot the name). While I was testing it I change it to flat (I think it was gtk) and it looked much nicer. Otherwise the borders on the taskbar buttons are kinda choppy.

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yes the flat is zigberts creatation, and its general problem with icon issues, I also like the icons better, could you please take an image and circle what you call 'taskbar buttons are kinda choppy' with mt paint please so I can have a look at it, If you mean the quick launch icons, thats could be changed easily.
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#29 Post by WhoDo »

nic2109 wrote:We still have the plethora of partition icons on the desktop - most of which are null (warning road-sign).

Not a big problem, but neither is it a fixed one. :wink:
Far out! :x I removed the personal drive settings from PuppyPin in my packages directory but must have forgotten to do the same in the rootfs-complete directory from which I built the modified pup_420.2fs file. Just open /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin and delete the drive assignments. When you restart X they'll be detected correctly for your machine. {mutter, mutter, mutter ... grumble, grumble, fricken fracken computers ...grrrrr} *sigh* I'm okay now! :P
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#30 Post by tom4jesus »

[quote="ttuuxxx". I don't know why you don't have free memory applet, what happens when you click on the bin located
/root/my-applications/freememapplet_tray_puppy215ce/freememapplet-tray
....[/quote]

I just wanted to let you know I have occasionally had the same problem with freememapplet with the 4.1.2 Puppy version running JWM.

The little "unknown" black box in the upper left corner reported by someone earlier IS the freememapplet detached from the task bar and floating around on the desktop, but when it happens in JWM you can still read your free memory on it, and in iceWM it is just a black box.
It has happened to me under JWM after I have either installed or uninstalled packages and restarted JWM from the menu.

In the case of this 4.2a3 build it happened to me after I switched to iceWM from JWM and sometimes it is floating in the corner and other times it is gone completely.

So, at least in my case it was not isolated to iceWM or this 4.2 build.
Hope that helps you track it down.

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#31 Post by Pizzasgood »

@WhoDo: Shouldn't it have replaced that with the one from packages/ after you ran createpuppy?

@ttuuxxx: I'm sorry, I was mistaken. It wasn't the default theme, it was Odelite. Elegance and Bluemat also could benefit from this.

I have a floating box too. Gotta go to bed though so I can't test it. This is gonna be another crazy week...

The thing tom4jesus mentions about freememapplet is something I've seen in JWM too, so that makes sense. Maybe freememapplet is getting launched before the icewmtray is loaded properly. I think I saw something like that before, back when I was a regular IceWM user.
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#32 Post by Lobster »

STOP PRESS: Zigbert, trio and 01micko have worked hard on Pwidgets and version 0.7 is now available for download. I strongly recommend updating to this before testing. It will be in the next release, no question, and it works like a charm.
Downloading seems OK - got the ISO easily

Pwidgets 0.7 is much improved but I eventually had several widgets open but only the clock displaying. Maybe I need to do an x restart . . . Nope - not that. It seems something to do with the refreshing of the program . . .

'Hotpup' with the exclamation marks would seem to be a good priority for fixing in the beta :)
The swapping between jwm and icewm is easier and both window mangers were working :)

Thanks guys for all your efforts and passionate (at times) team work. :D
I was working on a database (see cutting edge) and we might swap to C programming - not sure if it will be in Deep Thought - early pre-alpha days for that 8)

I would urge going for Beta (you get more testers and feedback) if possible on the next release - the feature set is there?

I believe the 100MB is a good idea and I feel we will get a 4.2 Barebones provided (maybe from Wolfpup) usually within a few days - this would enable two official versions?
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#33 Post by WhoDo »

Tom Raft wrote:I miss the hacked fixmenus script from zigberts DeepThougt theme.
Yeah, not deliberate ... just an oversight. I'll add it to my list. Thanks. :oops:
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#34 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hey WhoDo

your puppy pin fix, cleaned up my desktop extra icons:)
Butttttttt pmount is still broken for my sata2 and also when I click preferences it crashes. (I like the single row, not the tab version :wink: )
also that damn 'insert key' problem is back!!! Funny when I compiled seamonkey it was fine and now its back, I read somewhere it was a gdk issue
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Ps anyone tried the Cups package on page 1 I made?
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#35 Post by ttuuxxx »

a free memory applet goes, I've never seen it leave the IceWm taskbar, I compiled it on series 4 and its been stable ever since, I've seen it fly off jwm tons of times but never icewm, I guess we could put a long delay, and have it tested.
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#36 Post by trio »

Lobster:

I found few bugs in pwidgets 0.7 and I was telling zigbert about it:
Very Happy ZIGBERT:

Teacher, nevermind the test, I found the problem, pwidgets-exec (pwidgets 0.7):
#Pwidgets
$HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgets-exec_xonclock &
$HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgets-exec_xli &
$HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgets-exec_conky &

should be:

#Pwidgets
$HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgets-exec_xli &
$HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgets-exec_xonclock
$HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgets-exec_conky

right? Thanks
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Zigbert:

two more issues regarding pwidgets 0.7:

1. slideshow config:

I have to change from:

#### BASIC SETTINGS #####
#IMAGE_DIRECTORY="/usr/share/backgrounds"
IMAGE_DIRECTORY="/root/my-images"
DELAY=15 #in seconds

to

#### BASIC SETTINGS #####
IMAGE_DIRECTORY=/usr/share/backgrounds
#IMAGE_DIRECTORY="/root/my-images"
DELAY=15 #in seconds

in order to work

2. Weather/Weather_BG

Both using pweather as the font, but with my computer after mkfontdir & mkfontscale the font is listed as pweather1.ttfand it cannot be read by conky, I renamed the font to pweather.ttf and did mkfontdir & mkfontscale again, and it worked. Can you just change rename to pweather.ttf in the package?

Thanks
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#37 Post by ttuuxxx »

this is all the info pmount gives me when I run it via command line
/pmount: line 290: 19889 Terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter
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#38 Post by WhoDo »

Pizzasgood wrote:I attached a patch. Assuming it is downloaded to the puppy-unleashed/boot/ directory, it would be applied like this:

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gunzip init-rem_auto_cp_to_hd.patch.gz
patch initrd-tree0/init init-rem_auto_cp_to_hd.patch
Thanks, PG. Patch applied as directed. Next version should lose that particular problem. 8)

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#39 Post by WhoDo »

pa_mcclamrock wrote:I won't say anything about printing except that I didn't try it and, when I see an announcement that it works again at last, I'll try it.
You'd have had a hard time trying it in Alpha4 ... I removed CUPS so ttuuxxx and the guys could install and test on a clean build. :P
pa_mcclamrock wrote:Calendar is back in Claws Mail, I see. This is not an improvement...[snip]... The Calendar feature in Claws Mail is embarrassingly bad and should be trashed, "IMHO."
If it is as ordinary as you say, I'll remove it. ttuuxxx gave me two versions to choose from and this time I included the version with the calendar. I haven't even looked myself, yet.
pa_mcclamrock wrote:I checked my e-mail with Claws and got the mail, but I also got an error message saying "The Bogofilter plugin couldn't filter a message. The command `bogofilter -T -b` couldn't be run."
I'll check it out. It may be as simple as a missing library dependency.
pa_mcclamrock wrote:When I type text in my Tcl/Tk text/HTML editor (WISH Supernotepad) while running JWM, the titlebar blinks periodically. This doesn't happen while running IceWM.
:?
pa_mcclamrock wrote:Could you possibly bring yourself to squeeze in the very good-looking DejaVu Serif and DejaVu Sans Mono fonts in addition to DejaVu Sans, which Puppy already has?
"We'll see..." :wink:
pa_mcclamrock wrote:Tcl/Tk 8.5.6 now works correctly--almost. I no longer get the "no ttk" error message when I run Tk apps, and most of mine work right. The exceptions are two that use the Tcl "clock" command. Here's the error message I get when I try to run these from the command line. (Should I PM rarsa about this?)
If you want it fixed then rarsa is your man.
pa_mcclamrock wrote:Also, when I ran WISH CD-Writer, I got a message saying cdrdao isn't in my PATH. Is there a successor to cdrdao for audio CD-writing from the command line? If so, what is it?
cdrkit replaced cdrdao early in the Dingo 4.xx series.
pa_mcclamrock wrote:And now for something really bizarre. ..[snip]...I wonder what's going on here!
I don't know but it could be the reason Barry didn't move up the 2.8 version of Rox filer that I have just included. If we get any more bizarre behaviour I'll roll it back out in favour of the 2.6.1 version previously installed.
pa_mcclamrock wrote:Oh, and one more little thing: What if I don't want an analog clock and a calendar on my desktop? How do I get rid of them? :roll:
Menu>Desktop>Pwidgets and remove any offending widget by clicking on the widget in the right panel and then clicking the blue minus sign above the panel before hitting "apply".

Hope that helps
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#40 Post by WhoDo »

`f00 wrote: imo, this should be user-set and not a default startup on initial boot. Also if it's like it was in a1 and I believe a3, it has a script in /root/Startup dir that may still run fixwidgets ..
The trouble is that most users wouldn't even know it was there if you didn't have it running at first boot. The average refugee certainly wouldn't go looking for it. This way they find out it's there and can use the right hand panel to disable it if they don't like it. JMHO. :wink:
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