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Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

True, and thanks for replying.

Where's the directory for installing them into Puppy, or isn't it necessary?

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 8023

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Thanks, but sadly my old 17" monitor went up in smoke (or as good as) yesterday morning so I'm now viewing Puppy on a 15" SVGA monitor. I therefore need a WM that's economical on screen estate, like Fluxbox.

Best,

Colonel Panic .

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 8023

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Thanks, but as money's a bit tight for me at the moment it will probably have to wait for a bit. I'll try and manage with what I've got now; maybe choose a more readable font or something.

This one's not a bad monitor and made by the same company as the 17", but the reduction in screen size does make a difference.

It would probably save me money in the long run though, that old monitor used to chuck out a fair amount of heat (and more than this one does).

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 8023

Could try altering the X font resolution...gives nice bold text on smaller screens..
and xfce control panel has font size options too..ended up look good on a notebook mini screen
mike

ps flat screens in cash converters and such are getting cheap too

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Thanks for the advice (X font resolution? I've got some reading to do here by the looks of it).

Cheers,

CP .

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 8023

There was a set global font size utility but basically in /root/.Xresources its
Xft.dpi: 84 sort of thing

mike

WarMocK · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 169

Hey guys,
sorry for bumping up the old issue again, but there's a cairo patch available for XFCE 4.6.1. Can somebody please tell me how to patch it into xfce (or maybe give it a shot himself)? I wanted to throw it into gcc (just downloaded the whole src package), but I can't say that I'm very familiar with it. Sad

http://www.cooptel.qc.ca/~pggervais/xfce4-panel-4.6.1_cairo-patch.tar.gz

Any advice?

siafok · Joined: 24 Jul 2009 Posts: 1

[quote="gray"]XFCE 4.6.1 pet is now available from http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP

Can you tell me what is the user name and password to this file?

Thank you

murmelbahn · Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 47

User Name: puppy
Password: linux

Easy enough to remember Wink

Nekroze · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 56

Perfect that is exactly what i was looking for.

thanks for compiling+posting
will go nicely into next Dev-Pup

Nekroze · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 56

Evaluation after a bit of use and nosing around:
it seems all around VERY nice the menu is really close to the way it should be to... "make sense" i guess i could say, will need a tad work.

Main question is, other then always running pmount is there an easy way to mount or even find out about new devices with XFCE.

for instance jwm and icewm and such you could still see all the available drives on the desktop and when there was a new one it is shown. then of cause you click them they mount and open, however it dose not seem like there is a way to do that in xfce.

apart from that, this is top work. absolutely beautiful.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 8023

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 731

to have drive on xfce4 desktop
you need
this
http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/xfce_pupevent_410.pet