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Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 681 Location: UK

Hi Henry

This is just an idea - not a certainty - but white-outs could be what's causing the loss of space in your save_file.

White-outs :-

Some time ago Big Bass made a white-out cleaner for his
412 Slaxer Pup. It should work ok with 413/431 etc.

I'll see if I can find a copy - or a link - and post it.

HTH - very best regards - Ray

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3695 Location: UK

Henry, try adding the 'pfix=fsck' command to your boot parameter. This seems to stop/fix .wh files. If you are using Grub, the entry would look like this:

/431/vmlinuz pfix=fsck pmedia=atahd psubdir=431

external · Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 17

Thanks DaveS will give it a try

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

Hope it is ok to ask, how does one know one have these .wh files in pupsave? what do I use to look for them and to delete them?

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 681 Location: UK

Hi Henry

Finally - found them - hope they work.

regards - Ray

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

NOP is one of the best puppies.

To mount a usb drive in frugal install failed on puppy stardust for me.
Not sure what error I made.

but it works on NOP 431 so maybe that one will be my main puppie then.

Flash858 · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 98 Location: Chandler, Arizona

Gray - Fantastic job, I love this version, and it will be my main distro for 2010.

A couple of issues I have that are not biggies, but I would like to get ironed out:

1) ccsm will not open. I have managed to work around this by editing the compiz .ini file; copy/pasting a few sections from the compiz .ini file from my Ubuntu partition, and moving a few plug-in xml files into the Puppy partition. This allowed me to get rid of the oh-so-annoying airplane animation, and replace it with the vacuum, also enable dodge, and the sphere deformation. It just would be a lot easier if ccsm ran.

2) pwidgets is not working. Is there a workaround?

3) This may not be applicable, but I cannot change the icon spacing on the desktop. In the past, with xfce, this could be achieved by editing the xfwm4rc file. When I looked, there wasn't one, so I created it with icon grid/spacing parameters, but it did not work, even on reboot. Let me know if I am missing something.

4) Lastly, and this is more of a question, how should an icon set be installed? I'm assuming I need to copy a set over, as installing a .pet would only be for jwm/ice. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again for a great puplet!

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 812 Location: Oregon USA

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 314 Location: Near the window

Hi Gray,

Congratulations for your splendid puplet ! Very Happy

I have always loved XFCE but I have to admit it is really a great
combination when setup with puppy !!

I have been working with it on my own pc and I would like to ask
you some questions I didn't know how to answer myself:

1. in the directory listing I could find amsn.pet but I can't find any
pet or SFS for Skype latest version ; do you know where there is one
or could you build one please ?

2. though I love Opera and use it, in my country we have websites
providing online television that works only with firefox and vlc and
mozilla-vlc-plugin. I have tried for many months to find some other ways but
it seems we have to use this softwares ; it is not just for some web-tv,
these are the real country tv-channels like on cable or satellite network.
So, is there already a SFS ready to use with NOP for Firefox+vlc-plugin
and another SFS for VLC ?

3. maybe you remember I worked a lot too to produce a puplet based
on XFCE some years ago (named eXpand) and I would like to know
if you have a barebone version for NOP with only the minimal puppy
software plus XFCE ? ...maybe it would help a lot for future creations Smile

4. how did you make it ? did you start from another barebone or from
woof ? and if so how did you do it ? Razz

5. for easy inclusion into NOP, could you build some more SFS for the
following software: GnuPaint, gThumb, XFE, Rhythmbox please ?

Many thanks in advance for taking the time to answer me Embarassed

You made a great work and I hope I will have chance to learn more
tips so to build myself such good tools.

Best regards
Laurent

slvrldy17 · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 288 Location: Mid western USA

Tried running 4.31 NOP on a Dell Mini 9 - a gift from my sister - regular LAN is recognized but not the internal Broadcom Wifi - tried the version of regular 4.31 with Tempestuous's fix built in and it works - any plans to incorporate the fix into NOP? Thanks and keep up the good work!