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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

look here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=404682#404682

I try to describe how I finally solved it. Took me four month from Dec 2009 to April 2010 to learn it. I did struggle with it 2008 and 2007 too but then forgot how to do it.

I admire all the newbies that manage to do these things on their own. Kudos to them.

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I Need help to get gview going for .png files because I fail to get Viewnior to show the .png files that mtPaint has captured from screenshot.

Viewnior fails! it says there are no files to show.

People have told me numerous times that I should "drop" a program in the "run" so it knows that that program should be used.

I ahve tried and tried now for four month and have no clue on how does one do it? I admire all the beginners that manage to do it. I am not that intelligent obviously. Very embarrassing to admit but I really do my best here.

Could some kind individual do a step by step going through how to get gview bonded or what the word is to the run action of png files?

I fail to see the gview program in my puppy431std was that one dropped from what to include and viewnior maybe put instead.

I guess I can do PPM to get it but then we have the problem of making it know that it should be used with png files.

could someone help please.

Flash · Posted: Thu 25 Mar 2010, 23:49 Post subject:

Viewnior opens the png files in /root/puppy-reference/midi-icons when I click on them.

I assume you're telling mtPaint to save the screenshot as a png file somewhere like /tmp, then clicking on the file to open it.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

When I do as you do then it says,.

tubby · Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 317

Hi Nooby i have tried to open .png files from viewnior and to my surprise it did not work from the pull down menu on the desktop, all .png files grayed out.
How ever it did work from a Rox window, this is probably a bug with viewnior and maybe should be reported. I am using Quirky 010 at the moment.
If you have not already done so enable thumbs in RoxFiler and then viewnior opens the .png when you click on them if it is still your default viewer..

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

When I look in Set run action it says:

defaultimageviewer "$gview"

Despite this it doesn't show. But if I right click on .png pic and choose open with gview then it shows it.

Above in set run action they suggest one drag and drop an application. But to be able to do that one first need to find the application. They don't tell where to find it and which of the many versions to use.

Edit:

Aah by pure accident I managed to find out how to make a proper Set run action drop of application.

I had first used pmount to actuvate the hdd partition whicg have the png files I want to look at.

Then I did a right click on one such file and go to Set run action to the right in the two pop up things.

while that stay in place I go to Menu in lowest left corner and click on Menu -> Filesystems -> pfind and wrote viewnior and found very many answers and chosed one of them that looked like an icon that indicate it is supposed to be dropped Smile

and dropped it into the Set run and it worked. now it does show all png as easy as jpg or gif.

How a complete newbie is supposed to be able to do this I ahve no clue.

So I solved it but not sure how to tell somebody else how to do it reliably.

wow took me four month to learn this easy thing. I am not bright am I. Smile

Flash · Posted: Fri 26 Mar 2010, 09:04 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

Flash! You must be a patient man. To me four month is an eternity.

My aim is to be complete independent of M$ windows.

Linux almost have let me but what I still fail to do is to use one linux and install another linux OS on an usb.

Windows has some 5 different such programs. I have found none in linux that does it. Unless one need to know their names to be able to find them.

Or linux people use the CLI/Terminal/Konsole to do it and thus never use any name for such a program.

do you know what is the proper search name for such prog? If one don't "burn" and iso to an USB, what is it that one does? install? But usually that is done by that OS itself and not by another OS.

One use Puppy do to a puppy install on an usb but can puppy install another linux on that usb? Windows can.

What am I supposed to use for search terms. I tried it for four months now and not find a solution. AFAIK now that is the only thing that is available in windows to me but not in linux?