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drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 118

Quirky 1.1 is superb! Barry, thanks so much. Here are a couple of small bugs for your collection:

1. Geany - does not open files on a samba/cifs share drive. She/It returns "Value too large for defined data type." This problem has occurred with other distributions (not with puppies). There was a solution suggested in the Arch forum: add

broomdodger · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/test/quirky-1.2rcUPLOADING/qrky-112.iso

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/test/quirky-1.2rcUPLOADING/qrky-112.iso

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 118

broomdodger wrote:

scabz · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 206 Location: Tallahassee FL US

Testing on my EeePc 900a, I am really happy that i can finally play games that require Opengl using Puppy and not some huge bloated OS.Games that I have tested are OpenArena, Smokin' Guns, SuperTuxKart and Tremulous all are playable at decent speeds.

I just wanted to say thanks alot for quirky!!!

BarryK · Posted: Fri 28 May 2010, 21:06 Post subject:

I have bumped this thread up to Quirky 1.2rc:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01625

Lots of new goodies!

broomdodger · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

tatemono · Joined: 29 May 2010 Posts: 6

/bin/e3 crashes after applying strip command to reduce its size.
By the way, strip of Puppy 4.3.1 has the same problem.

tatemono · Joined: 29 May 2010 Posts: 6

I found 2 vi in Quirky 1.2rc.
One is /bin/vi, while the other is an alias, e3vi.

tatemono · Joined: 29 May 2010 Posts: 6

After adding a suitable unicode TTF file to Quirky, SeaMonkey displays unicode characters. However, it does not display unicode characters in its title bar. For example, if you visit http://map.yahoo.co.jp/, you cannot see the last 2 characters of "Yahoo!地図" displayed in title bar of SeaMonkey even if Android's TTF is added to the system.

In fact, this problem was solved by shinobar 11 months ago. Please apply his shell script, whose URL is http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/jwm_font_repair.sh, to fix a bug in JWM's setting causing this problem.

tatemono · Joined: 29 May 2010 Posts: 6

libGL.so is needed to run Google Earth for Linux 5.1 and it is not included in Quirky.
Is it to be added to Quirky in the near future?

scabz · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 206 Location: Tallahassee FL US

`f00 · Last edited by `f00 on Sat 29 May 2010, 18:54; edited 1 time in total

(using a butchered q110 savefile copy, so..) xdeltas were fine

The default html viewer(s) in /usr/local/bin .. probably just as well that 'basic' invokes the almost-forgotten-in-quirky/wary PuppyBrowser and surfer seems to be only referenced in /usr/sbin/delayedrun (since it can't handle file:// and other address forms as-is). Too bad, since even the new SM is molasses-slow to load initially for me. Did .mht extension ever get properly mime'd? I see it has at least a different 'icon-look' if that portends anything Neutral

and set/run does better than sendto did previously (.mht is more a webpage archive than plaintext). More local help is a good thing imo (SM local help has returned and there's some other things which don't simply give an online link) even if it adds to the size - judgement call there.

For me it's about 4-5 minutes into uptime that idle settles (looking at xload). SM takes 20 sec to load, old Opera10a about 14 sec, Arora about 9 sec and surfer almost instantly (but times shorten after initial cold loads so that's simply an offhand observation).

Drat, system just froze (was checking the soundfiles in /usr/share/audio with defaultaudioplayer pmusic and the last one played was beep_high.wav when it just froze with clockstop etc in pekwm - no way out except hardoff Neutral

). All oki in w020 .. probably just a fluke instance in q112 since freeze not repeatable on return (fwiw, fresh partial xerrs.log in tar.gz attached).

ps - UTC hwclock is maybe more for server? I used swatchtime for an unambiguous 'universal' time-reference at one point (but it never really caught on since it is unambiguous in it's division-format). Offsets can lead to misunderstandings occasionally (some few 'special cases' in DST whenifas observed regionally) .. edit posted @996 (;

Béèm

I think, 95% of the users are unaware of the clock setting local/UTC and will be confused and won't know what to choose.

I think it's a too technical a question to ask.

Before the discussion on the issue, recently, I wasn't aware of this difference either.