Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[steve_s]

Thanks, grimoire...would you please give a brief description of what it does?

[dejan555]

It's a desktop/workspace switcher applet

[steve_s]

By the way, just wanted to make sure and mention: I added Quickpet to the menu under Setup...

[steve_s]

The version on this page works great with Pupflux 5.1.1.

I downloaded it, unpacked it, then changed the name by getting rid of the _431, ran bootmanager and added the sfs.

Then, change the fluxbox menu as you normally do, but OpenOffice commands are as such:

[steve_s]

Now we got PfluxLite-5.1.1!

Check the first page for download location...thanks to MU for giving a great download location (username: puppy, password: linux).

This was created from scratch using Woof...not totally tiny (120MB) but much smaller than Pupflux 5.1.1 original.

It does not have a browser (easy to install from the menu with Quickpet or run quickpet from terminal), gnumeric, abiword, jwm or icewm.

If someone asks I can upload the devx, but the Lucid devx mentioned before will probably work fine (I think so? I created it using the same settings as Puppy Lucid, just left some things out) but didn't want to take up all of MU's bandwidth.

[playdayz]

So very nice SteveS. Would it be possible to make a pet that could be placed in the Puppy Package Manager that could add pupflux capability to standard Lucid 5.1.1? Or 80% of the capability Thanks.

And now I read more

[dejan555]

@ playdayz, it's already in ibiblio under pet packages 5:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-5/fluxbox-1.1.1-i486-dpup.pet
so I guess it should show in ppm

BTW, while I'm here I'll mention this cool menu button hack I found, see this post on dpup thread for screenshot and links:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=452168#452168

[steve_s]

Glad you guys got it figured out....

Thanks for the praise, Playdayz.

Dejan's fluxbox has it all and would make a great addition. I did a great deal of tweaking on the menu, but that was more for my own benefit; his initial menu looks great.

And thanks for the hack, dejan!

[don570]

I tried Pfluxlite and I liked it's look.

Oddly I found Geany slow to launch.
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Here are some suggestions.
Retrovol should be in the menu rather than alsamixer.
Also you need a version of mhwaveedit that will launch
Retrovol by clicking on icon.

Try this
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-7255dff9.html


set_hwclock should be in the menu as well to be consistent with Lucid Puppy.
Many users won't know how to set the clock if they are booting
on a linux machine rather than a windows machine.
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I suggest you use this version of mtpaint 3.34.55 .
It's only slightly larger than version 3.31

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-d3a1bd6f.html

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I made a package to put some useful right-click options for Rox Filer.
Try it out. It uses mplayer to play several audio and video formats.
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-9d017969.html

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[steve_s]

[don570]

You should read forum member shinobar's experience with making lupq
(Lucid Puppy Quickset)
http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58654&start=195&sid=545f15eb76b732a352b8dcd2bc37c11f

Apparently the apps he was getting from Woof weren't stripped!!

It all started when I read about the program strippkg
http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1919936677&t=59013&sid=545f15eb76b732a352b8dcd2bc37c11f.
When I tried using it, I noticed that Retrovol wasn't stripped .
I sent a message to Shinobar to tell him about it. You can read the rest
with the link.
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[steve_s]

[gnomic]

Hullo there,

It's back, Pupflux, and I'm digging it. From the desktop right now.

However one little thing I noticed on playing an audio cd with Gnome-MPlayer, about three times a minute sound output ceased for round a second. Optical drive is good (nothing in dmesg about i/o errors). What I have seen of mplayer messages appears normal so far as I can tell. Ran it in a terminal with CD inserted and saw some output as disc was recognised and began to play.. Also just stuck in CD and clicked on it which opened Gnome-MPlayer. What can it mean? I did find myself wondering whether it is periodically trying to get artwork, track details, etc from the net - no network connection at that stage. MP3 playback from USB stick no problem.

Machine is a ThinkPad R51. Live session.

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

Anyone seen this, got any ideas, etc? Afraid I haven't researched it at all.

[steve_s]

[rcrsn51]