Now this morning testing how Fido works for first time in snow pup.
At boot I come directly into Fido as expected but Firefox does not start up when I click on Browser and not on Firefox either and not if I enter it in Roxterminal either.
So for to be able to give this report I went into terminal and entered
su password and then firefox and it started up.
So for a newbie I guess one need some instructions on how to get things going.
Okay I guess Barry want us in the community to take care about Fido.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67572
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02263
Imade bold the text that maybe apply to what did happen to me using Snow pup 17 now today.fido
At first shutdown, you are asked whether you want to create the save file as administrator (root) or fido (non-root).
I have got it basically working, but there are rough edges and if anyone wants to take this on-board, knock fido into shape, please go for it. You will need to understand how to configure /etc/sudoers, which is quite a challenge.
There are also some scripts that could be modified just a bit to work without requiring switching to root.
spot
I have setup the infrastructure in Woof, device nodes and sound in particular, to make it easier to implement a web browser (etc) running as spot.
If 01micko or kirk, or anyone else, would like to work on this, please go for it.
So most likely I need to start Firefox from Spot while Fido is something I fail to get what it is.
How is Fido and Spot related? So I should start Firefox from Spot when I am in Fido?
How does one do that?
So now I will boot up wary and see how that works. It has Seamonkey by Barry's choice instead of Firefox.
edit. Wary behave differently from Snow pup 17 in relation to browser.
Wary does start the Browser instantly I don't have to go to terminal and go into su and give password but at boot on the Pinboard it it did pop up a box saying that boot manager wanted my root password which I gave. I should have tested if seamonkey was related to that one.
Another thing that will be interesting to compare them is at reboot.
I went to reboot Snow pup 17 and it said it needed the root password for to reboot. So now I reboot wary and see if that one also ask for root password to reboot. and then I test seamonkey again. I rebooted and Wary reboot without asking for root password
But it does ask for password if I want to look at my HDD which is owned by root then and Fido most likely own Spot??? Yes that is what I can look into without password and in terminal asking whoami
# whoami
fido
#
it says fido and show the hash instead of the USD dollar sign.
Snowpup don't ask for password. I log out now and check what whoami says in snow pup 17. Here I am in Snow pup and do the terminal thing
sh-4.1$ whoami
fido
sh-4.1$ firefox
Could not create gnome accelerators directory `/root/.gnome2/accels': Permission denied
sh-4.1$ su
Password:
sh-4.1# firefox
So to start up firefox I need to be root. That kind of makes it difficult for the newbie that feel the need to be a non priv user and not a superuser using firefox. Most likely then one need to do su and install firefox also in spot.
How does one do that?
Barry warn on his blog that one should not ask him about Fido.
Posted on 7 May 2011, 8:43 by BarryK
fido is partly broken
Oh, I should add, please don't post any bug reports on fido. I know it is partly broken. The purpose of fido in this release is for anyone who wants to fix it.
If you are not in that "I can fix it" category, you can still try fido if you wish, but don't expect everything to work, and don't post here or the forum about what does and does not work. Thanks.
So I will not ask him or Pemasu either but here in Beginners I hope it is okay to ask general questions neither related to Wary nor to Snow pup particularily but how one use Spot when one is in Fido. Okay?
