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Masf · Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 5

Hi, i open .xinitrc and see this:

redandwhitestripes · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 84

Hi guys,
I've loved FB ever since the old Fluxpup fork was released a while back.

Back then, each window had a tab and you could group them together by middle clicking (i.e. mousewheel) and dragging.

With this release I can't get that to work and I've looked through the online documentation and played with the settings.

Anyone know how to get those tabs back?

Also, sometimes when I bring up the bottom-left corner menu, I want to close it by simply clicking outside it, but I can't. Instead I have to hit the 'esc' key which is a slight pain. Can anyone help with this, too?

Many, many thanks in advance.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

uploaded actual version to first post.

aragon

starhawk · Posted: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 22:36 Post subject:

Does not work in Wary511-Uniproc... on my thinkpad, it starts to load and dies almost immediately. No idea how to diagnose the issue, either, TBH.

aragon · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany

Hi starhawk,

Sorry can't help 4.31 is the newest puppy i'm running...

Aragon

Eyes-Only · Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 15:16 Post subject:

Starhawk? Have you tried opening a terminal window in "/usr/bin" and then typing "ldd fluxbox" ( without " " of course ) to get a dependency list to see whether or not you have any missing/unmet dependency issues?

I've run Aragon's package here on everything ranging from... hmm... Tux's ClassicPup-214-Top5, to KDPup-484, to all versions of Lucid-Pup, and from Racy to Slacko-5.3 - all without a single hiccup nor problem. Unfortunately I haven't been able to run it on any version of Wary to date as it simply refuses to run on my machine. Odd too! The one and only Puppy version/make to NOT run on my desktop. lol!!

Anyway, I hope that perhaps running a dependency check on your installed Fluxbox might help Starhawk. I know that for me this has occasionally picked up a dependency that the PPM has missed during install check.

Best of luck my friend!/Bonne chance mon ami!

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"

starhawk · Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 16:40 Post subject:

Bonjour, Eyes-Only! Thank you for your suggestion, I have run the command you requested, and a screenshot of the results is attached to this post.

Kindly explain to me what all this gobbledegook means...

starhawk · Posted: Sat 14 Jan 2012, 17:08 Post subject:

Figured it out.

There is a necessary lib, attached to the first post of this thread, which Wary lacks. Guess the other Pups all have it. You *DON'T* need the -DEV version of the lib, just the one that's IIRC right below the screenshot of the whole thing.

Eyes-Only · Posted: Wed 18 Jan 2012, 10:43 Post subject:

My sincere apologies for not having made it back in time to have helped you Starhawk - I don't make it to the forum as often as I would like. Sad

I'm glad, however, that you were able to figure out the answer to your problem! Very Happy

Yes, that "ldd" command is really great and I frequently use it myself whenever something doesn't work - and it very often solves my problem as you yourself discovered as often it is only a missing lib which is needed for any programme to run properly.

In fact, this used to be the reason why I kept an updated install of a related Debian on a small partition of my drive - not that I was ever interested in using it as Puppy does it all for me! - but solely for finding missing libs that I wasn't able to find elsewhere. Well... that was MY work-a-round anyway. There are many, many, other ways of doing this as well, such as searching the Ubuntu/Debian web interface repositories for the files, searching in the PPM within Puppy ( this latter working the least-well for me though ), etc.

I hope all of this has helped in some small way for future installs of software, and I also hope that you're greatly enjoying Aragon's .pet of Fluxbox. It's a real beauty, isn't it? Very Happy

By the way: If you'd like to find even MORE themes for your Fluxbox besides those excellent ones here on the forum you may want to give http://www.box-look.org/ a try. I've found perhaps 50 more there! Shocked

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

bones01 · Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 363 Location: Melbourne, Aus

Just thought I'd add this for anyone else trying to work this out.

I opened up /root/.wbarstuff/shutoff (open as text) and saw the code suggested 'wmshutdown'.

Looking at /root/.fluxbox/menu and scrolling down to the bottom, I saw that this used the term 'shutdownflux'

So I simply deleted 'wmshutdown' to 'shutdownflux' in the .wbarstuff file, and now the shutdown button on wbar (from wbar Configuration Centre -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52381&search_id=1546975310) works fine.

Bones