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[stu90]

Hi akash_rawal,

What windows manager and theme are you running in that screen shot above?

i like!

[akash_rawal]

[stu90]

[recobayu]

thank you very much akash, now my luci 258 has label on drive icon.
how if the longer label cut to the wide of icon, for example "somethingdriveiconlabel" tobe "someth..."
maybe it is better.

[pemasu]

[r1tz]

Hmmm, i feel that even windows start up and shut down faster then when hibernating.

But hibernation is great when you don't feel like closing your 100 tabs and programs only to start them again when you reboot a few hours later.

[recobayu]

drive icon label fix
http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60911&start=30

i make some change on the function blkid_name_generator() to manage the longer drive icon label, something like "ThisIsMyLabel" tobe just "ThisIsMy..", here we go.

[sickgut]

regarding these two points:

1. Desktop drive icons: They should show volume labels along with drive numbers.
2. Grub bootloader config: It should have ability to detect existing operating systems and generate appropriate configurations to boot them. (I think the easiest way to do that is to read existing bootloader config files, or better still edit existing bootloader.)

The volume labels issue could be introduced by using the "usbmount" package, this creates a dir called usbmount in /var/run/ and here there are shortcuts made to the detected drives and the name of the shortcut is the firmware name of the device, such as Lexar 8GB USB flash or Toshiba M88764628 these arent real actual names of real devices but an example of the type of naming. A desktop icon that links to /var/run/usbmount/ would provide the desktop interface for this. This is something i have done in Pussy Linux.

The 2nd issue listed here is better Grub etc etc etc etc etc
This is a general linux issue and is a type of holy grail for pretty much any inquizitive linux user.

[akash_rawal]

There is a possible fix for multiline drive labels, a problem that was brought to notice by a PM from someone.

Here is the replacement function:

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Regarding Hibernation...
Using 2.6.38.4 from Pemasu, and acpitools, my laptop sleeps (acpitool -s.. small s 'suspend to ram') in 3 seconds, and wakes in 5.. Works great..
However acpitool -S (big s 'suspend to disk') is death to X..

[jemimah]

[recobayu]

ok, i'll wait for your gtkdialog

i have a problem with drive icon.
after i install wbar with setup from http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet-packages-lucid/Wbar_with_setup-1.3.3-Lucid.pet on my lupu 528, then i goto desksetup template for desk icons, i choose bare -no desktop icons and traditional form drive icon layout. after restart X server, my drive icons tobe like this (drive numpuk.png).
it should be like other one (drive normal.png).
what should i do?
thanks akash_rawal

[Puppyt]

Probably just a retrogressive thought, but what about setting up (a) wbar to show only drive/partitions, with labels edited manually perhaps (via wbar config)? I imagine that the main hassle then would be automatic mount/unmount - but then I'm not too imaginative, and there's bound to be hundreds of alternatives

P.S. On actually re-reading some of the previous posts I see that the discussion had reached that point already - and a wbar+drive mounter would run into problems with events such as flash drive insertions. Apologies all for my attempt to add to the debate - it's been a long week.

[recobayu]

if we add label on drive icon, the position of 'x' sign go upper. so we must click on below the x sign like that image.
we can fix it by small change.
this is what i do:
1. open as text file /usr/local/bin/drive_all
find on row 178