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[playdayz]

Work in progress - associating doc-types with Libre Office programs and icons. This is mainly for Lupu Libre, but it should work if you have Libre Office 3.5+ installed in any Puppy--but if you are not using Lupu Libre you will have to download and install the Integrate_LibreOffice pet also in order to setup the desktop icons.

Download and install the doc-type-LibO-set.pet *and then Menu -> Shutdown -> Restart X server* to associate the icons and run actions for Libre Office. Please suggest additional doc-types if you see one missing or that should be there.

Writer: odt, ott, doc, docx, rtf
Calc: ods, ots, xls, xlsx, csv
Math/formula: odf
Impress: odp, otp, pps, ppt, pptx
Base: odb
Draw: odg, otg

[rerwin]

To address the issue of SNS getting confused by the use of both eth1 and wlan0 for Broadcom wifi, I have compiled the two (5.60 & 5.100) proprietary drivers so that they use wlan0. So, switching among driver versions should no longer impact SNS. And it avoids user confusion about the name differences.

I have packaged the fix as one for integration into all puppies and the other for just the 2 driver modules, which are built for each kernel. Be sure to install both packages.

Although I do not know the reason, note that the 5.100 version is 81 bytes larger than peebee's compilation of it. Since I do not have a wifi card that takes the proprietary driver, I need feedback from any of you who can test with these packages. Besides the recompilations with the name change, the script that magically causes the alternate driver to be chosen was changed to look for the "failure" message which should now contain the wlan name. Cowboy and anyone else who needs the older driver: Please verify that the older driver is activated if the newer one fails. Then, of course, try SNS and check whether the connection is restored after reboot.

Thanks for all of your patience while we try to get this right.

UPDATE 4/8/2012: Peebee pointed out that the new drivers may not be "picked up" if they are installed after the "update" package. Oops, I did not move the "depmod" command to the driver package in its own pinstall script.. After download number 7 of the driver package, I re-uploaded it with the added script. So, the order of installation is no longer a factor.
If you are not seeing the drivers work as expected, please run:
depmod
in a console window, to get them recognized.
Richard

[humblesoul]

Thank you! Have noticed some other files have been associated and iconified, for example in root, show hidden, .fonts.conf is now a grey libre icon as are both .jwmrc and .jwmrc-previous. Is this intentional?

Thought i spotted a few more on my travels but can't recall where.

Hope this helps.

[playdayz]

[humblesoul]

also, should i need to download jre if i am using google chrome? http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp says i haven't got it. have checked under the bonnet in chrome settings. all enabled.

tried quickpet install and ppm. both want to install java to mnt and advise against. tried anyway. then uninstalled via ppm.

thanks again.

[playdayz]

[humblesoul]

Thanks. Will try sfs.

Tried new icon fix and no change. Removed from ppm, restarted x, installed new pet, restarted x. Will try reboot when sfs is in.

Add: No change after reboot, icons remain. Tried sfs load on the fly with java and receive fatal: Failed to append '/initrd/pup_r04' to unionfs. Will try boot manager.

[gcmartin]

[majorfoo]

[futwerk]

a few lucid + backgrounds.

[playdayz]

[majorfoo]

[kevin bowers]

[playdayz]

[sheldonisaac]