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Slow boot time
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john262

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PostPosted: Sun 29 Apr 2012, 01:38    Post subject:  Slow boot time  
Hi, when up boot up version 5.2.8 it takes some time while it searches subfolders for the puppy files, then it eventually finds them. But I have both lupusave.2fs and lupu_528.sfs located at the root of my C drive. I don't understand why it takes so long to find these files and why it needs to search the subfolders. With previous versions of Puppy it found them much faster.
Does anyone know what I can do about this? Thanks.

One other thing. I can't figure out how to get rid of the "select default browser" icon on the task bar to the right of the menu button. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? I don't need it since I already selected my default browser and don't intend to change it. I tried playing with the FBpanel configuration accessible from the desktop settings menu and couldn't figure it out. Thanks again.

John
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antiloquax


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PostPosted: Sun 29 Apr 2012, 04:56    Post subject:  
You should be able to speed up boot time by adding something to your menu.lst (assuming you are using GRUB).
if you add the expression:
Code:
psubdir=<path to your puppy files>

Then Puppy will not look elsewhere for save files. If this isn't there, Puppy looks in all your partitions for a savefile.
If you haven't got the files in a directory, you might want to put them in one.
Here's an example from my menu.lst
Code:
title Slacko
  find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /slacko5.3.2.7frugal/initrd.gz
  kernel /slacko5.3.2.7frugal/vmlinuz  pmedia=atahd psubdir=slacko5.3.2.7frugal pfix=fsck
  initrd /slacko5.3.2.7frugal/initrd.gz


The tray button for the default browser chooser is probably in a file called .jwmrc-tray in your root directory. You can just delete the line that sets up this button. Here's the start of my file:
Code:
<JWM>
   <Tray  autohide="false" insert="right" x="0" y="-1" border="1" height="32" >

      <!-- Additional TrayButton attribute: label -->
      <TrayButton label="" icon="logo-mini.png">root:3</TrayButton>

      <TrayButton popup="browse" icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/www48.png">exec:defaultbrowser</TrayButton>
      <TrayButton popup="Show Desktop" icon="mini-desktop.xpm">showdesktop</TrayButton>

The last 2 lines set tray buttons to show the desktop and launch the browser. You should be able to see which is the line for the button you want to get rid of. (You'll need to restart JWM to see the change).
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PostPosted: Sun 29 Apr 2012, 10:43    Post subject:  
Thank you very much for your help.
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PostPosted: Sun 29 Apr 2012, 14:52    Post subject:  
john262 wrote:
Thank you very much for your help.

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PostPosted: Sun 29 Apr 2012, 15:15    Post subject: Re: Slow boot time  
john262 wrote:

One other thing. I can't figure out how to get rid of the "select default browser" icon on the task bar to the right of the menu button. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? I don't need it since I already selected my default browser and don't intend to change it. I tried playing with the FBpanel configuration accessible from the desktop settings menu and couldn't figure it out. Thanks again.
John

Lucid Puppy 528 uses Fbpanel for the default tray.
To delete "select default browser" icon.
Run menu->Desktop->Desktop settings->Fbpanel configuration
Go to Launchbar tab.
Delete info in first entry.
Go back to Main tab.
Click OK.
May need to restart X to see results. (menu->shutdown->Restart X server)

However I would not delete this "select default browser" icon.
You may install a new browser, one day, that will not set the default browser to it. This tray icon makes it very easy to change default browser.
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PostPosted: Mon 30 Apr 2012, 03:14    Post subject:  
Thanks BigPup - I don't use Lucid regularly - I assumed it was JWM that handled the panel.
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PostPosted: Mon 30 Apr 2012, 15:35    Post subject:  
Thanks again guys for your help. What I did was to switch to Icewm. It does not display that default browser changer button so that solved my problem. If I ever do install another browser I can revert back to JWM and then use that button.
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