Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[DaveS]

[Tman]

The Firefox-official pets require dbus and dbus-glib as dependencies. I have included a wary-compiled pet for them in /usr/lib/firefox/dependencies, but you may want to replace them with Saluki-compiled versions.
If the dependencies aren't found, it should ask ask you if you wish to install the dbus_dbus-glib pet.

Also, I have made a small howto for compiling Firefox, if anyone wants to try. It took me about 40 minutes to compile on an AMD 64 Athlon X2 5200+ (dual-core) with "make -j2 -is"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77753

[HiDeHo]

Wow i am liking saluki 0.21 atm. Its vastly improved and I love the boot message loading. here are some more things i have been thinking about

1. latest release forum support link: it would be really handy to have a link on the first page of this post for each release(or for releases from now on) to link to the page where the support for that version begins. eg the page you announce the release on. make it a tone easier especially if there are 10 or more pages to look through. I think this makes real sense and saves the usual separate posting for each new version that can make the forums hard to find things. keep it up.
   
2. creating pets and sfs: I notice there is dir2pet and dir2sfs built in. for converting apps into these formats. here is my post on the subject. click here
   
3. boot splash screen: how to add a custom image when saluki boots

[yerc1]

I downloaded luki16 sometime ago but only had time to try it today.
Impressed, again! (Until now i'm using Fluppy013)

Just one very minor thing that I found, tho i'm not sure whether this has been fixed down the line, is with the size of LibreOffice menu icon.

When called from the taskbar, the apps menu has the correct LibreOffice menu icon size, but when invoked from a desktop right-click apps menu displays huge menu icons for LibreOffice relative to other apps. See attachments.

Saluki is running from usb with LibreOffice, jre, firefox, printer-scanner sfs's loaded.

Massive thank yous to Jemimah and All who are collaborating with her on this new project! Looking forward to 1.0 release...

[mikeslr]

Hi jemimah:

I'm planning to send a bootable USB-Key-Saluki21 to my non-tekky niece. It already has a SaveFile on the USB. You're initial xorgwizard is superb. Booting from the USB port on three computers, and copying its files to a folder and adding it to Grub4dos on two others, Saluki reached desktop with the proper resolution on 4 times out of the five. The fifth required that xorgwizard be invoked.
I am writing a cover letter to her which will cover what to do if that happens. She probably won't know enough to select the "choose" option, and selecting "probe" or "Vesa" she may have to guess at her monitor's best resolution. So I wanted to explain to her how to invoke xorgwizard if the chosen resolution needed to be adjusted.
I'll intend to tell her about Ctl-Alt-Backspace anyway, but I couldn't find Xorgwizard on the Menu or by typing it into the Control Panel's Searchbox. Maybe I missed it. But it should be there for complete noobs.
After invoking Xorgwizard by pressing Ctl-Alt-Backspace, selecting "probe," running its routine and then typing xwin, the wait notice was displayed. I waited two minutes. Nothing happened. So I rebooted successfully into a GUI desktop. Should it take that long?
After posting this, as I'm in Saluki21, I try again and see if it was a fluke.
Edit: Must have been a fluke. Repeated the above twice. Typing xwin brought me to desktop in about a second.

mikesLr

[sszindian]

Did a regular 'update' from 20 to 21 (I boot from CD and only have the savefile on the HDD)

Everything went real well I'd say however, umplayer would not function properly after the update... a re-install of umplayer from the PPM fixed that little issue!

Everything else appears to be working as it did before the update!

>>>---Indian------>

[davemusic]

[taca0]

Hi,

I have a laptop with intel core duo with 1g ram and I install Saluki frugal in a nfst vista partition , without swap.

The problem its that the laptop its getting freeze complete , I have to poweroff removing battery. I was using web browser lightly . Also some times the memory begins to increase to 800mb .

Where could be the problem , How resolve that

I like Saluki but now....

Thanks!

[Dromeno]

Zim is a desktop wiki manager which is IMHO more useful than didiwiki

Freeplane is a branch of freemind (mind manager program) which is more portable / crossplatform than freemind.

I installed

zim-lucid-0.5.0.pet

in Saluki but since this version was made for lucid puppy it didn't work. Worse, after that (even after I uninstalled it) rednotebook (which at first worked in saluki) didn't work anymore. Thankfully I could revert to an older 3fs.

And for some reason which I do not understand yet I get freeplane working in Lucid and windows but not in Saluki.

so... another request: Jemimah, can you please make a saluki friendly version of Freeplane and Zim?

http://zim-wiki.org/
http://zim-wiki.org/downloads.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/

I would be most thankful!

[Geoffrey]

Here is Freeplane, this needs java to run http://www.smokey01.com/saluki/Geoffrey/freeplane-1.1.3_10.pet 16.4 MB (17,242,265 Bytes)
please test, if it works as it should it will be moved to the repository

[HiDeHo]

[HiDeHo]

[666philb]

[mikeslr]

Thanks davemusic & HiDeHo,

For helping me locate xorgwizard, and for the advice about a swapfile.


mikesLr

[Dromeno]

Geoffry:

yep - freeplane works and can be put in the repo. Thanks!