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#201 Post by James C »

For what it's worth. immediately after completing above post , Rox froze up and wouldn't respond..... upon killing the process I lost the entire desktop (wallpaper,icons and drive icons)........ restarting X brought things back to normal though.

On to more testing. :)

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#202 Post by 01micko »

I removed mtpaintsnapshot.sh, but forgot the .desktop file. It will be removed.

Thanks

Any errors about rox recorded in the logs?
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#203 Post by James C »

Hardware test on an Intel box..... all working.

# report-video
Report Video 1.4 - Thu 4 Oct 2012 on Slacko Puppy 5.3.6.0 - Linux 3.2.30-4g i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)865G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)865G Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.12.3
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
377 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.357 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.125 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.141 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.164 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.143 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.143 FPS
376 frames in 5.0 seconds = 75.143 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 512MB (183MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 04 Oct 2012 12:14:30 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel ICH5

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#204 Post by James C »

01micko wrote: Any errors about rox recorded in the logs?
Already rebooted before I could check..... if it happens again I'll check.

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#205 Post by James C »

Installed Firefox from the Slackware repo. No menu entry.
Desktup file is in /usr/share/applications but "fixmenus" doesn't work. Good news though, Firefox 15.0.1 appears to work fine....... just put an icon on the desktop.

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#206 Post by 01micko »

James, can you post the contents of Firefox.desktop please? Should be able to work around that one. EDIT: nevermind I d'loaded it

Turns out to be a woof bug. (PPM). The category (stock) is Network, PPM replaces that with X-Internet-browser :? . Why on earth it doesn't just replace it with WebBrowser is beyond me, Seamonkey will be the same. One thing can be said about Slackware, consistent!
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#207 Post by James C »

01micko wrote:James, can you post the contents of Firefox.desktop please? Should be able to work around that one.
Here is the default desktop, file as installed from the Slackware repo...

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[Desktop Entry]
Exec=firefox
Icon=firefox.png
Type=Application
Categories=X-Internet-browser
Name=Firefox
Name[bn]=ফায়ারফক

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#208 Post by 01micko »

see above :)
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#209 Post by James C »

01micko wrote:see above :)
I'd already changed to WebBrowser.......didn't help. My desktop file after my tweaks

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[Desktop Entry]
Exec=firefox
Icon=firefox.png
Type=Application
Categories=WebBrowser;
Name=Firefox web browser
Tried running "fixmenus", restarting X and rebooting...... no menu entry.

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#210 Post by 01micko »

works here

#fixmenus
#jwm -reload
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#211 Post by Billtoo »

I installed kdegames with ppm, it was missing one lib which I found and added but there are no menu entries.I ran fixmenus and restarted x but still no menu entries.
Also tried compiling and get an error:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr
./configure: line 727: strings: command not found
./configure: line 729: strings: command not found
endian test failed
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I'm starting the kde games using gexec or clicking on the app in usr/bin
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#212 Post by James C »

I just replaced /usr/sbin/fixmenus with the file from 533 and it's working here now too. File from 533 was larger for whatever it's worth.

533 file on the left ....older than the file directly off the beta iso..... but it's working now. :)
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#213 Post by Volhout »

01micko wrote:
rcrsn51 wrote:What is it with Opera and printing? I bring up my newspaper, ask to print one page and get 12.

I do it in Firefox and get exactly the page I asked for.
Bummer!

I am going to try and get this fixed. Using opera allows flashplayer and the iso is still 2 meg smaller than the previous beta.

I had to do some gymnastics to get .pet mimetypes to work ootb in opera too. Last I looked Puppy was a top 10 distro, but Opera only supports deb, rpm and tgz/txz.

I will contact the Opera devs and see how far I can get.
I would be very thankfull if this gets resolved. I have reported double printing errors with Opera many times, and no fix was ever offered. I like Opera (although many of it's nice features are now offered also in other browsers .. long live the browser war !!), but cannot use it on systems that need to use the printer.

Thanks for trying to solve this ....

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#214 Post by 01micko »

@Billtoo

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(cd /usr/bin; ln -sf strings-GNU strings)
@James C.. bad idea. It will break the menus as they are meant to be. I really don't know why it failed. Worked first go here.

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[Desktop Entry]
Exec=firefox
Icon=firefox.png
Type=Application
Categories=WebBrowser;
Name=Firefox
..dont need the "jwm -reload"

Tested on a couple of slow machines, still working :? . Maybe try on a new install.
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#215 Post by 01micko »

Billtoo.. funny, I d'loaded kde games and PPM says that the dep (libdbusmenus-qt) is installed, I couldn't find it though, another PPM bug.

Meanwhile, I patched jwm-menu_create to recognise the kde4 desktop dir.
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#216 Post by rcrsn51 »

01micko wrote:Bummer!.
You can demonstrate this yourself by printing pages from this forum. Select the CUPS-PDF device and one page. Then check the PDF file you get.

But when you check Opera's Print Preview, the document is paginated correctly.

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#217 Post by bark_bark_bark »

I wish I could test it, but my dad (which is letting me use his pc) only wants 1 puplet on it. Any my PC is always hogged up by my girlfriend.
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#218 Post by 01micko »

rcrsn51 wrote:
01micko wrote:Bummer!.
You can demonstrate this yourself by printing pages from this forum. Select the CUPS-PDF device and one page. Then check the PDF file you get.

But when you check Opera's Print Preview, the document is paginated correctly.
QtWeb gets it right, but I'm a bit reluctant to try it out, I don't think it's ready for prime time. Throws a whole bunch of errors because of puppy's cut down gtk-themes. However it seems to render ok, plays flash fine, likely has no other plugins though.

I'm just sick of mozilla whacking in code here and there and for no apparent (to me anyways.. oh they did fix an introduced css bug.. 2M???) reason. Seamonkey jumped 2M in size from 2.11 to 2.12. Usually I can compile it and get it 1M smaller than official (at least). Last time it was actually bigger :/ . BK has the same issue.

(removed opera rant)
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#219 Post by bigpup »

rcrsn51,

Here is the opposite problem from yours with Opera.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... id=1440612

Some suggestions made here to correct problem and possible causes.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... id=1207692

Here is something to try:
The solution for me was DON'T use the print Icons anywhere on the screen, tool bar or drop down menu from file at the top left. What does work is right click the mouse on the main screen of what you're printing, then a drop down menu shows up and then you select print.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#220 Post by rcrsn51 »

The work-around is to print to CUPS-PDF, then print from ePDFView. It paginates correctly.

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