slacko-5.6 Final - plus testing next

[nooby]

Barry and many others encourage us to use Slacko.

I am on old Lupu 528-005 so I obviously need big help.

I have put Firefox .mozilla directory on the /mnt/home/

for to not eat up the save file and it works very good on Lupu

So now I am lost at how that will interfere with doing the same
on Slacko?

I mean when I boot up lupu it update this .mozilla with my settings
of language and UTF8 and other preferences


If I do the same with Slacko these two different OS will use
the same .mozilla directory Would it not crash it?

I think that is not a good thing? They will get confused would they not?

So how does one separate these so they does not mess up .mozilla
on the HD?

Dearly hope somebody can sort this out?

[greengeek]

Thanks 01mick0 for a really usable Puppy. I've just installed 5.6 to my Acer Aspire One netbook and I find that the SD slot works perfectly, which is really nice.

[mini-jaguar]

sorry if it's been covered before, but what does this icon above the clock in the lower right hand corner mean?

[mini-jaguar]

Sometimes that little door is black like in the photo, sometimes just white with a black outline.

So no one knows, and no one cares? Is it indicating spyware or a back door? Only official packages were installed, none of which made that thing appear in other Slacko versions.

[James C]

Sometimes that little door is black like in the photo, sometimes just white with a black outline.

So no one knows, and no one cares? Is it indicating spyware or a back door? Only official packages were installed, none of which made that thing appear in other Slacko versions.

FWIW, I'm running 4 or 5 Slacko installs (full and frugal) and I've never seen that here.

[Keef]

mini-jaguar

That is just a terminal window reduced to minimum size. Why it is there though, I have no idea.
Spyware/backdoors would be a bit crapif they advertised themselves that way, so I wouldn't worry that much.
Try running htop with no other progs running, and see what shows up.

[sixten]

I have an sdxc card that I can't mount in slacko 5.6.
It says that the type exfat is unknown. How can I add it to my slacko? There is fuse-exfat for slackware, but it doesn't show up in the package manager.

Has anyone had the same problem and found a solution? Does anyone know how to do this?

Daniel

[mikeslr]

Unexpectedly, both the openshot 1.4.2 and kdenlive SFSes Battleshooter built for Saluki seem to work fine OOTB in Slacko 5.6 non-Pae. Although I haven't noticed any conflicts with applications more recently built for Slacko 5.6, and none involving the applications I frequently use, I can't guaranty that there are none. But as the above are SFSes, the worst that can happen is you'd have to unload them.

Openshot can be found here: http://www.puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet. ... -1.4.2.sfs
It's best to read the short kdenlive thread, as it requires two SFSes: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 059#753059

Together with don570's cinelerra, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91418, avidemux (for non-destructive cutting) and ffmpeg for conversions, Slacko 5.6 has a panoply of tools for your video projects.

mikesLr

[mikeslr]

Hi 01micko & all,

Ordinarily, when a desktop drive icon is clicked pmount mounts the drive/partition and then, automatically, rox displays its contents. In slacko 5.6 Final, however, clicking a drive icon, any drive icon, just initiates pmount offering to mount any drive or partition. When one is selected, rox opens it, but pmount remains open.
I don't recall this behavior from Thinslacko or phatslacko.

Perhaps it's just a bi-product of having immediately installed OpenboxPlus?

It's particularly annoying as it also happens when the "home" partition is clicked. As I frugally install almost all my pups to the same "home" partition, that is where I also keep many folders and files I may want to use with them. I developed a work-around, but it's not as convenient as just being able to click a drive icon. I added a second rox "desktop" to /usr/share/applications, called "Rox-opens-MntHome" using the execution argument "rox /mnt/home" and added that "application" to lxpanel. But being a creature of habit, I'd prefer not having to remember that clicking a desktop drive icon doesn't work as expected.

mikesLr

[rcrsn51]

Perhaps it's just a bi-product of having immediately installed OpenboxPlus?

Have you tried a clean install to see if you can replicate the problem?

[mikeslr]

Hi rcrsn51,

Actually, I suspect it may be related to kdenlive. It was created for Saluki, which employs the xfce-thunar combo in which xfce (rather than rox?) handles icons for drives partitions. Beyond the kdenlive.sfs, itself, a "base" sfs must first be installed. Perhaps the later interfere with rox?'s usual functions. On another computer I have Slacko 5.5 & phatslacko running, both with OpenboxPlus. Nether reflects the problem. The easiest way to tell, which I'll do shortly, is simply unload the kdenlive sfses and see if that solves it: One of the great advantages of SFSes over pets.
Thanks for the advice.

Edit: Booted back into Slacko 5.6 and was inspired to click a desktop drive icon again before unloading kdenlive. The selected partition opened showing files and folders. On occasion the universe takes pleasure in driving me mad. This must have been one of them.
Edit: Nope. I had inadvertently booted into Slacko 5.3.3 which doesn't have the problem. Slacko 5.6 still does. Unloading kdenlive.sfs and its Base.sfs resolves it. It's worth keeping Slacko 5.3.3, or x-slacko 5.6 if kdenlive is important.

mikesLr

[mini-jaguar]

mini-jaguar

That is just a terminal window reduced to minimum size. Why it is there though, I have no idea.
Spyware/backdoors would be a bit crapif they advertised themselves that way, so I wouldn't worry that much.
Try running htop with no other progs running, and see what shows up.

Actually, I think it just announces if your camera is on or off in PAVrecord, something like that, wasn't connected to the internet when it came up.

[rufwoof]

As a new user of Slacko 5.6, first perception based things I'd like to see different in the next release are :

Better choice of colors in the terminal urxvt i.e .Xdefaults values changed (and HTOP also)

Firefox cache set to zero so doesn't fill up savefile space (perhaps also defaulting automatic updates to being off)

Inclusion of at76c50x-usb-firmware.pet i.e. better hardware detection (Belkin F5060 wireless adapter).

Better handling of NVIDIA cards - my Slacko boot DVD initially booted to a black screen. Only after booting to command prompt and then invoking xorgwizard and selecting nv standard was I able to get a GUI up and running.

Better support of multiple sound cards. The 'Multiple Sound Card Wizard' selection/setting of the sound card doesn't always persist across sessions. Appears that detection at boot time is random/different (timing) and a fix appears to be to change the hardware configuration from hw:0 to 'default' i.e.

1. Right-click on the speaker icon in the task bar.
2. Choose Config Window from the menu that pops up.
3. Click the Hardware tab.
4. Change Sound Card from "hw:0" to "default".

Better choice of colors/default font in GTK Themes. When OpenOffice is installed (SFS) the check boxes in OpenOffice CALC don't show whether they're checked or not under some GTK themes default settings (setting GTK Theme font to bold helps)

Otherwise really pleased. A big thanks to all concerned.

[killapup]

killapup,

As I asked before, this info will give us a clue as to what may be going on.
My signature statement is so true. What you do not tell us is usually the clue to solving the problem.

I am posting this to extend my apologies to bigpup and gcmartin for not responding to their posts in this thread. I had been distracted (family matters) and haven't done anything much with linux since my last post, which didn't address the issue. I have subsequently reinstalled 5.6 and fixed the grub4dos menu.lst and both are working fine. Precise 5.7, Porteus 3 and Quirky 6.1 also reside comfortably alongside the others.

I hope you will both accept my apologies, and thanks for your valued input on the forum.

Now on to 5.7... See my post on 5.7 thread.

[bigpup]

Slacko 5.6 being offered on the DVD that comes with latest issue of Linux Magazine issue 163 June 2014.

This month we give you a multilingual, multidistro DVD with six light Live Linux distributions.
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[mcewanw]

sorry if it's been covered before, but what does this icon above the clock in the lower right hand corner mean?

Sorry, just noticed this question.

In Puppy pAVrecord, gnome-mplayer (and mplayer) are called from an rxvt terminal, which would normally occupy the default rxvt amount of screen space for no other useful purpose.The rxvt window is coded using the "geometry" parameter to make it as small and as much out of the way as possible so as not to be a major distraction. It is indeed nothing to worry about and closes when you close pAVrecord. The line of code used is:

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rxvt -geometry "1x1-0-0" -e gnome-mplayer "${SDuse}/pAV${SFuse%%.*}.${avformat}" &

As for why gnome-mplayer is called via an rxvt window, instead of directly, I can't remember and haven't time to check just now, though I'm sure there must have been a good reason.

William

[sancxjo]

Hello!
I wrote down video in pavrecord. Then something broke in pavrecord and it isn't started now. Comer in an order - I checked. Where to look for the reason?

[bigpup]

How are you running Slacko 5.6?
A live, frugal, or full install?
Installed to what?
CD/DVD, USB drive, hard drive, etc....?

In a console type pavrecord and hit enter.
Any errors reported?

[sancxjo]

Distro: Slacko Puppy 5.6.0
Frugal, or full install I do not remember
Installed to USB Generic-Multi-Card 8G
Personal storage file 1.2 G

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# pavrecord
/usr/bin/pavrecord: line 738: AUTOMAKE: unbound variable
/usr/bin/pavrecord: line 588: TDIRFILE_DS1: unbound variable

[OscarTalks]

One thing you could try:-
Delete the hidden directory /root/.pavrecord and all contents.
Try starting pavrecord again.
If it works you will have to enter your configuration settings again.