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[mcewanw]

[fredx181]

[mikeslr]

Hi Toni, Wanderer and all who have participated in creating MintPup. Congratulations.

USB-Key install running well on a Dell Latitude E6400. Answering the question recently posed on the "Wm Menu systems" thread: "Why Now?" Chalk it up to serendipity.

"I'm really getting too old for this" -- learning new stuff, that is. The debian-dogs and MintPup are different than Pup: similar but different. And scanning the relevant threads now and then left me with the impression that either a USB-Key or an entire hard-drive partition would be needed to install. Please correct the last assumption if I'm in error. [I appreciate that once installed, other Pups can easily be added, especially as Grub4dos can be used as bootloader]. Unused hard-drive partitions are hard to come by. And while USB-Keys are cheap, mine usually get used as soon as I acquire them.

But recently I was using one in an unsuccessful effort to explore UEFI booting without an UEFI computer. Now having an unused USB-Key I asked myself "What can I do with this?" And there it was, MintPup at the top of the Projects Subforum. Serendipity.

I've always liked Linux Mint. So I guess I'm going to have to read thru the "How To" thread and learn some new things. Well, thanks anyway.

mikesLr

P.S. It's early days yet, but perhaps not too early to begin thinking about how MintPup and the Debian-dogs are going to be able to run from Windows 10 UEFI computers which will not allow their owners to turn off "Secure boot."

[saintless]

[fredx181]

Hi All,

For those having the same issue as I have with firefox, address bar distorted view (see attached screenhot)), this will probably solve it:

Go to Extra >Add-ons , search for 'fxchrome'. install Addon: FXChrome, and activate it, then after restarting firefox, the addressbar will display as it should be.

Fred

[mcewanw]

Hi Fred,

I don't have that firefox problem (using ver 40.0.3).

By the way, I'm impressed with Kingston Office (now called WPS), which I've installed in MintPup as described in via following link:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=862264#862264

EDIT: Aah, but I've just read that it puts watermark on printed docs after 30 days? I don't know if that is the case ... but if only on printed docs watermark, could still be useful. Also, I can't see that issue mentioned for this version - maybe they removed that limitation?

William

[mcewanw]

Hi Toni and Fred,

I've also now tried loading perdido's sfs of Kingston wps-office in both DebianDog Squeeze and in MintPup and it works fine in both. Since Kingston have packaged it as effectively standalone (with its special Qt libs all included in main install dir /opt/kingston/wps-office) I think it is safe and useful to use in DD/MintPup:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=862251#862251

Nevertheless, Kingston do provide 32bit and 64bit deb packages and I have it installed that way in my own main system. I don't think this version has any time-limit (no future problem with watermarks on printouts as far as I have checked). Only major limitation seems to be that its Spreadsheet doesn't have Charts/Graphs module. I added some extra tt fonts on my installation (actually perdido seems to have added a few on his sfs - hopefully that doesn't cause any potential dpkg issues - I prefer to add fonts directly on the system). The wordprocessor looks great and very fast loading compared to LibreOffice.

William

EDIT: On a different subject, I've contacted Terry (sunburnt) to request wallpaper.gui source code so continuing to wait on him getting back to me on that. I think he mustn't be logging into the puppy forum very often so won't have seen my message. If no source code still available, I will probably use an alternative.

[mcewanw]

Hi Toni and Fred,

I've successfully used apt-get to install qt5 development environment on full Linux Mint xfce and I'm not trying to do the same on MintPup. However, I'm having the problem that I get error message because of 'rootfs' filling up. Is there someway of increasing the rootfs size prior to installation (the ubuntu-sdk installation I'm using for qt5 is huge)? My machine has 2GB RAM but I'm not using any swap file or partition.

William

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[mcewanw]

[fredx181]

Hi William,

[saintless]

[fredx181]

Hi All,

Openbox-mintpup setup needed a fix because of conflicting with new package jwm-obmenu (Menu Openbox for Jwm) if it's installed and menu-openbox is active.

See also Edit here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=860547#860547

Download for new version 0.0.3 , with conflicts fixed :
https://googledrive.com/host/0ByBgCDlZZ8K5bUsxVnhCTkhoZDA/openbox-mintpup_setup-0.0.3.tar.gz

Fred

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[fredx181]

Thanks Toni,

I edited my post about openbox-mintpup by adding info that it can be installed by 'apt-get install openbox-mintpup'

Fred