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Posted: Fri 18 Apr 2008, 22:00
by nic2109
@Mark : hope you had a good trip and that your Mom is well.
Sadly I have 2 problems/queries to report.
1) Sylpheed
I have set up Sylpheed for email but it won't get messages. It tells me that it cannot write a file somewhere. See screenshot.
I'm pretty sure that my sever settings are OK (I have done this dozens of times) so I don't know what it might be.
One tiny other thing about Sylpheed: the menu option Configuration => Change current account => {account name} doesn't seem to do anything.
2) Abiword / CUPS
I have set up my printer with CUPS and set it as my default, but Abiword doesn't recognise it. How can I add my printer? A word processor without print capability seems a bit
to me.
Best wishes, and thanks for all you do.
Posted: Tue 22 Apr 2008, 22:56
by MU
Hi, was a great weekend, thanks.
I could finish almost all I wanted.
I have set up Sylpheed for email but it won't get messages. It tells me that it cannot write a file somewhere. See screenshot.
Please create a folder /root/Mail/
Does it work then?
One tiny other thing about Sylpheed: the menu option Configuration => Change current account => {account name} doesn't seem to do anything.
I have no idea at moment
Hm, made a test... if I create a second account (same data as first one) and switch to it, then when I receive mails, it tries to get ALL mails (on the first account only new ones).
So the second one seems to work.
In the settings, set a different inbox-folder than for your fiirst account.
Or the mails will be "mixed".
I have set up my printer with CUPS and set it as my default, but Abiword doesn't recognise it. How can I add my printer? A word processor without print capability seems a bit to me.
To use the printer that you activated as "default" in Cups, please choose the "generic postscript" printer in Abiword.
That driver should use the Cups-default printer.
Mark
Posted: Fri 25 Apr 2008, 14:39
by MU
I'm soooo tired...
looks as if we can upload 008.3 from saturday to sunday.
This is, how it will look like:
http://noforum.de/pics/muppy0083rc.jpg
Don't laugh about the webbrowser please, this is just a proof of concept, to simplify installation of the "evil" with 4 mouseclicks
Runs unstable on my 256 MB computer, Firefox and especially Opera are much better
See you somewhen this weekend.
Mark
Posted: Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:36
by nic2109
MU wrote:
I have set up Sylpheed for email but it won't get messages. It tells me that it cannot write a file somewhere. See screenshot.
Please create a folder /root/Mail/
Does it work then?
Mark
No it doesn't - I already have this folder.
It's empty so I tried creating new directories in /root/Mail for Inbox, Sent and so on but that hasn't made it any better.
So still no mail.
MU wrote:To use the printer that you activated as "default" in Cups, please choose the "generic postscript" printer in Abiword.
That driver should use the Cups-default printer.
I have tried choosing 'Generic postscript' and it created a pdf file in /root. Is that what is supposed to happen? And if so, how do I print it?
Posted: Sat 26 Apr 2008, 20:42
by MU
No it doesn't - I already have this folder.
It's empty so I tried creating new directories in /root/Mail for Inbox, Sent and so on but that hasn't made it any better.
So still no mail.
I have no idea then, why it does not work for you, I'm very sorry
I have tried choosing 'Generic postscript' and it created a pdf file in /root. Is that what is supposed to happen? And if so, how do I print it?
This indicates, that your printer is not set as default in the Cups administration.
So the 'Generic postscript' driver uses the PDF-Plugin.
Please verify using the Cups Printer Wizard (run it from Muppys Menu), that your printer is set as default.
Mark
Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 16:16
by accessdenied
MU,
Do you know what/why this file sometimes appear in the /tmp folder of my msy_save-xxx.2fs file?
xerror.log
I have a 256mb msy_save-xxx.2fs file and this file sometimes appear and sucks all of my msy_save-xxx.2fs memory to 0mb.
I did apply that muppy8.2 patch one forum member mentioned something in the line of whether to have the /tmp within the msy_save-xxx.2fs file or not.
Advance thanks for the assistance....
Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 16:22
by MU
If you mean xerrs.log, not xerror.log:
That is created by Puppy.
It logs all messages from X.
But it usually does not get so big.
Could you zip and attach it, please?
You could do this:
edit:
/usr/local/Muppy-service/muppy-service
At bottom, you find:
Add there a line, so that it looks like this:
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echo "" > /tmp/xerrs.log
sleep 10
cd "$here"
exec $0
Then the log will be deleted every 10 seconds.
Mark
Posted: Mon 28 Apr 2008, 17:30
by accessdenied
yes, xerrs.log
Brilliant advise on the add-on code to delete automatically but will have to hold-off so it can happen again then I will zip up and attach for you.
Cheers.
Posted: Tue 29 Apr 2008, 01:01
by accessdenied
MU, another file I noticed that grows is /tmp/FlashN4UhHZ
By just doing a dir re-scan, it grows by ~125kb per scan. Is this normal?
cheers.
Posted: Tue 29 Apr 2008, 01:34
by MU
no,I don't have that.
When does it appear?
Maybe it is from Flashplayer in Firefox?
Would be interesting to find out!
Mark
Posted: Tue 29 Apr 2008, 01:47
by accessdenied
That was I was thinking as well - a flash related file...
I will dig around and let you know if I find something....
cheers.
Posted: Thu 08 May 2008, 01:45
by accessdenied
MU,
Just a report on the /tmp/FlashN4UhHZ log... it's a randomly generated file in the format of /tmp/Flashxxxxxx
The file is generated when launching the browser.. not a big deal anymore..
On a different note, how do you run icedock in minimized mode at boot up so it does not show on the desktop?
cheers.
Posted: Thu 08 May 2008, 02:10
by MU
On a different note, how do you run icedock in minimized mode at boot up so it does not show on the desktop?
You could not run it at startup, but put an icon on your desktop.
Edit /root/.icewm/startup
Comment the start there, from:
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sleep 4 && /usr/local/Muppy-icedock/Muppy-icedock &
to:
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#sleep 4 && /usr/local/Muppy-icedock/Muppy-icedock &
Then in the filemanager, drag on your desktop:
/usr/local/Muppy-icedock/Muppy-icedock
Would that be ok?
It also might be possible maybe to write a small script, that minimizes the icedock after startup.
Mark
Posted: Fri 09 May 2008, 15:43
by accessdenied
MU, as usual, your recommendations are gold!
I will try it out.
Also I don't know if you noticed this but the GoodWeather display desklet has stop getting XML updates from Weather.com.
Is this working on your new v8.3?
Is there a way to configure and redirect the weather updates to a different site?
cheers.
Posted: Fri 09 May 2008, 16:25
by Sage
Yes, I noticed that, too. Could try the BBC, they get it's forecasts from the Meteorological Office, which possesses one of the largest computers of its type in W. Europe. However, since they installed the latest beast, their forecasts have become less reliable. I blame global warming and the Americans....
Posted: Fri 09 May 2008, 21:24
by MU
the weather.com has changed the link.
This small dotpet fixes it:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9500
Mark
