Puppeee 4.4 Beta Testing

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james · #141 Post by **james** » Mon 14 Feb 2011, 21:42

The problem I had just above with RC1 not creating a savefile has been solved in RC2. I must say that puppeee is a work of art - small but perfectly formed. You've done an amazing job with it. Now I just need to work out why I need an extra computer, now that my Eee has returned from the dead...

2lss · #142 Post by **2lss** » Tue 15 Feb 2011, 13:20

I gave rc2 a try yesterday.

I loaded three or four sfs's with the new utility. It seems to be working pretty good.

The issue I was having with fixmenus seems to be ..... well fixed. Not sure if it was a bad pupsave or if you changed something.

I Also noticed after using Midori that the flash player does not crash all of the time like it does with chrome. (actually has not crashed yet for me)

Everything looks pretty good.

One suggestion though. Could you implement a "change notification style" gui? I.e. change from the puppy thing to yaf-splash or notification daemon.

If it is a quick switch (like "echo yaf-splash > /etc/notify") let me know. I could make a gui for it.

jemimah · #143 Post by **jemimah** » Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:51

The syntax is not really compatible and writing wrappers is not as easy as it sounds. (You method wouldn't be too hard but we'd need another daemon which I really don't want) I try use notification daemon whenever a notification makes sense and xpupsay when I want a quick splash screen.

However if the pup is too much cuteness, you can use your own images by putting them /usr/share/xpupsay.

Or I've hacked up a Pup-free version designed to be less annoying.
http://puppeee.com/files/pet/xpupsay-no ... 1-i486.pet

Feel free to make an even less annoying version - xpupsay is pretty easy to work with.

http://puppeee.com/files/sources/xpupsa ... mah.tar.gz
http://puppeee.com/files/sources/xpupsa ... mah.tar.gz

jemimah · #144 Post by **jemimah** » Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:03

I guess it would be good to have a switcher between the pup and nopup versions of xpupsay.

2lss · #145 Post by **2lss** » Wed 16 Feb 2011, 05:26

jemimah wrote:However if the pup is too much cuteness ...

My doctor recommends that I only get 3-4 servings of cuteness per day. If I don't keep it in check, my macho self image may become bruised.

jemimah wrote:You method wouldn't be too hard but we'd need another daemon which I really don't want

Why would it require another daemon? I was just thinking about doing it on the fly. Here is an example (off of the top of my head).

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# /usr/local/bin/new-notify

$1=$OPTIONS
$2=$MESSAGE

NOTIFY=$(cat /etc/notify)

case $NOTIFY in
xpupsay)
  # Manipulate the options for xpupsay OPTIONS="stuff"
  COMMAND="xpupsay $OPTIONS $MESSAGE"
;;
yaf-splash) 
  # Manipulate the options for yaf-splash OPTIONS="stuff"
  COMMAND="yaf-splash $OPTIONS $MESSAGE"
;;
esac

exec $COMMAND

Granted, not all of the specific options for each notification program would be usable but it could probably work half way decent.

Unless I'm missing something..

jemimah · #146 Post by **jemimah** » Wed 16 Feb 2011, 15:22

Oh yeah, you're right - that would probably work.

Yaf-splash was abandoned because it can't display utf8 characters and the non-Xft font looks wrong with everything else being Xft. There's gtkdialog-splash but it has that mouse-over to dismiss feature that I find unsettling.

I really think xpupsay works great. If you disable the image and maybe shink the balloon a little, and have it appear in the same place every time it is a decent replacement for yaf-splash.

It's probably a good idea to make the no-pup version the default.

aarf · #147 Post by **aarf** » Wed 16 Feb 2011, 18:20

everything was going along fine for a couple of days and i was avoiding the website which i suspected of crashing opera11.01, so i gave it a try http://www.nationmultimedia.com/. ok just a little opera freeze, the first one in rc2. closed the site then continued along and was just scrolling down a Bloomberg read item and then a sudden full black screen freeze with stuck cursor. hard restart and opera continues to freeze short time and frequently. even froze three times while i was typing this message. operapluginwrap is chewing cpu in lxtask.
Edit: fsck is clean. And no save to pupsave is previously selected. Only recovery to normal opera usage from here by past experience is to re-extract and overwrite opera which leaves intact the opera personal profile..
Using flwm and rox.

2lss · #148 Post by **2lss** » Wed 16 Feb 2011, 18:42

jemimah wrote:Yaf-splash was abandoned because it can't display utf8 characters and the non-Xft font looks wrong with everything else being Xft. There's gtkdialog-splash but it has that mouse-over to dismiss feature that I find unsettling.

Ok, I didn't realize that. I will play around with xpupsay and see what I can come up with. It does seem more visually appealing than yaf-splash so it will probably work out well.

aarf · #149 Post by **aarf** » Sun 20 Mar 2011, 04:14

system>controlpanel>system>startmount
can't see that mounting of sdb3 is working.,
this is what is going into start-mount.sh

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#!/bin/sh
sleep 2
. /root/.startmount/exec 2>/dev/null
export SPLASH=" <window title=\"Startmount\" icon-name=\"gtk-harddisk\"> <vbox> <text><label>Startmount is enabled. To reconfigure or disable Startmount Click OK</label></text> <hbox> <button> <input file stock=\"gtk-ok\"></input> <label>OK</label> <action>/usr/local/Startmount/Startmount</action> <action>Exit:OK</action> </button> <button> <input file stock=\"gtk-cancel\"></input> <label>Cancel</label> </button> </hbox> </vbox> </window>"
gtkdialog3 -p SPLASH ; unset SPLASH;exit

previously before the great Japanese earthquake struck my SDcard turning it into rubble and killing many puppies, i had a mount script from elsewhere on the forum that used to mount my extra partition.

01micko · #150 Post by **01micko** » Sun 20 Mar 2011, 06:11

aarf

That code is for the nag screen at reboot, just to let you know that Startmount is active.

The actual mounting code gets printed to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

The nag screen can be disabled.

p310don · #151 Post by **p310don** » Sun 20 Mar 2011, 06:24

I have been experiencing an issue with the sound in parole while watching movies on my 1001hah. For reasons unknown, the sound randomly changes from good, to scratchy, metallic rubbish. A quick pause/restart fixes the problem, but interrupts the movie.

Anyone else seen this? Any fix?

aarf · #152 Post by **aarf** » Sun 20 Mar 2011, 16:13

01micko wrote:aarf

That code is for the nag screen at reboot, just to let you know that Startmount is active.

The actual mounting code gets printed to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

The nag screen can be disabled.

ok micko have /etc/rc.d/rc.local

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#this file called from rc.sysinit
#you can edit this file
#When firewall is installed, will append lines to this file...
modprobe evdev
 
exec /root/.startmount/mount-drives.sh

and /root/.startmount/mount-drives.sh

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#!/bin/ash
mkdir /mnt/sdb2 2>/dev/null
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2 2>/dev/null

sdb2 is a partition on internal SDcard which is still not mounting.

aarf · #153 Post by **aarf** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 04:05

if i go into startmount folder and run the file mount-drives.sh in a terminal it will the mount the partition so somehow it isn't being run at startup

aarf · #154 Post by **aarf** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 04:26

changing the permissions on /etc/rc.d/rc.local still doesn't make the file rc.local executable.

aarf · #155 Post by **aarf** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 14:49

have symlinked /root/.startmount/mount-drives.sh into /root/Startup/ and now it mounts.

Dougal · #156 Post by **Dougal** » Thu 24 Mar 2011, 15:23

aarf wrote:changing the permissions on /etc/rc.d/rc.local still doesn't make the file rc.local executable.

rc.local is not supposed to be executable (it doesn't have a shebang, either), it is sourced by another script (rc.sysinit).

Ray MK · #157 Post by **Ray MK** » Fri 01 Apr 2011, 19:24

Hi Jemimah

Just put 4.4rc2 on 701SD - fantastic and more.

Outstanding job and probably the best puppy ever.

Your attention to detail, choice of app's and overall
ease of use/setup etc are IMHO unsurpassed.

The above combined with your support sites and add-on
sfs's etc provide one of the most complete and
comprehensive distro's around.

We are all forever in your debt.

Many monster thanks - and very best regards - Ray

Hadakajime · #158 Post by **Hadakajime** » Sun 03 Apr 2011, 23:35

found some problems, added here:

http://puppeee.com/bb/topic/44-release- ... 2-feedback

neurino · #159 Post by **neurino** » Wed 06 Apr 2011, 21:56

Sorry if ask a question already answered:

I just upgraded to latest Puppeee (jemimah it's sooo nice!) and installing I choosed "Internal IDE/SATA Flash drive (SSD)" which I guess is the same I choosed time ago when I first intalled on my Eee901 internal SSD 4GB drive.

Now I get on the desktop the Save button which I never had before.

Should I have used another option?

Is there a way to make new Puppeee work as the old one? I don't care a lot about drive life since I'm convinced it will last enough

Thanks for this great piece of software, I was so satisfied with old version I didn't need any upgrade,

changed now just for curiosity

Hadakajime · #160 Post by **Hadakajime** » Thu 07 Apr 2011, 00:07

From what I've read so far, choosing the SSD option for installation makes puppeee do a frugal install, which optimizes/caches disk writes, in an attempt to prolong disk life.

This is where the save option comes in. I'm pretty sure it's the operation that updates the disk; which is why if you change the file system then crash without saving, when you reboot, those changes will be gone. It should be automatically saving every 30min by default, but you can change this time in the control panel or do a manual save using that desktop link.

Choosing the non-ssd option for internal hdd should do a full install. I'm guessing it will then act normally, to your expectations. Correct me if I'm wrong

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