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Puppy retro precise, Oranchelo icon pack

I like the look of that oranchelo icon pack - but to be honest the firefox icon looks strangely like a fat kangaroo.

greengeek
No prob. can edit other

Thanks Nilson. Unfortunately when I try to download the images it says that it cannot display as the icon has errors. Anyone else getting this message?

greengeek
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 998#872998

This thread has inspired me to try to come up with some unique desktop designs. This one is an orange pup.

Desktop Only

Desktop with taskbar/windows/menus/controls/etc.

My new win xp configuration.

Desktop only

With decorations

Nice DJ Puppio!

Perhaps have a think about creating multiple separate desktops with different wallpapers and icons on each desktop and combine them together in a single Puppy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MbXu ... sp=sharing

See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 548#874548

rufwoof wrote:Nice DJ Puppio!

Perhaps have a think about creating multiple separate desktops with different wallpapers and icons on each desktop and combine them together in a single Puppy.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MbXu ... sp=sharing

See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 548#874548

I'll take a look at that, thanks. But I will say I am enjoying trying out so many different different puppies, heh. I tried FatDog, last night. Seems really nice, but I couldn't get the firewall running.

rufwoof wrote:Perhaps have a think about creating multiple separate desktops with different wallpapers and icons on each desktop and combine them together in a single Puppy.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4MbXu ... sp=sharing

Wow, thats good! You are doing some great stuff. Just hope I can get to grips with some of the techniques you are developing.

With desktop drives in a wbar, having different windows, wallpapers, icons/icon arrangements on each desktop is a breeze. Just a different PuppyPin for each desktop (and the content/details would have to be stored somewhere anyway) and then a rox command to flip to each different desktop PuppyPin

rox -p <puppypin>

which is just a extension to the existing desktop tag in jwmrc-personal. My Desktop tag in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal for instance looks like

<!-- Number of virtual desktops -->
<Desktops width="3" height="1">

<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin2</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin3</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin4</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin5</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin6</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin7</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin8</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin9</Background></Desktop>
<Desktop><Background type="command">/usr/local/bin/rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin10</Background></Desktop>

</Desktops>

I'm using three desktops as present in Tahr 6.0.2 32bit PAE, the first more for startup type icons, the second more as a worktop, and the last more for shutdown type functions.

The drive icons being in a wbar are animated and balloon in size when hovered over.

ILF (I LOVE FRUGAL)

With the likes of grub4dos boot manager installed you can grab a new puppy iso, open it up to view in ROX-Filer, create a new directory on your hard disk and drag/drop copies of initrd.gz, the zdrv sfs and puppy sfs to that directory and then edit menu.lst to boot that pup.

I usually use a entry of something like

title Tahr602PAE
root (hd0,2)
kernel /TAHR602PAE/vmlinuz pfix=ram
initrd /TAHR602PAE/initrd.gz

in menu.lst

Then when you boot you can select that puppy from the grub4dos menu, or even set it as the default choice with a timeout. Mine for instance has at the top of menu.lst

timeout 3
default 0

so after three seconds it defaults to the first 'title' it finds in menu.lst (default 1 is the second choice ...etc).

Boot and configure the settings and set up the puppy as you like, create a savefolder when you shutdown/reboot and then

rename the zdrv sfs to adrv sfs
rename then puppy sfs to zdrv sfs
create a copy of the savefolder and save it as puppy sfs. For instance if the savefolder is tahrsave and the puppy sfs is called puppy_tahr_6.0.2.sfs then

mksquashfs tahrsave puppy_tahr_6.0.2.sfs

Then reboot again (still using pfix=ram) and the pup will boot up with all of the configuration and changes preserved. The savefolder can even be deleted.

Booting the exact same read only puppy each and every time is great IMO. You can try things, change things, and if you screw the session up a simple reboot has you back to the working version again. No savefile/savefolder so that can't get messed up and read only so any virus caught only persists for the single session - a reboot clears it out.

Don't create a savefile/folder at each shutdown and the puppy is 'cast in stone'. Provided you store data/docs outside of puppy space (on hard disk) then if you're happy with the puppy as-is then there's no need to change things (if it ain't broke don't fix it).

I use portable versions of firefox and google, which are stored/run on HDD, so online email, latest browser updates etc are all preserved along side your data/docs. The only other thing I sym link out is osmo, so calender, contacts etc changes are preserved across reboots (during the first setup phase I move /root/.osmo directory to the HDD and then drag/drop and create a sym link of that directory back to /root).

I use the portable browsers for general browsing as they preserve bookmarks etc. For online banking I reboot and use the puppy's internal browser - that after a fresh reboot is factory fresh/clean (usually seamonkey or Pale Moon). Provided you go straight to your banks web site after first firing that up, nowhere else before (or after), and shutdown/reboot after, then that browser is clean (unlike the portable browsers that have been used to surf here-there-everywhere and may have been compromised).

You could in concept run a similar 'factory-fresh' version/arrangement with Windows - the big difference is that a factor-fresh "reinstallation" of puppy is very quick, with Windows it can take hours .. and hours.

I love running factory-fresh - and puppy is perfect for that. Hence the reason why ILF.

Wrong thread...?

My glass setup.

DJ Puppio wrote:My glass setup.

Hi DJ Puppio.

Just a word to tell you that your screen cap at photobucket doesn't
display. BFN.

Displays w/o problems when JavaScript enabled.

Ok. Let me try to resize and attach. The original image is a full megabyte, so I only post a link....

@DJ_Puppio:
That's called cheating, you know!
M$ could sue you for misrepresentation!

Don't give 'em any ideas. You never know, it just might be a down time for their armada of high profile lawyers.