(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

When I played Audio CD's (that I had burnt) with pmusic 1.3.1
I noticed that the motor of my CD drive was working too hard for the first minute of
the song and for each song of the CD. Commercially burnt CD's didn't have this
problem. I reported this problem to the developer Zigbert
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=600

He basically pinned the problem on ffmpeg and said that there was nothing
he could do.

By the way the program pCD doesn't have this problem so you should always
use that for playing CD's if it's available.

The command at the terminal to set the clock type is 'set_hwclock_type'

Barry discusses this at

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01616

and here's the explanation

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41680

This is why all recent puppy iso's have setting the
clock type in the menu so it's easy to set.

Forum member shinobar made it part of his countrywizard-0.7.pet.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58312
I assume that countrywizard can be installed in pfluxlite.
I'll try it tonight.

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Thanks for replies.

Found that pmusic plays audio cds without this problem, so sweet as.

Had a look at the mplayer cache mentioned, but altering values had no effect. I think this is intended for streaming audio rather than audio cds.

I installed an old version of pCD on pfluxlite and it worked
perfectly. I highly recommend it over pmusic if you just want to
play CD
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I tried to install countrywizard by shinobar but it gave errors at
the terminal.

So to get the right time what I do is set the right timezone (-4 for me)
then at the terminal I type 'set_hwclock_type'

The file /etc/clock is changed by this command I guess??

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All I have to say is PfluxLite is great! I have been looking for a very lite version of Lucid 5.1.1 and it was perfect.

My only issue is the installer bombs. I was able to install Puppy 5.1.1 on the same machine with no problems which has me puzzled. It goes through the install all the way through and even installs grub. But when I go to boot the new install, the only thing there is grub. weird

toddr wrote:All I have to say is PfluxLite is great! I have been looking for a very lite version of Lucid 5.1.1 and it was perfect.

My only issue is the installer bombs. I was able to install Puppy 5.1.1 on the same machine with no problems which has me puzzled. It goes through the install all the way through and even installs grub. But when I go to boot the new install, the only thing there is grub. weird

Really weird 'cause that should be exactly the same as Puppy...you can of course manually copy the cd to a folder then point grub to it...that's what I do everytime I do a frugal anyway...I can walk you through that if you want...

Seems that adding items to menu is pretty straightforward but I can't figure out how to add the correct commands to display pwidgets' add and remove widgets window.

maxpro4u wrote:Seems that adding items to menu is pretty straightforward but I can't figure out how to add the correct commands to display pwidgets' add and remove widgets window.

Sorry, that one I don't know, so I'll default to either dejan or 01micko on that one...I haven't run widgets on fluxbox...

steve_s wrote:

maxpro4u wrote:Seems that adding items to menu is pretty straightforward but I can't figure out how to add the correct commands to display pwidgets' add and remove widgets window.

Sorry, that one I don't know, so I'll default to either dejan or 01micko on that one...I haven't run widgets on fluxbox...

guess I'll just have to wait. BTW I have done a full install of fluxbox on my armada.

maxpro4u wrote:BTW I have done a full install of fluxbox on my armada.

Cool! I sent them a pm so hopefully we can hear from someone that has pwidgets running on fluxbox...

Seems that adding items to menu is pretty straightforward but I can't figure out how to add the correct commands to display pwidgets' add and remove widgets window.

maxpro4u, Do I understand this correctly? Widgets work ok but the gui to switch (add/remove) widgets is not? Issuing the command "pwidgets" should do it, if not then something is wrong! Maybe try redownloading Pwidgets, perhaps the pet got corrupted (it has happened to me before, various pets).

Steve, as I understand, you are still using roxdesktop, there should be no issues with Pwidgets. It normally becomes challenging in environments like xfce!

Your issue with pupflux lite (failed installation) is probably the wrong version of 'disktype', (woof is known to grab wrong versions at times), we had this issue in 5.1 beta testing and it sounds the same.

HTH

Cheers, oh and nice job!

01micko wrote:

Seems that adding items to menu is pretty straightforward but I can't figure out how to add the correct commands to display pwidgets' add and remove widgets window.

maxpro4u, Do I understand this correctly? Widgets work ok but the gui to switch (add/remove) widgets is not? Issuing the command "pwidgets" should do it, if not then something is wrong!

I must have entered the command wrong-after re-entering the correct command-it works as usual.

USER ERROR: replace user and strike any key

But there isn't any 'any' key!

Cheers

Is 01micko giving you trouble steve_s?

We would like to have a version of the fluxbox wm available in the puppy-lucid repo for easy install into Lucid 5.2. We would want to test it and configure it for 5.2 of course. Is there any chance you would be interested in preparing a pet or sfs of the fluxbox you prepared for Pupflux? Or is there already a pet or sfs you would recommend. We are on a relaxed development cycle so there is at least a couple of weeks if you want to do some customizing. Thanks.

playdayz wrote:Is 01micko giving you trouble steve_s?

We would like to have a version of the fluxbox wm available in the puppy-lucid repo for easy install into Lucid 5.2. We would want to test it and configure it for 5.2 of course. Is there any chance you would be interested in preparing a pet or sfs of the fluxbox you prepared for Pupflux? Or is there already a pet or sfs you would recommend. We are on a relaxed development cycle so there is at least a couple of weeks if you want to do some customizing. Thanks.

I used the one that dejan555 came up with; it works great. I of course tweaked the menu and a couple of other things, but his fluxbox was the start...please see here.

*Edit: I would be glad to further edit and ad to it, but I am open to y'all's suggestions; please tell me what you think, either here or via pm...I have time to do edits as suggested...

I used the one that dejan555 came up with; it works great. I of course tweaked the menu and a couple of other things, but his fluxbox was the start...please see here.

*Edit: I would be glad to further edit and ad to it, but I am open to y'all's suggestions; please tell me what you think, either here or via pm...I have time to do edits as suggested...

That's great steve_s. Perhaps we could proceed like this--if you could make a pet then we could start pushing it in the Lucid 5.2 development forum and you would be able to get some more feedback from users. We could also be sure that it would install and uninstalll properly with the rest of 5.2. Perhaps dejan555 would want to work with you--I don't know how busy he is otherwise. Just let me know. Thank you.

playdayz wrote:

I used the one that dejan555 came up with; it works great. I of course tweaked the menu and a couple of other things, but his fluxbox was the start...please see here.

*Edit: I would be glad to further edit and ad to it, but I am open to y'all's suggestions; please tell me what you think, either here or via pm...I have time to do edits as suggested...

That's great steve_s. Perhaps we could proceed like this--if you could make a pet then we could start pushing it in the Lucid 5.2 development forum and you would be able to get some more feedback from users. We could also be sure that it would install and uninstalll properly with the rest of 5.2. Perhaps dejan555 would want to work with you--I don't know how busy he is otherwise. Just let me know. Thank you.

Ok...I'll send him a pm and get something going...

Hi guys, I see playdayz is interested in fluxbox (do I understand you want it as second wm choice in 5.2 or as additional wm package?). The pet steve_s used that I made for dpup484 had libiconv dependency but on 5.x should compile without so we can cut down size. I have another pet compiled on newer fluxbox with menu button hack here http://puppy.b0x.me/software/squeeze/fluxbox/ maybe you can test that one for 5.2 or I can recompile and repackage with all customizations (is 5.2 devx same as 5.11?)
Also, not quite sure what are all features you want compiled/added to package, do you want it bare minimum to keep size down or something else?
Fluxbox can be compiled without taskbar/systray and menu button on taskbar is source/config files hack so not standard feature by default, also I add xdg menus binary to refresh menus and add lines to wmreboot/wmexit/etc... and fixmenus. I also cut some themes to preserve size but additional pets for that can be made.

dejan555 wrote:Hi guys, I see playdayz is interested in fluxbox (do I understand you want it as second wm choice in 5.2 or as additional wm package?). The pet steve_s used that I made for dpup484 had libiconv dependency but on 5.x should compile without so we can cut down size. I have another pet compiled on newer fluxbox with menu button hack here http://puppy.b0x.me/software/squeeze/fluxbox/ maybe you can test that one for 5.2 or I can recompile and repackage with all customizations (is 5.2 devx same as 5.11?)
Also, not quite sure what are all features you want compiled/added to package, do you want it bare minimum to keep size down or something else?
Fluxbox can be compiled without taskbar/systray and menu button on taskbar is source/config files hack so not standard feature by default, also I add xdg menus binary to refresh menus and add lines to wmreboot/wmexit/etc... and fixmenus. I also cut some themes to preserve size but additional pets for that can be made.

Hey dejan555, It would be a "featured option" not the 2nd wm. The default wm will be openbox with fbpanel and the second will be jwm. But we will feature Fluxbox in LupuNews and I would expect many people to try it out. Since it is an "extra" I think you do not have to worry to much about size. Make it cool! And have fun with it. FBpanel is already installed, but we would have to make sure there was no conflict.

All in all I say, make it what you like. The main thing is that it is able to be installed and uninstalled without causing any conflicts. Once it is installed I think 01micko could recognize it with wmswitcher and make it easy to switch between wm's.

5.1.1devx is not the same as coming on 5.2--but devx luci232 is very close. Yes, we would want xdg menus--but as I say that--it is not really necessary that all wm's look and work the same--or else why have different ones--so that is another decision you can make. Thanks.

Personally I would like to see it Flashy As soon as you decide whether to use one you have or make a new one, please let me know and we can post it int he lucid 5.2 forum for testing.

OK, will look for lupu iso and devx tomorrow I don't have it on HD atm and maybe make some pets. I might as well download 5.2.
If size doesn't matter maybe I can include some nicer themes.
Regarding install/uninstall conflicts, well, fluxbox files itself don't interfere with system files, except it will need tweaking of scripts for shutdown and maybe add line to fixmenus if we want it to automatically update menus (maybe with pinstall.sh, shouldn't harm on uninstall).
But for shutdown we can as well make new script and not touch wmreboot/wmpoweroff and others and upon uninstall old ones will stay in place.

BTW, steve_s, what are your favorite themes?