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Bene Belt · #31 Post by **Bene Belt** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 08:23

hi

i love the style! jepp and with the right .sfs included it rocks my machine. but i havent figured out how to add panel miniprograms. like the gmixer. it was so handy just to use mouse wheel over the little icon, which is now missing. so i tried to symlink it to the desktop with drag n drop. didnt match. so how about th e customized task bar? couldnt i use the miniprograms anymore like "kill process"? or system monitor?

so long
Bene

prit1 · #32 Post by **prit1** » Tue 17 Jun 2008, 16:12

@shri: Thanks for the feedback.

@puppyluvr:
Am glad you liked it.

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You may like to know that Buddapup is the most visited url on Puppylinux.ca.

@Bene Belt:
I am glad you liked it.

If you are familiar with adding new programs to the taskbar panel in Icewm, this would be the same way. You can look at the files in /root/.icewm/ directory.

There are Icewm experts like Whodo, Ttuuxxx and others on the forum who would know exactly.

puppyluvr · #33 Post by **puppyluvr** » Wed 18 Jun 2008, 16:04

Hello

@Prit1
Really, I had no idea!! Thats great.
Any stats on Downloads??

prit1 · #34 Post by **prit1** » Wed 18 Jun 2008, 17:01

@puppyluvr:

I do see around 5000 visits to the Buddapup directory. But I dont have a way to measure unique attempts or downloads.

On Macpup, I have the links on my server and can measure it better.

luverofpeanuts · #35 Post by **luverofpeanuts** » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 17:09

I used burniso2cd to burn both a single session and multisession CD. On my Thinkpad T61p, Macpup tries to boot, but I only get the "loading Stage 2..." text and then it reboots. So I don't really even get a Grub menu. I get into a boot loop.

Just thought I'd pass this along in case anyone else has experienced this.

prit1 · #36 Post by **prit1** » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 19:49

@luverofpeanuts:

Thanks for downloading Macpup.

I am not a Grub expert and dont know what might be wrong. I have PM'ed couple of folks to see if they have any idea. Nobody else has reported this error. So wonder what might be wrong. Is the MD5SUM after download correct?

#37 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 20:00

Bene Belt wrote:hi

i love the style! jepp and with the right .sfs included it rocks my machine. but i havent figured out how to add panel miniprograms. like the gmixer. it was so handy just to use mouse wheel over the little icon, which is now missing. so i tried to symlink it to the desktop with drag n drop. didnt match. so how about th e customized task bar? couldnt i use the miniprograms anymore like "kill process"? or system monitor?

so long
Bene

"i havent figured out how to add panel miniprograms. like the gmixer. "
You can't run that from a taskbar in dingo, I've tried tons of different ways, Probably the best idea would be adding a quick launch shortcut to Wbar. I can add a type of "kill process" to blinky, I'll do it when I get some free time and submit a patch.
ttuuxxx

Ge64 · #38 Post by **Ge64** » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 10:16

I succesfully booted macpup dingo on my old 400mhz box, but now I want to do a full install...

How do I do a full install?

Bene Belt · #39 Post by **Bene Belt** » Tue 24 Jun 2008, 12:13

ttuuxxx wrote: Probably the best idea would be adding a quick launch shortcut to Wbar. I can add a type of "kill process" to blinky, I'll do it when I get some free time and submit a patch.
ttuuxxx

thanx ttuuxxx

seems ure support is essential for me (& for this side!) thanks to u ive hope to get help just from posting my problems. im just right now in class to learn IT stuff.. (in 2 years from now on ill be certificated). perhaps some day i could give something back. (how to give time back?) but im sure there will be a way.

wanna say, thanx for ure polite reply and ure engagement
cu later

prit1 · #40 Post by **prit1** » Tue 24 Jun 2008, 15:09

@Ge64:

Thanks for trying Macpup. There will be an option to do a full install in the setup menu item. Please check it out.

hoki · #41 Post by **hoki** » Fri 27 Jun 2008, 12:42

I have macpup on the Asus EeePC and it looks wonderful.

Runs very smooth, only hiccup is the dock is just a tad to wide maybe 8%. So the finder and reboot icons are off the screen. Im going to dig around the config files and see what i can come up with.

prit1 · #42 Post by **prit1** » Fri 27 Jun 2008, 16:34

@hoki:

You can edit /root/.xinitrc and find for "wbar".

Change the current wbar line to:

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sleep 3 && wbar -above-desk -jumpf 1 -pos bottom -nanim 3 -zoomf 1.8 -idist 10 -isize 32 -bpress -balfa 80 &

This should make wbar perfectly fit in Asus Eeepc.

mentat · #43 Post by **mentat** » Fri 27 Jun 2008, 17:58

Prit, great job on Macpup! I installed on a thumb drive in a 1GB partition. When I shut down for the first time, I selected the encrypted save option, but the maximum size it offered was 95MB. Any ideas on how I can up that to 200MB or so? Thanks.

prit1 · #44 Post by **prit1** » Fri 27 Jun 2008, 18:09

@mentat:

Thanks.

Do you know if your thumb-drive has more than 95MB free space available? Macpup is Puppy Dingo with slight additions related to looks. So you may want to post a new thread on the forum asking for help with this.

daklander · #45 Post by **daklander** » Tue 01 Jul 2008, 01:54

I like the looks of this version but upon running live cd it was really slow to boot and quite slow to react. The browser never did open.
The machine is an old Celeron 633MHz with 192Mb Ram. Is that enough? Puppy 4 runs fine, seemingly much faster than previous versions.

prit1 · #46 Post by **prit1** » Tue 01 Jul 2008, 04:41

@daklander:

Macpup has only few things added over Puppy 4.00. If Puppy 4.00 runs fine, Macpup should also. There was some discussion on this thread concluding that Puppy 4.00 might require more than 200 MB RAM to run fully in RAM. Macpup may require a tiny bit more. Thats all.

daklander · #47 Post by **daklander** » Wed 02 Jul 2008, 03:19

prit1 wrote:@daklander:

Macpup has only few things added over Puppy 4.00. If Puppy 4.00 runs fine, Macpup should also. There was some discussion on this thread concluding that Puppy 4.00 might require more than 200 MB RAM to run fully in RAM. Macpup may require a tiny bit more. Thats all.

'K, thanks.
I read quite a bit about Puppy 4 and some on Macpup. I used some earlier Puppy versions but stopped with 3.0 because I never could get the wireless working, something that earlier versions did. Version 4 was a snap and it's quite fast on that machine but the looks of this Macpup are very good. I guess I'll go ahead and do an install over the next couple of days and see how it runs installed. I'll report back.
Thanks again.

KF6SNJ · #48 Post by **KF6SNJ** » Thu 03 Jul 2008, 02:36

I just tried it on my Dell Inspiron laptop. It wil boot up, but a few minutes later I get the error message:

pup_400.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial ramdisk console...

Any thoughts? Lighthouse Pup 2.15 works perfectly on this machine...

prit1 · #49 Post by **prit1** » Thu 03 Jul 2008, 03:28

@KF6SNJ:

Are you running a CD or frugal or full install?

It is created to look for pup_400Mac.sfs.

KF6SNJ · #50 Post by **KF6SNJ** » Thu 03 Jul 2008, 03:43

Booting from CD without any other version of puppy installed. Installed is PCLinuxOS. I know I could completely wipe the hard drive using Ultimate Boot CD, but I don't feel I should have to. I have had a similiar problem with regular Puppy 4.0 and PCPuppyOS on this laptop. Oddly, it is only on the laptop that I have this problem.

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Limit on encrypted save size?

Enough Computer?