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#196 Post by zigbert »

Warren
I have updated the Ptray package. Version 0.4 also handles the show/hide of left/right-tray. The package contains fixmenus and globicons. These should be included by hand to their original packages.

If you want the new close-button on top of tray instead of bottom, it is just to switch those lines in /root/.jwmrc-tray-add_icon(.bak) and /root/.jwmrc-tray-add_widget(.bak)


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#197 Post by Béèm »

WhoDo wrote:
Béèm wrote:With alpha 4.20, I can address all partitions except the vfat one.
A very annoying fact. (In fact I realize now, that the same problem was there already from alpha one on)
No problems with 4.1.2

Is there hope for a solution?
There is always "hope" Béèm. I'll look into it.
Thanks WhoDo.
I knew you would say that. :wink:
There is no hurry, as it's still alpha time.
Altho I'll be abroad for the next 5 weeks, I'll look at this interesting thread.
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#198 Post by nic2109 »

ttuuxxx wrote:Network Printing also works, I set the printer as a server and went to my other pc on the LAN and selected file print, and I printed the google homepage. Now thats the first time I've printed over my home network which is cat5 with a adsl2+modem 4 port router. Since xp like 4 yrs ago. really cool, too bad my wife uses xp, hmmmmm.
anyways glad its working. tomorrow I'll try to reduce the size.
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Well it's now a lot better for me too! My experience is this :-

1. My (network attached) printer was discovered straight away. :)
2. Selecting the suggested protocol of socket://192.168.0.11 didn't work with the closest included driver. :(
3. Selecting the suggested protocol did work with a specific ppd file downloaded from linuxprinting.org. :)
4. Manually selecting socket://192.168.0.11:9100 didn't work with the closest included driver, but did work with the specific downloaded .ppd file. :)

Conclusion: as long as the specific ppd file is used the CUPS setup now works. :D

In case it is relevant the printer is an HP Photosmart 2575. The closest included driver is HP PhotoSmart 2700 Foomatic, and the one that works is HP-PhotoSmart_2570-hpijs.ppd.
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#199 Post by Jim1911 »

ttuuxxx ,

Installed your new printer .pets, unfortunately they didn't work with my HP Photosmart C5280. It doesn't provide an option for usb printers.

Thanks for working this CUPS problem,
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#200 Post by ttuuxxx »

Jim1911 wrote:ttuuxxx ,

Installed your new printer .pets, unfortunately they didn't work with my HP Photosmart C5280. It doesn't provide an option for usb printers.

Thanks for working this CUPS problem,
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Hi jim did you try the usb plugin ?
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#201 Post by Jim1911 »

ttuuxxx,

It worked by adding that usb plugin. It recognized my C5280 printer and was able to print a test page with an old 1315 driver. I installed the hpijs-2.8.10.pet which has the correct driver for the C5200 series but couldn't get that driver to work.

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#202 Post by Jim1911 »

ttuuxxx,

It worked by adding that usb plugin. It recognized my C52080 printer and was able to print a test page with an old 1315 driver. I installed the hpijs-2.8.10.pet which has the correct driver for the C5200 series but couldn't get that driver to work.

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#203 Post by Pizzasgood »

JMX wrote:2) When I use "Open Terminal Here" that opened location should automatically be in the PATH for that opened terminal session.
No, it should not. Standard *nix behavior is to not include the local directory in the path. Changing it would make things even more confusing, because then we wouldn't be standard anymore. If we start messing around with things that are that fundamental, we eliminate the new user's ability to trust generic Linux guides found on the web. How we have it now may be a little odd at first, but it is more consistent.

I do agree that /usr/local/sbin should be in the path. Also, /usr/local/lib should be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or /etc/ld.so.conf) if it isn't already in 4.2 (I forget).
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#204 Post by ttuuxxx »

Jim1911 wrote:ttuuxxx,

It worked by adding that usb plugin. It recognized my C52080 printer and was able to print a test page with an old 1315 driver. I installed the hpijs-2.8.10.pet which has the correct driver for the C5200 series but couldn't get that driver to work.

Thanks,
Jim
jim can I have the link to that pet for that driver please? I want to look at the package.
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#205 Post by WhoDo »

zigbert wrote:Warren
I have updated the Ptray package. Version 0.4 also handles the show/hide of left/right-tray. The package contains fixmenus and globicons. These should be included by hand to their original packages.
Thanks, Sigmund. Included for Puppy-4.2Beta1. :wink:
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#206 Post by WhoDo »

Pizzasgood wrote:
JMX wrote:2) When I use "Open Terminal Here" that opened location should automatically be in the PATH for that opened terminal session.
No, it should not. Standard *nix behavior is to not include the local directory in the path. Changing it would make things even more confusing, because then we wouldn't be standard anymore.
Cool, PG! 8) I hadn't worked out what to do with that request and now I know.

@JMX - I guess you'll have to continue amending this one by hand. Sorry.
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#207 Post by WhoDo »

@ttuuxxx - it looks like all the hard work on CUPS may have paid dividends. I'll include these files in Puppy-4.2Beta1 in the hope that there are no more major problems related to CUPS. Thanks, mate! :D
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#208 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hey WhoDo

-how long do I have before you need the finals for the beta ?
-Do you know which plugins for things like abiword did you remove? If not I could figure it out, but it'll take more time.

I still have a bit to do on icewm and Cups, right now the Cups package is very large, I'll be able to remove a good size chunk but it will need more testing. I'll keep backups for somethings to fall back on in case something goes wrong. Plus do you know what parts will be going in like gutenprint? or is that a repo item.
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#209 Post by cthisbear »

Well most things seem nice and smooth.

But the drive icons.
This has to be addressed as well as unmounting.

2 quick tests.

Old IBM Pentium 111 1 gig chip 512 ram
Must have had 8 extra drives show up.
Triangular icons obviously faulty....removed them.
The hard drive would not unmount at all.
I did not know you could right click to unmount.
Used xorg...as only 1 meg video card on this computer.

Interesting..I booted my 2.8 celeron 512 ram.
Used xvesa.
Now....all these drive icons started to appear.
Selected my screen size 1024x 768.
Saved it.
Spare drives disappeared.

After cleaning my XP install out....my usual way,
the drives refused to unmount.
I then tried right click on the drives to unmount them.
Success.

So maybe this has been already raised, but is it a
joint Pmount and Xorg setting making it worse?
Just strange the extra icons started to appear
and then vanish.

Not a criticism as such.
Highly annoying and mischievous.
So much good work and this piddly bug.
To me this must be fixed soonest.

Oh! well that's why you have Alphas.

I shall try and look more tonight.

Hooroo to all....and regards.............Chris.

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#210 Post by WhoDo »

ttuuxxx wrote:-how long do I have before you need the finals for the beta ?
I planned on uploading within 2 hours, but if you can reduce the size significantly that's worth waiting for. I have the Beta running on my machine and it's (choke) almost flawless! Hope I don't come to regret that rash statement! :P
ttuuxxx wrote:-Do you know which plugins for things like abiword did you remove? If not I could figure it out, but it'll take more time.
As far as I'm aware I didn't remove ANY plug-ins for Abiword. :?
ttuuxxx wrote:I still have a bit to do on icewm and Cups, right now the Cups package is very large, I'll be able to remove a good size chunk but it will need more testing.
If you can get me 3Mb, we'll be all but ready for the RC! :wink: Sorry but I had to leave Murrina out because of size problems. Clearlooks is still in of course. I'll give you back Murrina if you can get me the 3 meg! :lol:
ttuuxxx wrote:I'll keep backups for somethings to fall back on in case something goes wrong. Plus do you know what parts will be going in like gutenprint? or is that a repo item.
Gutenprint is in. I have installed ALL of the CUPS pet files you mentioned so CUPS should be complete and epdf viewer now works again. Foomatic is also back in. Current size is 102Mb, even including CUPS, CUPS docs, Gutenprint etc. :)
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#211 Post by WhoDo »

cthisbear wrote:Well most things seem nice and smooth.

But the drive icons.
This has to be addressed as well as unmounting.
All squared away, Chris. Check the Beta release coming soon. :wink:
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#212 Post by Ray MK »

Hi

This is sounding good - can't wait.

Once again - many thanks to all concerned for all the hard work and brain-strain.

I think puppy is already the best small distro by a long way -
this CE elevates puppy to the highest levels.

Stonking stuff

Very best regards - Ray

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#213 Post by ttuuxxx »

I'll get it ready for beta 2, I just received your message. probably don't have enough time, to reduce it all. Testers of beta4 please keep your copies handy for testing, the updated packages, I still have some work to do on them.
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#214 Post by ttuuxxx »

actually cool pup just informed me that a newer Gutenprint is out, I'm downloading right now, the source package is 1.5MB larger, so I don't know it it will do at all. Depends how it compiles I guess.
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#215 Post by ttuuxxx »

WhoDo do I have any time left I'm working on it, The pressure is on :)
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