Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 19 Jan 2010, 08:11 Post subject:

hi clarf I found one that's really good, Just one thing its toooo big, lol
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:45 Post subject:

Hi clarf I found another Filemanager that is half the size of the last one and will make a lot of people happy, lol It was a lot larger but I did my regular stuff to it, Now I have to figure out how theme it up. hmmmm But I'm not spilling the beans on which one it is.
lol I bet the suspense is driving you crazy, lol
ttuuxxx

clarf · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 606 Location: The old Lone Wolf

Hugh · Posted: Tue 19 Jan 2010, 19:25 Post subject:

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

^Hope you're better soon, flu sucks.

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works here, but I think this needs saying.

I've been impressed by Puppy Retro in nearly every way but I have had lockups when browsing in every version I've tried up to v X11, especially but not exclusively in Firefox. When this happens it often takes two or three reboots to make Gkdial useable again.

Has anyone any idea why this might be happening (and also often does in Puppies based on earlier versions, i.e. prior to 4.12), and yet doesn't in the version I use as my main Puppy (4.20 Deeper Thought)?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 00:59 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 01:57 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

I dug my old amd K6-2 (501 mhz w/384 mb ram) off the shelf to try 2.14X rc2.At the moment it has a dual-boot of XP and Puppy 3.01 and 2.14 is a marked improvement, even running live.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 05:23 Post subject:

well I hope one of the packages will work, you can also probably use them on other Linux Distros, just rename the .pet to .tar.gz and extract them and place the folders in the responding directories.
ttuuxxx

clarf · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 606 Location: The old Lone Wolf

Hi ttuuxxx;

I´m surprised no one asked you to add Hiawatha. In this moment 214X does not have any web Server. I compiled it in less than 100KB...

clarf

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 12:26 Post subject:

Hi guys I've spent about 2 days on trying to get Thunar configured, I need help or I'll toss it, Rox would still be default but then others could have Thunar,
The package is like 1MB but , its not actually that large.
the reason is this -
It comes with a full set of xfce gtk2 themes and theme engine which will replace the gtk2 themes in 2.14X, which takes up 892kb expanded plus There are extra for one off configuring.
So the actual size is around 600kb pet. I didn't add thunarVol because well that takes HAL5+ to actually work and its a bit of a stretch to install the latest HAL version on almost any puppy from about 4 series down.

Ok this is what I need desperate help with, When I associate a file say blinky.pet with /usr/sbin/petget it then lets me install pets like usual, but where does it save the changed settings to, I've spent 2 day reading hundreds of user responses looking in /etc/xdg /root /usr/ share usr/lib etc and for the life of me I can't find it. I can't install a filemanager that everyone has to set every time they bootup live, lol
Also how do I set icons to the applications ??? I couldn't figure that out either. well I'll start on 2.14X again tomorrow and by the time I'm finished building it if no fixes are found I'll toss it, have to keep moving forward Smile

this will update your mimes, open a terminal and type
/usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/

look int the usr/bin folder there a few bins that work via the terminal.
have fun
ttuuxxx

Note newer version next page Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 12:33 Post subject:

Oh ya after install Thunar pet above, please set your GTK2 theme to one of the XFCE themes, The reason why is that it supplies some icons to thunar itself, that is why I'll be dumping the default gtk2 themes if we go with thunar as the backup Filemanager.
I also made the fonts larger to puppy standards to match the current fonts in the other gtk2 themes in 2.14X
ttuuxxx

clarf · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 606 Location: The old Lone Wolf

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 21 Jan 2010, 20:44 Post subject:

hi clarf I managed to get it that far yesterday, actually I do have about 3/4 of the rox mimes working in its original location, but I need to know where it saves the changes, when I set .pet to execute earlier is an example, If I delete user/share/mimes and replace it with a default 2.14X. pets still execute, if delete, /root/.cache/Thunar, /etc/xdg/xfce4, they still execute, I need to know where the settings are being stored, The icons I can live with, but the file mime associations I need to transfer over to the iso. The closest I got was deleting /root/.config/Thunar, that controlled the single click vs double click on the apps. But the .pet's still worked.
ttuuxxx