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nksaini · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45 Location: New Delhi

I installed Puppy 4.30 on my PC and it was working fast and trouble free. Suddenly I discovered that Shutdown/Reboot/Restart X/etc command on Menu button have stopped working (nothing happens when I click on them).

Now I must shutdown by issuing a shutdown/reboot command from rxvt command prompt. Other commands on Menu - Documents/Internet/Utility/etc are all working as expected.

Can someone please suggest an easy way to restore the functionality to Shutdown/Reboot/etc commands on the Menu button.

Second, I wish to make the "Win" key on the keyboard map to Menu button (as under Windows) and "Context/Shortcut" key to corresponding action under Puppy. I tried a bit but could not figure out how to achieve these settings. Can someplease suggest how to do it.

N.K.Saini

sinc · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 523 Location: Tampa, FL USA

i am not sure if this is applicable for you but i have this issue happen if i use xvesa instead of xorg and if when i select xvesa I X-out of the window instead of clicking "current" then I get the issue you are describing. not sure if this is your situation or not but i'm just throwing something out there.

if this is the case, just make sure you click "current" on the xvesa menu.

Kal · Posted: Tue 29 Sep 2009, 12:46 Post subject:

Did you have or try upgrading an existing Puppy, like 4.21?

This could be a problem, because 4.21 has a different logout system, using a shutdown window. Generally, I don't recommend upgrades, there is always something.

On 4.30 the wmpoweroff and wmreboot files are located at /usr/bin and not at /usr/X11R7/bin, as before. Check this out to see which you have. Try symlinking them to the other place.

r__hughes · Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 336 Location: Canada

Try refreshing the menu
In a terminal window type
fixmenus

Good Luck

earthpuppy · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

I got the same problem(using puppy 4.3 on a CF card), but it happened right after I installed some chinese font package made by 3rd party
fixmenu didnt help
thx for the suggestion though
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I opened /root/.jwmrc via geany
and search the string wmpoweroff
it will bring you to the line where needs the path modification
change the path before /wmpoweroff to /usr/bin/
mine was /usr/X11R7/bin/wmpoweroff
now is /usr/bin/wmpoweroff
save it
then reboot!!

do the same to the line where the wmreboot is (actually it's the previous line)
Woot! now work like a charm
thx all!!

However, I have another new problem, my "show desktop" icon on the taskbar is gone.
fixmenus didnt get it back, either.
anyone can help pls?!
thx

nksaini · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45 Location: New Delhi

nksaini · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45 Location: New Delhi

nksaini · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45 Location: New Delhi

nksaini · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45 Location: New Delhi

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Sounds like the scripts are corrupted. Run this .pet to restore them. Good luck................

chrisnet74 · Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 2

Hello,

Same here (Puppy 4.30)

Tried fixmenus and power.pet to no avail.

Chris

nksaini · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 45 Location: New Delhi

chrisnet · Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 2

pottzie · Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 8

When I tried to power off after the first boot in 4.3 (which I dumped right on top of Puppy 4.21), the power off worked, but as the files were updating before actually powering down, it froze. Seemed to happen after asking what size file I wanted. I got greedy and went for the biggest one listed, hoping that it would cure the infernal "You only have seven bits of empty space" after downloading my first gitpup.
The power down solution was simple. I pulled the plug. Had to, as the Compaq didn't shut down when I kicked it.