Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Packrat1947 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 18

Hi, I love your new vesion of Puppy.

However, the X and Y are mixed up for me (USA). I'm running off the bootable CD.

What do I have to do to correct this? At first I thought that I could ignore it, hoping that it was just a "display" error.

Thanks for any help.

When I saw this distro, I immediately thought of one of my customer's who is haveing trouble using XP on an old Win98 era computer.

Keep up the good work and let me know if this can be fixed on the CD. Can the .iso be pulled apart, fixed, and then be usable. I've never done this before.

Thanks,

Packrat1947

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Didn't work with wired LAN on my Acer but will most likely work on my HP/Compaq.

Kind of cool for people who are addicted to XP look. Thanks for providing it.

Edit

the competition is tightening.

the Chinese are coming.

There is a version of XP from China that is mention at both DistroWatch and Gizmagic?

But it takes up to one hour to download So I have not tried it. And it seems to be an ubuntu distro remaster and they usually don't save in frugal install so I will not tried it.

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 275 Location: Near the window

Please S-kami let us know if you release an updated version
correcting the keyboard that was not asked and the XFE
file manager ; I know of some people will like it a lot Very Happy

Great work !

Best regards
Laurent

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 362 Location: San Antonio, TX

I really like what I see of this distro, but I have a problem in that it doesn't appear to see or mount usb flash sticks. I've tried a variety of flash sticks on a variety of equipment without any luck whatsoever.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Sully

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 362 Location: San Antonio, TX

ScottInMt · Joined: 27 Feb 2010 Posts: 1

sullysat · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 362 Location: San Antonio, TX

Well that works until I reboot. Then it reverts back to the same file that I've deleted four times already.

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 275 Location: Near the window

Hi,

You can build a remaster that will put things back to normal.
Open a terminal and type:

Packrat1947 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 18

It seems this fellow was soooo close to success. I guess he has given up. Probably too busy doing something else.

Packrat1947

utensil · Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 17

I can't get it to install any .pets:

They all say, “Error, package x failed to Install.”

Stupid error messages that don't say what's wrong just make me mad. Can I open a .pet and copy the files over manually?

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 275 Location: Near the window

Packrat1947 · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 18

Well, the issue is the keyboard mapping is incorrect for the English language. Should we pop off the keys and reposition them?

Do you have a software "overlay" to correct this matter? You sound quite knowledgeable, in resolving issues like this.

Thanks for any help in this matter. Many folks are waiting for a fix.

Packrat1947

utensil · Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 17

I got the .pet files to install, so nvm.

Does anyone know how to put a volume control on the taskbar? And where are the icons to switch between multiple desktops?

Also, I noticed that when I r-click on an icon, the menu item that lets me run it in a terminal window is gone. Is there a way to put that back?

utensil · Joined: 25 Jul 2009 Posts: 17

The volume control appears when I switch to JWM, so it's an IceWM problem.
So far, the only way I can get it to show up is if I run icewmtray and absvolume from a terminal window, but I just can't get it to do it by itself and it's gone when I close the terminal. I tried editing /root/icewm/startup and /usr/bin/starticewm with no success.
The slider control takes up ⅔ of the little slider window area with some dead space at the bottom.
Does anyone have any thoughts?

I found the buttons for multiple desktops. Edit: /root/icewm/preferences and make sure that TaskBarShowWorkspaces=1. (Only if anybody's curious about how I fixed it. It's not default like that on Windows.)
I recommend other new users to poke around inside this file and others under /root/icewm and its subdirectories. You get to tweak a lot of the little things that make learning a new operating system fun ¦ ).

I guess I can do without the easy access to the terminal since I'm becoming accustomed to using it. It's just frustrating when you click on an icon and nothing happens. Thankfully the CPU monitor is enabled by default on XP-like so you know when it's not doing anything and can run it in rxvt to see the error that's supposed to be displayed. I would probably have shouted a lot of obscenities at my computer recommending some physically impossible activities that it could do with itself if that weren't there.

There is extensive support for Wine built-in to XP-like, so here's a tip I picked up from somewhere else on these forums:

/root/Choices/MIME-types/application_x-ms-dos-executable

alejol

First at all, s-kami, thanks for your work!! I am using XP-like at this moment and looks great!

For correcting keyboard issue, I have created a script with a simple text editor ( Geany ), with this two lines:

#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap es

(I am a Spanish speaker, if you put setxkbmap us the US keyboard works correctly, I have proof this).

Save with name my-keyboard in directory /root/Startup .
Using rox file manager, open this directory and right-click over my-keyboard . From the floating menu choose File 'my-keyboard' / Permissions Command: a+x (Make executable/searchable)

(All programs or scripts put in /root/Startup will be executed
every time after X desktop is loaded).

Then, reboot XP-like Puppy and voila! Keyboard problem solved!
This solution is given by ScottInMt .