1. Geany - does not open files on a samba/cifs share drive. She/It returns "Value too large for defined data type." This problem has occurred with other distributions (not with puppies). There was a solution suggested in the Arch forum: add
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Nicoedit is in general a good workaround alternative, but not for German language files that have to be processed in the consle with utilities like sed, grep, etc. Nicoedit saves the special characters in two-bite format (utf-16?) and the console seems to swear by ISO 8859-1. I would greatly appreciate either a fix for Geany (which allows you to choose the character set) or for Nico. In the meantime, I will drag and drop to a local drive.
2. Printing to a ps-file via CUPS-PDF does not work properly. The top and left margins are are ignored. There are various workarounds for producing pdf-files (in abiword, you can preview the file and successfully print from PDF Viewer, OOo has its own pdf export function, but it produces files that are ten times the size of pdf's produced from ps's with ps2pdf in the console). It would be nice to have this function back (no problem in Puppy 4.31).
3. Start-up. One thing I don't like about the console is that it beeps at you for minor infractions like attempting to backspace past the beginning of the line. Early on, I wrote a one-line shell script to turn the beep off. I put this in an executable directory with a link to /root/Startup. No longer works. Have to start it each time by hand.