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jpeps

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PostPosted: Tue 10 Aug 2010, 05:50    Post subject:  swapfile manager
Subject description: swap file creation wizard and manager		  
Wizard for creating swap files, with user entry for size and name/location. Default is 100M. Management includes swap on/off, and info button which displays free memory. Main window displays status and size of file.

Notes:
Version 1.2.1. Input KB; default set at 100M; edit path.


Version 2.0: Input Megs vs KB, set default at 512M, /mnt/home/swapfile. Make sure you have sufficient space, or change path/size.
Version3.0: Added Swappiness selection (decrease swappiness for computers with lots of ram)
Version 3.5 Added option to save settings; refresh labels to settings; friendlier window management, etc.


Version 4.0 Uses gtimer process widget (if installed)
Version 4.1 Better integration of gtimer
Version 4.2 Defaults to gtkdialog4, but reverts to gtkdialog3 if not present.
Added version name to work with pet uninstaller.
Version 4.5 Save settings to /etc/rc.d/init.d/swapmanager vs/ /etc/profile.local
swapfilemanager-4.5.pet
Description  Version 4.5 Input MB
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Filename  swapfilemanager-4.5.pet 
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gtimer.pet
Description  process widget-- requires gtkdialog =>0.7.21
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Filename  gtimer.pet 
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swapfilemanager.png
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swapfilemanager.png
swapfilemanager.pet
Description  Version 1.2.1 Input KB
 pet

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Filesize  2.76 KB 
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RetroTechGuy


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PostPosted: Tue 10 Aug 2010, 11:35    Post subject: Re: swapfile manager
Subject description: swap file creation wizard and manager		  
jpeps wrote:
Wizard for creating swap files, with user entry for size and name/location. Default is 100M. Management includes swap on/off, and info button which displays free memory. Main window displays status and size of file.


Excellent jpeps! I'll give it a try (just the tool we need for newbies!).
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abushcrafter


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PostPosted: Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:26    Post subject:  
Some errors:
Code:
# swapfilemanager
swapoff: can't stat '/mnt/sda2/swapfile': No such file or directory
EXIT="OK"
# swapfilemanager
swapon: can't stat '/mnt/sda2/swapfile': No such file or directory
EXIT="OK"
# swapfilemanager
dd: opening `/mnt/sda1/swapfile': No such file or directory
/mnt/sda1/swapfile: No such file or directory
FILE="/mnt/sda1/swapfile"
KB="102400"
EXIT="OK"
#

Can't switch swap off. Does not remember swap file path.

Good .desktop file:
Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Swapfile Manager
Icon=woodendrive.xpm
Comment=
Exec=swapfilemanager
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=X-SystemMemory

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PostPosted: Tue 10 Aug 2010, 17:49    Post subject:  
Thanks for the the support and testing. Uploaded Ver 1.1, which should
fix late night coding bloopers.

Edit: Fixed the menu.....
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PostPosted: Wed 11 Aug 2010, 08:59    Post subject:  
Haven't found any new bugs. Seems that this is a new useful app Smile. Now for a feature request Smile. Can you please add the feature for switching on and off a swap partition. Thanks for you work so far.
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PostPosted: Wed 11 Aug 2010, 11:03    Post subject:  
abushcrafter wrote:
Haven't found any new bugs. Seems that this is a new useful app Smile. Now for a feature request Smile. Can you please add the feature for switching on and off a swap partition. Thanks for you work so far.


swapon/swapoff -a ?? (I don't have one to test). My original idea was to just handle swap files.
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PostPosted: Wed 11 Aug 2010, 11:20    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
abushcrafter wrote:
Haven't found any new bugs. Seems that this is a new useful app Smile. Now for a feature request Smile. Can you please add the feature for switching on and off a swap partition. Thanks for you work so far.


swapon/swapoff -a ?? (I don't have one to test). My original idea was to just handle swap files.
Ok, never mined it's not a must have. It's your app and I will let that be. I also don't know how to swap on/off just a swap partition any way.

Thanks for the swapon command. Been meaning to find out what command to use to switch swap on.

Now to add this to my puplet, A Powerful Puppy (appup or app).
[Edit] Here is a better menu category: "X-SystemMemory". You also haven't done the "pet.specs" part of the PET properly.
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PostPosted: Thu 12 Aug 2010, 01:43    Post subject:  
abushcrafter wrote:

[Edit] Here is a better menu category: "X-SystemMemory". You also haven't done the "pet.specs" part of the PET properly.


I don't have that category in stardust, and don't see it in petspec either.


For some reason, dir2pet bypassed the petspec gui and I got an empty pet.specs file (although package uninstalls OK). However, I see swapfilemanager appended to .user-installed-packages:
Code:

  swapfilemanager||||System|||swapfilemanager.pet|||


Here's the output if I run petspec manually:
Code:

 swapfilemanager-1.2|swapfilemanager|1.2||System|4.0K|/usr/local/bin|swapfilemanger.pet||Swap File Manger||||


edit: Here's the dir2pet error when attempting to load GUI window:

Code:

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 16, near token '</default>': syntax error

aborting...


Strange....GUI loads fine with "petspec"

NOTE: dir2pet issue moved to :
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52033
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PostPosted: Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:15    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
abushcrafter wrote:

[Edit] Here is a better menu category: "X-SystemMemory". You also haven't done the "pet.specs" part of the PET properly.


I don't have that category in stardust, and don't see it in petspec either.
You do. A list of category's is at "/etc/xdg/menus/hierarchy".

jpeps wrote:
For some reason, dir2pet bypassed the petspec gui and I got an empty pet.specs file (although package uninstalls OK). However, I see swapfilemanager appended to .user-installed-packages:
Code:

  swapfilemanager||||System|||swapfilemanager.pet|||


Here's the output if I run petspec manually:
Code:

 swapfilemanager-1.2|swapfilemanager|1.2||System|4.0K|/usr/local/bin|swapfilemanger.pet||Swap File Manger||||


edit: Here's the dir2pet error when attempting to load GUI window:

Code:

** ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 16, near token '</default>': syntax error

aborting...


Strange....GUI loads fine with "petspec"
I have had that error before. Not sure what I did to fix it. I think I launched the Package Database Entry Creator (petspec). The menu entry is "create pkg db entry" in the "Utility" sub menu btw.I put the generated "pet.specs" into my PET and then the dir2pet script worked. It might have been a newer version of petspec which has a fix for this bug, I think. Which Is the one I have been using currently.
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PostPosted: Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:40    Post subject:  
Abushcrafer: Let's move the dir2pet issue over to
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52033

I ran the updated version with same issue, and posted petspec result above. Thanks!
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PostPosted: Thu 12 Aug 2010, 12:44    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
Abushcrafer: Let's move the dir2pet issue over to
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52033

I ran the updated version with same issue, and posted petspec result above. Thanks!
Ok. Just saw you post before you posted here Wink.
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PostPosted: Thu 12 Aug 2010, 16:15    Post subject:  
Uploaded version 1.2.1 with fixed pet.specs and category as suggest by abushcrafter (Thanks!)

abushcrafter: I had to run dir2pet with manually generated petspec file inside to create proper pet.spec.
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PostPosted: Thu 12 Aug 2010, 17:39    Post subject:  
jpeps wrote:
abushcrafter: I had to run dir2pet with manually generated petspec file inside to create proper pet.spec.
That was it.
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PostPosted: Sun 29 Aug 2010, 23:38    Post subject:  
I've added this to Puppeee and Fluppy. Thanks!
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PostPosted: Mon 30 Aug 2010, 09:15    Post subject:  
How does this differ from this one - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=56431?

Everyone seems a lot more interested in this!
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