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[tubeguy]

Rockin' in the USA with an Australian OS and Japanese laptop.
Only issue I have so far is that glipper is not persistent, it disappears after reboot. There is a glipper thread showing in htop but no tray icon. If I run glipper in a console, a second glipper thread opens, the icon shows up and I can use it but the icon and thread disappear when the console is closed.

[edoc]

As I recall it pops up on a new install when one is in the Network Wizard.

I think I first saw it in Quirky or Wary but it may have been spup.

[bigpup]

[don570]

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01micko wrote

[don570]

I am now able to see Hebrew and Arabic thanks to your fonts pet package.
A method to test for display of font characters in foreign languages is to
go to the following site which has been set up specially for this purpose.

http://www.yudit.org/test.html


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[kevin bowers]

rcrsn51,
Yes, I can ping the desktop from the netbook; in fact I couldn't stop it short of closing the terminal, the <esc> key didn't work. Neither computer has a firewall installed, I was afraid it might disable printer sharing or something. Perhaps I should wait until I upgrade the netbook to a 5.1 installation; that is in the works anyway so maybe I need to move the timetable up a bit. Eventually the netbook will get a huge HD and run a dual-boot system with its original Windows 7 and Luci, but I'd planned to wait for 5.2. I guess it won't hurt to do the Puppy install twice, I've gotten pretty good at it.

[piratesmack]

[ICPUG]

Interesting discussion on the ability to uninstall Puppy packages. I think this is a variation on the modular Puppy theme that comes up every now and again.

I wonder if the original magazine writer would not use Windows because you cannot uninstall Internet Explorer, Notepad, Wordpad and all the other things that are part of the base package?

The key is that Abiword, SeaMonkey, ... are part of the Puppy base package. You may not like the choice but that is the way it is. It is still significantly smaller than Windows!

If you don't like the choice then you remaster Puppy with your preferred choice.

In previous Puppy series somebody eventually produces a 'bare bones' Puppy which consists of the real basic stuff and all the application packages taken out. I think this is what the magazine writer wants. One then uses the Puppy installer to install (and uninstall I think) the packages you want to use.

Alternatively, JRB created (for Series 4 Puppy) the SFS Loader which provided usage of sfs packages 'on the fly'. Want to use Open Office - get the sfs - Load it with JRB's tool - use it - Unload it with JRB's tool. Magic!

Starting with a 'barebones' Pup I think JRB's tool is the best thing we have got to create modular Puppies - which is why I think the tool should be part of the Puppy base and why I don't go on so much about modular Puppy now!

Of course, real good documentation behind all this would be helpful - so that it doesn't get lost, hidden in the forum somewhere.

[kevin bowers]

rcrsn51,

One more word on printer sharing and I'll give it a rest.

I've come to the conclusion that this version of CUPS is not going to share printers through my basic router. It's a Belkin G, I read in a review that it does not support "network mapping" whatever that may be. But I'm guessing that CUPS now depends on it for sharing.

I dusted off my old P2 box running Puppy 3.0.1. All computers on the network can see its printer, in Luci I don't even have to add it. On the Toshiba netbook CUPS even automatically set is as default. But all of the printers on computers running Luci 5.X are hidden, including the .pdf writers and such.

Interestingly enough, when I sent a test page from the netbook running 5.0.9, it printed the test page from the earlier version of CUPS (1.2.something). But so long as this doesn't give me compatibility problems I have the functionality I want, ie wireless printing from the portable.

"It ain't broke, let's not try to fix it."

Thanks to all, especially rcrsn51, for the time and attention to what amounts to a tiny annoyance!

[rcrsn51]

Perhaps some other Lupu testers can comment on this situation. If you have a printer attached to your Lupu machine and have declared it sharable (both in the printer settings and in the Server settings) is it visible to other machines on your network?

[Béèm]

[Lobster]

with this rather dramatic bug
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=443179#443179

I am beginning to track the culprit
(not a cod from another dimension)

I think it is something to do with having Ubuntu Lucid
on the hard drive and some grub or MBR conflict . . .

Would this be possible?
How would I test how it was happening?
I have booted and saved from USB WITH the HD disconnected
and this went OK

So it would appear it is something on the HD . . .

[don570]

Regarding pmusic and gnome-mplayer not working with newest xfce

http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/puppy4/dotpups/WindowManagers/xfce4_de_4_lqw_puppy.pet

I was able to get Pmusic to work at least.
I installed id3lib and ffmpeg

... but I couldn't get gnome-player to work. I did get the following terminal output

[raviji7]

Does anybody have a fix for the Firefox/messed up screen issue instead of a work-around? This issue has been occurring on 4 of my laptops (IBM T20, IBM T23, IBM X40, some other generic brand) since Lucid 5.0 was released. I was hoping it would have been fixed with the release of 5.0.1, but wasn't, and now even with the 5.1 release, it is still not fixed.

Since these laptops are really old, Puppy is really the only distro that runs really well on these laptops, but unfortunately this screen refresh/messed up issue is forcing me to use 4.3.1 for now.

I am not some linux guru, but if there is something I can do to progress the resolution to this problem, I am more than happy to do it.

[Fox7777]

Having all those missing dependencies means Puppy 5.1 was not ready and we have to use Puppy 5.0 instead. I couldn't find this anywhere in the forum and apologize if the problem has already been mentioned.