This is just a small script I wrote which may help some people if they crash X or can't get into X, provided they have a net connection. Recent puppies, if they connect by ethernet, should already be online.
You need to have a net connection to browse and chat so no use to offer the apps as they are pretty small, less than 1MB for both. (Both compiled in Lucid Puppy)
Weechat.. compiled by dejan555
Elinks ... I compiled.
If you don't have a connection then the script stops. Maybe in the future we can have a small wizard that works out of X.
The inspiration was from this thread by goingnuts
There is no menu entry, it's a commandline tool. It is designed to run from console, that is, no X running. It does run inside of X the same way, but uses Xdialog instead of dialog.
You type
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help_NOX
The program then downloads and installs elinks and weechat, verifies install and then you see this
from in X it looks like this:
..then
then you see success..
then..
Then you choose to browse or chat....
It's all pretty fast and simple.
Elinks opens up at the forum page so you can look for a solution, Weechat goes straight to #puppylinux IRC channel.
Thanks guys that hang out on #puppylinux for putting up with my testing over the past few days
Any suggestions, I'm sure this could be expanded.
Have fun
Cheers