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otropogo

Booted Compaq Presario 5827 w/768MB RAM with Multisession DVD previously used successfully to boot off a newer Intel machine.

"...copying to ram

Setting up the layered filesystem...
Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem...Kernel panic - not syncing
g: Attempted to kill init!"

translation??

don922 · Posted: Wed 19 Jan 2011, 02:53 Post subject: Need a 10x20 font in Urxvt

I am using Wary 5.0 Lite on a PII 350 with a new 17" monitor.

I would like to get a 10x20 font to use in Urxvt. Where can I get it and How do I install it?

Wary 5 is supposed to be an "old equipment" Puppy. Old eyes need something better than 7x14; even 9x15B is too small for my eyes.

I don't want to sound like "otro", I can't read the screen in Urxvt -- I am using Sakura, but it uses TTF and I can't find anything that works as well as 10x20. Any suggestions?

don922 · Posted: Wed 19 Jan 2011, 10:41 Post subject: JWM tray error

Adding a new launch button to tray causes the screen selector boxes to be removed. Compare graphics below.

I have used these same launch buttons on Puppy 4.12, Puppy 4.00 and Puppy 214X without a problem.

Can this be fixed?

Béèm · Posted: Wed 19 Jan 2011, 12:29 Post subject:

don922, if you like the 412 drive icons, copy them to your 5.xx installation.
I did something like this for the stardust theme I like most.

Bill253 · Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 8 Location: New Mexico, USA

PostPosted: Yesterday, at 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: firefox
Subject description: gmail not loading Reply with quote
ttuuxxx wrote:
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did you try my fix I posted for you?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=487221#487221

ttuuxxx

otropogo wrote:

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Update:

Ok. Have tried it now, or at least , tried to try it. But ran into a snag or two...

I first ran the pet, and that resulted in the addition of a second Firefox tab in the Program/Intenet menu, giving me four links for Firefox (the desktop icon, the two FF tabs, and the Seamonkey tab), but still none for Seamonkey.

Then I tried to follow your instruction to:

"...make sure that Firefox is located in usr/lib/firefox if it has a number on it then just right click on the folder with the number and choose systemlink and call it firefox. "

But I don't see any "firefox" folder in usr/lib, don't know how to "make sure" it's there, and have no way to complete the task.

What I do see is a folder named Seamonkey 2.0.11, beside it a symlink (I think - it sports a square with a curved arrow on the top left corner) named just Seamonkey, and another folder named Mozilla, which contains two folders called "extensions" and " plugins".

I thought it prudent to postpone your suggestion to delete root/mozilla/firefox (which does exist) until checking back with you.
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Sorry this reply isn't as pretty as you experienced users make yours, but it's my first time trying to make a reply on this forum.

My experience with SeaMonkey and Firefox has been almost exactly what otropogo has reported. I might add that the screen icon for 'email' and menu pick for 'SeaMonkey mail and news' also launch Firefox. Since running the seamonkey-fix-1.pet that ttuuxxx graciously supplied, I too now have two menu tabs for 'Firefox web browser', along with the two SeaMonkey tabs (mail and news, web browser) all of which launch Firefox.

I don't miss the SeaMonkey web browser so much, but kind of liked the mail client. Is it even possible to have both mozilla products available at the same time (technosaurus seemed to indicate it is not)?

As a new puppy user I'm frustrated by how easy it is to 'break' things and not know how to restore them. The initial install from CD went very smoothly. I'm about ready to try to figure out how to uninstall/reinstall the whole mess and start over. Please be patient with this old Windows user trying to find his way through Puppy.

Bill253
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rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4377 Location: merriam, kansas

ravensrest · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 306 Location: Hood Canal, WA

I can't seem to get FFConvert multimedia converter to produce playable files. If I try to select and convert Magic-Pilot.ogg to an mp3 file using ffconvert, a file approximately 2.4 meg long is produced, but it lasts only a few milliseconds and is not recognizable. The command line produced by ffconvert is:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 19 Jan 2011, 20:54 Post subject:

Hi guys can you please left click help on firefox and select "About Mozilla Firefox" And tell me which version is installed and later today I'll boot Wary and make a proper fix for it, The last one was an educated guess but looks like something is out of the ordinary compared to a regular firefox install.
ttuuxxx