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#1006 Post by pemasu »

Thank you Jakfish of the report. Good to know. And thank you of your extensive testing and work for improving the distro. As you and all the other. My distro evolves based on requests, fixes, suggestions and hacks by the users.
That makes this woof building satisfactory...and the fact that Dpup works as my main OS.

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#1007 Post by pemasu »

This should make Jim1911 happy. Openbibleviewer-0.7.0.
It needs qt4-libs, for example basic and clucene.

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/QT-4.8.0 ... t-dpup.pet

http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/QT-4.8.0 ... .3.3.4.pet

http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php?content=123227

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#1008 Post by shinobar »

pemasu wrote:I have tested now PupShutdown-timeout-20120404.pet. It seems that from script /etc/acpi/actions/acpi_poweroff.sh the part: && P="/usr/local/PupShutdown/PupShutdown $TIMELIMIT"
does not carry the TIMELIMIT value to the modified script: /usr/local/PupShutdown/PupShutdown.
Right. Was missing:

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TIMEOUT=$1	# 5Apr2012 shinobar: timeout# 5Apr2012 shinobar: timeout
...
TIMEOUT=$(echo $TIMEOUT| tr -dc '0-9-')
[ "$TIMEOUT" ] || TIMEOUT=0
But 60s may be too short. Better to be 120s?
Anyway it would be nice if the time limit is shown on the dialog... :wink:
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#1009 Post by pemasu »

Now the PupShutdown works perfect. I can include the modified scripts to the next version.
About information of the shutdown timelimit default in PupShutdown would be great. It would be Dpup Exprimo speciality atm...but maybe Radky would be interested to think about it.... :D

Or if there would be the default timelimit shown when you press the shutdown button. Which ever way...it would be good to have.....

Oh yeah...the wmpoweroff, wmexit and wmreboot needs killall enlightenment row. It might be that I have missed them in some of the scripts during the updates but now I noticed the need and remind of it :
snippet.....

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PSPEFD="`ps -C pup_event_frontend_d | grep 'pup_event_front' | grep -v 'defunct'`"
done
sleep 0.2

killall enlightenment

sync
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#1010 Post by jim3630 »

jim3630 wrote:
Tman wrote:
jim3630 wrote: only issue is firefox when reopen gives error msg ff is already running.
Jim, try modifying /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser to the following:

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#!/bin/sh
yaf-splash -bg red -fg white -placement center -timeout 2 -text "loading.." &
killall firefox 2> /dev/null
sleep 0.3
exec /usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox/firefox "$@"
And then create an icon entry for defaultbrowser, or just type it in the terminal.
Tman thanks for the help. on this startup of ff and closing problem is gone.
this has happened in the past with other pups but don't recall why occurred.
will keep your fix saved away.
Tman
after some time without the problem today it returned and applying your fix it worked!

any idea why this happens?
thanks again for the fix.
------------
seems only one having this problem. like to know what am doing wrong here.

pemasu

do you know if this is something I did or your pup?
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#1011 Post by pemasu »

Playdayz first announced Lucid Puppy way to get application help button to work for Abiword...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77295

Then Jemimah showed the way to patch glib. And 01micko confirmed it works. So I gave it a try.
I am not sure if it would have needed special ./configure. I just configured it with ./configure --prefix=/usr
If it needs puppy spesific options....I recompile it. But here it is for testing.

What you get. Working Help > Help Contents to some applications more. I tested that Abiword Help started to work.
I dont care much of working Help inside the app.

But...Now the applications File > Open File shows the mounted drives in the panel and that is nice addition.

Test this glib first with pfix=ram or with dedicated save file. I havent tested this yet long.... and my configure might need more tuning.
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#1012 Post by jim3630 »

pemasu wrote:Playdayz first announced Lucid Puppy way to get application help button to work for Abiword...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77295

Then Jemimah showed the way to patch glib. And 01micko confirmed it works. So I gave it a try.
I am not sure if it would have needed special ./configure. I just configured it with ./configure --prefix=/usr
If it needs puppy spesific options....I recompile it. But here it is for testing.

What you get. Working Help > Help Contents to some applications more. I tested that Abiword Help started to work.
I dont care much of working Help inside the app.

But...Now the applications File > Open File shows the mounted drives in the panel and that is nice addition.

Test this glib first with pfix=ram or with dedicated save file. I havent tested this yet long.... and my configure might need more tuning.
installed glib and abiword during brief test seems to work as advertized.

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#1013 Post by pemasu »

PupShutdown with Powerbutton popup and separate external 4s popup how long it takes before autoshut down starts. Looks great.

Thank you Radky and thank you Shinobar for the initiative. Happy Eastern.

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#1014 Post by pemasu »

I gave a go for Rox right click pics scaling and autoadjusting contrast-color-gamma.
The pet gives you scale to 640-800-1024-autoadjust Rox right clicks for jpeg, png and bmp.
You can select several pics and mass scale them. The scaled and autoadjusted pics are stored in /root-my-documents/images...under separate subfolders.
Scale to 640...800...1024 uses quality compression 90 % and autoadjust 100% quality.
I compiled aaphoto to do the real work.

The base of this pet is from this thread. I have reconfigured and renamed the stuff...but the basic idea came from that thread. Thank you Smokey01 and Jrb.

http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... 9aa137db99

You get also aaphoto commandline tool. I liked that easy autoadjusting feature with Rox right click.
Auto Adjust Photo tries to give a solution for the automatic color correction of photos. This means setting the contrast, color balance, saturation and gamma levels of the image by analization.
http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html

Yep...I know there is pics2cale by Vovchick and scale2jpg by rcrsn51. So why did you bring up this third opportunity ?
Because I had it in Snow Puppy and I used aaphoto in it and I thought those previous useful Rox right clicks should not be abandoned. So I compiled latest aaphoto and recreated the Rox right click framework and added autoadjust feature which does not loose the pic quality. So you can first autoadjust and then scale if there is need...or use aaphoto from commandline...or install pics2scale or scale2jpg.

Or install this pet and use it.
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#1015 Post by jim3630 »

jim3630 wrote:
jim3630 wrote:
Tman wrote: Jim, try modifying /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser to the following:

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#!/bin/sh
yaf-splash -bg red -fg white -placement center -timeout 2 -text "loading.." &
killall firefox 2> /dev/null
sleep 0.3
exec /usr/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox/firefox "$@"
And then create an icon entry for defaultbrowser, or just type it in the terminal.
Tman thanks for the help. on this startup of ff and closing problem is gone.
this has happened in the past with other pups but don't recall why occurred.
will keep your fix saved away.
Tman
after some time without the problem today it returned and applying your fix it worked!

any idea why this happens?
thanks again for the fix.
------------
seems only one having this problem. like to know what am doing wrong here.
pemasu

do you know if this is something I did or your pup?

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#1016 Post by Tman »

jim3630 wrote: Tman
after some time without the problem today it returned and applying your fix it worked!

any idea why this happens?
thanks again for the fix.
Hi Jim,

You're not doing anything wrong...it's a Firefox issue and it is not limited to just Firefox in linux. My work computer has Firefox11 in Windows XP and when I close Firefox and try to reopen it again immediately, I get a pop-up that says Firefox didn't close properly. It appears to me that the main reason is that Firefox is taking its sweet time unloading things after you close it.

Sorry for the slow response, I have not been on this forum as much lately. Too much work :( ... and I've been trying out other distros as well.
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#1017 Post by pemasu »

I have had zero problems with Firefox...which does not exclude Exprimo level problem. But atm...I dont know. None other so far has posted about your kind problem with Firefox. I havent had ever need to kill firefox process.

Edit. Saw above post just know. Of course there could be something which delays firefox shutting down. Dunno. Just brainstorming while translating with MoManager the menu to finnish.

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#1018 Post by jim3630 »

Tman wrote:
jim3630 wrote: Tman
after some time without the problem today it returned and applying your fix it worked!

any idea why this happens?
thanks again for the fix.
Hi Jim,

You're not doing anything wrong...it's a Firefox issue and it is not limited to just Firefox in linux. My work computer has Firefox11 in Windows XP and when I close Firefox and try to reopen it again immediately, I get a pop-up that says Firefox didn't close properly. It appears to me that the main reason is that Firefox is taking its sweet time unloading things after you close it.

Sorry for the slow response, I have not been on this forum as much lately. Too much work :( ... and I've been trying out other distros as well.
Tman
interesting it happens on windoz as well. thanks again for the fix and what out for that work thing. :)

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#1019 Post by jim3630 »

pemasu wrote:I have had zero problems with Firefox...which does not exclude Exprimo level problem. But atm...I dont know. None other so far has posted about your kind problem with Firefox. I havent had ever need to kill firefox process.

Edit. Saw above post just know. Of course there could be something which delays firefox shutting down. Dunno. Just brainstorming while translating with MoManager the menu to finnish.
pemasu

lately have been using ff almost exclusively without problems. there was a thread i found last time this happened months maybe a year ago. will keep looking for that thread but iirc consensus was a ff problem rather than user induced problem.

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#1020 Post by jakfish »

Running a current version of Thunderbird, in dpup exprimo, I often get the same sort of firefox error ("Thunderbird is already running, please...")

I just have to wait or restart X--I can not replicate this problem with a Thunderbird/Win7 setup.

Jake

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#1021 Post by pemasu »

I do use Thunderbird also...almost solely. But I use it from /mnt/home....I just drag the .thunderbird as symlink to the /root and drag the thunderbird script to the desktop. It works also without problem.

But...you can insert below command at the beginning of the thunderbird script:

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exec `kill -9 `ps -aef | grep thunderbird | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'``
It kills the previous thunderbird process.
The same command works for firefox...by changing the name of killed process....

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#1022 Post by davids45 »

G'day,

Before I get rushed out for another Easter lunch, I've a quick query.

I've just tried 5x3.1.10.3 and have a problem with a Full install created from the Frugal directory (no CD involved in either install - Frugal created directly from mounted iso).

The Frugal goes well, however after using its Universal Installer to make a Full 5x31110.3 to an unused partition, during booting of this Full, I see the displayed text:

"Making file system usable ............................................ failed" (last word in orange text).

The boot continues and the Full start-up window appears but with a frozen mouse cursor. Or if the mouse starts initially, it soon freezes.

The Frugal does not have this problem.

Any idea of what this "failed" message means? I haven't seen it with the other Exprimo types nor any other Puppy, as far as I recall.

Thanks for any help,

David S.

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#1023 Post by pemasu »

Cant say what goes wrong. I would need to try it my self and start to debug. Reasons are so many. Missing libs, missing binaries can cause those kind problems. You should check the logs in /tmp and in /var/log if they would tell something more spesific.

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#1024 Post by backi »

Hi pemasu !
Found the same problems like David45.
Tried to make full install 5X3.1.10.3 and also 5X3.2.11 from live cd using universal installer ,tried also from Usb stick . Same problems as David 45 reported.
Managed to install both Dpups ,after startup they worked( mouse worked) Did shutting down -saving .
After new booting mouse was froozen could only use touchpad.
The courious thing about it , i had before both versions installed full ,and they worked.
(sometimes i just playing -experimenting with different distroes)
After a new installation i recognized same issues as mentioned above ."Making file system usable ............................................ failed" (last word in orange text).

After a while i gave up to look for solution and tried frugal install to harddisk
Works fine .

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#1025 Post by James C »

You know me, I'll test everything..... :lol:
Starting a test full install of 5.X.3.1.10.3 on an old P4 test box.

Side note........I don't really care for the new booting of the live cd.But, it may just be me.....

More when the install gets done.(copying files to sda8 at the moment).

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