Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 92

in racy puppy, how do i restore the bar at the top of the screen that was there in older versions? also, is racy puppy 64 bit?

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 762 Location: Pecos/ Texas

Racy 5.2.2 is 32 bit with a PAE kernel. It picksup about 3.5 gig on my 4 gig ram Acer Aspire One Laptop.

The taskbar question. I have no idea what you mean.

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 92

on puppy 4.2.1 there's this bar at the top of the screen with search, power,a nd buttons for terminal and several other programs.

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

Puppy 4.2.1 was a community developed puppy with all sorts of bling

Racy was deveoped by Barry Kauler - who, generally, does not like bling so the bar is not there.

If anyone can remember the necessary .pet required to create the bar speak now!

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 762 Location: Pecos/ Texas

Quote by Jemimah

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

That quote doesn't really apply to this situation. The lack of pet interoperability has nothing to do with Barry.

I'm pretty sure the saluki wbar should work in racy, but one doesn't know for sure unless it's tested.

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 92

I don't think it was wbar. it would drop down when i put the cursor to the top of the screen.

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

OK - I have done some extensive forum searching and I know what it was now!

It was Ptray. I still cannot find the thread that provided Ptray though.

Ptray and PWidgets were both used in Puppy 4.2.1 and were Zigbert's creations.

The two items, along with some other stuff were subsequently combined in Zigbert's D.U.D.E. I HAVE found the thread for that. It is here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53680

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 92

thank you so much! itchanged all of my icons into the script icon, though. how do i change them back?

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

I don't know the answer to that! I'm not even sure which icons are the problem - on the desktop - in the menus - in ROX??

Perhaps a PM to zigbert to point him here for a response or perhaps a query in the Dude thread would be appropriate to see if he has any ideas.

blaarghalltheusernamesare · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 92

my desktop icons. either that or when i install they all disappear except for file,trash, and connect.

`f00 · Posted: Sun 20 May 2012, 11:41 Post subject: Subject description: DuDE'n'such

zig's first two posts in the DuDE-0.4.1 thread cover the overview, then follow the other 14pp for detail. It's a great system but takes some familiarity (for instance, the left-tray add icons to desktop? feature..).

In any case, original OEM items should always be in /initrd/pup_ro2 (which basically corresponds to the pup sfs) and may be examined or copied - like ../root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin.

"except for file,trash, and connect." - along with driveicons, trash and connect are the usual desktop icons that change state (file simply opens rox). No idea why DuDE cleaned your desktop unless it changed some basics excepting /usr/local/apps dir where those appdirs are kept, driveicons come from /root/.pup_event (which the pupevent backend should handle). Hmm, looking at the last post by sfoster on p14 of the DuDE thread shows you're not alone - I guess "Jwm pineboard" is PuppyPin? It's been awhile - I recall trying the original stardust puplet(s) from which DuDE evolved, but things change

Yah, retry-bump in the DuDE thread (or pm zigbert maybe) for better direction/help