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rmcellig

Can someone explain to me what this feature is for? Maybe some examples? I'm going through the tabs. All of them are straight forward except for the My Control option

Thanks!!

Would I use this option to set a key binding for Pupsnap screen capture?

bigpup · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2012, 16:39 Post subject:

This is info.
That symbol circled in red is how you access help.

rmcellig · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2012, 16:47 Post subject:

I saw that but I don't understand what this is for. So I can pin apps to this? What is the benefit of doing this?

bigpup · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2012, 16:53 Post subject:

It is just another feature of PupControl.
The person that wrote the program went a little over the top with stuff this program can do.
I too never saw a reason to use it.

Basically you can assign programs to each button so you can run programs from this tab in PupControl.

rmcellig · Posted: Wed 27 Jun 2012, 19:01 Post subject:

OK. Thanks. I was sitting here wondering if there was something special about this feature that I was missing. Smile

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1277 Location: UK

PupControl brings together in one place all the facilities for controlling Puppy settings to a users satisfaction.

Radky, the developer, has been pretty good in collecting them all and associating them with the appropriate tabs.

If some other control feature popped up after the last update of PupControl, or maybe something specific to a puplet that Radky does not support, then the My Control tab gives the user the option to add it to the Control Panel.

A second use I can think of is to collect in one place all the most used control features of a user to save them having to jump around the tabs.

If I read the help literally then a third use would be to add the most common apps you use to My Control and then the Control Panel because an alternative launcher (with tabbed interface).

rmcellig · Posted: Thu 28 Jun 2012, 08:31 Post subject:

ICPUG,

I'm glad you posted your comments. Now that I think about it, a newbie to Puppy Linux would appreciate it if the most important and frequently used settings were all in one place. Puppy offers that through PupControl, and I for one now understand the reason and functionality behind it. Thanks!!

By the way, is it possible to create a key binding for PupSnap Screen capture through PupControl? I am trying to find a quick way of launching screen capture instead of always having to go to the Graphics sub menu to launch it.

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 869 Location: England

PupSnap already has a shortcut.

rmcellig · Posted: Thu 28 Jun 2012, 08:47 Post subject:

I just saw this from the Pupscan help file Ctrl+Shift+S

How can I change this to something else?

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 869 Location: England

What else?

rmcellig · Posted: Thu 28 Jun 2012, 08:54 Post subject:

I want to change it from Control-Shift-S to Control-Alt-F2.

Jasper · Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 869 Location: England

Forget about changing it as such, but rather set up an alternative method.

Exercise your brain and your search skills and if you haven't solved it within a couple of days then post details of your failed efforts and I will tell you how.

rmcellig · Posted: Thu 28 Jun 2012, 09:22 Post subject:

Because I am using Openbox it looks like I have to go to the rc.xml file to change/add keyboard shortcuts. I was looking for a GUI solution. Looks like I am out of luck or I would probably have to change my windows manager to something else.

gychang · Joined: 29 Nov 2008 Posts: 83

I managed to install chrome on saluki. I am interested in launching the chrome with windowkey+w.

how would I go about this?

thanks,

gychang

stu90 · Posted: Thu 28 Jun 2012, 11:44 Post subject: