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rhadon · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Germany

@eowens2
Sorry, I've forgotten that there are some more simlpe steps. Embarassed

Open a terminal (console, the icon on the desktop),
type fixmenus
hit ENTER
restart X (menu->Shutdown->Restart X)

Now it should work Wink

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~Rolf

eowens2 · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 55

@rhadon
I wish I could bring good news!

I right-clicked all of the /usr/share/applications/Ace-of-Penguin.desktop items (10 of them!), and replaced " Categories=Utilities" with "Categories=Games", saved file, went to a console and entered "fixmenus" <enter>, and restarted X.

The result was that all of the games disappeared from the "Utilities/General Utilities" menu, but did not appear under any other menu! But the game would still run by clicking on /usr/share/applications/name-of-game.desktop or doing /usr/game/ace-nameofgame at the console.

I repeated the above, replacing "Categories=Utilities" with "Categories=Fun" (since that is the category in Puppy's menus), but the result was the same.

As others have said, I think PPM in alpha SAP is acting a little flakey.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Lobster · Posted: Sat 14 Jul 2012, 03:11 Post subject:

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eowens2 · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 55

@rhadon, @ 01micko - mea culpa! Both of you were entirely correct!

Changing "Categories=Games" to "Categories=Game" in /usr/share/applications/nameofgame.desktop for each of the files, did the trick. In the puppy menu system it relocated the games from "Utilities/General Utilities/list-of-games" to "Fun/list-of-games".

Thanks again.

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rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=8433

The general speed of browsing using Chrome is OK not stellar but anything using HTTPS:/SSL is slow. Maybe the OpenSSL assembly optimizations would speed things up???

One of the things I always do is read my web based mail at
https://mail.google.com and even with when using basic HTML it is quite slow.

When testing future alpha/beta versions might want test it by reading ssl google email.

Regards, Ron

rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

I know this is a little off topic but check it out.

http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot

He is basically using this to boot into several OS's using a single SDHC card. This method is basically how I have used Puppy Linux for close to 10 years. Until the Raspberry Pi, I have always ran Puppy Linux using only sfs and pupsave files (ie.. I have never seen an advantage to install Puppy on any x86 system I have ever used.) I like the idea of backing up only the PupSave file and having multiple PupSave files to choose from. I normally run Puppy from a hardware write lockable USB stick in write locked mode (very hard to pick up a virus because there is no mass storage persistence after a reboot in this mode - great for airline travel also, I just turn off the power using the power button and all is good!!). Booting from a remastered CD can also work in a similar way.

Sorry for getting a little off topic but Puppy has been basically using the same berryboot mechanisms for years.

Regards, Ron

Rocco · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 27

Lobster · Posted: Mon 16 Jul 2012, 01:08 Post subject:

Berryboot is an interesting possibility Smile

Puppi = Multiboot configs on SD with a selection from the ARM kennel

Puppi SAP - Barry Kauler. Presently Debian.
Puppi SLR - Slackware base, compile from Micko using Woof2 (not yet available)
Puppi RasPy - Python programming set up. Arch base from Antiloquax
Puppi Console - From Sickgut, games Puppi set up (he does not even have a board - just an intent)
Puppi Wheezy - Debian Wheezy Base, faster code, more experimental. Alpha1 release to be available aprox 18 July 2012

As Puppi develops this would certainly be the option I would want to run. Very Happy

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks Ron,

I am not on that level so I don't have a clue on what is going on
but I very much appreciate you told us about it. That is the spirit
that allow us to cooperate.

Friendly teasing. "win32-image-writer," Is that on Ms Win an exe program?
Kind of cute that one need MsWin to install Linux on RPi. Giggling madly.

Okay one can most likely do dd from Puppy to do it too?

I will most likely buy one of the MK802 or FXI Cotton Candy
or the TizzBird or whatever name they have MiniX or A10 or ...

RPi gives me the impression it is less advanced? For education
more than for a home PC for old crazy guys like me who have no edu at all.

rhadon · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Germany

Hi rrolsbe,
This looks really amazing. Cool

Downloaded and installed, but no time now for testing. Must wait till evening. Evil or Very Mad

My first thought, fine. I use the card as it is, and add an entry for Puppy, booting from sda1. This doesn't seems to be realistic.

Maybe copying everything from 2nd partition of the sd card to a usb hd partition could work?

Well, i wish I had time now and must not wait.

Thanks for the link,
Rolf