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[01micko]

Hello nooby

Just for your information

From the release notes

[chrisyan]

hi, do you know how to get full 256 color support for urxvt? I managed to do it on precise 5.4.3, but no luck on slacko so far, i have terminfo file ready, i have tried rxvt-unicode-256color and xterm-256color, neither works except that when i input 'tput colors' it does give the number 256, but not really capable of showing all the colors.

i've also check the settings in .Xdefaults and ncurses package already installed, no idea why the color support not working?

[chrisyan]

does anyone know how to solve 256 color problem? been waited days but 01micko seems to be offline all the time

[01micko]

chrisyan

The rxvt-unicode package in Slacko is from stock woof and only supports 88 colours. If you wish for 256 colour support then the source needs to be patched and recompiled. I don't have time for much lately so it may be worth your while to post a request in the packages requests section. Maybe someone will package it for you.

[Iguleder]

From my experience, building it with 256-colors support is a bad idea, for two reasons:
- "rxvt-unicode-256color" is too long and pretty uncommon. Some applications (most notably, GNU Screen) assume the terminal type is shorter or they simply won't run when they face this weird terminal. (By the way, you'll need the terminfo files installed)
- The benefit is very small - most applications work just fine with 88 or even 8 colors.

If you wish to do this anyway, just run ./configure with "--enable-256colors" or whatever it was. If you want to use GNU Screen, apply the patch here and build it, too.

[futwerk]

new background.

[anikin]

Where does exactly this libstartup-notification-1.so.0 reside in Slacko? I need to place it to the same location in ThinSlacko.

Thank you in advance.

edit:
Never mind, this has been sorted out.

[playdayz]

After using Slacko 5.5 for several weeks steadily.

1. To get LibreOffice from sfs-installer in menu to open as fast as Abiword, as fast as everything else in Slacko use Quickstart. It costs 20MB RAM, but for comparison a browser playing media can use 400MB. Pet to come--it ships with the current LibreOffice 4.0.3, but it does not work in Puppies because it adds "qstart.desktop" to /root/Startup, and Rox/Puppy does not startup desktop files, at least for me. No need for a pet: make a file named /root/Startup/qstart, give it permissions. In that file put

[sancxjo]

Hello!

Tried to install Pidgin, but no libraries on which it depends. Maybe there is another method SFS or PET?
I am not a programmer and I can not do myself.

[Volhout]

Dear 01Micko,

On my nebook I run puppy from USB (frugal). I am very happy with current Slacko 5.3.3. I use SFS on the fly for large programs like libre office. Reason is that I do not "sleep" the netbook, but always turn off. And booting from USB (it actually is a SD card via an internal USB port) takes time.

OK, now to the question:
If I would upgrade to 5.5, and would like to run Opera (a stable version), should I use ThinSlacko, or do you suggest to work with Slacko. Opera is a blessing in Netherlands (Opera proxy in "opera turbo"), good on netbooks (occupies little screen area, and leaves much room for web info), has build in mail, and is relatively fast, though not as fast as Chromium.
I am looking for a total image that is not to big (USB load) and a compressions that is relatively efficient (rel slow ATOM processor).

Look forward to your suggestion.

Volhout

[mikeslr]

Hi Volhout,

01micko may know, but I have no idea why people build opera or firefox pets. I just download them from opera or mozilla respectively, unpack the tgz or br2 which creates a directory, move the directory where I want --usually mnt/home, but on Pups installed to USB-Keys recently /opt-- and use the technique discussed here, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66237 to create a menu listing. But I also usually add it to jwm' taskbar or fbpanel or a panel on lxde or xfce.
Currently, I run Opera from mn/thome on Slacko 5.5 Final. Version 12 but I've just been too busy to upgrade to 12.15 as it isn't really an upgrade but a new, substitute installation. I ran the same version from a USB-Key installation of Slacko 5.3. I've never had a problem running the "official" opera in any Pup.
With Opera run from a folder --whether on /mnt/home or /opt it's easy to install it to another Pup. Just copy the entire folder and follow the referred to instructions to add it to a menu. Copying the folder means you retain your bookmarks and settings as Opera is entirely self-contained within that folder. Since I use Opera in all my Pups, I created a pet just of the 3 files need to create a menu entry so I don't have to do it manually each time. The 3 files are (1) a script in /root/my-applications/bin to "call" opera; (2) an opera png in /usr/share/pixmaps and (3) a desktop file in /usr/share/applications.

mikesLr

[OscarTalks]

I have uploaded a TEST build of the new Linphone 3.6.1 here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87080

Unlike the previous 3.5.2 release, this one does compile against Slacko's ffmpeg although you may still see warnings in console about "swscale - data not aligned which may slow things down" or something like that. The .pet is under 2MB so worth a look. Take the usual precautions. Reports and comments welcome.

Later:-
Version 3.6.1 uses a different system for the video and I am finding that this does not not work on all hardware. If video is important to you and 3.6.1 does not work, try my new "private ffmpeg transplant" build of Linphone 3.5.2 in the first post of this thread here:-

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79803

[SFR]

Being tired of very poor performance of reading/writing from/to TrueCrypt volumes I compiled missing Serpent and Twofish kernel modules (I'm not using the default AES).
The resulting performance boost is really substantial!

Without kernel services: