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by Benboom
Sun 12 Jul 2009, 14:22
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Keyboard question
Replies: 7
Views: 1861

The underlined letters in gxine work with the Alt key. Do underlined commands work with alsaplayer under Ubuntu? They don't do anything in Gxine on my machine. None of them does, whether it's with Alt or Ctrl, with the exception of the commands which have keyboard equivalents listed in the menu ...
by Benboom
Sun 12 Jul 2009, 11:18
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Keyboard question
Replies: 7
Views: 1861

Yes, I can confirm that these key combinations do work on my system. So the problem is either with Alsaplayer or somehow with Puppy itself. Unless there are more combos this is not the most useful list of options I can think of. Playing around...Alt+z restarts the song at the beginning. So does Alt ...
by Benboom
Sat 11 Jul 2009, 14:20
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Keyboard question
Replies: 7
Views: 1861

Okay, I fired up an Alsaplayer playlist. I tried every combination of keys I can think of with the letter C which is underlined as "Clear" (to clear the playlist) but nothing has any effect. The tab key doesn't do anything either. That's why I wondered if I need to try to reconfigure the system if ...
by Benboom
Sat 11 Jul 2009, 10:53
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Keyboard question
Replies: 7
Views: 1861

Keyboard question

This may be a dumb question but I still haven't been able to figure it out. On every file requester in Puppy certain options have an underscored letter. I'm not in Puppy now but I'll make up something so you know what I mean: a Close button might have the letter C underlined. Now, I would assume ...
by Benboom
Tue 07 Jul 2009, 17:47
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Changing default list order in Alsaplayer
Replies: 0
Views: 714

Changing default list order in Alsaplayer

I am using Puppy 4.21 on a Fujitsu laptop mostly to act as an mp3 server for various stereos in the house. Part of this involves setting things up so that other family members can use everything easily. The OS itself is no problem. I'm using Alsaplayer as the mp3 plaer (I just prefer it to the ...
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 18:12
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy space slowly filling with unknown stuff
Replies: 14
Views: 6347

That's excellent! It shows me where everything is; really, that's the perfect answer to my question. Thanks so much.
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 15:10
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy space slowly filling with unknown stuff
Replies: 14
Views: 6347

With a frugal install it's useful to create a download directory, outside of your pup_save file, e.g. /mnt/home/downloads, then you can edit seamonkey/firefox to use this as the default. Great minds think alike! That is exactly what I did. I didn't know about the moving of directories and ...
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 14:04
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy space slowly filling with unknown stuff
Replies: 14
Views: 6347

I don't seem to have anything named gdmap except four files which seem to be icon-related. There's certainly no gdmap in any of my menus. I have a Frugal installation; could that be why? I finally found the old Firefox cache and deleted it, which freed up a dozen megs or so. I set my SeaMonky cache ...
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 11:34
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy space slowly filling with unknown stuff
Replies: 14
Views: 6347

Crap! I posted a long reply to this and the forum lost it. I'll have to try again later as I have to get out and do some errands now.
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 11:01
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 667375

Re: Suggestions...

The pup_save file behaves strangely, at times. Mine often grows although I've added no packages, and I don't know how to prune it back. Can anyone explain this? Ditto. I'm a new user and I am having a hard time figuring out this one too. I am not an experienced linux user; the only feedback I feel ...
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 10:28
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Pup dial says I am connected, but can not get online
Replies: 12
Views: 5751

My USB modem started working last night and I have NO idea why. I didn't do anything except uplug the old one I had been using and plug the non-working one in and reboot, something I have done several times already. I didn't have to mess with anythng at all, the machine just rebooted and connected ...
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 10:15
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy space slowly filling with unknown stuff
Replies: 14
Views: 6347

Puppy space slowly filling with unknown stuff

I have my Puppy 4.21 running nicely; connected to the net, playing my mp3s, browsing, etc. All is well! But can someone explain how I can figure out which files are unnecessary? My Puppy Space amount keeps getting smaller; I know some of this is cache files and I clear my browser files regularly ...
by Benboom
Mon 06 Jul 2009, 00:22
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Pup dial says I am connected, but can not get online
Replies: 12
Views: 5751

ssrr, did you solve this? I'm having the same problem with a different USB modem.
by Benboom
Sun 05 Jul 2009, 20:23
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Removing speaker icon
Replies: 2
Views: 1029

Thanks! I certainly wouldn't have found that on my own.
by Benboom
Sun 05 Jul 2009, 14:22
Forum: Networking
Topic: TP-Link TL-WN322G not working in 4.21
Replies: 0
Views: 5104

TP-Link TL-WN322G not working in 4.21

I got a TP-Link TL-WN322G USB modem because of some info in another thread that said with the proper pet driver it would work with Puppy but I can't get the browser to connect although the config process goes fine and tells me I have an internet connection. I installed the zd1211rw-TPLink-k2.6.25.16 ...
by Benboom
Sun 05 Jul 2009, 11:17
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Removing speaker icon
Replies: 2
Views: 1029

Removing speaker icon

Since the speaker icon's volume control in my taskbar has no effect at all I'd like to get rid of it. What file do I edit to do this?
by Benboom
Sat 04 Jul 2009, 15:03
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: Opera 9.64 for Puppy (Do-It-Yourself Guide) [Update Apr '09]
Replies: 34
Views: 44322

Opera 10 just froze on me, necessitating a restart. I couldn't kill the process.
by Benboom
Sat 04 Jul 2009, 10:41
Forum: Drivers
Topic: Extra drivers for Puppy 4.1 with 2.6.25.16 kernel
Replies: 254
Views: 593463

TP-Link WN322G problems

Here is the zd1211rw wifi driver for Zydas chipsets, patched to support the TP-Link WN322/422G. The patch is from http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123379090904294&w=2 After installing this dotpet, reboot. UPDATE May 26 2009: The driver was originally located in the wrong directory. Now fixed ...
by Benboom
Sat 04 Jul 2009, 01:13
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Can I install Kjots?
Replies: 2
Views: 1115

Thanks! I had seen that but to me "outliner" meant something else (I'm a Mac user, and I thought it was something for writing scripts, etc. Although you could technically write a script in one of these there are software packages for that which are quite different, and they are not what I want.) I ...
by Benboom
Sat 04 Jul 2009, 00:57
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: Opera v.s. Seamonkey; SMTP Settings for Yahoo & Netscape
Replies: 5
Views: 6893

After trying really odd stuff I finally got Seamonkey to work, receiving AND sending mail but the solution was so weird I still don't know what to think. I had to uncheck "use name and password" in the Outgoing Servers' Security and Authentication option. This is the exact opposite of what Opera ...