rcrsn51, you *star*...

Simple. Effective. ..and sortof as expected, the escaping did the trick.

Many, many thanks for your help... and more blue ribbons to you

...as I scramble around on the floor, retrieving my hair that recently went a'wandering...

I understand that using double quotes is sometimes problematic in 'the shells' and they often need escaping... but so many of the Puppy tools use double quotes in their gtkdialog 'programs' (variable), I thought I'd just follow the 'standard'... ...but as i say, if I use a function (or the gtkdialog...

I've literally spent 20+ hours working on 2 or 3 lines of code and it's makin' me NuTzoid... I'm the first to admit that shell programming is not my forte (although I've been using 3GLs and perl, etc for 40+ years... and Pupyy hisself for 15+ years)... but I just can't get my head around gtkdialog a...

I think I've been mucking about with Puppy for too long and can't remember things these days... Eep! I play a video from Rox... and Puppy runs gnome-mplayer to display the video. If I change something about how the program runs, for example, in Edit > Preferences > Subtitles > Show Subtitles by defa...

Thanks for the posts... as they actually helped me remember the way to approach this trouble... Booting 'RAM only' and establishing a minimal 'save file' and then rebooting to resize it and rebooting again to mount through rox and copy the content was an idea that set me on the right track... Althou...

Hi, everyone... I've been away from the 'technical' side of Puppy for a long time now... so I can't remember how to deal with a question I have... For whatever reason, I chose to do a frugal installation using a 'save folder' instead of a 'save file' on a laptop I'm using... but I want to get the in...

I appreciate the pointers and suggestions... but I haven't yet had a chance to try things out.. Getting back to absolute basics.. I have an old (2011 vintage, Pentium Dual Core E6500 3GHz) system.. and I run (32-bit) Puppy 6.3.2 (and other older versions) on it for my Linux practice/experience -- I ...

HiHi.. I collected anydesk_5.5.1-1_i386.deb (Debian 32-bit version) from the AnyDesk web site, installed it through the normal mechanism, fell over the dependencies and ended-up cpio-thingo-ing the rpm files:- libpolkit0-0.116-3.1.i586.rpm libgtkglext-x11-1_0-0-1.2.0git20110529-7.6.i586.rpm libpango...

Hi, all.. Have gone through the forums and have found the couple of 17+ page long threads that discuss how people have managed to get Skype working (with video and sound)... ...but is there a current distribution that has the required pulseaudio, library files, QT files as well as the Skype 4.3.x fi...

Hi, all.. I'm working on some GtkDialog scripts... and while zigbert's post ( http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38608 ) is mighty helpful, I'd still like to see about a couple of things... Consider the following code:- #!/bin/sh function do_job () ( echo do_job: P1 = $1 MYDATE=`date +%r` ...

I've been fiddling about with using ffmpeg to capture areas of the local screen... and it works quite OK... but I'm blowed if I can get it to work on a remote X display. (some of) The efforts so far just trying to access the local X display (simplified re: frame rates, encodings, 'loglevel debug' do...

The --logbox isn't designed to use --fixed-font . Oh, I see... Still, that seems like a strange design decision; Why would the designer of Xdialog make a distinction between --logbox and --textbox, etc? If a feature is provided for one type of textual output/display, why not another, when the only ...

I'll boot into 5.7 and build a binary. Back in a tick. Thanks, I tried your 5.7 version of Xdialog (just dropped it over the previous version) and it seems to work nicely in my Slacko 5.6 derivative. Just out of interest, I tried the patched Xdialog binary... and while it works for --textbox, it do...

I had a quick look in Xdialog sources --- fixed font never made it to GTK2 (see TODO). This is jamesbond's recent source. Thanks for going to the trouble... and that's explained the behaviour definitively. Off to explore gxmessage for now... Maybe I should start thinking about BaCon or something? P...

I feel like such a dropkick... ...but HOW do I get Xdialog textboxes to display with a fixed-width font? I'm trying to display something as simple as an 'ls -l' output (redirected to the file "job.log") with a statement like:- Xdialog --title "test" --fixed-font --textbox "j...

The other problem sounds like timezone...might just need it setting (the local time link in /etc )but timezones have been a 10 year unresolved issue on puppy so life might not be so simple Well, after more exploring, ONE way I can get it to work (and the next test will be to see if rsync works prop...

In my explorations today, I came across a program called Keychain , which is part of the funtoo/Gentoo project - see http://www.funtoo.org/Keychain . The program basically takes away all the hassles I've been describing above with when/how you set-up the ssh-agent and get it to know about your autho...

Well, I've been working away with ssh a bit today and whilst battling a router where the "DHCP Reservation" definitions don't seem to 'stick', I've found that the *reliable* way to make automatic logins (so I don't have to re-enter a password/pass phrase every time I run another terminal s...

HiHi... Acshually, I was always thinking about the firewalls behind firewalls that I have everywhere :) ... and, as you say, running as root works Ok and hasn't given me any grief (yet)... AT least, not in a dozen years (almost) of using Puppy :) sshfs...yes...its great... if I had not settled with ...

@cthisbear: Uhrm, Ya. I've already worked-out that Win8.1 is kinda 'sensitive'... and it's catching me out with a few things... and doing anything really 'system-sensitive' is going be really fraught, methinks (!) The 4GB partition shown in the 'disk map' image was just something I created to allow ...