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by howling_hound
Wed 18 Jul 2018, 15:21
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: slacko-700 rc3
Replies: 550
Views: 326867

G'day Gnimmelf, and et al., I will have a go at my interpretation based on my experience with each. They are versions of Slacko64 6.9.9.9 using different kernels and with different browsers and features. PM = Pale Moon, FF = Firefox, LO = Libre Office The kernel versions are significant if you inten...
by howling_hound
Fri 09 Mar 2018, 22:55
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Firefox-ESR latest
Replies: 14
Views: 9918

G'day All,

I did a bit of looking about and found firefox 52.6.0esr-x86_64_1slack14.2.txz to work on both slacko64 6.9.9.9 and xenialpup64 7.5.

http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackw ... /packages/

Cheers,
by howling_hound
Tue 23 Aug 2016, 22:15
Forum: Browsers and Internet
Topic: Chromium v83 with pepper-flash **RUNS-AS-SPOT**
Replies: 563
Views: 545571

G'day All, For what it is worth, several of my older computer single core systems exhibited the freeze up and on occasions displaying the black squares in the four corners of the screen. My solution search returned a recommendation to disable hardware acceleration in the browser "settings"...
by howling_hound
Wed 29 Jun 2016, 20:04
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Xenialpup64 CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017
Replies: 841
Views: 556823

G'day LateAdopter and et al., Here is a solution to consider. It requires modifying the options in ROX-Filer. Position the mouse pointer over one of the desktop icons, use a right mouse click to open the alternate menu, then: ROX-Filer > options > then select Pinboard. Under 'Appearance' there is th...
by howling_hound
Sat 25 Jun 2016, 00:51
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017
Replies: 802
Views: 682000

I loaded both required pet packages with a graphical restart per the guidance. Well Done, the mount flag displays properly and clears properly too.

THXs!
by howling_hound
Fri 24 Jun 2016, 16:21
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017
Replies: 802
Views: 682000

There was a reference to the mount flag issue on page 4 of this thread, specific to the pup_event_frontend_d daemon. I found similar behavior when manually invoking this. Example: mount the drive, flag not displayed. Open terminal to invoke the pup_event_frontend_d. Flag shows as a result of this ac...