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by broomdodger
Sat 15 Feb 2014, 19:11
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

I made a simple but effective reminder app. Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 PPM install leave_1.12-2.1 from Ubuntu man leave http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/leave/ Quirky T2 I copied the leave binary from the Quirky Tahr to /root/my-applications/bin/leave, make it executable. I did this because leave is only part o...
by broomdodger
Sat 15 Feb 2014, 18:25
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

All known Puppies SeaMonkey 'Open Containing Folder' does no

All known Puppies SeaMonkey 'Open Containing Folder' does not work. SeaMonkey > Download Manager > File > Open Containing Folder http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=575772#575772 PostPosted: Sun 23 Oct 2011, 16:05 Open geany (or your preferred text editor) and create a file called rox1 with...
by broomdodger
Fri 14 Feb 2014, 00:47
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Re: Quirky Tahr 6.04

@roadkill13 Acer Aspire 3680 laptop running Quirky Tahr 6.03 with Google Chrome browser. For the record can you describe in detail how you managed to get Google Chrome running in Tahr? Have you tried Chromium? It is in the Ubuntu repository. I just noticed it there, using the Quirky Package Manager...
by broomdodger
Mon 10 Feb 2014, 16:51
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Quirky Tahr 6.0.3 SeaMonkey 2.24 I sent an email to jwm by clicking Joe's email link and SeaMonkey Mail opened. I prefer Sylpheed as my email client. I looked in SeaMonkey preferences to set the default email client when clicking links, but nothing worked. I also checked 'about:config' and could not...
by broomdodger
Mon 10 Feb 2014, 15:38
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

01micko wrote:@broomdodger (love that handle) .. xload is swallowed by jwm.. it will do nothing on click. Make a request to Joe if you would like clicking on swallowed apps to do something.
Thank you.
I emailed the request.
by broomdodger
Mon 10 Feb 2014, 15:35
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Ha ha, I tried to compile latest SeaMonkey in Tahr 6.0.3, then found that the gstreamer "dev" components are missing. I traced it back to the package-list, I had typed a full-stop character where there should have been a comma. For anyone wanting to compile an app that needs gstreamer, ha...
by broomdodger
Mon 10 Feb 2014, 05:46
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Quirky Tahr 6.0.3 or any puppy

When I click on an item it the tray like the time, freemem, battery, or network an app will start.

Where is that info held?
I looked at /root/.jwmrc but it is not there.

I would like to make clicking on xload do something.

Bill
by broomdodger
Mon 10 Feb 2014, 03:16
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

acer Aspire 4315, ram 2GB, usb drive 4GB Quirky Tahr 6.0.2 Quirky Tahr is amazing! and so quick to boot :) My favorite puppy yet. Compiled: vim 7.4.161 sylpheed 3.4.0beta7 Both working great. SeaMonkey updated itself to 2.24 automatically and is working great, no problem with bookmarks. Installed: g...
by broomdodger
Sat 08 Feb 2014, 19:13
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Quirky Tahr 6.0.2 I installed 'leave_1.12-2.1' from PPM. The leave utility waits until the specified time, then reminds you that you have to leave. You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter. When you log off, leave exits just before it w...
by broomdodger
Thu 06 Feb 2014, 01:05
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Installed: devx_service_pack-6.0.1_TO_6.0.2-tahr.pet + Glade now loads From terminal these messages: # glade-gtk2 GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkToolPalette::icon-size GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkToolItemGroup::ellipsize GladeUI-Message: No displaya...
by broomdodger
Wed 05 Feb 2014, 05:03
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

After Quirky Tahr 602 update Some broken links: # find -L /lib /usr -type l -exec ls -la {} + lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Dec 9 04:48 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so -> libpango-1.0.so.0.3600.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Dec 9 04:48 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so -> libpangocairo-...
by broomdodger
Wed 05 Feb 2014, 03:09
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Quirky Tahr 6.0.2 and ALL previous Quirky and Puppy. I have SeaMonkey download to /root/Downloads but 'Open Containing Folder' has never worked. SeaMonkey > Download Manager > File > Open Containing Folder Then has a dialog: Launch Application > Choose an Application What Application to choose? Is t...
by broomdodger
Tue 04 Feb 2014, 12:01
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

That fixes starting by clicking /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop But... NOT using Menu > Multimedia > VLC media player I re-booted and still the same error message. It is also necessary to edit line 217 in /root/.jwmrc <Program label="VLC media player" icon="vlc.png">/usr/bin...
by broomdodger
Mon 03 Feb 2014, 16:52
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

- Is it normal when opening VLC media player to have an error box: File reading failed: VLC could not open the file "/root/%U" (No such file or directory). Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///root/%25U'. Check the log for details. That is a bug in /usr/share...
by broomdodger
Mon 03 Feb 2014, 16:10
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Puppus Dogfellow wrote:cannot view bottom half of gparted or PPM after upgrade to tahr 601. the ten inch screen cuts off the bottom and i can't resize or sufficiently move the window.
Hold down the Alt key and click-drag anywhere in the gparted or PPM window to move it so you can see the parts you need.
by broomdodger
Mon 03 Feb 2014, 15:51
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Re: Tahr 6.0.1

bobtron wrote:Acer aspire one netbook:
Display 1024 X 600 pixels
Can not re-size or maximize PPM so i can't download a package.
Hold down the Alt key and click-drag anywhere in the PPM window to move it so you can see the parts you need.

Bill
by broomdodger
Mon 03 Feb 2014, 04:17
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Glade fails to open

Packetteer mentioned that Glade did not open on Precise 5.5, 5.6, 5.7.1 http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87712&start=315 So... I tried it on Quirky Tahr 6.0.1 and it fails to open. # which glade /usr/bin/glade # glade glade: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot...
by broomdodger
Mon 03 Feb 2014, 02:19
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Quirky Tahr 6.0.1 acer Aspire 4315, 2 GB ram, 4 GB Transcend USB Flash Drive + no broken links BEFORE devx + PureFTPd starts + Gparted starts - Is it normal when opening VLC media player to have an error box: File reading failed: VLC could not open the file "/root/%U" (No such file or dire...
by broomdodger
Mon 03 Feb 2014, 01:21
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

Tahr 6.0.1 is already out! I have just notice a bug in SeaMonkey, spellchecking isn't working. There need to be two symlinks, which you can create manually: # ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff /usr/lib/seamonkey/dictionaries/en_US.aff # ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic /usr/lib/seamonkey/dicti...
by broomdodger
Sat 01 Feb 2014, 06:14
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: My report on Quirky 6.0
Replies: 955
Views: 448779

The command line 'man' fails: - cannot find its config file - the config file uses the wrong options for busybox less Note: vim 7.4.161 has been compiled. # man vim Warning: cannot open configuration file /etc/man.conf No manual entry for vim Note: find./ is an alias that searches many directories. ...