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by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 16:27
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

Sir you are a KING! I changed the delay to 0.3 seconds in the startup folder as personally i find 1 second too much it works a charm! I am getting to the point were i will format that pesky win7 starter partition.... :D I think that synaptics drivers are retro-cumulative... so maybe soon we will ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 16:19
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install Puppy 525 in Toshiba Satellite?
Replies: 31
Views: 5812

are you stuck in a blinking cursor wehre you can type stuff ? if that is the case do: xwin <enter> if that fails or gives errors then do: xorgwizard <enter> Read a little but if you dont know what it is all about most of the time is safe to keep accepting the defaults :D if you are stuck with no ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 15:08
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

Pemasu what i was making reference to isd the hability to disable automatically the touchpad when writting.

The netbooks drivers have an option at least in xandros and win7 probably can be ported... dont know i need to look on it....
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 13:20
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

I had switched to IceVm cause i like it more, the ALT trick saves the day. But i am wondering if there is a way to tell the WV to avoid population windows longer than the display.... Another thing i am looking forward is to disable touchpad when typing, UNR ad xandros do it.... no idea how... An ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 13:15
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install Puppy 525 in Toshiba Satellite?
Replies: 31
Views: 5812

I was mostly trying to get more information ion what you had done to see were was the problem. I understand now that by distro watch advice you are using mbr.bin ? have you tried following the advice in the window puppy pops ? Default DO NOTHING leave current MBR ALONE ??? I would give it a try like ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 13:01
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Startup folder -- how to have items start minimized?
Replies: 11
Views: 7105

Hello guys,

I am looking for a way to have sylpheed starting upon puppy startup and minimized.

i am using snow puppy 018, with IceWV i dragged a copy of defaultmail to /root/startup and sylpheed starts but always maximized any advice ?
thanks in advance
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 12:06
Forum: Desktop
Topic: pWidgets 2.5.8
Replies: 3227
Views: 1162656

Thanks a lot.


BTW: there is other job that allows that: Banker... you screwup andthen the goverment gives you a bonus with the money you lost
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 10:52
Forum: Utilities
Topic: PupShutdown-3.0
Replies: 95
Views: 129546

Hello, is there any way to remove the message about removing the CD when rebooting ? i looked at the code and tried commenting the msg but then it wont reboot at all..... EDIT: I understood the code :D Now it reboots, no message waiting for me to remove a CD I dont have :D However I would like it to ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 10:21
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

I ran xrog wizard, however it is not as if the desktop goes out of boundaries the desktop is ok at 1024 * 600 but many windows open higher than 600 and cant resize them.... The other problem i am having is with the US_int keyboard for french accented words like fran ç ais instead of ç i get the c w ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 08:54
Forum: Desktop
Topic: pWidgets 2.5.8
Replies: 3227
Views: 1162656

I dont know if i am too noob but cannot find how to set (what is actually) my weathe rlocation I think accuweather changed the page and i cannot get the city code in the address bar... what i get is this: http://www.accuweather.com/en-us/fr/ile-de-france/paris/quick-look.aspx?cityID=623 have looked ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 08:15
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

Pemasu 018 did the trick it is running nicely i am gonna test battery life against fluppy but so far i am impressed. a little thing thou: many screens / windows open bigger (as higher) than the netbook screen leaving the ok cancel buttons out of reach. the resolutoin of the AOD260 is 1024 * 600 is ...
by CoronelN
Tue 07 Jun 2011, 07:20
Forum: Unsorted
Topic: AbiWord spellchecker
Replies: 5
Views: 11563

Have been struggling with Spell check since i have been trying Puppy. Finally i managed to make it work. One would think that with all the versions the spell check got scattered broken dont know. I used the french method from this .pet here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=495110 ...
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 18:10
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

/etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc is the file to edit. Change these rows: <Program label="Help" icon="help24.png">exec defaulthtmlviewer file:///usr/share/doc/index.html</Program> <Program label="PupShutdown" icon="shutdown24.png">exec PupShutdown</Program> To something like this and you get rid of ...
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 17:04
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Acer Aspire One D260
Replies: 16
Views: 6711

Fluke i amglad it helped! (It is the first time i actually end up helping linux wise :P ) I have been struggling since yesterday to take a look as the other suggested puppy for our D260, the snow puppy. And the developper kindly pointed me to the previous release 018 and i am trying it know. I think ...
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 16:37
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

Pemasu where do i kill/disable the message about removing CD/DVd everytime i hit reboot / shutdown ?

I dont even have a CD drive and the message just sits there waiting for me to click ok which i usually forget to do :D
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 16:32
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

Thanks Pemasu... i wish i had posted this yesterday.... now i am in my 34 hour lol... i tried everything and it failed. so i installed fluppy, but could not get abiword to spellcheck in spanish, so i installed UNR and the machine is slow also openoffice crashes when spell checking anything but ...
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 16:05
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 303765

Cannot do a install in Acer Aspire One D260 Wheni click on the installer and select internal hard drive i get the message from the screenshot here : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=531372#531372 then i hit continue and nothing happens.... do i need to something else? help!! i want ...
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 16:03
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Acer Aspire One D260
Replies: 16
Views: 6711

snow not wanting to install (SS attached)

So far i have tried everything i can think of to install snow puppy and no luck i get the warning on the screenshot and when i hit continue nothing happens.

short of deleting all partitions in the HDD i dont know what to do.
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 15:59
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install Puppy 525 in Toshiba Satellite?
Replies: 31
Views: 5812

Joker, Everything is on thhe ISO, you need to burn it to a cd then you will have a bootable cd that will act as a live cd and allow you to either install or just use the laptop from the live cd. The other option is a bit more complicated which is to actually succeed into making a bootable usb-stick ...
by CoronelN
Mon 06 Jun 2011, 00:44
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Acer Aspire One D260
Replies: 16
Views: 6711

Re: WiFi

CoronelN, I downloaded/burnt Lupu 5.2.5. The website said this was the latest version. I will try Fluppy as you suggested and see what happens. Thanks for your reply. Fluke Welcome to linux :D LUPU 525 is indeed the latest version but is not intended for the netbook hardware thus your WIFI is ...