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#41 Post by JB4x4 »

nutts4life,

This was easier done than said :)

Here is a new group of files that are compiled and tested using X11R7

http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/jb4x4/XFCE ... 0-i486.pet
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/jb4x4/XFCE ... 1-i486.pet
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/jb4x4/XFCE ... 2-i486.pet

Hope this helps you out.

JB
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#42 Post by nutts4life »

JB4x4,

you are one great person. I will upload them a try them later.

Thanks,

n4l
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#43 Post by dinky »

Haven't had any luck getting compositing working in xfce, though I'm able to install and use compiz-fusion fine... How can I tell it's enabled, and what else can I try? After installing the packages above, making the suggested change to xorg.conf and restarting X, there's nothing different in the Window Manager tweaks. What am I looking for? Cheers.

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#44 Post by nutts4life »

dinky,

That sounds odd.

So you've installed the packages xdamage, xcomposite and xfwm?

saved the session then restarted?

This just worked for me by putting the lines in xorg.conf. The tab then appears in XFCE tweaks.

Has xorg detected your graphics card ok? compmgr, may do it's own detection.

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#45 Post by losat »

I just installed the xfce .sfs. It works well, but there are two annoyances someone might know how to resolve:

1. I can't get it to show removeable devices. (I tried installing places, and that didn't help. I've tried with and without hotpup.) (For now, I just use pmount.)

2. I can't get xfce Terminal to process .bashrc. I get 'sh-3.00# ' as my PS1. I have '\w\$ ' in my bashrc, which works fine in rxvt but not in Terminal. I tried using .bash_profile and such, checking the 'login' setting in terminal preferences, etc. No joy. (For now, I'm just using rxvt instead.)

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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#46 Post by nutts4life »

losat,

1. you need hotpupx not hotpup. Search for it on the forums and you'll find it. hotpup adds icons to ROX desktop. hotpupx adds icons to a xfdesktop (xfce). volume managment doesn't come by default with XFCE. You can add it to thunar with thunar-volman. But Puppy doesn't support this.

2. I'm surprised it isnt' using your local .bashrc. there might be a bashrc under /etc. have a look. I didn this not long ago. I'm broad at the moment so i can't access my machine.

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#47 Post by dinky »

nuts4life:

Yeah, it's a weird thing, can't get the compositing enabled after installing the packages you mentioned. WIll let you know when I can play around with it more. Compiz-fusion works though, so I know 3d accelerationis happening... will let you know.
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#48 Post by losat »

nutts4life wrote:2. I'm surprised it isnt' using your local .bashrc. there might be a bashrc under /etc. have a look. I didn this not long ago. I'm broad at the moment so i can't access my machine.
I have /etc/profile only, but it isn't being parsed by xfce terminal, either (apparently).
in /etc/profile: PS1="# "
but prompt in terminal appears like this: sh-3.00#

My .bashrc has this: export PS1='\w\$ '
And in rxvt it shows up as expected. Xfce terminal in Slackware and Xubuntu honors my .bashrc PS1 but not this one in Puppy. It's odd.


Thanks for the tip about hotpupx; I'll install it.
(Edit: I installed it from http://www.puppylinux.ca/NOP/. It works great!)
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