Coming Soon: Fluppy for netbooks, widescreens, smallscreens
Coming Soon: Fluppy for netbooks, widescreens, smallscreens
Fluppy is a remix of Puppy 4.3 using Flwm and Rox-Panel, along with customized window tiling and scripting tools.
Why Flwm?
Flwm is a unique window manager, being both extremely lightweight, and sporting vertical titlebars. Vertical titlebars are optimal for widescreen netbooks: fewer problems with tall windows, and better use of available space.
Flwm has no built-in panel to hog your screen space - the taskbar and pager are on the popup menu, visible when you need them, hidden when you don't.
Flwm has independent buttons for vertical and horizontal maximize; you don't know how much you need this until you've tried it.
Flwm works well with my brand new version of the Tile utility. Tile your windows with a grid, horizontal, or vertical stripes, iconify or cascade; remove the titlebars or put them back - all at the touch of a button. This guarantees you get the most of your screen real estate without the learning curve of a tiling or borderless window manager.
Why Rox-Panel?
It comes free with Rox Filer. It's integrated with the pinboard and supports drag and drop.
Rox Panel can hold as many icons as you need, automatically scrolling them on and off screen if they don't fit in the available space - works perfectly even at 640x480. Vertical panels are supported and well-behaved.
Rox-Panel has a menu, a systray, and several monitoring applets that do not require python.
Rox-Panel stays below your windows until you press the hotkey to bring it to the top.
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If anyone wants to help me test, I'd be interested in releasing an Eee fastboot kernel and maybe a more general netbook kernel to go with it.
Ideas? Suggestions? What would you like to see in a netbook version of puppy?
Edit: I've posted the latest WMpack download here, so it's easier to find, along with the yaf-panel legend screenshot.
Why Flwm?
Flwm is a unique window manager, being both extremely lightweight, and sporting vertical titlebars. Vertical titlebars are optimal for widescreen netbooks: fewer problems with tall windows, and better use of available space.
Flwm has no built-in panel to hog your screen space - the taskbar and pager are on the popup menu, visible when you need them, hidden when you don't.
Flwm has independent buttons for vertical and horizontal maximize; you don't know how much you need this until you've tried it.
Flwm works well with my brand new version of the Tile utility. Tile your windows with a grid, horizontal, or vertical stripes, iconify or cascade; remove the titlebars or put them back - all at the touch of a button. This guarantees you get the most of your screen real estate without the learning curve of a tiling or borderless window manager.
Why Rox-Panel?
It comes free with Rox Filer. It's integrated with the pinboard and supports drag and drop.
Rox Panel can hold as many icons as you need, automatically scrolling them on and off screen if they don't fit in the available space - works perfectly even at 640x480. Vertical panels are supported and well-behaved.
Rox-Panel has a menu, a systray, and several monitoring applets that do not require python.
Rox-Panel stays below your windows until you press the hotkey to bring it to the top.
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If anyone wants to help me test, I'd be interested in releasing an Eee fastboot kernel and maybe a more general netbook kernel to go with it.
Ideas? Suggestions? What would you like to see in a netbook version of puppy?
Edit: I've posted the latest WMpack download here, so it's easier to find, along with the yaf-panel legend screenshot.
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Last edited by jemimah on Thu 10 Dec 2009, 21:14, edited 2 times in total.
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A puplet for CPUs with the Atom processor will be nice. Will help testing if this build becomes available.
Thanks for your sharing.
Thanks for your sharing.
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It would be cool if people with Eees currently running Puppy could post their dmesg output so I know exactly which drivers are needed. I have a very very slim kernel currently running on my eee 1005HA, I can just add the drivers for the other Eees and then see if anything breaks.
To get dmesg output type dmesg > filename.txt on the command line.
To get dmesg output type dmesg > filename.txt on the command line.
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Since my dmesg output is huge, I've attached it as a "pet" file. Change file extension to .txt and should work (I hope). [attaching txt or doc files not allowed, apparently]
Jake
Jake
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Thanks jakfish. Could you also post the output of lsmod? You can gzip the text file with gzip filename.txt. I'm pretty sure the forum lets you upload gzipped files.
I will post some test kernels soon. Probably next week. I have to figure out what I will do about hosting.
Have you all tried getting suspend to work? I've got a weird kernel/acpi bug on mine and I'm wondering if all the Eees have it. Basically the Cpus won't go into the low power sleep states after resuming from suspend. You can check this with powertop. I'll post instructions if anyone want to check.
Also a quick tip. Puppy's default kernel doesn't load the i915 (and maybe i810) video card module by default (at least on mine). If you have problems resuming from suspend, black consoles, or running Xorg with DRI - that's probably why.
I will post some test kernels soon. Probably next week. I have to figure out what I will do about hosting.
Have you all tried getting suspend to work? I've got a weird kernel/acpi bug on mine and I'm wondering if all the Eees have it. Basically the Cpus won't go into the low power sleep states after resuming from suspend. You can check this with powertop. I'll post instructions if anyone want to check.
Also a quick tip. Puppy's default kernel doesn't load the i915 (and maybe i810) video card module by default (at least on mine). If you have problems resuming from suspend, black consoles, or running Xorg with DRI - that's probably why.
Hi,
Here's the lsmod.txt, and zipped, I hope.
Jake
Here's the lsmod.txt, and zipped, I hope.
Jake
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From my wife Acer Aspire One 110 (Atom, RAM 512mb, SSD 8Gb, 8.9'' LCD):
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Last edited by T_Hobbit on Fri 02 Oct 2009, 15:36, edited 1 time in total.
T_Hobbit
:idea: Rebuilding old DOS Machine for Wing Commander Privateer and Puppy :!: Old spare parts to give away - anyone interested :?:
:idea: Rebuilding old DOS Machine for Wing Commander Privateer and Puppy :!: Old spare parts to give away - anyone interested :?: