Puppeee 4.3X

[Coolsun9]

Hello
I've just tried out the latest release beta 3.3 version.The desktop looks good and runs fine on my eeepc 701.
I simply copied all the 6 files. However,how do you maintained all the settings and installs I have from my previous version?

Seamonkey 2.0, foreign fronts, and open office were among the missings.

My files in my-document folder are not there and other folders created /mnt are gone.How does the folder structure works with the new kernel?

Luckily, I could retrieve my old files by reinstalling the previous version.

[trapster]

rhadon wrote:

BTW. does anybody know why I can't read the files in /sys/class/thermal_zone0/ with geany but with NicoEdit? The files in /proc/eee/ I can read with both editors..

Good catch!

Interesting, properties of /proc/eee/temperature shows "Contents indicates empty", it shows 50 when opened.

Properties of /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp shows "Contents indicates ascii text", it shows 50000.

For geany, go to Edit>Preferences>Files
Put a checkmark in "Use fixed encoding when opening files" mine is set at "Unicode ( UTF-8 )"

[trapster]

@ Coolsun9:

Don't get too comfy, Beta 3.4 is now out (albeit without seamonkey ).
I can't keep up with the damn woman.


Between this and Stardust, I'm getting dizzy.

When I do a fresh (frugal) upgrade, I rename the "old" save file to something puppy won't pick up. Then I fire up the latest (with puppy pfix=ram), set up the basics and reboot to create a new save file. When it restarts, open your old save file and start migrating stuff.
Of course, stuff you really want between upgrades can be kept out of the save file for easy access. ie. seamonkey, mail, music, movies, .pets, documents etc...

[hokal]

Rhadon
Maybe I missed something, but with my Eee900 and traytemp I get only two white rectangles with no content. Moving cursor to it the message is OK, e.g. 100% and CPU Temp 52C. No matter which colors or temperatures I choose. The messages about high or critical temperature are working fine.

Uups! I'm not the only one whith empty (vattery) icons
There must be solution for that simple problem. Where is the script I have to look for ???

Jemimah
Hokal, can you check if the Fan script is actually starting when you switch to powersave? The command is 'ps -ef |grep fan'. If you change the thresholds, switch to performance mode, then back to powersave, and it should work.

Yes! works fine now!

jemimah
I am waiting for Stardust to mature and then I will remaster that as a barebones Puppeee.

That is very exiting. Can't wait for it. The ultimate eeepc-version

[cimh]

I like the new thermometer tray icon. Looks good cimh

[prehistoric]

My husband tells me the rounded design resembles an unmentionable rude object...
So, rounded or square?

Rounded. Though this does resemble a mechanical device favored by a dog named Mr. Fusspot, chairman of the bank, in Terry Pratchet's "Making Money". (This fell out of a cabinet used by a previous bank executive, who believed that if the Bible is correct when it says that a good woman is worth more than emeralds, one who is skillfully bad must be of exceptional value. Oh, this is too hard to explain, you'll have to read it.)

There's not a lot of logic to the colors, it's just a gradient, you can make them both the same color if you want, but I think it looks nicer with 2 colors. Also the gradient was it make it look different from Vattery...

Could Vattery use different gradients to further distinguish charging and discharging?

[jemimah]

If you get an empty thermometer, can you run this version from the command line and post the output?

[jemimah]

Coolsun9, I haven't yet figured out how Barry makes it upgrade your save file when you update the OS. So for now, you should use a clean save for each new version. I will look into this further for 3.5 as I understand it is pretty annoying.

Prehistoric, I will look at gradients for Vattery.

[jemimah]

Prehistoric, was this what you had in mind? To be easier to tell if you're color blind...

[prehistoric]

Prehistoric, was this what you had in mind? To be easier to tell if you're color blind...

To me that draining icon looks like it is completely drained. Is that what you intended? What do the two look like when it is at 50%, both charging and draining?

Added: don't assume I'm just picking on you, Zigbert is about to get some feedback about what happens when video is messed up while his desktop is installing.

[jemimah]

They'd look the same as now, only halfway full.

I can make the pattern bolder...

[jemimah]

Or even bolder...

Any bolder than that and you can't see the hatching.

[dougeeebear]

As long as you're having fun editing icons,you could always shorten the battery icon by a few pixels and put a little black hump on the top to resemble + on a battery.

So then the thermometer icon would look like a thermometer, the battery icon would look like a battery, and the colors would rise and fall to show their relative values as with the original icons.

And I like the color schemes as they were originally

[prehistoric]

They'd look the same as now, only halfway full.

I can make the pattern bolder...

Quite bold enough.

[BJF]

Dougeeebear: I'm with you. Please can we have a picture of a AAAAAAAAAA cell instead of the bar, Jemimah/
Prehistoric: Love Terry Pratchett. My bookshelves groan. But since to the pure all things are pure, it's a thermometer.

[jemimah]

Like this?

[jemimah]

And here's what they'd look like together.

[rhadon]

@ jemimah
tried your new traytemp from console. I get

Code: Select all

frect_hight=108

refresh rate is between 10 and 15 sec, values til now between 106 and 110.

@ trapster
Thank you. Changing encodings in prefereces did the trick.
BTW I get the same differences between /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp and /proc/eee/temperature.

~ Rolf

[Nevermore]

i am testing the latest beta
it works greatly if not for some stuff:

eeecontrol works perfectly but trying to turnn on the overclock results into an unusable system, i had to remove the savefile in order to be able o log again, the screen gets all garbled

battery monitor, stll doesnt work properly, not showing the colour changing...but the percentage is fine.

good job really

[prehistoric]

And here's what they'd look like together.

Maybe some degree marks would lessen the unmentionable resemblance.