Puppy Squeeze 009 Development

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emil · #561 Post by **emil** » Tue 05 Oct 2010, 16:39

I did a brief testing with your dpup - looks very promising. I couldn't resist and loaded Battle of Wesnoth from the debian main repos - it worked "out of the box".

I was not so lucky when I dried to install octave (Numerical software ) from the repos, some packages and libraries where missing ( definitly not "out of the box")

I also found some small bugs, or at least things that need polishing. I dont know if they are specific to my HP notebook or if also others can find those issues.

sound: After startup the pc sound is on full volume, this means white noise in my speakers. I have to reduce volume manually.

power applet: After choosing "Power saving" some weird behavior is shown. The screen is dimmed down and I couldnt find an easy possibility to brighten it up again (I noticed that xgamma is present, but how about adding the xgamma-gui and make it available in the "desktop" menu?).
Even more desturbing - my USB mouse was dissabled (Touchpad worked). I had to re-plug the mouse to get it working again.

When using the package manager I found that the information screen which lists all installed dependencies becomes broken if there a many (more than 20). It runs out of space and there are no confirmation buttons at the bottom.

just my 2 cents - keep up the good work.
emil

upnorth · #562 Post by **upnorth** » Tue 05 Oct 2010, 16:45

- Can't figure out how to get the full xorgwizard

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but these may help:

in rc.sysinit: uncomment

/etc/rc.d/rc.country ;STATUS=$((STATUS+$?)) #this asks for keyboard layout.

status_func $STATUS

in rc.country: uncomment

LANG="`grep '^LANG=' /etc/profile | cut -f 2 -d '='`"

if [ "`locale -a | grep "$LANG"`" = "" ];then

/usr/sbin/chooselocale cli > /dev/console
fi

DaveS · #563 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 05 Oct 2010, 19:30

Man I can't believe you left out gcolor2!
What about idiots like me who like to fool around with theme colours and stuff?

Iguleder · #564 Post by **Iguleder** » Tue 05 Oct 2010, 20:03

Geany has the color picker ... that's why it's out

Alright, I'll add it. I'm kinda busy today and tomorrow, I don't have much free time and I spend it on my very own distro, it requires much more work than Squeeze

DaveS · #565 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 05 Oct 2010, 20:13

Iguleder wrote:Geany has the color picker ... that's why it's out

Huh.. never noticed that, so it does. Ok apologies. Funny how I get stuck in my ways

pemasu · #566 Post by **pemasu** » Tue 05 Oct 2010, 20:32

emil. Press alt + left click and drag page upwards. Do it as long as needed. At the end you will find familiar buttons again

This is an old bug. Is it fixed in some puppy versions?

upnorth · #567 Post by **upnorth** » Wed 06 Oct 2010, 23:19

This is an alternative tray volume control for those with transparent or translucent panels.

Features

* Change volume by scrolling on the systray icon
* Ability to choose which channel to control
* Configurable stepsize (percentage of volume increase/decrease per scrollwheel step)
* Several icon themes (with gtk theme as default)
* Configurable external mixer
* Volume Slider

source
http://softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html

this can be launched from Startup by script or symlink, or from .xinitrc

You can then optionally comment out the script that launches retrovol in /usr/sbin/delayedrun. In retrovol configuration uncheck "enable tray icon"

I still use retrovol as the mixer, but out of the box, this is configured with alsamixer(xterm -e 'alsamixer'). See pic to configure to use retrovol.

config options:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=i486-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS="-march=i486 -mtune=i686 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

don570 · #568 Post by **don570** » Wed 06 Oct 2010, 23:44

There is no need to include a special color picker.
mtpaint does the equivalent. It is explained in the mtpaint manual.

3.3.6 Picking a Colour from the Canvas

While you are painting it is sometimes useful to select a colour from the canvas for colour A or B. To do this you hold down the Ctrl key and press the left mouse button to choose colour A or the right button for colour B.

Ctrl+double click will select the gamma corrected average colour under the selection rectangle, or if there is no selection, under the brush square. Again, double clicking the left button selects colour A, and right button, colour B. You can use this to select colours for antialiasing.

If you picked an RGB colour from canvas, and want to find one like it in your palette, you can do it by Ctrl+middle click. This will change colour A to the palette colour nearest to it, and choose colour B and pattern to together produce the best possible approximation of the original colour A. If you do not need the dither, but only the nearest solid colour, then Ctrl+middle click a second time - this will set colour B to same as colour A, and pattern to solid.

While you are editing the whole palette, you can select any colour from anywhere on your computer screen by pressing the eye dropper icon.

So you can get the color anywhere on screen

dejan555 · #569 Post by **dejan555** » Thu 07 Oct 2010, 17:12

Here's gimp 2.7.1 for squeeze
Note that this is development version and may be unstable

gimp_full-2.7.1-i686-squeeze.pet

don570 · #570 Post by **don570** » Thu 07 Oct 2010, 21:50

I made a pet package for Imagination 2.1 especially for Squeeze Puppy.
This is an app that will make a video presentation from images and sound.
It's basically a simple way to make a video.

I added a bunch of libs to make it work in Squeeze.

Available here

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-266dc76b.html

More info :
http://imagination.sourceforge.net/

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I've made a new version of Squeeze-Right-click
which makes more right click options by Rox Filer available
Video will now open full screen with mplayer ( press escape to quit)
and Abiword will open several type of documents..

Available from

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-1c550136.html

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tlchost · #571 Post by **tlchost** » Fri 08 Oct 2010, 15:21

zpup002 seems toi have difficulties with any of the AYTTM pets that show up in the package manager.

None of them show up in the menu, and in ayttm can not be initiated in terminal mode. Typing attymsheel in terminal complains that the attym exec can not be found.

Thom

Iguleder · #572 Post by **Iguleder** » Fri 08 Oct 2010, 16:28

Ayttm has extra dependencies IIRC.

By the way, 010 is kinda frozen since I'm busy with my own distro and tomorrow I'm supposed to work, so this Saturday won't be productive as the previous one

Jim1911 · #573 Post by **Jim1911** » Fri 08 Oct 2010, 16:54

Iguleder wrote:By the way, 010 is kinda frozen since I'm busy with my own distro and tomorrow I'm supposed to work, so this Saturday won't be productive as the previous one

Please tell us a little about your own distro. You seem to be principle on dpup Squeeze and it must really be something if it improves on Squeeze.

Cheers,
Jim

Iguleder · #574 Post by **Iguleder** » Fri 08 Oct 2010, 17:03

It's an independent distro, the focus is simplicity, portability and stability. I've been working on it for about a year, on and off ... in total, I think it's less than a month of work

Just trying many ideas on it, things that cannot be implemented on Puppy.

don570 · #575 Post by **don570** » Sat 09 Oct 2010, 15:57

Forum member charlie6 has been able to get his wacom tablet to
work with lupq after a lot of work and experimentation.

Read this page:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=135

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I wrote a Tutorial on how to split mp3 files using mp3splt
and snackAmp together.

See this page
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 103#457103

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WireWulf · #576 Post by **WireWulf** » Sat 09 Oct 2010, 19:27

just out of my own independent mindset and pure wish to do some fun stuff again I will grab however I will not say I am going to make any pets

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Iguleder · #577 Post by **Iguleder** » Sun 10 Oct 2010, 08:51

At the moment I'm working on improvements to the 2.6.32.24 kernel from 009. I found a good way to make Squeeze boot even faster, but it requires lots of editing to the init scripts. I'll try this approach - really hard work but I think it's worth it.

I also want to make some nice boot splash with a "fail-safe" mode (with lots of additional kernel parameters, like modeset=0 to turn off KMS) and memtest. Maybe we could use an ASCII Puppy logo after all...

Lobster · #578 Post by **Lobster** » Sun 10 Oct 2010, 10:48

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01micko · #579 Post by **01micko** » Sun 10 Oct 2010, 10:55

@ Lobster
is that the Coyote with his head stuck in some ACME product?

(er, yes, I did copy/paste

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dejan555 · #580 Post by **dejan555** » Sun 10 Oct 2010, 11:48

Don't know if you saw this guys, I think that's what Iguleder was talking about

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60629

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Puppy Squeeze 009 Development

audio at startup and power tray applet

full xorgwizard?

volumeicon

mt paint color picker

packages available for Imagination and Squeeze-Right-click

AYTTM

wacom tablet