My report on Quirky 6.0
Skype
@Sage
Thanks for the recommendation of alternatives to Skype. Reluctant as I am to support the MS empire in any way, I do use Skype to make free video calls to other Skype users on MS’s dime.
As I have been amazingly unsuccessful in convincing my friends to abandon the Devil’s operating systems for Puppy (even assuring them that I don’t do "doze Windoze no more" and they are on their own for advice does not seem to work), I doubt that I could have more success on this issue.
As for security, there were 59,443,398 people using Skype at the moment last time I looked and sometimes there is safety in crowds.
Thanks for the recommendation of alternatives to Skype. Reluctant as I am to support the MS empire in any way, I do use Skype to make free video calls to other Skype users on MS’s dime.
As I have been amazingly unsuccessful in convincing my friends to abandon the Devil’s operating systems for Puppy (even assuring them that I don’t do "doze Windoze no more" and they are on their own for advice does not seem to work), I doubt that I could have more success on this issue.
As for security, there were 59,443,398 people using Skype at the moment last time I looked and sometimes there is safety in crowds.
I installed cheese from the Ubuntu repo in PPM but is fails to run
giving this error:
# cheese
cheese: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
#
I also installed guvcview 1.7.1 from the Ubuntu repo in PPM and it works fine.
giving this error:
# cheese
cheese: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
#
I also installed guvcview 1.7.1 from the Ubuntu repo in PPM and it works fine.
You are not alone! I now refuse to advise/fix/look at any 'dozey machines.amazingly unsuccessful
And still they keep pouring their dosh into the Macro$haft coffers.
PS. Not sure that you actually need two Skype systems to connect? Maybe one of our resident experts can advise whether and how to connect PSIP to Skype?
Quirky Tahr memory usage - not much
The attached screen shot shows memory usage of only 55MB out of the 3.5G shown in HTOP. There are 8 GIGs of RAM installed in this PC
Any chance of compiling a PAE kernel version for Quirky Tahr?
The attached screen shot shows memory usage of only 55MB out of the 3.5G shown in HTOP. There are 8 GIGs of RAM installed in this PC
Any chance of compiling a PAE kernel version for Quirky Tahr?
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Life is too short to spend it in front of a computer
PSIP
drblock2:
Got lucky. Had a hard copy with this URL;
http://www.smokey01.com/help/psip/psip-help.html
Enjoy!
This:http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cr ... 04224.html this is why not Skype.
Got lucky. Had a hard copy with this URL;
http://www.smokey01.com/help/psip/psip-help.html
Enjoy!
This:http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cr ... 04224.html this is why not Skype.
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welcome1stboot
seeL18L wrote:EDIT
Sorry, code does not work (bug because change from code to name has not been made yet )
EDIT
Code does work now
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=558 please.
compiled in puppy precise 78k
compiled in quirky tar 55k, tested in quirky and precise
first compilation 11.5 sec
next compilations 1.9 sec That's fun. Thank you Barry
Re: welcome1stboot
Do you mean the next compilation was done on quirky and the first compilation was done on precise?L18L wrote:seeL18L wrote:EDIT
Sorry, code does not work (bug because change from code to name has not been made yet )
EDIT
Code does work now
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=558 please.
compiled in puppy precise 78k
compiled in quirky tar 55k, tested in quirky and precise
first compilation 11.5 sec
next compilations 1.9 sec That's fun. Thank you Barry
I have noticed that my compiling is faster on quirky but I dont know about 10x faster
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Re: welcome1stboot
No.slenkar wrote:Do you mean the next compilation was done on quirky and the first compilation was done on precise?
First and next in quirky
First does cache something thus next ones become faster.
It is another version of bacon in this Quirky tahr.
But the best is the smaller executable.
EDIT
To answer your question in the next post,
No I did not because I did not care about this.
But here it is in precise:
Code: Select all
# time bacon -x -d /tmp welcome1stboot.bac
Converting 'welcome1stboot.bac'... done.
Executing xgettext... done.
Compiling 'welcome1stboot.bac'... done.
Program 'welcome1stboot' ready.
real 0m5.187s
user 0m2.670s
sys 0m2.390s
# time bacon -x -d /tmp welcome1stboot.bac
Converting 'welcome1stboot.bac'... done.
Executing xgettext... done.
Compiling 'welcome1stboot.bac'... done.
Program 'welcome1stboot' ready.
real 0m2.782s
user 0m2.570s
sys 0m0.123s
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off-topic section Programming
BaCon thread. No?
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google-chrome
I gave up on Quirky 6 as my main OS some time ago because I could not get Google-Chrome to run. These are the instructions I have been looking for. Thanks roadkill13!roadkill13 wrote: I then symlinked some files to /usr/lib from Seamonkey's folder that are needed by Google Chrome.
...
I also found it necessary to symlink /lib/libudev.so.1.3.0 as /lib/libudev.so.0
By the way I did not install google-chrome-fixator pet. I just added the --user-data-dir switch to the last line of the google-chrome script. It seems to work fine.
update:
I found out I didn't need to do the symlink thing. I just added /usr/lib/seamonkey to the /etc/ld.so.conf file. Also, google-chrome runs fine as root without the --user-data-dir switch. I still needed to copy /lib/libudev.so.1 to /lib/libudev.so.0.
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Yeah, not exactly intuitive is it!broomdodger wrote:After a bit of searching I found how... NOT obvious.[/b]
In the location bar, type:
about:config
and press enter. Bypass the warning.
In the 'Search' box at the top of the page enter:
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto
If you get a result, double-click it to change it true.
If you don't, right-click the pane and select new > boolean.
Give it the name "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" (without quotes) and set the value to true.
It should ask for the default email handler, but if it does not or you wish to change it later...
Open:
Edit > Preferences > Helper Applications > Search > mailto
There is a drop down menu to select the email client.
Bill
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Re: Quirky Tahr feedback
Without actually having hands-on at your computer, I don't really know what else to suggest.peebee wrote:rfkill list wlan gives:BarryK wrote:Before you have run "rfkill unblock", what is the output from running this (where $INTERFACE needs to be replaced with your interrface, wlan0 or whatever):
# rfkill list $INTERFACE
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0: hp-wifi: wlan Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: wlan Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
You should be able to follow a logical procedure to determine why the code that I supplied did not work, whereas what you did before did work.
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Re: Quirky-tahr Chinese Language pets
Quirky T2 (6.1.4) uses GTK 2.20.1, whereas Quirky Tahr uses GTK 2.24.x.icake wrote: 2. Quirky-tahr has a gtk issue that makes both the fcitx and SCIM Chinese input platform unable to run.
3. Because Quirky-tahr and Quirky 6.x are very similar, I have resolved the above problem with the following quick fix:
a. replaced all the gdk and gtk system files in Quirky-tahr by those from Quirky 6.1.4
b. this was automated by creating a special gtk patch pet called quirky-tahr-6.0.1-zh-patch.pet. By installing this pet, all the gdk and gtk system files in Quirky-tahr will be replaced by those files from Quirky 6.1.4
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If you put the 2.20.1 files into Quirky Tahr, some applications will report missing symbols and won't run.
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Re: Quirky Tahr 6.04
Have you tried Chromium?ETP wrote:@roadkill13Acer Aspire 3680 laptop running Quirky Tahr 6.03 with Google Chrome browser.
For the record can you describe in detail how you managed to get Google Chrome running in Tahr?
It is in the Ubuntu repository. I just noticed it there, using the Quirky Package Manager, haven't tried it though.
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Hmmm, I wonder if the new SM 2.24 that I have compiled, has that problem? When you install it, let us know.roadkill13 wrote:Billtoo wrote:
I tried to download the new seamonkey s ... nluug ftp
I had the same experience trying to download a devx package for Quirky Tahr at nluug.
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welcome1stboot
Barry
look at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=15 please
look at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 4&start=15 please
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The dependency you need is: libegl1-mesa-driversBilltoo wrote:I installed cheese from the Ubuntu repo in PPM but is fails to run
giving this error:
# cheese
cheese: error while loading shared libraries: libwayland-egl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
#
I also installed guvcview 1.7.1 from the Ubuntu repo in PPM and it works fine.
Which you can install with the PPM, but make sure that you also install all dependencies.
I just did a quick check in the PPM, and that package 'libegl1-mesa-drivers' is shown as a dependency.
That would mean you did not use the PPM properly?
After clicking on the 'cheese' package, you then click the "Examine dependencies" to get a list of all deps, then you install.
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One bit of advice about using the PPM/QPM.
Ubuntu Trusty Tahr is in alpha status, and the repository changes frequently, making the local package database out-of-date.
Therefore, I recommend click the Configure button in the PPM and update the database -- no need to choose the "updates" repository, as there isn't one yet.
It requires a restart of the PPM afterward.
Ubuntu Trusty Tahr is in alpha status, and the repository changes frequently, making the local package database out-of-date.
Therefore, I recommend click the Configure button in the PPM and update the database -- no need to choose the "updates" repository, as there isn't one yet.
It requires a restart of the PPM afterward.
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Re: welcome1stboot
Yes, and strip it, it goes down to about 38K.L18L wrote:seeL18L wrote:EDIT
Sorry, code does not work (bug because change from code to name has not been made yet )
EDIT
Code does work now
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=558 please.
compiled in puppy precise 78k
compiled in quirky tar 55k, tested in quirky and precise
first compilation 11.5 sec
next compilations 1.9 sec That's fun. Thank you Barry
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That one is installed but cheese still doesn't work so it must be something else causing the problem.BarryK wrote:
The dependency you need is: libegl1-mesa-drivers
Which you can install with the PPM, but make sure that you also install all dependencies.
I just did a quick check in the PPM, and that package 'libegl1-mesa-drivers' is shown as a dependency.
That would mean you did not use the PPM properly?
After clicking on the 'cheese' package, you then click the "Examine dependencies" to get a list of all deps, then you install.
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