and games. These things are what matter to me,
it's a keeper! "
-- Billtoo, tenth post down this thread, last paragraph.[/size]
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You can download Puduan-6.0.0-wmx-alpha1a and its devx from here:
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=mushe ... an-6.0_wmx
(New repository)
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Hello all!
This is Puduan-6.0.0-wmx-alpha1a, a remaster of the Puduan Jessie built with
woof-CE. This thread is a continuation of that one.
Many thanks to all of you on that thread who helped me along this road. I wouldn't
be writing this presentation of a Puduan Pup without you.
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There are still some details to iron out, but I've been using it for a couple of days,
and it's been going great.
Some of those details will be, I think, "language separation", as gcmartin once
dubbed it. Meaning: you may find some bits of French here and there. After a while
I don't see it, because I can function in both languages, but please mention to me
those incongruities.
Any other bugs or stupidities you can find too.
This is what alpha versions are for, isn't?
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It's big for a Puppy: 291 Mg's. It has:
- an adrive : containing fonts and themes
an fdrive : containing seamonkey and mplayer (if you like neither and have
replacements, tuck this sfs away in a safe place instead of loading it!)
a ydrive : containing the various themed wmx-8's and the wmx menu
of course a zdrive, which contains, in addition to the drivers and such usually
put in there, the tcltk interpreter needed for tkConverter.
It will take you a bit of "getting-used-to", but in the end I hope you'll agree with me
that using menus for a lot of functions makes computer life easier.
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On boot-up, you are brought to a near empty desktop, except for the ROX panel to
the left.
-- If you wish to have more icons on screen, somewhat like the traditional
Puppy appearance, click on one of the white-ish/yellow-ish icons either on the
bmpanel2 (first icon after the circles) or on the ROX panel (fourth icon from the
bottom), and click on "empty PPin". Twice! (The absolute first time is for
initialization, the second time is when you get results. After it's initialized, just
one click is enough to have the ROX desktop tilt from near-empty to normal and
vice-versa.)
-- If you prefer to have the ROX-panel on the right edge of your screen as in this
illustration by tester Billtoo, right-click on the ROX-panel and hit "panel options"
in the menu. In the window that appears, click "Right edge" in the bottom part. Done!
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Please see the post below for a short section on using the wmx-8 window manager.
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You may wish to explore Puppy's traditional default apps (and a few more) by
clicking on the aemenu below the clock. You can't miss it, it says "MENU" !
If you wish to change the default app, please use the "default-app chooser" utility.
The default app menu will still work, no problem.
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The jwm window manager is still there. To use it instead of wmx, go back to the
initial black console and type < xwin jwm >.
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I'll cover more ground in the next post.
BFN.