LxPup : a Puppy with LXDE as its desktop environment

[peebee]

peebee, do you know how can I change the icon from a .sh ? or from the shortcut I made using pcmanfm (edit/make a link) ?

Please also see this thread where I've posted a lx-make-shortcut pet....

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 511#823511

[festus]

Hello, all. I installed lxpuptahr-14.12.1-pae on a dell inspiron laptop, and now this is my main OS. On another partition, I run debian 7.8; I like it but this pup is something else, to say the least.

The only thing that didn't work, OOTB, was burning an audio CD with pburn. I fixed that by unpacking ffmpeg into /usr/bin; I found it here>
http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

I also deleted palemoon and installed firefox, because I use bleachbit and it detects and deletes the firefox data and not the palemoon stuff. Is there any way to use a symlink from palemoon to firefox?
I tried this> ln -s .palemoon .firefox however, it didn't work.
I'd probably rather use palemoon, but this issue was what caused me to use ffx.

I also installed it on an old, 2001 athlon-box, and it didn't detect or setup my audio card correctly. I don't know if it can be fixed or is even worth bothering with?

Thank you, peebee, and any other developers, for this fine distro.

festus

[Volhout]

Hi PeeBee,

Any idea how to make the volume/mute keys work on my EEEPC. The screen brightness keys work.
I found something on alsaplayer, but does that also work on retrovol ?

Regards,

Volhout

[peebee]

Hi PeeBee,

Any idea how to make the volume/mute keys work on my EEEPC. The screen brightness keys work.
I found something on alsaplayer, but does that also work on retrovol ?

Regards,

Volhout

Hi Volhout

Please see this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96044

Don't think retrovol has the necessary command line options.....

[totolanio]

Peebee, if you make a new version of lxpup, I won't have to set up all my stuff from my savefile/savefolder right ?
It will work right away ?

[peebee]

Peebee, if you make a new version of lxpup, I won't have to set up all my stuff from my savefile/savefolder right ?
It will work right away ?

Hi totolanio

A savefile/folder will generally upgrade successfully so long as the new version is of the same "family" and "generation".....

For instance if you are running LxPupTahr then upgrading to newer versions of LxPupThar should go smoothly.

The same isn't true if the generation changes - e.g. Slacko5.7 to Slacko6 was a big change and upgrades may or probably may not work successfully.

The safe way to tell though is to copy your savefile/folder to a new separate frugal install with the new system files and try it - if it works great - if it doesn't just delete the save copy and either stick with your old version or start rebuilding the new version.

Good idea to keep a copy of what changes you make over time....just in case you need to rebuild....

Cheers
peebee

p.s. my desktop is still running LxPup14.03 (very succesfully) as that's where I've invested the most setup effort. As a result I'm still on an old version of Chromium and that may be the component that eventually forces me to upgrade...

[Volhout]

Dear PeeBee,

First I have tested the commands in terminal. These work.When I open the slider (loudspeaker icon bottom right) I see it move up and down when typing the commands.

I have modified the rc.xml file (after verifying that the volume up and down button actually are FN+F12 and FN+F11 on my UK keyboard), but after saving the modified file (I made sure the modifications are in the section around line 308), and restart of the WM, it did not work.

In the reference you gave was a a different key identification (XF86AudioRaiseVolume). Tried that too, but that did not work either.

Other key bindings however do work (A-TAB for switching windows).

I am still trying to find the solution, but could use some help.

Volhout

Hi PeeBee,

Any idea how to make the volume/mute keys work on my EEEPC. The screen brightness keys work.
I found something on alsaplayer, but does that also work on retrovol ?

Regards,

Volhout

Hi Volhout

Please see this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96044

Don't think retrovol has the necessary command line options.....

[peebee]

but could use some help.
Volhout

Hi Volhout

There is another rc.xml in /root/.config/openbox

Try editing that at line 325 and then restart the window manager

My edited version is attached (remove false .gz)

Fn f9 toggles sound
Fn f11 decreases sound
Fn f12 increases sound

on my laptop

[BobSongs]

This site:

http://peebee.5gbfree.com/share/lxpup/eye-candy/

is where my browser tries to go when I click "Downloads" in the LxPup Appearance Changer.

However the link's is 404'd.

Is there a replacement link?

Thanks!

[peebee]

This site:

http://peebee.5gbfree.com/share/lxpup/eye-candy/

is where my browser tries to go when I click "Downloads" in the LxPup Appearance Changer.

However the link's is 404'd.

Is there a replacement link?

Thanks!

Hi BobSongs

You must be running an old version of LxPup....

The new link is:
http://lx-pup.weebly.com/eye-candy.html

Cheers
peebee

[Narmer]

I'm new to Linux and Puppy so I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I used the Puppy Universal Install to install LxPup Tahr to an SD card formatted to ext2. Everything work fine when I booted from the SD card. However, when I went to shut down for the first save I only received the option for a savefile. I would prefer the savefolder option. So, how do I find the option for a savefolder? Or make one now?

Thanks.

[Pelo]

pcmanFM 0.8.0 text above icons : howw can you change it to get text below icons ? Not very important, but...

[peebee]

I'm new to Linux and Puppy so I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I used the Puppy Universal Install to install LxPup Tahr to an SD card formatted to ext2. Everything work fine when I booted from the SD card. However, when I went to shut down for the first save I only received the option for a savefile. I would prefer the savefolder option. So, how do I find the option for a savefolder? Or make one now?

Thanks.

Hi Narmer

Where has the savefile been created - on the SD card or on a hard disk?

If on a hard disk - how is that formatted?

Savefolders can only be created on devices using Linux formats, not on FAT or NTFS formats.

Also, using an SD card you may be running in something called PupMode 13 and there are discussions to be found as to whether this is compatiible with savefolders:
e.g. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=810036

If you want to retry the process, boot with code - pfix=ram

If you have further problems please provide more details of your computer and probably best to ask general Puppy questions like this in a more general thread - I don't use this mode of working myself

Cheers
peebee

[peebee]

pcmanFM 0.8.0 text above icons : howw can you change it to get text below icons ? Not very important, but...

Hi Pelo - wrong thread - thats a LxQtPup problem only - afraid it can't be fixed and is an example of the "immaturity" of LxQt versus LXDE

[totolanio]

I'm new to Linux and Puppy so I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I used the Puppy Universal Install to install LxPup Tahr to an SD card formatted to ext2. Everything work fine when I booted from the SD card. However, when I went to shut down for the first save I only received the option for a savefile. I would prefer the savefolder option. So, how do I find the option for a savefolder? Or make one now?

Thanks.

I guess BigPup told me it was necessary to have Ext4 for a savefolder.
And I confirm it works with Ext4.

[Rodney Byne]

Re: LxPup

Menu/Desktop/Gfontsel font viewer doesn't save any
changes made to it.
I wanted to change the default font size from 10 to 12
but that request is not actioned and unsaved, possibly because
there is no OK button on the gui, just a CLOSE button.

Could someone please look into this bug, thanks.

Regards.

[peebee]

Re: LxPup

Menu/Desktop/Gfontsel font viewer doesn't save any
changes made to it.
I wanted to change the default font size from 10 to 12
but that request is not actioned and unsaved, possibly because
there is no OK button on the gui, just a CLOSE button.

Could someone please look into this bug, thanks.

Regards.

Not a bug - its what it says - a font viewer.....thats why there's no OK button

Try:
Desktop -> Desktop -> Font manager

If you want to change other fonts:

Desktop -> Change appearance

then

Desktop button -> select font
Windows button -> appearance

Panel - right click panel -> Panel settings

[Rodney Byne]

Thank you to peebee.

I am obliged for your above info and can see what
happens there.

However I actually wanted to increase the Menu text and dropdown
box text size and from memory I thought Gfontsel used to do
that in earlier puppies, but things have changed over the years.

My advancing years have left me more short-sighted and despite
further searching, I am unable to find out how to make the Menu
text bigger to read.

Thanks for your help so far.

[peebee]

Thank you to peebee.

I am obliged for your above info and can see what
happens there.

However I actually wanted to increase the Menu text and dropdown
box text size and from memory I thought Gfontsel used to do
that in earlier puppies, but things have changed over the years.

My advancing years have left me more short-sighted and despite
further searching, I am unable to find out how to make the Menu
text bigger to read.

Thanks for your help so far.

Try:
Desktop -> Change appearance

then

Theme button -> select font button at bottom left

[Rodney Byne]

Thank you that's much better now.

Regards.