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Hi Kuman11,

It's important to remember that (a) you are running Linux and (b) when asking questions to make sure you've used the right terms. "exe" -- is the executable for Windows. Either you've downloaded the wrong file -- one which runs under windows-- or you've used the wrong term.

The best place to look for applications to add to your Puppy is the Additional Software SubSection. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=63. Its Categories are almost like those appearing on your Puppy's Menu. The second best place is to use the Puppy Package Manager which is built into your Puppy. Among the reasons the Additional Software is better than PPM is that the publisher of the Application has already figured out what dependencies (which may be offered by PPM) are necessary. And users have reported any problems and (hopefully) the publisher of the app or someone has solved them.

There is a firefox which you just download and unpack. It's Firefox Quantum Portable published by fredx181. You'll find it here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 010#978010. There are versions for both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems. I've run them under several Puppies built from 'Ubuntu' binaries. After its unpacked, they run by left-clicking the script named 'ff' you should see right away.

I haven't tried them under a Slackware based Puppy. Sometimes Web-browsers for "Slacko's" need additional files. But lets worry about that if it doesn't run. Download and try it. If there's a problem, report it on the "Firefox Quantum Portable" thread,

Once its working, for convenience, you can drag "ff" file to your desktop. That will create a symbolic link to it. You'll find a nice icon in the "Browser/Icon" folder, part of the package. Copy it to /usr/share/icons, leave that window open, right-click the "ff" on your desktop, select "Set Icon" and drag the icon into the window which opens.

Or you can modify and use the attached pet. I keep all my linux portables in a folder on /mnt/home named Pup-Apps and I renamed the unpacked firefox folder "firefox58". The attached pet consists of only three files, the icon and a desktop file (it creates a menu entry) at /usr/share/applications and an executable at /root/my-applications/bin So, the executory argument in that file reads
exec /mnt/home/Pup-Apps/firefox58/ff "$@"

If, like yours, the firefox folder was just on /mnt/home --where you unpacked the download
and you didn't rename the folder so it still only read "firefox", you'd edit the Exec line to read

exec /mnt/home/firefox/ff "$@"

mikesLr

hi mikeslr,

I've used the wrong term. It seems there's no /mnt/home folder in this Slacko. I run it w/o a save file which I'd prefer doing in the future. Not sure if that might be the reason. So I extracted it in /root instead. Then upon trying to exec the 'ff' file it couldn't start Firefox Quantum 58.02 ... Simply it didn't initiate it.

Hi kuman11,

Make sure you have the right version for your system. I think X-Slacko Slim is 32 bit.

If so, it may need this fix: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 503#982503.

Edited: As you're working without a SaveFile/Folder, you're correct you wouldn't have a /mnt/home. By the same token, unless you've done a Full Install, you can't put it in /root. In a frugal install, /root is in RAM and as soon as you reboot/shutdown, the firefox folder will be cleared from memory. You can put it on any drive/partition. But you'll first have to mount the drive to access the firefox folder and execute the "ff" script. You may have to open a terminal and enter the full-path to "ff" to execute it, e.g.:

/mnt/sda1/firefox/ff

ff probably already has its permissions set to executable, but check: Right-Click >Properties and make certain the Exec box for "World" is checked. You only have to do that once.

There's a reason most of us use a SaveFile/Folder even if we remaster to include almost everything we want. This firefox is portable and self-contained. The latter means your profile (settings, addons, bookmarks) are written to the folder rather than, say, to /root/.mozilla. Even a 32 Mb SaveFile would be more than sufficient to create a permanent link to the "ff" script if the firefox folder were on the same partition as the SaveFile. [The link would be less than 1 Mb, but I don't know if you can create less than a 32 Mb SaveFile without employing some bash command that I haven't memorized]. Remastering in order to include the folder somewhere within "Puppy Space" would result in more memory always being used, even when firefox wasn't open.

If nothing works, asks on the Firefox Quantum thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 010#978010. Make sure you mention that you're running X-Slacko. Older versions of firefox 'built for 'Ubuntu/Debians' used to require dbus to work on Slackos. I don't think this is still the case. But, I'm guessing. Best to ask.

Edit: Alternatively, you might try peebee's firefox (or other web-browsers) available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/ ... /browsers/

These were constructed to run under lxpupsc -- hence, a Slacko derivative. As SFSes, you can Menu>Setup>Sfs load (on the fly) once the partition they're on is mounted even without a SaveFile/Folder. i don't know if bootmanager will load them on bootup without a SaveFile/Folder. And built for lxpup, I'm not sure if something else must exist for them to work under other OSes. They are also not self-contained, ordinarily preserving bookmarks etc. in /root. See above.

mikesLr

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Progress bar when copying large files (init process)
* GUI overhaul. All builtin apps are now optimized to work on 640x480 screen.
* Global static IP assignment on a specific NIC interface regardless what network connection tool is used. When the computer restarts with savefile loaded. It remembers the static IP address assigned.
* With scanner share for sharing scanner on LAN.
* Some bugfixes

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nuPVi ... aVJFSHnCay
MD5 checksum: 962b8d8008547f622ee7b872fc82d4e8

Which one of the media players in Slackware 14.1 repository can play VOB files?

Fantastic! Weird initial (but evidently irrelevant) error messages at boot followed by countdown (not seen that before), straight into setup screen (longish delay finding correct resolution, but did get it right first time), restart after selecting options, DHCP already selected correctly - sound comes up correctly, too (first time).
Excellent work, misty, can really use this item for testing & diagnostics - don't change anything!

Thank you for 4.4r10. It generally works well in QEMU.

mistfire wrote:@Step try to run xorgwizard from command line. Then select fbdev as xorg driver then run X. If failed then try to Load xorg conf. Select xorg-uefi-failsafe conf file

I tried but it didn't help. The mouse still blocks at hidden boundaries. It's never the same boundary, I can't spot a pattern. Sometimes the mouse even works OK for a while.

@Sage what error msg that you encounter that something irrelevant? Dont worry i dont change everything. Just tweaking very carefully

@step what xorg driver that was loaded upon starting the desktop? Is it vesa driver? You can seee that on GRAPHICS tab of QUICKSETUP

@kuman just open VOB files with gnome-mplayer

..what error msg..

too fast to capture, something about 'early console', several other lines before counter starts. Not worth messing with?! Extra front material not really required if it all works...
Another interesting feature: if I ignore setup, dhcp is active, put valid URL into Midori, it starts to find the website then exits back to setup?

@mistfire, the modesetting driver.

"an alternative, for testing, try with x-slacko-slim, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107313 ..have Bluetooth out-of-the-box"
Facebook information.. It would be nice that Puppy easily connect and communicate with Bluetooth equipment.

..what error msg..

- reprise.
These upfront messages differ between machines. On a very old A1100+, there were none and no counter, either - it went straight into normal boot. On a 64bit machine, some front material and the counter showed up. On an A2400+, my normal testbed, a whole slew of front data showed, counter included. Good news, though - all rigs successfully boot to a visible screen, albeit extremely slowly on older junk.
This is now a really good vehicle for testing and diagnosis. Probably plenty of scope to strip out utilities less germane to such a basic OS and leave the fancy stuff to FD64, etc? Rather have FF and ditch eg Bluetooth & co.!

'Packages that failed to be Installed or Downloaded
at-spi2-atk-2.8.1
at-spi2-core-2.8.0
gtk+3-3.8.2

Missing Shared Libraries

Existing Libraries that may be in a location other than /lib and /usr/lib'

When I get this error what should I do?

give a try to puppy-get

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Improved network connection management
* Added metric support in Dougal's Network Wizard and Frisbee
* Detecting QEMU machine and use fbdev instead of modesetting (highly experimental)
* xfce-panel does not restart when whisker menu is used upon install/remove packages
* Some fixes

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kx4BY ... iQxSbzo5jq
MDS Checksum: 26bc9596b173d48c828af0755aa050be

r11 also works for me. No issues.

Dear mistfire,

Some observations on Xslacko Slim 4.4 r10.

1/
Installed Xslacko Slim 4.4 r10 on SD card and USB stick. Both feature a nasty behaviour.
The "firewallstatus" is eating significant CPU power. Sometimes up to 50% (using "top").
Regardless if I use the firewall, or not.

Have you seen this before ?
I simply kill the PID, and all is okay. So I am managing well with r10.

FYI there is no icon for the firewall in the tray.

If you want some help in debugging, inform me what you need.

2/ tried to play with bluetooth, and once I managed to get contact with my external speakers, once I managed to get the bluetooth icon in the tray. But never succeeded afterwards. I know bluetooth is cursed in linux (around 2010 the debians of this world had it working relatively well, but now it seems an undervalued feature, and it even does not work well in Ubuntu anymore....so I am not disappointed, only want to inform you it is not working in my case).

@Volhaut.

I already notice that firewall tray problem but it rarely happen. I want to fix that issue on that tray but it was a binary compiled. Im fluent in bash scripting but not in C thing. Can you help to trace that problem in firewall tray source code and fix it. Also if you have time, can you also modify the follwing source code to add a certain features

* whisker-menu read username from a file instead of hardcoding the username in whisker

* pup-volume-monitor show mounted disk image icon and available to disappear once the disk image was unmounted.

Regarding the bluetooth audio dont forget to set the audio output of the player to alsa in order to stream the sound

I tested 4.4r11 in QEMU on Fatdog64-721 but X-Slacko Slim doesn't detect that it's running in QEMU and it sets the modesetting video driver.

/tmp/puppyboot.log says:
Checking if the computer is Qemu...
The machine is not qemu.

grep -i qemu output in /tmp attached.