Puppy Squeeze 009 Development

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dejan555 · #261 Post by **dejan555** » Mon 20 Sep 2010, 21:26

xchat2 for dpup, autoconnects to #puppylinux, customized font and layout - uses tabs for channel switcher by default, couldn't get links to open in seamonkey on single click, but there's option "Open in Seamonkey on right click...

xchat-2.8.8-i486-squeeze.pet 247 KB

Iguleder · #262 Post by **Iguleder** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 08:28

All those problems that appeared in 005 are really weird ... I have no idea where the **** they come from. Especially the missing laptop mode.

The top priorities atm are X (touchpads, keyboard layouts) and CUPS. I'm working on that.

Can anyone install the Lupu ffmpeg3 (I think it's in the "5" repo) and report if any gxine problems are gone?

Karl Godt · #263 Post by **Karl Godt** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:10

dpup-005 is a well equipped Puppy with `mrxvt` and many things more to investigate

well done Iguleder !

one of the first things I do when running a new pupplet is to add more desktops to .jwmrc-tray ...

running `jwmconfig` ... I lost the taskbar !!

Changing the line 83 /usr/local/jwmconfig2/virtualDesk
from

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#----notify of result----->>

if [ "$RES" -eq "1" ]; then
  if [ -z $CHECKCONF ]; then

to

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if [ -n $CHECKCONF ]; then # if [ -z $CHECKCONF ]; then

seems to do the trick

wondering how so many pupplets go fine with the original code

01micko · #264 Post by **01micko** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:40

Hmmm.... mrxvt sux badly IMO.. well this version any way.. try running './configure --help' with mplayer.. even in fullsceen, only outputs about 100 lines.. is there a config for that?

Oh, and every version of mplayer, including the squeeze one, seg faults, even when I did manage to successfully build.. that's strange.

BTW, Cmake is broken, needed for some weird progs that don't like configure scripts. It was broken in Lupu too and compiled fine there.. it's a 10 meg pet, not worth the upload. It should compile ok, but you may need liblzma plus dev.

Stu90, I suspect the icon is compiled in with parcellite.

On the plus side, pekwm is a fun little wm, and I found (well Eyes-Only did) a fun little panel called 'bmpanel'.. 20k pet. (depends on imlib2). if any one cares I'll upload. Made a little theme switcher gui too.

The ffmpeg marginally improved gxine.. very marginal

.. there seem to be codecs missing, if that is all it is then it may be ok, it plays a small amount of video but it wont budge with avi, mp4,wmv or real formats.

Still, it is fun!

Cheers

dr-kart · #265 Post by **dr-kart** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 11:01

dr-kart wrote:BootManager configure bootup --> Startup services:
in dpup-004 - "laptop mode" service is on by default
in dpup-005 - THERE IS NO "laptop mode" ever

What went wrong?

I am sorry!
The "laptop mode" service became available after laptop-mode-tools install via PPM from debian-squeeze-main repo ONLY. (And no matter dpup-004 or 005.)
Sorry again

dejan555 · #266 Post by **dejan555** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 11:42

Yeah we should definitely increase number of output lines in mrxvt, I will look into configuration options for it. I used "./configure -- help | more" for some apps - temporary workaround.

dejan555 · #267 Post by **dejan555** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 11:52

Try this: make file /root/.mrxvtrc
Add this line:

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Mrxvt.vt0.saveLines:        600
Mrxvt.vt1.saveLines:        600
Mrxvt.vt2.saveLines:        600

Found @ http://linux.die.net/man/1/mrxvt

01micko · #268 Post by **01micko** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 12:06

Thanks Dejan

.. it doesn't suck so much now

Cheers

Brown Mouse · #269 Post by **Brown Mouse** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 12:07

Iguleder wrote:All those problems that appeared in 005 are really weird ... I have no idea where the **** they come from. Especially the missing laptop mode.

The top priorities atm are X (touchpads, keyboard layouts) and CUPS. I'm working on that.

Can anyone install the Lupu ffmpeg3 (I think it's in the "5" repo) and report if any gxine problems are gone?

Sorry to say,no improvement here.

gjuhasz · #270 Post by **gjuhasz** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 12:47

Karl Godt wrote:dpup-005 is a well equipped Puppy with `mrxvt` and many things more to investigate

mrxvt

It disappears only if specific country localization is set (Desktop menu > chooselocale).
In my case, mrxvt became unavailable as soon as I set hu_HU. Fortunately, when I checked UTF-8 encoding, mrxvt returned.
Karl, maybe you selected de_DE@euro. In this case, mrxvt disappears, too. Tick UTF-8 or select de_DE.

gxine

I think it is much better if we simply forget gxine. I typed the fix proposed by upnorth (on p17) then gxine started. However, file compatibility was poor. No sound for mp4, gp3, no webm playback. I installed mplayer-post-1.0rc3-svn-31792-i486.pet. Plays all files I tried.

seamonkey

2.1b1 outperforms 2.0 series them even if it is still in beta stage. It is interesting that useragent line of 2.1 betas masquerades SM to Firefox. (See line 66 of the browser-prefs.js).

look-and-feel

It is good that dpup uses a (here "a" also means "one") new set of desktop icons. I propose to forget the rest except smooth-color and add more from http://puppy.b0x.me/desktop-iconsets
Similarly, there is "a" new default background. I think dpup deserves a set of "less funny" wallpapers.

DaveS · #271 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 13:29

gjuhasz wrote:
seamonkey

2.1b1 outperforms 2.0 series them even if it is still in beta stage.

Where did you find 2.1b1? I can only find the alpha series?

upnorth · #272 Post by **upnorth** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:45

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nig ... ral-trunk/

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nig ... 86.tar.bz2[/b]

This one i just extracted to a ext3 partition, it creates the dir "seamonkey". I just click "seamonkey" from rox and it runs. It assumes the existing seamonkey profile. Thats the "no install" method, anyway.

DaveS · #273 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:52

upnorth wrote:ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nig ... ral-trunk/

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nig ... 86.tar.bz2[/b]

This one i just extracted to a ext3 partition, it creates the dir "seamonkey". I just click "seamonkey" from rox and it runs. It assumes the existing seamonkey profile. Thats the "no install" method, anyway.

Thanks... Done.... Bookmarked

Karl Godt · #274 Post by **Karl Godt** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 14:59

Yeah ! /root/.mrxvtrc !!

Where is the squeeze wallpaper from http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Squeeze ??

downloaded http://www.sendspace.com/file/5i1u69

from PAGE-2//////Updated - Puppy.look eye candy .pet for puppy

adjusting the taskbar still works fine now !!

upnorth · #275 Post by **upnorth** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:03

I backup my "normal" seamonkey profile just to be safe. Nightly builds aren't always stable

.

DaveS · #276 Post by **DaveS** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:20

Seatab X from here http://www.tom-cat.com/mozilla/extensions.html is a MUST for all versions of Seamonkey. Put it in the .iso?

Why the devs dont do it is beyond me..........

Fishy · #277 Post by **Fishy** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 15:35

Wow, agree that this extension is a must have. Thanks

Iguleder · #278 Post by **Iguleder** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 16:15

Before you read this: yes, I'm serious.

Well, as I said already, I have a new job (my first serious job).

I'm going to be quite busy till next week, I won't be home tommorow and on both Friday and Saturday. I'm going to work somewhere close to the Dead Sea. My netbook will accompany me (probably) but I'm almost certain that I won't have internet access.

So, here's my question: can anyone take it from here? I can upload all the custom PETs used in 005, all my Woof modifications and some required extras, plus a detailed guide with the exact 005 recipe so someone can make 006 and maybe even releases beyond it.

I'm not saying that I'm leaving this project or something, hell no; but I'm too busy (in the near future, at least) to work on it full-time and I'm a total idiot, I'm not very talented as you can see. We need someone to lead this project, someone with the right skills and the passion to turn this into a Puppy paradise.

I'm always here to test, fix bugs and whatever. I'm just offering someone better than me the opportunity to make 006.

EDIT: have you noticed the views count for the popular threads in this forum? Kinda interesting to see dpup gets lots of views, I guess people are attracted to the "Debian"

Karl Godt · #279 Post by **Karl Godt** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 17:29

CRAZY : running dpup-001 and dpup-003 adding more screens works without problems !!!
the code is still original at /usr/local/jwmconfig2/virtualDesk :

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#----notify of result----->>

if [ "$RES" -eq "1" ]; then
  if [ -z $CHECKCONF ]; then 
    RESTOP="Change Saved"
    RESMSG="Now set for $CHOICE virtual desktops"
    rm -f $CONFIG2

Well, as I said already, I have a new job (my first serious job)

It's OK !!!

dejan555 · #280 Post by **dejan555** » Tue 21 Sep 2010, 19:52

Iguleder congrats on the real job

BTW, I tried compiling both mplayer and vlc.

mplayer didn't segfault but it wouldn't load subtitles and buged on dvd chapter change - it stops playing and exits.
vlc seems quite ok but it didn't handle subtitles either so I'm thinking we might be missing some lib that handles that, I'm recompiling vlc now with different options and will see how it works, I'm compiling it without gui this time, I tried ncurses but it sucks bad and dbus control system isn't properly maintained / documented to try to make some usefull gtk frontend.

sc0tman made a nice vlc-gtk frontend though which can be used.
without gui pet should be less then 3 MB and about 7 MB or less installed, I will also add rox right clicks to open video files with vlc.

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