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No, its wm independent, but some people were avoiding using svg before because jwm did not support it.

In fact, now it would be super simple to make svg icons match a gtk/jwm theme.

Xload has recently been demonstrating its usefulness to me quite clearly. I have on several occasions been caught with a multi-crossbar xload display. I haven’t a clue what caused this.

Except for the latest case of overload. I installed Skype from a .pet file. The initiating panel appears. So far so good. I type in my username and password. Nothing happens, except that xload goes nuts. It works up to one crossbar, and after a while my computer comes to a convincing halt. The only way out is doing an illegal log-off. Then I can start all over again. Same thing happens.

I understand from this thread that either there are too many programs trying to use the cpu at once, or one program goes haywire. OK. That’s nice to know. But how to analyze this malfunction? That’s, in my view, the next question about xload’s usefulness.

I am one of those semi-idiots that have only the barest notion of how Puppy works. I read somewhere that Barrie K’s ultimate goal was to turn Puppy into, essentially, a turn-key proposition. That would have been fine by me. I am not too interested in fiddling with it. I just want to run programs - nothing fancy either. I only have been able to manage, by the way, by getting a lot of help from this forum. I am getting better all the time at doing what I am told to do - as long as it is not too complicated and replete with jargon.

So, at least I know now that something is going wrong when Skype wants to talk to its master on the net by presenting my name and number. Wary 5.3 protests, without giving me a clue of what to do. (There are two problems, really: Skype won’t work, and Puppy won’t work, (under certain circumstances.)

The following may or may not have something to do with it: My personal storage is almost full (which is another, recurring, issue I don’t quite know how to deal with, and could be something for another thread).

Anybody?

Jake
Wary Puppy 5.3, frugal
HP Compaq
DC7100 SFF
CPU: P4 3.0GHz
HDD: 80GB-SATA
RAM: 1024MB

You need to start a topic on your problems.
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That post was 4 yrs old

I know, but it made you read this topic.
It also made a point about going off topic.

Thanks, bigpup, for that response. Did it take you four years to figure out that brilliant suggestion about starting a thread about my problems? Or was this somewhat like a bottle with a message in it finally washing ashore - your shore? Just kidding. Reading over that lament of mine I couldn´t agree more. But to do that now, after all that time, well, with all ,the additional problems having overwhelmed me since, why, I wouldn´t wish that on this forum. Meanwhile, Skype seems now to have outlived its usefulness, and the meaning of xload still largely escapes me except to remind me from time to time to hold my horses at the keyboard (it went practically white the other day). So, thanks for the admonition, and have a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Jake,
HP Compaq
DC7100,
CPU: P4 3.0 GHz,
HDD: 80 Gb - SATA,
RAM: 1024 Mb,
OS: Puppy_Slacko_6.3.2

There's one called, I believe, "CPU monitor" in, I think, Fatdog64-810. I'd love to say more, but I'm not sure which Puppy I'm currently running and I can't remember where to look to tell. I'm pretty sure it's Fatdog64-810 though, because there's a session saved on that DVD.