X-Slacko-4.4 with Xfce

[rg66]

First test of Slacko-6.3 with Xfce-4.12

[Sage]

Looks good! Perhaps stick with the 32bit Slacko for the moment? Too many anomalies popping up in the all-new Slacko64 at present.

[muggins]

hello rg66,

which slacko is x-slacko-3.1 based on? trying to find relevant kernel source and devx, but not having much success.

thanks in advance

[rg66]

3.1 is based on slacko-6.0 beta 2 (5.9.3) http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94328

Edit: Kernel sources are here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-tahr/

Use devx_slacko_5.9.2.sfs from here: http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... lacko-591/

[mistfire]

hi @rg66, I suggest that you should declutter more common unix commands by using symlinks pointed to busybox as many as possible and centralizing all the necessary files in a path and use symlinks to redirect the needed resource files. This will remove duplicate system files and greatly reduce the filesize of xslacko.

By the way, what is the release date of x-slacko based from slacko 6.3?

[starhawk]

@mistfire -- being that Puppy is a "size matters" lightweight distro, that's already been done.

[Marv]

@mistfire Since X-slacko is directly based on slacko, that question might be better directed to the slacko thread. In a number of cases, there have been operational or compatibility reasons for retaining the full command scripts also.

[rg66]

hi @rg66, I suggest that you should declutter more common unix commands by using symlinks pointed to busybox as many as possible and centralizing all the necessary files in a path and use symlinks to redirect the needed resource files. This will remove duplicate system files and greatly reduce the filesize of xslacko.

By the way, what is the release date of x-slacko based from slacko 6.3?

See Marv's post above as I'll leave that to the slacko developer (01micko).

As far as the release date of X-slacko-4 based on slacko-6.3, it's hard to say. I've been taking a break from it and have been using a half finished version for over a month.

[ozsouth]

I discovered that the Xslacko 3.1 versions of cdrecord & isomaster were causing my non-booting remastered cd's.
Using the versions from Xslacko 2.3.2 appear to have fixed this.

[Mike Walsh]

Hallo, rg66.

A query, if I may. The XFCE desktop used in X-Slacko 2.3.2 (yes, I know I'm using the older version, but it just works perfectly on my old Dell lappie!) has, I notice, had quite a number of the applets removed from the task bar settings.

One that I would like to add back is the XFCE4 weather module. Is there anything resembling a relatively pain-free method for achieving this.....or were certain items removed for reasons unknown (perhaps in the interests of the KISS principle, maybe) ?


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

@Mike

The weather plugin can be got here http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/

[Mike Walsh]

@Mike

The weather plugin can be got here http://smokey01.com/rg66/X-slacko/pet_p ... -X-slacko/

Ah, thanks for that, Geoff. There's so many Puppy repos around the place, I'm certain I haven't found a fraction of them yet!

Do I want the standard one.....or the DEV/NLS varieties?


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

@Mike

The DEV is the development files and the NLS is native language support, you won't need those.

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, Geoff.

Mm. Okay. Well, I've downloaded the weather-update plugin .pet, and installed it. When I attempt to add it to the panel, this comes up every time.....

And this is before it even gets added to the panel; I don't get the chance to set it up!

What am I doing wrong here? Any ideas? I've not had this happen before. A year or so ago, when I was running Xubuntu 14.04, the weather-update plugin had to be updated because of some glitch Canonical had discovered.....but that was very straight-forward, and totally fuss-free.

Is there any editing needs to be done? And if so, where do I find it?


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

before it even gets added to the panel; I don't get the chance to set it up!

It maybe compiled for the newer xfce 4.12 version, that may explain it, I'll see what I can find, maybe rg66 has an older version for xfce 4.10

[Geoffrey]

@ Mike

The plugin from Carolina works http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packag ... -0.8.6.pet
Hang about I may be getting it wrong.
Yeah this works though you need to run this code in the terminal to link a lib file.
I tried it with the slacko weather but still no joy

Code: Select all

ln -s /usr/lib/libxfce4util.so.6.0.0 /usr/lib/libxfce4util.so.7

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, Geoff.

Hmm. OK. Well, I ran that line through the terminal, then checked in /usr/lib; the link's definitely there. Still no joy, though. I reckon I might just have to give this up as a bad job, is what it looks like. Shame, 'cos I like XFCE's weather plug-in.

Never mind. There's always more than one way to skin a cat!


Mike.

[Geoffrey]

I ran that line through the terminal, then checked in /usr/lib; the link's definitely there. Still no joy, though.

Did you try the Carolina weather plugin?, it works for me ok with the libxfce4util.so.7 link. I downloaded and setup X-slacko-2.3.2, installed the Carolina weather plugin and created the libxfce4util.so.7 link, all went well.

[rg66]

I discovered that the Xslacko 3.1 versions of cdrecord & isomaster were causing my non-booting remastered cd's.
Using the versions from Xslacko 2.3.2 appear to have fixed this.

I'm pretty sure I used the isomaster in 3.1 to make the IOS's I uploaded which indeed do boot, although, I never did a remaster. I'll look into it and see whats up when I have time.

[rg66]

@ Mike Walsh

Geoffrey is correct, the wheather plugin in the X-slacko repo is compiled for Xfce-4.12. I did have one for 4.10 in the old repo (carolina-linux.com) but lost it as elroy didn't renew his hosting contract. I would use the Carolina plugin as Geoffrey has suggested.