tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64693891119956534552011-08-03T14:12:40.368-04:00Timmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06522006152504236762noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469389111995653455.post-48250652412386474902010-03-03T22:34:00.002-05:002010-03-03T22:41:19.320-05:00

I call this iPup and it features a green background on which I superimposed the iphone graphic. Added some genuine iphone icons and a small conky at the top and voila! I may add an additional something (another conky perhaps?) to the bottom in the coming days. If you haven't noticed by now, I use conky as more of a dynamic graphic element than as a datasource. Oh well!

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It's easy to install a dizzying array of fonts to complement your Puppy. Surf on over to Font Freak and check out the selection. When you find a font you like, click on the Windows icon (yeah, I know). When the dialog box opens, choose to Open with pupzip. Extract the contents to /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF, You're done! Go enjoy your new font!

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The Grunge-Techno look thanks to a cute little conky status window. Get the .conkyrc file here, the nice digital readout font here and the wallpaper here.

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We'll call this theme Black-Dog just so I can link to Led Zeppelin. Notice the colorful little conky status bar. The conkyrc for that piece of eye candy follows. Note: Blogger chopped up the TEXT section which should only be 2 lines.background yesuse_xft yesxftfont Sans:size=10xftalpha 1update_interval 1.0total_run_times 0own_window yesown_window_transparent yesown_window_class

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Here is a replacement "Start" button for your JWM tray. You can learn how to install it at John Murga's Puppy Linux Forum.

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My Puppy lives in a Del Inspiron B130FULL HD INSTALLIntel Celeron M 420,1.6 GHz256 MB RAM14.1 widescreenIntel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 GM40 GB HD802.11a/gDVD-ROM/CD-RW.

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What all the cool desktops are wearing today.BlackPup GTKShiny-Stickers IconsAurora JWMroxpup-red ROX Icons

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Oh look another feature!Addendum:(Solved!) Actually the problem linked to above - corrupt jwm config file preventing config modification under JWM Configuration GUI - wasn't "solved" per se. Instead I discovered that manual modification of ~/.jwm/jwmrc-theme as per JWM's creator and the ArchLinux Wiki is fun and easy and affords far greater customization possibilities. So all I did was turn my

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Right now the uninitiated is thinking, "what kind of sick freaks are these Linux dorks anyway?". But the act of mounting/un-mounting media (hard drives, CDroms, memory sticks, etc) is something alien to the Microsoft or Apple user having a go with Puppy - or most any Linux. Mounting is a time honored UNIX activity and while the same sort of operation is done in Win/Mac it is hidden and

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I assembled the Gartoon icon set in Puppy's format. Snag it for yourself on the Puppy Linux Forum.

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RIGHT! My Puppy use has progressed to the next level (as in I am actually getting actual work done with it) consiquently, I have had less time available to BlaBlaBlog. As of now, the following programs have been found to work on my system:Seamonkey-2.0-i486gimp-2.4.0-rc3pwidgets-2,0,8dosbox-0.73-i486sdl-1.2.9DukeNukem3D_for_4.3.1 (Yeah Baby!)intltool-0.40.6-i486transmission-1.82-smallpython-

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Today's desktop is peculiar in that it features no "icons" per se. The No-Icon theme is a set of transparent icons so only the labels show up! The icons for FILES, BROWSER, and TRASH are each on one of Ganesha's hands and the drive icons are in the lower left. Gradient Brown GTK and JWM complete the tableau. Oh and Gxine is tuned to Radio Dismuke!Now including the original paper...

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Among the things one encounters when one enters the world of Puppy - or any other "alternative" OS for that matter - is the notion of Cross-Platform Data Format Compatibility. Basically, how you save a file on one platform might have a great bearing on exactly what you can do with it on another. What formats can Abiword or Gnumeric handle that will reproduce faithfully in Works, Excel, Word,

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Today's Screenshot features a retro 'apple-fied' puppy wallpaper, the BlueHeart GTK theme, and the LaGaDesk-Bluenight icon set. Cheers!

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Nearly three weeks now since my first experience with Puppy (or any Linux for that matter) and I thought it might be helpful to you to know some of the things that work really well versus things that... don't.THINGS THAT PUPPY DOES WELL:Abiword- reads and writes my existing Open Office files, Word files, and Works files correctly (some formatting is a bit off) and does everything I need in its

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It's Orange... It's Puppy... It's OrangePup a modern, abstract wallpaper for the Puppy Linux community to enjoy!

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If you enjoy messin' about with graphic design projects, then try your hand at putting together a set of icons for Puppy! This set, Noia-Warm, is originally a beautiful piece of "Eye-Candy" offered under the GNU GPL. Puppy uses many fewer icons than this so the job was a simple one of shaving the set down and making some minor modifications to a few pixels here and there. If you want this set,

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It's been a little over two weeks now since I first booted up my new Puppy Live CD. In that time I've had to re-install system more times than I can count. Heaven knows I can't blame the OS for all - or even most - of them. And there was variety in the mix with problems coming from a number of directions.USB Flash frequently decided to stop booting..PET installations went awry.Power failures

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As promised, let's look at "icon sets, GTK themes, and that oh-so-nifty clock on the right hand margin".Menu>Desktop>Desktop Icon SwitcherThis simple tool presents you with 5 nicely composed icon sets. Switching between them is straightforward. Additional icon sets can be installed through Puppy Package Manager or directly from the net. The Puppy Linux Discussion Forum has a number of lovely

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Puppy comes with a suite of utilities to help you customize your desktop experience. Allow me to get personal for a moment and show you my desktop du-jour.These customizations require four tools under the DESKTOP menu item - let's explore these operations one-by-one.Menu>Desktop>Nathan Wallpaper SetterThis utility opens a dialogue box listing a number of wallpapers that came pre-bundled with

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I downloaded the latest ISO and a CD burning program - this was a "live CD" which allows you to sample all of Puppy's functionality with ZERO hardware investment. The CD booted and I found myself presented with maybe 5 simple, straightforward questions about time zone and graphics compatibility - not the "HOW MANY MEGA-FLOPS IS YOUR RASTER PEGGED AT?" sort, but the "Can you see this box?" kinda

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Why walk out on a perfectly 'happy' relationship with Windows XP? For me, it was the promise of speed. There I was one week ago, head cradled in my hands, waiting for my XP desktop to conclude some basic process (was I ZIPing a file?). Waiting... waiting... I was used to it by now. Not the wait, no, but the way it made me mad every-damn-time!Later on that night - had I finished ZIPing or

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