Puppylinux for the XO-1 and XO-1.5
Eddie Owens:
Regarding cursor size in lupu510:
I went to PPM and looked under Desktop for "cursor themes" in ubuntu-lucid-main, ubuntu-lucid-multiverse, ubuntu-lucid-universe and puppy-lucid, and none seemed to have any cursor themes, at least under that name.
So I googled the problem and found mikeb's post ( http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=278673&sid=daa714cb2097789bcafa54974fc4837e ) in response to someone with a similar problem. He posted a file big_cursor.tar.gz, which I downloaded to /root/ and per mikeb's instructions unpacked it there, so that the contents are included in /root/.icons.
And after Menu => Shutdown => Restart X-Server MAGIC! The cursor is larger! There is a whole bunch of files in the dir /root/.icons/Polar Cursor Theme, makes me wonder if each is perhaps a different cursor. But there was no selection process involved in what I did...after reboot the cursor was simply larger.
I have cross-posted about this issue on murga-linux.com, to see if someone might know how redirect "Pcur Cursor Selector" to /root/.icons/PolarCursorTheme to look thru these files so that a choice of cursors might be available.
Edit: PPM = Puppy Package Manager
Eddie Owens:
Well, puppy's murga-linux.com forum came to the rescue rapidly in regards to cursor themes.
Flash gave me a link to Pizzagood who provided us with this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37852 link to a downloadable file with 25 cursor themes.
You can download the file to anywhere (I made a "Download" directory in /root/ and put it in there). The file is a ".pet" (dot pet). If you have not used one before, they are very handy. You simply go to the directory they are in, click on it, and it self-installs!
This one installs itself into /root/.icons. Notice this directory has a "." in front of it, so it is normally hidden...click on the eyeball in the bar at the top to see it and look inside.
Once the file is installed, Desktop => Desktop Settings => Pcur Cursor Selector has something to work with. In this group of 25 themes there are probably 4 or 5 large enough to be useful (just don't choose the big blue one...you can't see it against the blue wallpaper)!
After selecting the new cursor, go to Menu => Shutdown => Restart X Server to activate it.
mavrothal:
Quote from: anna on August 18, 2010, 04:14:07 PM
Browser
I tried to install Google Chrome from quickpet, which seemed to take an unusually long time. It wouldn't run from the menu, though, so I started it from terminal (/usr/bin/chrome) to see what was going on. Gave me "illegal instruction."
Apparently, there is a problem with the new version of chrome and older machines.
However you can still download the previous version for Lupu501 that works fine from here http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/Lucid_Puppy/Chromium-5.0.342-Lucid.pet
The only problem that this version has in lupu510, is that does not show at the menu (!?) You can start it from terminal with "chromium-browser" or better yet edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser to "exec chromium browser @", then pressing the desktop browser icon will open chrome.
I had no problem with Firefox etc.
mavrothal:
While out of network area I was cleaning-up/improving XOpup to v2.
Besides the xorgwizard, battery monitor and sound-up/F12 fixes mentioned above, I also integrated the dhcpcd-5.2.6-p5.pet from http://puppylinux.org/wikka/dhcpcd that anna suggested. It works much better. Autoconnects etc.
Integrated the latest official lupu510-update003
Increased global and terminal font size and added a bigger mouse cursor (whitelarge from the Lucid-cursors.pet).
Fixed the messed up "First run" screen
Add warnings on different puppy programs about XO-1 compatibility and removed a number of useless to XO-1 packages, like Grub and universal installer.
I also did A LOT (~5MB :o) of cleanup ;D. Apparently in the excitement of the first build a lot of things were left behind. Nothing harmful or even private, but still...
A full change log is included in the tarball.
I also included some fdisk formatting instruction that may help people without another Linux machine, but the XO-1/Sugar combo.
The build looks nice. I installed several packages without problems except the Chromium Browser (see the above post)
The Download link of XOpup-v2 is at the first post of this thread.
mavrothal:
Quote from: mavrothal on August 18, 2010, 10:20:20 AM
2- Power management on inactivity is not activated
It is now ;D and actually works even better than on the XO-1 with F11/Sugar (os850+).
Just download the attached xopup_kbdshim-01.zip file (must be logged in) rename to .pet eg "xopup_kbdshim-01.pet" (forum policies do not allow other file formats) and just click on it. Done!
To set the timeouts open the terminal and type "powerd.config". A screen with appear and is pretty much self explanatory. You need to reboot or kill and restart "powerd" for the new settings to take effect.
Right now the settings are pretty conservative, but if you do not mind the 0.8-1 sec wakeup time from sleep you can set sleep time down to 10-20 sec and increase your XO-1 battery life.
In contrast to the F11/Sugar version I see no screen flicker and no loss of wifi association.
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