Release Candidates :: DSL v2.4RC1

found what might be a glitch, or might be something i did. after doing frugal install, setting up persistent home, etc., when I minimize an application it's not docking, but closing. i rebooted (fb800x600 toram norestore) with the cd and it's not happening there. the only thing i did that *might* have caused this was to kill fluxter, and lengthen the taskbar to the full width of the screen.....oh and changed the desktop style to minimal using my pink-floyd live 8 wallpaper. any ideas or suggestions?

torp

Quote (ZoOp @ April 21 2006,03:30)

After using the 'run program' option quiet a lot, I would like to suggest a systematization of input commands to give in the run program.

F.ex.: in order to run firefox, I just have to tipe

firefox

It is the same for Emelfm or dillo (just examples). But, as Robert kindly teaches me, I have to tipe

rdesktop.lua

in order to run rdesktop. Tipping rdesktop only won't work.

It would be great to harmonize all input commands in order for users to only tipe names of apps, and not sometimes names, sometimes full extensions. Thank you so much for keeping up the great work.
yours
z

The "run program" dialog is grun, which is the same as fbrun, which is the same as every other run dialog. It's merely a "friendly" alternative to a terminal, when you don't need to run a program interactively and don't need bash-specific functionality. As such, it utilizes the basic principle of running a command according to its filename, and with or without its full path depending on its location.

In the case of rdesktop, this behavior is necessary because rdesktop requires commandline parameters in order to work. You cannot start it in any system with only "rdesktop" unless you create an alias or symlink. The rdesktop.lua script is there as a convenience, to give you an interface for setting the commandline parameters.
You can still start rdesktop from the run dialog by using "rdesktop <server>".

i'm having some PPP issues with the release candidate. after i have configured PPP using the script, then dial, i get a connection but its a bad one. cant pull up any web pages, and can't even ping my isp. i rebooted with 2.3 (fb800x600 toram norestore), configured PPP using the script, and everything works fine. ideas?

torp

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I don't know if this helps, but i just copied /opt/ppp from 2.1 into 2.4, and it worked the same. I haven't used 2.3.

I am posting this with my dialup using 2.4 and winmodem
No problems detected here.

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