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List of How To's

Another list of How to's∞ - Compiled by Flash on the forum

Edit Your Menus

• Instruction on editing menus in puppy 2.14
• Forum Link∞ - should be /usr/share/applications, not /root/share/applications
• MenuXDG

Extract Files

• Most files can be exracted by double-clicking them in ROX
• Others you might need to do tar -xvf filename.tar.gz

Setup Wireless

• First try start/setup/Network-Ethernet Wizard
• HOW-TO connect to wifi
• with Ndisrwrapper manually

Learn Puppy

• Excellent Tutorial Videos∞ - A few are a bit dated but still worth it.
• IansQuickLearn
• LinuxBeginners

Print With Puppy

• Cups
• Printing
• PrintersNotWorking
• PrintersWorking
• GenericSharedPostscriptPrinterOnWindows

Dual Boot with Puppy

• Dual Boot off of a usb stick (with grub)∞ - Forum link
• Have multiple Puppy distro's on one cd∞ (forum)

Share Files and Folders Between Computers

• http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2163∞

Get Sound to Work

• First try the sound wizard
• http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8816∞

Install to Hard Drive

• First try the Puppy Universal Installer (start-setup-Puppy Univeral Installer)
• Look here for more help. HowToSetupAndConfigurePuppy

Make a DotPup

Instructions on making a DotPup

Use FTP

Try gftp (it's included with all recent puppy's)
UsingFTP

Make a Log in Password of Sorts

Note: The default password for Puppy is blank.

Edit the file: /root/.xinitrc

At the very end of the file add this "Xlock" line just before the existing last statement:


Xlock will ask for a password the first time it runs and it should keep it for next time.
Run Xlock now to set the password before you boot again. There should be an icon for Xlock on the desktop.
Xlock will now run automatically on boot-up and lock the screen with a password

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