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# hotROXpussy is a "proof of concept" and is only to be used for
# evaluation of the front-end ( WindowManager/TaskBar/Desktop )
# which has been built ontop of pussy and is loaded instead of the
# traditional JWM/ROX desktop that pussy inherited from puppy
#
# With this desktop, the intent is to provide a modern up-to-date
# Window Manager (openbox) with a desktop and taskbar that is as
# compliant as many "standards" as possible of freedesktop.org
# while also providing a very comfortable and familiar environment
# to users of both puppy-Linux and MS-windows
#
# To this end, hotROXpussy utilises the ROX pinboard (desktop)
# although most of the actions require a double-click
# A Taskbar is provided with the following features
# A Menu, A Quick-Launch (single-click) Area,
# 4 independent Desktops, each with their own task-bar
# The right-hand side of the task-bar includes
# a "desktop" min/max single-click,
# a quick-terminal,
# a Volume Control (that works)
# - open the ALSA mixer and play with the Voluem Control
# a Clock,
# a Shutdown, Reboot, stop X-Windows menu
# The taskbar is easily customised with right-click-->preferences
#
# This environment currently requires quite a bit of work.
# Please remember this is simply a proof of concept to see if we should start
# to build our own desktop/environment to help create a unique look and feel
# while looking after puppy-refugees, windows-refugees, and still maintaining
# 100% compliance with Debian and as many standards as possible.
#
# Amongst the things that require work are:
# The Debian Menu needs a clean-up to fix icons on the main menu tree
# ROX needs some configuration tweaks to get it "just right"
# one particular item that needs a look at in this regard are the three
# folders on the desktop. While all otehr desktip icons require a double-click
# once these folders are opened, a single-click in these folders will activate
# the script, program or whatever. Be careful when these are open.
# hotROXpussy already incorporates some of the pussy-patches such as fixing
# the ROX sticky problem
# Windows are sometimes placed with part of their screen being under the task-bar
#
# The XFE file manager is very lean on system resorces and provides a very common
# Windows Explorer front-end for directory and file navigation and manipulation.
# However, this instllation of XFE is not configured and as such you will often
# be prompted for associations. THe author of hotROXpussy has not done any work
# or looked into this, although it should be fairly easy to clean this up and allow
# XFE to be the standard/default file manager. Thunar and the LDXE alternatives
# require at least twice the system resoruces as XFE.
#
# Desktop Icons have been placed for users to play with Keybindings
# and other bits and pieces that may require tweaking for their system
#
# hotROXpussy also contains a modified Kernel.
# The Kernel includes the Realtek Audio modules which should provide
# proper Audio support for any Realtek sound chip in addition to any
# main-baord chipsets that require external codecs, such as many of the
# newer Intel chipsets, in particular integrated Atom mainboards/netbooks.
#
# hotROXpussy still has JWM, Xterm and every package from 1-filesystem and
# 2-pussyOS-beta2 in addition to the new packages on the desktop.
# to reduce distribution size, these packages may not showup in apt/dpkg
# listings. Manuals and Docs have also been stripped to reduce size.
# However, every program from the base pussy distribution is still there.
#
# Desktop icons for CPUinfo, System Monitor, and LXtask allow you to
# easily review system resources. While hotROXpussy requires a little more
# memory that a basic pussy, it is felt that these resources can be recovered
# by replacing wicd with another alternative network manager.
# Overall, hotROXpussy requires about 8-12Mb more memory than a standard pussy
# however, as stated earlier it should be possible to trim this down quite a bit
#
# If sucessful, this should allow the use all of the menu and .desktop
# files that you may have seen in pussy. The bottom line is that it will make it
# easy to create menus and update the desktop. To highlight this a folder called
# "applications" has been placed on the desktop. This folder points to a directory
# where most "packages" will place a desktop.entry file during installation.
# To create a desktop icon for any package in this folder, just open it and
# drag a copy of the packagename.desktop file onto the desktop - Hey, presto.
#
# Other areas that should be possible include dynamic updating of the menu
# automatically using files that most packages place in a known location at
# time of instllation. Although this may require some playing to get right.
#
# It is believed that the four independant desktops can each be directed to an
# individual monitor if you have a multi-monitor setup, although this has not
# been tested and some tweaking may be required to get it working.
#
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# To test/use hotROXpussy
# This is best done with a bootable USB stick and manipulating the USB stick
# in another computer
# Copy/place the file 1-hotROXpussy.squashfs into your /live directory
# Either move all of your existing .squashfs file to a temp/save directory
# or rename them to be something like filename.squashfs.noload
# If you do this on a live pussy system (which has not been tested),
# you will need to shutdown/restart if your system hasn't already locked-up
# If you are using a USB stick, then simply power-down and restart
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