Thanks to Grant Centauri I realized that what I needed to do was targeting the file explorer, so I did. Right clicking and selecting "open containing folder" was giving me a dialogue box asking for the program to perform the task. Clicking in the "select" button I navigated to the usr/bin folder and then selected thunar (without caps. It was the first I tried, so I don't know what would have happened if I choosed Thunar instead). And that was it. It works fine now.

felix nicanor wrote:
Hello Grant Centauri,

grant centauri wrote:
Well, one thing about GNU/Linux is that there are many ways to 'skin a cat'. One of the reasons there might not have been a PS/PDF viewer is because there are many choices out there, and people tend to prefer a particular application for certain things. Its easy enough to install, so sometimes things like that might be left out of a live distro.
I understand that, and maybe it means I should not post my solutions if it is about a program prefference.

As far as the screenshot stuff goes.... XFCE has a Keyboard dialog in the Settings menu where you can map certain commands to a key combination. I just mapped the command:

import -window root screen.png
Thank you for this, it works fine for me.

I seize to tell Mr. Jack Lang how it worked:
The first dialogue box is where you have the space to include the command or, clicking in "open", select the command (or program) from usr/bin folder. The second dialogue box expects for you to click in the combination of keys you want to use to call that command. After you choose your preffered key / key combination, if there is no conflict with another keyboard shortcut, then it just closes itself as if you had pressed an ok button and that's it: it is already working. If a conflict appears, another dialogue box will ask you if you want to keep the former of the later command for your key/key combination.

Something I found out is that all my multimedia keys are working fine and the sistem recognizes them, but the commands they call do not exist in the usr/bin folder. These are the aumix -v0, aumix -v-10 and aumix -v+10. So you didn't only gave me one solution but also a tip about another one.

to the Print Screen button and it seems to be working just fine. Of course, every time you press it, the file ~/screen.png will be overwritten.
That's ok with me.
There might be a way to expand that command to do more for you. Just use your imagination. And documentation.
I am reading now the Puredyne Manual, and I will look for a command line manual. I hope any of the laters would be usefull in Puredyne too.


-grant

Thank you a lot, Grant, you helped me a lot.
Felix

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:13 PM, felix nicanor <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    I found the import command. It works like this:
    in the terminal write (path is an example):
    print /home/username/name_given_to_the_picture.png
    after hitting enter the cursor turns into a cross which you have
    to drag to determine the area to print into a .png image.
    If someone knows how to tie this process to the print screen key,
    please post it in the list.


    felix nicanor wrote:
    I installed evince in order to solve the postcript viewing. It
    does not apear in the xfce menu and had to do the "open with"
    proccess and call "document viewer" (the Evince name does not
    appear anywhere).
    Please tell me if I should or not post the solutions I find to
    my basic needs here. It seems like Puredyne is only aimed to
    multimedia creation and performance and asumes the user has
    another machine for other stuff. Perhaps this list, considering
    that, does not need this list of solutions for my own needs.
    Regards,
    Felix

    felix nicanor wrote:
    Julian Brooks wrote:
    Hey Felix,
    Hi again Julian,

    Well done for sticking with it...

    I too came to Puredyne for Pd and am still discovering new
    things (Kdenlive for example means I don't have to rely on
    getting my lazy arse into the Uni where I'm based to do video
    documentation work, which is great).

    I think it's important to remember that Puredyne is run by a
    small group of people and relies on the community to pitch in,
    so any solutions you find, it would be great to share those too.
    Yes, of course, that's my aim too.
    I solved my rar problem unninstalling squeeze and installing
    file roller in the synaptic package manager. A pity it is not
    an xfce app (I lost a lot of time looking for a solution in
    that direction), but it works fine and allows for complex
    compressing (multi-part rar was my need).
    I will post future solutions I find for the problems I have.

    Do you, by the way, know something about why puredata's audio
    does not work if the internet browser is opened?

    Best of luck with everything,
    Thank you a lot for the spirit. I hope I will be posting other
    tips soon.
    Felix

    Julian


    On 14 September 2011 23:23, felix nicanor
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        Hi Julian, thank you for the reverb tips.
        Sorry if I made you wait. I have been trying to fix some
        problems (multimedia buttons not working, function buttons
        not working -no print-screen function-, no extended unrar
        functions working -with all the rar related program files
        installed- and a few else). I don't want to overload the
        list with this, so I am searching for solutions in the net.
        The fact is that I came to Puredyne for Puredata, and it
        seems to be working nice, but the rest is (please, take it
        respectfully) quite undeveloped, so it is taking time to
        let it running.
        About the color, I emailed the person responsible and I'll
        wait for an answer, if any, but it is not an important
        matter, please don't worry.
        Thank you a lot for all the help and patience you showed me.
        Felix




        Julian Brooks wrote:
        Hey Felix,

        Good to hear you have some joy with pd.

        Regarding reverb, there was a recent thread on the pd
        list about this titled "reverb in pd" (check the
        archives) including one from Claude who is one of the pd
        devs on Puredyne.  The [rev1-3~] externals are also
        included in Puredyne already.

        Not sure about the canvas colour stuff, sorry.

        Cheers,

        Julian

        On 9 September 2011 18:52, felix nicanor
        <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

            Julian Brooks wrote:


            On 8 September 2011 13:29, felix nicanor
            <[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

                Hey Julian, thankyou for your welcome,

no problem.


                I am in Puredyne 911 carrot and coriander dvd
                version (installed, not live)

Yes, me too.
                and that probably shows me my first error: I
                wanted to install puredata extended for karmic
                910 (the down below ubuntu version in this link:
                http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/pd-extended).


That version wont run on my 64b machine but I have
            Pde as well as Pd installed on this machine so it is
            possible.

            I have a memory of having to change a couple of
            parameters in the makefile to get it to work.  But
            it did.  Sorry I'm not more precise, it was a while
            ago and I don't do much compiling either.  One of
            the pleasures of Puredyne is that it pretty much all
            works so it generally doesn't require much fiddling
            with.  This can also be a negative too.


                Yes, I might like the preinstalled version as I
                understand that it must be configured precicely
                and therefore stable and reliable, so I am
                willing to give it a try. But I do not
                understand some problems and differences I find.
                I add a path to my abstractions
                (/home/felix/mysounds/mypuredata/abstractions)
                and I accept and it gives me the same result
                every time: instead of selecting all the
                abstractions in this folder, I don't know why it
                always choose this path to a folder inside the
                one I choose:
                /home/felix/mysounds/mypuredata/abstractions/rottensound
                (in which I only have a few abstractions
                classified under the "rottensound" name.

Have you explored the '.pdrc' file? On my computer
            it's in /home/julian and you need 'show hidden
            files' turned on in the folder window. This is where
            your pd pointing is done I think.  Check if your
            abstractions are being set to the wrong folder in
            the .pdrc, just correct/add-to the file and save
            out, reboot pd.
            Thank you, it works fine now, it recognizes it all.


                The second problem is that I don't know how to
                install or even find the abstractions that I am
                missing (freeverb is the one I noticed)

            Still missing freeverb, but now that the screen has
            got cleaner it seems to be the only one missing.
            I found the source in
            http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/freeverb
            and now I want to learn how to compile it (the info
            should be in the documentation, I guess).

                , but I guess that both this problems should be
                posted in the pd list instead (?), and I believe
                that this last one might not be difficult to
                solve anyway (hope I'm right).


            You should be able to find those easily online but I
            am also aware that Pd still has no satisfactory way
            of telling you what externals you are missing.  I
            would recommend checking that all the available libs
            in Puredyne are definitely booting and then see
            what, if anything, you are missing.
            How should I do it? Must I try each one in the
            /usr/lib/pd/extra folder? Anyway it seems that my
            patch is quite vanilla. The only external used is
            freeverb, and this is because I still don't know how
            to do a reverb by myself (using only what puredata
            provides)


            I have compiled a few libs recently and it was
            pretty painless(pmpd for example), although there
            are a few that defeated me (cyclone).  As someone
            has mentioned previously it is possible to just
            transfer some libs from program to program and
            across different computers but I guess it should in
            no way be seen as a sensible solution.


                Something relating Puredyne that I don't get is
                how do you install a debian package, I mean, as
                I tried xubuntu before for a month or two, and
                as I realize Puredyne is based in it, how is it
                that Puredyne does not have the automatic
                installing proccess when clicking on a .deb
                file, just asking for the needed packages?


            You have the 'gDebi' package installer?  Sometimes I
            add things that I think everyone already has, Ed
            Kelly recommended having the 'xfce cpu govorner'
            which is very handy for example.    One of the
            design aims of Puredyne is to be much lighter than
            Ubuntu, sometimes that streamlining makes for a more
            involved interaction with the OS.
            No, I see it is missing. I'll install it now, but I
            will continue fixing the already installed pd
            version. Thank you for the info.

            I feel that not having it was lucky, as I am getting
            confortable with not needing a probably not
            configured, supefluous and redundant pde installment.

            A difference I would like to understand is that in
            the extended version I was able to change the colours
            of the canvas, wires and such by tweaking the pd.tk
            <http://pd.tk> file in the /usr/lib/pd/bin folder.
            Now, this version of pd is more like the vanilla one,
            is it so? the interface colours are defined in a way
            I do not understand. Do you?

            about the Puredyne design aim, I really like it, for
            sure.


                Also, when I right click in the download manager
                in firefox and choose "open containing folder"
                why is it asking me to choose a program to open
                it with? what should I do then?


            Ah yes, that is irritating isn't it.  Your files
            will be in the download folder
            /home/blahblah/download, I think.
            Yes it is, but not a great deal. If you happen to
            find how to fix it please let me know.


                Anyway, I am new to Puredyne (first 36 hours),
                and again, I am also new to linux itself (some
                months), so forgive if my questions are not
                intelligent ones. I'll appreciate a lot the
                gidelines.


            Hope you like it - it's really worth persevering
            with I reckon.  I too am very much Linux-light and
            perhaps some more knowledgeable list'ers can weigh
            in to help with your specific problems.  If not,
            apparently the irc channel is where you can find
            some of the devs, some of the time.


                Thank you again and best wishes to you too,


            Your welcome and kind regards,
            Julian, you are extremely helpful. Thank you a lot,
            really

            Felix


            Julian



                Felix

                Julian Brooks wrote:
                Hey Felix and welcome to the list,

                Well firstly I would say that you should
                check/search some of the previous threads - my
                memory is that there is one from a month or so
                ago that walks you through the process (though
                I haven't tried it myself).  You should also
                include which version of Puredyne you have and
                also which version of Pde you want to install.

                Also are you aware that the pre-installed
                version of Pd has many of the major libs
                pre-packaged and it may be simpler to just add
                something if it isn't already included.  There
                is also a big bunch of abstractions as well as
                external libs so have a good explore.

                All good wishes,

                Julian

                On 8 September 2011 02:56, felix nicanor
                <[email protected]
                <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

                    Hi, I am new to Puredyne and want to
                    install Pd extended, but it doesn't show in
                    the repositories and does not work
                    installing the .deb file (I must say that I
                    am new to linux too, just in case).
                    Could anybody help me in this issue?
                    Thank you all and a big HELLO to everybody
                    in the list!
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