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plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

This was compiled in Puppy 4 and may not work on other Puppies.

http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/

This is just a light weight panel for your window manager. Useful if you want to use a window manager with no panel (like pekwm or openbox). Included is a xdg for Puppy menu updater. Just install the dotpet, and refresh your menu. You should then have 2 fbpanel options in the menu under "Desktop". To start it with the default options just select "fbpanel - start-refresh" or to configure fbpanel use "fbpanel config" which is a gtkdialog app I wrote to configure fbpanel. When you're done configuring it just start it up by selecting the first menu entry I mentioned.

2008-01-22:
I revised the pfbpanel script and created a tempicons script. The tempicons script will symlink the various icons in puppy to /tmp/icons so the menus will find the icons in one location. You'll want to add these lines to the end of /usr/sbin/fixmenus

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

here's a pic:

MU · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 14:20 Post_subject:

thanks, works fine in Muppy008, so should work in Puppy 3, too.
Only issue at first sight:
Icons from addon pets or dotpups are not displayed in the menu.

Mark

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

Icons should be displayed in the fbpanel menu for dotpets/dotpups if you run the fbpanel_menu_refresh command (fbpanel-refresh in the menu) after installing the package. The only problem I noticed is if the .desktop file does not specify the .png or .xpm extension of the icon. Fbpanel needs to know the extension too.

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I just updated the package so the puppy shutdown menu is also included in the fbpanel menu.

MU · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 20:19 Post_subject:

from gqview.desktop:

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

Yes, I see that too. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll see if I can work on something to fix it.

MU · Posted: Thu 03 Jan 2008, 21:10 Post_subject:

this seems to work with lxpanel:

/usr/sbin/lxpanel_menu_refresh

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I just updated the package with some fixes and modifications.

MU · Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2008, 20:39 Post_subject:

great, shows all my icons now Smile

Over christmas I experimented with some windowmanagers to get test thumbnailing in GtkBasic, and fbpanel is a great utility for them.

Mark

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

Nice! Glad it works for you. I like lxpanel a little better, only because they ported the gnome network plugin which is very nice.

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I updated the package again. I fixed the shutdown menu options and added help to the menu. I also included Barry's modification that he mentioned in his blog.

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

on the projectś site itś written that fbpanel can provide many plugins ( but the link is empty now)
how to add a tray ( notification area) functions?

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

soryy for posting again
i did not see anything in a tray because I had icewmtray runnig in my script to have some apps in icewm toolbar
with open box it looks like old xfce4 wich i liked so much

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I repackaged this since I wrote a gtkdialog gui for configuring fbpanel and changed the fbpanel_menu_refresh script to use my new script instead. fbpanel_menu_refresh will just execute "pfbpanel refresh" and do all of the menu updating as before without opening the pfbpanel gui. Otherwise run "fbpanel config" from the "Desktop" menu to configure fbpanel to your liking. You don't need to un-install the previous package since this will overwrite the old but you may want to remove some of the unused files. You won't need any of the files in the /usr/share/fbpanel directory except for the images & plugins directories. You can also delete the /root/.fbpanel directory.