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wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Hello Jaybekay, nice job with wbar.

I was wondering if you have tried it with a dark, but not absolute black background? When i tried darker backgrounds than the blue one like yours, I got a black rectangle around wbar. When you first change the background the rectangle looks like a snapshot of the blue background until you reboot.

I have set my codes for wbar to be like those from prit1, earlier in the thread, except I put them in .inixtric (sp?). Thanks, Chris.

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

@wolfwatcher51: I just replied on your other thread.

Jaybekay · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 72 Location: America's hat

Hi wolfwatcher
Is this what you are talking about? (picture is worth a thousand words)

Mine does this when I change backgrounds. I just right click around the wbar to turn it off (with the old background) and then left click to turn it on with the new background. It would be nice if it could auto update like conky does

wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Jaybekay and prit1,

Thanks for the replies.

Prit1, I got your input on my other thread, thanks so much.

Jaybekay, yes that is it.

To all, the information on this and one of my other threads is right on. I do not know why, but when I get the large colored block, light blue in jaybekay's pic, I find that if I just right click on it, it appears to take a new snapshot and looks transparent without doing anything else. I follow the procedure anyway.

What I did see was that with each reboot the colored block comes back and you have to right click each reboot. Then I went into .wbar to change an icon and guess what, wbar seems to have remembered the snapshot, or took a new one, and further reboots did not require the right click.

Maybe there is something in its program that gets it to automatically take a new snapshot on the first reboot after the .wbar file is edited. If the developer of wbar could edit it so that it took a new snapshot with each reboot, then that would be cool. "No job is too difficult for somebody else to do", one of my favorites from previous corporate employment. Laughing

I hope this helps somebody else and thanks for the help, Chris.

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

@wolfwatcher51: Which window manager are you using? You can put a sleep before auto-starting the wbar in such a way that wbar loads only after the window manager/wallpaper etc are loaded completely. This way, the first time wbar comes up - will not have any black background. It will appear transparent. Mine works with sleep 3.

Jaybekay · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 72 Location: America's hat

wolfwatcher51

My screenshot was after changing from a light wallpaper to the blue one. I'm pretty sure I had your problem with the black area too. Have you changed your wallpaper since the problem fixed itself? I think I had the problem disappear, until I changed wallpaper. Then the next reboot it was messed up again.

Eventually, I edited the .xinitrc file so (I think) the background comes up first, then wbar starts. Since the wallpaper is already up, the first "snapshot" is a good one. Here's what I changed to:

Meshica7 · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 44

In my on going attempt to make my Teen Pup look OS Xish,I have been doing some mods to the Wbar.
I gave the backbar a bit of a perspective tweek ala OS X Leopard and use scalable icons so they won't pixelate too much when they bloat.Let me know what ya think.

WhoDo · Posted: Sun 11 May 2008, 02:04 Post subject:

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

Is this gOS with Awn or Puppy with Wbar?
(I was working on the same thing at the same time as Meshica7 was. Great minds think alike ... Smile

. I will let Meshica7 explain.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 2040 Location: Maine, USA

I would think that the "shelf" would have to be included the background with wbar sitting on it.
The partial reflections are a little strange.

Meshica7 · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 44

Eyes-Only · Posted: Sun 11 May 2008, 12:55 Post subject:

Thanks for explaining that Juan! That was fascinating!

When I stop and ponder about the programming and artistic talent we have around here---and that's just mentioning two of the multitude of qualities/talents found in people at this forum!---it just boggles my mind! Shocked

The things we achieve with this little 87meg distro (plus variants) are just truly astounding in scope people. I wonder how many of us here really understand and fully appreciate this?

Well, for me to say more would be akin to me getting onto a soapbox and start yet another great ramble session so I best stop. Wink

Great website by the way Juan. Fellow Native American I see? Only from the other side of the "imaginery border"? LOL! (I'm way up here in the cold northeast. -BRRR!-)

Amicalement!/iHasta la vista me hermano!

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

Yeah my result also achieved exactly as Juan mentioned using the Perspective tool in Gimp. And the icons are reflective icons downloaded from kde-look.org. These icons were already being used in Macpup. Smile

Juan - BTW... forgot to mention - Great job. Looking forward to see many more such creations from you. The animations (in Dreamlinux, gOS and the like) are achieved using 3D dock's like Awn, Cairo Dock etc. If you have a 3D enabled graphics card, then you can try downloading wNOP (I dont know if you already did) and the Cairo Dock.

Links to both:
wNOP - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=163087
Cairo Dock - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26488

Infact if you have Xfce (like in wNOP, NOP, Happy etc), you may be able to get more Mac looking themes from http://xfce-look.org.