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Patriot · #201 Post by **Patriot** » Sat 28 Feb 2009, 07:08

Hmmm ...

I'm feeling a little better today and I thought I'll post whatever has been done so far with the hope that it will be usefull to someone ... Please look at the main Eye-Candy subforum for the thread.

@`foo
You're absolutely right ...

@disciple & panzerpuppy
No promises but I'll see if it's possible to get resizing from the top border again. Horizontal gradient can be done but needs a bit more coding than you'd imagine ... the current vertical gradient colors is done manually in JWM ...

@Leon
JWM was hardcoded to do certain stuffs to be that mean lean WM.

I'm sorry but I didn't start moving ahead just to make a full reverse later on. Blame it on my nearsightedness. FWIW, please take a look at the JWM enhancement thread for a standard bugfixed version. A little extra tweak included too since it makes sense to have it ...

It's possible to have the window title centered. No promises though ...

Anyway, I do appreciate your feedback and your concern ... Thank you.

@ttuuxxx
Internally JWM doesn't care about icon sizes. Whatever icon sizes you threw at it will be resized to fit the target menu/button height/width. Resizing quality is at the mercy of X render library ....

The program submenus have hardcoded height if I'm not mistaken (can't remember off hand) to fit 16pix icons. Only the main root menu have adjustable heights.

If icons are displayed with blurred edges then its probably due to artifacts scattered around the icons like antialiasing residue, alpha channel or something (after a resizing). I've tested a 256pix icon being resized correctly to the menu bar. It looks cleaner if I resized it manually and cleaned up the edges/artifacts ... Also it seems cleaner if the desktop supports alpha channel (24/32bit depth?) ...

Rgds

Dougal · #202 Post by **Dougal** » Sat 28 Feb 2009, 11:41

Patriot wrote:The program submenus have hardcoded height if I'm not mistaken (can't remember off hand) to fit 16pix icons. Only the main root menu have adjustable heights.

No, you specify the height for them and if it's 0 it resizes to fit the icon (I've been using 22x22 and 24x24 for ages with it).

Patriot · #203 Post by **Patriot** » Sat 28 Feb 2009, 22:19

Hmmm ....

Just made quick check and yep, you're right ... the submenu height can be adjusted too ... thanks for pointing that one out ... Haha ... now I can really modify the menus and make more submenus ...

Later I'll need to make further checks on what the icon sizes will be given a particular height ...

Rgds

01micko · #204 Post by **01micko** » Sat 28 Feb 2009, 22:27

Hi Patriot,

Looking nice, one query, How do I change the close button from the powerswitch icon? If you have addressed this please point me there.

Thanks

Patriot · #205 Post by **Patriot** » Sun 01 Mar 2009, 00:57

Hmmm ...

Hey there 01micko,

Right, I will need to update my Q&A for this later ... Anyways, could you kindly go to the JWM enhancement thread please, so that everyone may also benefit from the answer I've made to your query ?

Rgds

dejan555 · #206 Post by **dejan555** » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 19:07

I've finally made my blue JWM theme, I wanted to do this for a long time, but this time the colors matched perfectly!

Here's the screenshot of how does it look like with Patriot's enhanced JWM:

^Click to enlarge | Download theme:

steve_s · #207 Post by **steve_s** » Sun 08 Mar 2009, 12:16

Once again, great job, dejan!

dejan555 · #208 Post by **dejan555** » Sun 08 Mar 2009, 20:31

Thanks, renamed package to jwm_calmblue so the petget manager doesn't say that 'jwm' is already installed! LOL

dejan555 · #209 Post by **dejan555** » Fri 13 Mar 2009, 22:26

Maybe something like this for your DeepThought pup?

^Click to enlarge | Download:

panzerpuppy · #210 Post by **panzerpuppy** » Fri 13 Mar 2009, 23:28

How about a nice WinXP Luna-style theme for the refugees?

dejan555 · #211 Post by **dejan555** » Sun 15 Mar 2009, 10:53

It's not gonna be me who's gonna make it panzerpuppy

Maybe try the blue theme from my previous post? Never liked the very shiny blue windows theme, it's just not comfortable to look at! I reworked DeepThought theme a bit, this is my new version:

#212 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Fri 20 Mar 2009, 06:20

Ok This is for testers, I'm not sure sure how well this works, I hacked the JWM source code and came up with this new menu, It doesn't use icons in the menu only, but it does look slick. Everything else is the same, basically if you install this pet, it will replace your current JWM. With this verson, then you'll have to restart X server to see the changes.
ttuuxxx

Ps just added the sources below.

magerlab · #213 Post by **magerlab** » Thu 26 Mar 2009, 12:31

i have a request of a theme for small screen ( netbooks e.g.)
withm smaller fonts( 9) and window borders (7 or 5 pixels)

puppyluvr · #214 Post by **puppyluvr** » Fri 27 Mar 2009, 00:25

Patriot,
Very Nice...Love the transparency and rounded borders..
I especially like what it does for the tray....

@1 point..The pet put the binary in /usr/X11R7/bin....
I moved it to /usr/local/bin and it worked fine...
Also, If you use translucency, don`t use "move=opaque" ...
Drags my 1.8 g 768mb machine to a crawl when I move them..
Looks really cool though...

Resize=opaque seems OK ....

Now, how do we get rounded corners on the menu??
LOL, you started something here....

@magerlab,
Any particular color scheme??

magerlab · #215 Post by **magerlab** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 11:29

for me size matters more

maybe it's possible to have something like prelude theme for xfwm4
http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.p ... tent=69300
although it's extreme thin

and fonts in menu and panel ...
as for colors ; light blue or black to match black icons

dejan555 · #216 Post by **dejan555** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 12:06

how do i change jwm menu button in 4.2?
I've found /root/.jwm/start-button.png, renamed it then linked mine to start-button.png and restarted x but it didn't change?
Or I have to reboot the whole system?

steve_s · #217 Post by **steve_s** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 12:22

dejan555 wrote:how do i change jwm menu button in 4.2?
I've found /root/.jwm/start-button.png, renamed it then linked mine to start-button.png and restarted x but it didn't change?
Or I have to reboot the whole system?

I asked that on the icon thread, too, dejan555...great minds think alike and all that...hopefully one of the puppy nobility knows the answer to that one...

dejan555 · #218 Post by **dejan555** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 12:27

Let's hope so...

#219 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 12:56

dejan555 wrote:how do i change jwm menu button in 4.2?
I've found /root/.jwm/start-button.png, renamed it then linked mine to start-button.png and restarted x but it didn't change?
Or I have to reboot the whole system?

to change that you need to edit 2 locations

/root/.jwmrc-tray
<TrayButton icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps/start-button.png">root:3</TrayButton>

/root/.jwmrc
<RootMenu label="Menu" labeled="false" height="24" onroot="3">

if you don't want it to say 'Menu' and you just want to display a image delete label="Menu"
so it looks like this

<RootMenu labeled="false" height="24" onroot="3">

Hope that helps
ttuuxxx

dejan555 · #220 Post by **dejan555** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 13:10

Yep, that worked thanks!
Another one, I know it's kinda offtopic but if anyone would know how to set amsn to show tray icon so it can be minimized in jwm?

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