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Rhino · Posted: Sat 30 Dec 2006, 23:32 Post subject: JWM Themes

I have been playing around with JWM themes this week and I have made dotpups of three themes. I will include screenshots so you know what to expcet before you download them. After you download each dotpup, just click on the installer file (click_to_install-JWM-xxxxxx). You will then need to manually change the JWM theme and wallpaper. The new files will be installed to the correct locations. Feel free to delete the folder and dotpup once you have installed the files.

If your themeslist is/gets broken, all you have to do is edit /root/.jwm/themes/themeslist to be sure there is one filename on each line.

OK, here it goes!

Human Theme

Forest Theme

Black Theme

I hope to make a few more if time permits.[/i]

Eyes-Only · Posted: Sun 31 Dec 2006, 05:24 Post subject:

Hi Rhino!

I have several window managers installed on Puppy actually. I love to experiment when I have the time and play around. Used to be that Xfce was my all-time favourite but lately I've swung back around to IceWM now that one of the others here came up with the GTK "plugin" (themeselector05.pup in PSI).

But I did download these and the next time I'm in Puppy, sometime tomorrow night, I'm really looking forward to installing these! Those three themes you've made have to be the BEST I've seen to date for JWM, a window manager which is rather limited in scope for being able to made more attractive (IMHO) because of its being so lightweight.

You've done a magnificient job! I'm looking forward to more! Thank you so much!

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

Rhino · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 16:28 Post subject:

JWM-Vu Theme

I patterned this after some of the screenshots I had seen of Vista. Of course, I can't do the shaded menu bars and transparency of Vista, but it uses some of the same color schemes in a nice small size.

Let me know if there are any problems! Thanks.

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Rhino · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 17:11 Post subject:

I have want to have shadows on your screen with JWM and Puppy 2.10 or greater you need to use Xcompmgr-1.1.3.pup. You must be running Xorg rather than XVESA. You will need to append your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with the code:

amish · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 616

Rhino · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 18:13 Post subject:

JWM-xxxxx is the theme file settings ----> /root/.jwm/themes/
xxxxxxx.jpg is the wallpaper ---->/usr/share/backgrounds/

The executable edits the themeslist in /root/.jwm/themes/ to include the name of the theme so you can choose it from the menu in the jwm configuration application.

If you are interested in how to make the dotpup:

I included the three files in a folder and them dragged them to the dotpup maker (Dotpup-Wizard-06) and then went through the wizard which did the real work.

As far as the script goes it is as follows:

amish · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 616

AHHH, that's different than what i thought- so you have to manually run the script to install?

i think there's a way to get the dotpup creation wizard to automatically install files to folders OTHER than /usr/local/yournamehere and i forget where i read the instructions... maybe they come in a readme with the wizard. i can't think of any improvement on your script tho, it looks fine to me. MAYBE change "cp" to "cp -i" if you want it to ASK before overwriting.

Rhino · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 18:43 Post subject:

Thanks...that -i might be important. I will use that in the future Smile

WhoDo · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 19:36 Post subject:

amish · Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 616

Rhino · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 22:53 Post subject:

JWM-Andes

Another different, but nice looking theme.

MU · Posted: Mon 01 Jan 2007, 23:01 Post subject:

really great work, Rhino.
If Muppy was not based on Icewm, I would add them to it.

Concerning translucency:
this does not work for the JWM-menu as far as I know.
Other windowmanagers like newer versions of fluxbox supporting that use their own inbuilt functions for xcompmgr.

Rox 2.5 might work with a trick.
run "xprop" to get the window-ID of the backgroundpicture.
Then run transset windowid (or similar, try transset --help).
If that works, I might write a Puppybasic-program, that automates these steps.
Tomorrow, as I must sleep now.

Here is dotpup with transset:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?highlight=shadows&t=6547

For shadows:
http://dotpups.de/3DCC/2.12/Xcompmgr-1.1.3.pup

Mark

Rhino · Posted: Tue 02 Jan 2007, 00:18 Post subject:

JWM-Haze

A simple theme...somewhat similar to HazeWM. to make Haze look a little more like the real HazeWM, you might want to move the tray up to the top of the screen and make it a little larger, but going to:

Menu...Control Panel...JWM Configuration...Taskbar...Tray Placement...TOP. Then maybe change the height to TALL. I'm trying to figure out how to make the theme do that automatically, but not quite there yet. If I figure it out, I will post another version of this theme.

Kal · Posted: Wed 03 Jan 2007, 16:59 Post subject: Auto Change Background

How do you modify the background "bg-jwm-XXX" files in /root/.jwm/themes to work with the new rox2.5, that's in Puppy2.13? I know that clicking on roxrestart,sh in /usr/local/puppybackground/resource does it (I made a link in Customise Menu). after you have dragged and dropped the ROX-background.jpg from /root/Choices on to the rox Set backdrop. But, how to automate this from JWM configuration with bg-jwm-XXX. Does anyone know, I may have missed this somewhere.
Kal

Rhino · Posted: Wed 03 Jan 2007, 20:20 Post subject:

I don't have a solution, but if you figure it out, please post it here and let me know. I would be very interested in making the themes that I made install AND set the theme upon installation.