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[davenull]

radky,

The solution above didn't work by itself, but the original one in your PM to me with the extra lines creating the missing directories did.

The directories aren't persistent, but with the lines placed in a shell script at startup...

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /tmp/launchbar1 /tmp/launchbar2
chown spot:spot /tmp/launchbar1
chown spot:spot /tmp/launchbar2

...Pale Moon as spot is working great across reboots so far. I'll see if any further issues arise.

Thanks so much for your help!

[radky]

Hi davenull,

Thanks for confirming your success with palemoon as spot in FbBox.

To clarify, the following code sets correct permissions for palemoon in Tahrpup, and enables launching palemoon as spot from the Puppy menu in FbBox.

[Pelo]

FbBox 2.0 for Thar as default in PuppyBang Linux 6.0.3. No Difference with version 4.0 ? If i download version 4 above version 2.0, what is happening.. Feed back soon.

[radky]

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[Pelo]

i will feed back in french in this topic by Musher0 It's much easier to explain thing in our native language. Musher0 is bi-lingual,

[belham2]

Hi Radky,

I've been putting FbBox-4.0 as the 'default' desktop manager in various woof-Ce builds I've done the past several days, and it all has been working quite good. Upon initial boot, user never sees anything jwm-related and fbbox-4.0 sets ups completely to its default settings & all its glory.

Anyhow, on a build I did just yesterday, a Slacko32 with kernel 4.1.11, all was working great, and then something weird happened, I'll recount the steps here exactly:

1) Via MENU button, I slid up and opened the "Control Center" for Fbbox Control Center"

2) Slid over to the "Settings" tab & clicked it

3) Wanted to modify the "Time Format"

4) In "Time Format", I elected (on the 2nd tab) to use "Custom"

5) I entered exactly "%d %b %n %I:%H:%S PM", and hit 'set' to set up this time format in the tray. It set itself up perfectly, showing on two lines in the fbpanel bttom tray beside the volume button:

17 APR
01:44:16 pm

6) I then closed the Fbbox Control Center out, and was using the browser for a half hour Googling something.

7) I then looked back at the time in the bottom tray panel, and realized I forget to put "%a" in front of "%d....." so that the 3 letter "day" abbreviation would also show.

So, I repeated the process/steps above, and added "%a" in front of %d %b %n %I:%H:%S PM listed above.

9) I hit 'set', and then that's when 1st thte time disappeared in the tray panel, and 2nd, the "Time Format" in FBBoxCC completely quit functioning...it became unresponsive, and has stayed that way despite reboots and multiple times restarting both WM and X. The worse part is whatever adding the '%a' did, it completely wiped the time out of my tray panel, and it is like it never existed before, and I've no way to tell time by quickly glancing at the tray, Even the space for it beside volume is gone ..


I search through /root/config and also .fbpanel looking for something/anything that went wrong, and/or trying to override whatever happened (like you can do in .jwm files), but I can find nothing in the fbpanel folders/files I've found to correct this, let alone know what went wrong.

Would you have any idea what happened? Did adding the "%a" cause some self-destruct sequence to initiate and thus permanently disable having time in the bottom tray panel and/or having it even work when you open FbBox CC, Settings, and click on "Time Format'??? Why would fbBox show "%d %b %n %I:%H:%S PM" perfectly, but then completely crash & wipe itself when I added "%a" to get the three letter day abbreviation? To reiterate again,, clicking "Time Format' in FCC is completely dead and unresponsive, and I can't figure out how to get at least a basic time version back in the bottom fbpanel tray. Reboots, restarts, windowmgr restarts and X restarts do nothing. FDbBox-4.0 time is gone from the system it seems, lol.

Let me know what you think....I'd hate to have to do a complete rebuild just to get this working

[radky]

Hi belham2,

Fbpanel reads the current clock format from the "ClockFmt" line of $HOME/.config/fbpanel/default.

If the strftime code of this line is corrupt, the clock may become unresponsive.

For your selected strftime code, you should see something like the following in $HOME/.config/fbpanel/default and /usr/local/PupClockset/fbpanelClockFmt:

[belham2]

[radky]

Hi belham2,

Thanks for testing the fbpanel clock-fix, and for confirming the potential problems grep >= 2.21 may pose for some scripts in recent pups.

Some of the utlities in FbBox, such as PupClockset and PupSnap, parse special characters in various input strings, so the new 'grep' may fail in those scripts. The GNU grep developers are aware of potential issues with the new binary-detection heuristics of grep >= 2.21, but it seems there are no plans to change this behavior.

Consequently, for PupClockset and PupSnap, I will prepare updates that should (hopefully) provide compatibility with the new Slacko-7 series.

Thanks

[radky]

FbBox-5.0
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=769018#769018

[Billtoo]

Hi
Thanks for the new release, just giving it a try in xenialpup64.
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EDIT: I've changed to the sysinfobar, takes less room on the screen and all the info is there.

[radky]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for testing the new FbBox desktop.

I know you are a big fan of conky and gkrellm, but you might try the built-in SysInfoBar which features desktop system monitors plus optional sysinfo tooltips.

Thanks

[Billtoo]

[augras]

Hi radky,
I just see your new FbBox : Thanks for all this hard work.
I download it and will make you a feed back.
Philippe

[augras]

Hi radky,
Your FbBox works fine on Triton6.0, a remastered tarhpup6.0.5 by petihar.
Only 2 things :
- PupClockset have the same problem that i told you few months ago : when the clock display is changed nothing in the taskbar ; if you remember it's a problem in the french langpack, like in the spanish one ; i took the .mo that you have made at this time and it works fine ; but it's a .mo for the 2.5 version and it seems that some translations lake or are different.
- maybe you remember also that the marges in obconf are erased by fbpanel : you told me that it will works in the next FbBox, but it doesn' work.
It's just to let you know about these 2 things.
Thanks again,
Philippe