(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

recobayu wrote:Hi Everyone, can i join too? i made a wdz 8 theme with openbox in there.
you can download from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=64196

Looks nice, but I'd use only the Openbox and GTK theme, maybe with a tint2 configuration that makes it look like the wdz 8 taskbar? I think someone made a metro-puppy with conky, you can also use that to complete your wdz 8 clone.

Tman wrote:Hi Vicmz,

I like how you have configured your tint2 panel, it looks really nice.
To get items to close on right-click add the following to /root/.config/tint2rc :

mouse_right = close

This is under the "MOUSE ACTION ON TASK" category, near the bottom of the tint2rc file. Restart X Server for changes to take effect.

It's actually nilsonmorales who configured this Tint2, he's got talent for styles.

I've explored in my free time some tint2rc themes and configs, I liked many transparent setups. The menu is the hard one, I'm a bit stubborn for that. I don't know whether to include a dock, not include it or give one as optional, most versions of wbar won't work (or not properly) for all official releases, or at least for both Slacko and Precise. Anyway, those are details for a future release. Meanwhile, here are more tint2rc files, try and tell:

This is great work, thanks !

How can we get rid of jwm ?

One more step maybe would be to have spacefm or pcmanfm to replace rox.
Personnally I found XFE a perfect replacement but some people told me it was a bit 'complicated' compared to spacefm or pcmanfm. Openbox/pcmanfm is the couple behind Lxde desktop so maybe it would be best choice. I work daily with pcmanfm v1.1.0 at work and got no problem so far, so I think it's stable.

Best regards

Hi vicmz,

PupClockset supports both lxpanel and tint2 in OpenboxPlus.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61633

radky wrote:Hi vicmz,

PupClockset supports both lxpanel and tint2 in OpenboxPlus.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61633

Hello Radky
I'm in the process of gettexting the latest PupClockset and PupSnap, which I plan to include in the next release. OpenboxPlus is made to be multilingual, so that I don't have to make separate PETs for each language and everyone can enjoy it, not just those of us who speak English. For example, I posted on Taringa! (a social network very popular in the Hispanic world) six days ago about new Puppy Precise, OpenboxPlus, ToOpPy and Puppy-es, and the post made it to the top 10 of the week in the GNU/Linux community. And that's only for Spanish language.

lvds wrote:This is great work, thanks !

How can we get rid of jwm ?

One more step maybe would be to have spacefm or pcmanfm to replace rox.
Personnally I found XFE a perfect replacement but some people told me it was a bit 'complicated' compared to spacefm or pcmanfm. Openbox/pcmanfm is the couple behind Lxde desktop so maybe it would be best choice. I work daily with pcmanfm v1.1.0 at work and got no problem so far, so I think it's stable.

Best regards

PCManFM is a rogue one, too. I'm testing and can make it work properly but without support for the trash and drive detection, this means I have to use Pmount first then look manually in /mnt to view the content in the drive through PCManFM. I should check both Lxpup and Puppy-es, two excellent derivatives that have full working PCManFM, but I didn't have the time to download those yet.
As for ROX-filer and JWM, I wouldn't "get rid of them", better have them and not need them than need them and not have them.

vicmz wrote:PCManFM is a rogue one, too. I'm testing and can make it work properly but without support for the trash and drive detection, this means I have to use Pmount first then look manually in /mnt to view the content in the drive through PCManFM. I should check both Lxpup and Puppy-es, two excellent derivatives that have full working PCManFM, but I didn't have the time to download those yet.
As for ROX-filer and JWM, I wouldn't "get rid of them", better have them and not need them than need them and not have them.

LOL ok IMHO Rox could be easily replaced by PCManFM or Spacefm because they all can manage the desktop, so JWM wouldn't notice.

About PCManFM, that is not so bad to be this way you did. I have compared a lot with spacefm and it seems to me spacefm is more mature, so maybe you can compare that too. The manual mount of devices or not, it's only a choice. Check the latest Carolina, they have PCManFM with auto-mount that works great.

Best regards

vicmz wrote: most versions of wbar won't work (or not properly) for all official releases, or at least for both Slacko and Precise.

Installing a recompiled imlib2 pet should fix the problem for wbar not working in Slacko... Precise could be having the same issue.

I have compile Wbar in Slacko --> here

Hello Everyone,

I have wbar here http://smokey01.com/Oldyeller/pet_packages-manna/ That should work with no problems in precise, along with other pets that one might want to use.


Cheers

Thank you guys, I'll have in mind your tips and packages.

Meanwhile, I modified desktop-directories so that the menu has the icons of the current theme. You can test this by installing the pet below, but do not uninstall (it'll break the menu).

OpenboxPlus 1.5.3 released

See changelog in the first page

It worked well in Precise and Slacko!!!!
Highly recommend.

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Compositing options for use with Openbox

This is a pet compiled by nilsonmorales, xcompmgr-dana (a fork of xcompmgr) which gives smooth compositing to Openbox:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/647 ... 3.pet?dl=1

To manage compositing options you have to edit the file /root/Startup/xcompmgr. Get more information about xcompmgr here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xcompmgr

If you use Xlock, note that xcompmgr-dana will break it.

For more advanced composition, try the Beryl pets from here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66371

Beryl is a window manager itself, but Openbox is used as a fall-back wm in case Beryl crashes (if you don't see anymore special effects then something caused Beryl to crash, for example I noticed that it happens in Precise when Wine is run).

Report:

The newest Raring distro is incompatible with this software.

The sound doesn't work after installation.

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don570 wrote:Report:

The newest Raring distro is incompatible with this software.

The sound doesn't work after installation.

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Thank you Don. I'll test as soon as I can.

Hi vicmz & don570,

Sorry about being a little late to the game. I was just going to post a "thank you" to vicmz but read thru the thread and noted don570's post just above. Sound is working using OpenboxPlus 1.5.3 in pemasu's raring 3.9.9. So either pemasu's latest build or vicmz quietly solved the problem.
But since I'm here let me interject some hopefully constructive criticism. Not regarding the OpenboxPlus 1.5.3, which overcame the two problems I had with Openbox + Extras: absence of "show desktop/Minimize All Windows" on Lxpanel taskbar and figuring out which ww-switcher to use. Rather, the criticism is that there wasn't a post with link from Openbox + Extras to OpenboxPlus.
Unfortunately, the Forum kind-of just evolved without planning. Usually, "the well-minded search" will lead in the right direction, but you still have to know what words to plug into it. Unfortunately, OpenboxPlus gets buried somewhere with Openbox + extras hogging top results. This "getting lost in the labyrinth" is fairly common, but usually takes the form of waiting patiently for the expected next version of a puplet to show up on a thread only to discover, a couple weeks later, that it show up on a new thread.
So while I know that devs have a great deal on their plates and already do more than we mere users have any reason to hope, I can only ask that, when relevant, they try to remember to link a new thread to the old thread.

Vicmz, thanks again for your splendid work.

mikesLr

Sorry, I thought I did , but thanks to you I could check the former thread and link to this one in the first post, to help users find it.

Thank you, mikeslr.

Hi vicmz,

You did. First line. Bolded and in large print. My bad.

Thanks again for your continuing improvements of a great application.

mikesLr

OpenboxPlus 1.6 beta 1 test release available, see first post.

New version 1.6 worked well in French in recent Precise.


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