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Meshica7,

Thanks for the file, I installed it and adjusted my -balfa setting and whoo whoo it looks great.

When I moved wbar to the bottom, it was partly covered by the task bar. I guess bottom means bottom of screen not window. I did not know how to adjust this, so i moved the task bar to the top. Not ideal, but I also hid it and I think it may grow on me.

I am very noob, but I am using grub with graphical, the first one they made. I have not tried the newer one because I cannot get onto the web site given to get the different screens. If you would like to go back and forth asking me what I have where, I would be happy to try and help that way. I hope that makes sense, Chris.

Here is another background for wbar.

Any chance for one in "reverse" for using at the top?

Is this what you wanted?

Hello folks!

Looks like we got something going here....

I am working on some different backbars to share with you all.I took the backbar that prit uploaded and did some gimpin' to the files.So here are 3 more.A transperant bar,a black glossy bar, and a flame bar (for those who like it hot!).Enjoy!

Note:Remember to rename the files to osxbarback before you use them and make a copy of your original.i have all of my different backbars in a folder called Wbar Backbars in my home directory and swicth them out when I get the urge.

I can't see the bottom one

It is transparent.. lol

We can better use the option-balfa 0 to make any back bar to be transparent.

Hello all,

Wbar and gDesklets make for one cool looking puppy if I do say so myself.

I use icewm and have moved the taskbar to the top and hidden it. My wbar is bottom, or center bottom and I like it there a lot.

Is there a (easy) way to move it up from the bottom a little? I think it would just look a little better to be up some. When I had the taskbar at the bottom and unhidden, I could not place wbar at the bottom because it was partially covered by the task bar.

Thanks in advance and keep up all the good work on this thing, Chris.

Nobody knows how to do this?

Thanks, Chris.

I expect you are going to have to modify the C source and recompile it.

wolfwatcher51 wrote:Nobody knows how to do this?

To fix the location of something like partview (which graphically displays the amount of free space on mounted partitions) you can make a change like this to set the window's opening position: That is possible because partview is an editable script. OTOH, wbar is a compiled binary program and you would have to alter the source and recompile. Not so easy. My guess is that's why you've had no answer. Try PM'ing Dougal, who compiled the original for Puppy, or find the source yourself and recompile with appropriate options.

Hope that helps

WhoDo.

Thanks for the reply.

OK, got it. Seems like something that should already be in it, but then we are thankful for what we have.

P.S. Find the source code and recompile myself with the appropriate options. I do not think I have had the good fortune to have met, in person, an Australian before. Glad to see you guys have a sense of humor, Chris.

Jaybekay wrote:

Wolf Pup wrote:Made wbar into a .pet package (overwrites any .wbar in /root , so backup if you dont.)
Needs imlib2-1.4.0 to work.

Wow! Does wbar ever make a big difference to JWM. Thanks for the .pet packages. It made wbar super easy to get going.

I'm not big on eye candy other than a decent wallpaper and icons. But since I always line up my most used application icons along the top of the screen anyway, wbar is a nice addition. My brother in law loves the dock in OS X, now my little Puppy gets something dock-ish.

wahhh howd you get conky to work

ive been at it for 2 hours D:
i suck at this

Hi Guys. Lee the noob here with a ? about wbar. Has any one tried it in Puppy 4.00 NOP? I been tryin all kinds of different things now for about a week to get it to work and it just won't start. Can wbar be made to work with xfce4 or is it just impossible? If any one has a possible solution to this I would be greatly thankful.

@mill0001: The latest puplet called Tigerpup is an Xfce (and Compiz) I believe. This uses Wbar.

It should be easily usable in Xfce also.

Edit: I just tried adding wbar to my NOP 4 install and it worked without a problem. Please explain what you are trying to do. Where is the code to start wbar? From where did you install Wbar?

@prit1: Hi, I used the petgets on this post to install from and I've been copying the start up codes from here to try to start it.

sleep 5; wbar -above-desk -jumpf 0 -pos bottom -zoomf 1.8 -idist 10 -isize 38 -bpress -balfa 80 &

this is what I used for start up script in .xinitrc, I just can't figure why it won't work for me. I deleted the top bar in my orig install of NOP and moved the bottom panel to the top. Thank you for the help so far. BTW I can't find a screenshot program on menu any where or I would take one and include it.

@mill0001: Thanks for the information.

Can you try running the command:
wbar -above-desk -jumpf 0 -pos bottom -zoomf 1.8 -idist 10 -isize 38 -bpress -balfa 80

from the console and post the results here. I believe there might be an error due to some missing icon image file.

Btw, the actual stuff you should have in your .xinitrc must be
I am sure there is a screenshot utility in the menu. I have taken a screenshot for NOP to post on the community website. Just that I am away from my Puppy laptop now and cannot check it.

Edit: I did check the menu and you are right, the screenshot utility is not there. I used the screenshot utility icon on the top panel. But since you have removed that panel, you will need it on the menu. Try asking Gray on the NOP thread.

@prit1: Hey, I tried what u told me and looked in wbar icon stash for a missing icon. You were right on Dude.The first line in .wbar config file stock points to a console icon which was not in the icon stash. Commented out those lines and voila, my bar appeared on restart of x. Still got a little bit of wierd behavior tho when it first starts it opens in a black window. I can right click on the black and it goes away. Here's what I'm usin for startin it in .xinitrc:
sleep 1; wbar -above-desk -jumpf 0 -zoomf 1.8 -idist 12 -isize 38 -bpress -balfa 80 &
I just got it to work so haven't yet put new launchers in .wbar for my other apps. Notice still the little black window around the pet get icon, strange eh?
Went ahead and added screenshot button to my top xfce panel so here it is in all it's glory. Thank you again prit for help and insight. BTW I've got the top bar set to autohide so u don't see it normally.

@mill0001: Now this is a cool screenshot. I am glad it worked for you.

Which Xfce theme are you using? And how did you add the screenshot icon to the panel? I am not familiar with doing this.

Try increasing the sleep to sleep 3 or sleep 5 and see if the black background goes away. I believe this is caused because Wbar takes a snapshot of the background before it loads. So at the time of snapshot, if the background is not fully formed, then it results in black backgrounds.

@prit1: Thanks again, I tried the sleep para but it just seemed to delay the loading of my desktop so I guess I'll just live with the black window on startup.
I added the button by right click on panel select "add new item" then pick from pop up window, very simple, Theme is Vista-ish and it was included in NOPv.4.00. Background I think I got from gnome-look. it's called "Emerald Space Theta". I edited some obscure file which I now can't remember to change the color of the desktop text and get rid of the gray backgrounds around it. As I told U I'm still pretty much of a noob at this Linux thing so all these little changes are takin me a long time to figure out. Got probs now tryin to make Abiword work. Also do U happen to know if there's a pet of Thunderbird I cud scoop up for my email? You've been a great help dude and thanks again.