Equinox Desktop For Puppy

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bombayrockers · #31 Post by **bombayrockers** » Wed 05 Oct 2005, 11:10

yes the icon manager does not work properly and that is why i had chosen to stick to rox pinboard as icon manager. i have posted earlier how to start ede with rox as icon manager.

ede is much slower than other window manager but it gives a familiar feel for the winblows refugee. look and feel can be changed using themes.

http://ede.sourceforge.net/page/themes

mjg · #32 Post by **mjg** » Wed 05 Oct 2005, 23:12

I should have realised that my problem setting the background was related to Rox 2.2, as described elsewhere by GuestToo, and not Equinox.

The solution is to right click a desktop icon and set the backdrop.

bombayrockers · #33 Post by **bombayrockers** » Fri 07 Oct 2005, 08:52

Those of who liked the icon manager but till wanted the good features of other wm's suck as icewm can use eiconman as thier icon manager instead of rox in the following manner. equinox needs to be installed for this to work.

1. click on home
2. make visible all the hidden files
3. you will see .xinitrc in it
4. make a copy of it by copying it to .xinitrc-bak
5. open it as text and scroll to the bottom where it says -> rox
6. comment this line and below it put this exec eiconman &
7. save
8. restart x

sling-shot NLI · #34 Post by **sling-shot NLI** » Thu 15 Dec 2005, 09:37

Wondering if someone has compiled one for the 1.0.6 Puppy or will do for 1.0.7 ?

#35 Post by MU » Thu 15 Dec 2005, 10:23

It does not need to be compiled from new.
Those Puppys are binary-compatible.
Mark

bombayrockers · #36 Post by **bombayrockers** » Thu 15 Dec 2005, 18:35

As MU said the binaries are compatible, however the menu is not updated. You may update the menu manually. However if you know scripting you can edit the a jwm to fluxbox menu convertor script by MU to work for equinox.

sling-shot · #37 Post by **sling-shot** » Fri 16 Dec 2005, 09:10

Unfortunately i can do neither. I am just a USER and APPRECIATER. Coding is not in my brains. (However little)

When i tried the available binaries a graphical screen with the Puppy desktop wallpaper will make a fleeting appearance and immediately disappear dumping me back to the command line.

bombayrockers · #38 Post by **bombayrockers** » Fri 16 Dec 2005, 11:02

take a look on page 2 of the post from where you can download equinox.1.0.4.pup. All dependencies are included in this package. Also read the instructions.

sling-shot · #39 Post by **sling-shot** » Sat 17 Dec 2005, 10:57

[bombayrockers]
The yourfilehost says that file has been deleted. Now got it from MUs post. Checking it out.

mayakovski · #40 Post by **mayakovski** » Sat 17 Dec 2005, 16:35

Downloaded the file from MU and it installed without a hitch on Puppy 1.0.6.

Seems about as fast as the other window managers for Puppy, and is very comfortable for someone comming over from Windows. Seems very stable so far, I have not encountered any problems with it yet.

But I'll keep looking.

bombayrockers · #41 Post by **bombayrockers** » Sat 17 Dec 2005, 17:31

equinox is still under development and not stable. I remember that the special effects in equinox do not work and it crashes, esp the menu effects.

mayakovski · #42 Post by **mayakovski** » Sat 17 Dec 2005, 17:47

bombayrockers wrote:equinox is still under development and not stable. I remember that the special effects in equinox do not work and it crashes, esp the menu effects.

Hmm,

Are these effects enabled by default? I have not seen anything I would consider an effect, just a clean, quick menu. No stability issues either.

bombayrockers · #43 Post by **bombayrockers** » Sat 17 Dec 2005, 19:00

These effects have been disabled in the dotpup so that it dose not crash. However if you do activate them be aware.

mayakovski · #44 Post by **mayakovski** » Sat 17 Dec 2005, 19:36

bombayrockers wrote:These effects have been disabled in the dotpup so that it dose not crash. However if you do activate them be aware.

Ah, Good idea.

Thanks for the warning.

sling-shot · #45 Post by **sling-shot** » Tue 20 Dec 2005, 14:41

Got it from MU's post. Worked fine on a clean pup001. (deleted the earlier one)
I have to say it is fast but visually not appealing. XFCE still gets the top billing

mjg · #46 Post by **mjg** » Thu 22 Dec 2005, 10:05

There's a fairly new lightweight distro called STX using EDE as the default WM.

I've tested it on my old laptop, which has video problems in Puppy.

It's not bad, except for a bug with dialup modem connections.

sling-shot · #47 Post by **sling-shot** » Fri 23 Dec 2005, 09:54

That STX thing is supposed to have a liveCD version but cant find it. And i cant do install and test on machines not of mine

mjg · #48 Post by **mjg** » Fri 23 Dec 2005, 12:09

A new version of STX is expected after Christmas. There are network bugs being fixed now, so you might as well wait.

I believe there are plans for a liveCD version. If you can read German you might find more information at: http://www.smp.soundhost.de/smf/index.php

I see the distro as complementary to Puppy on older systems, eg STX on your hard drive and Puppy live.

lostdog · #49 Post by **lostdog** » Fri 23 Dec 2005, 19:10

Here's the link to the STX (Stix) site in english. found it the other day while floating around.

http://www.stibs.cc/stx/index.html

mjg · #50 Post by **mjg** » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 08:26

I'm trying to figure out how to install new themes in EDE. Has anyone had success with this?

http://ede.sourceforge.net/page/themes

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