Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

puppyluvr · Last edited by puppyluvr on Sun 30 Nov 2008, 16:30; edited 6 times in total

Hello,
Well, I always liked these little guys!!
So I made a Pet.
Works best on E-16 / KDE / Gnome / Compiz-Fusion.

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

works well in boxpup !
could you please add a menu entry to turn it off also ?

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

I like the little guys also. In fact, I have them running together with my wdm login screen. My 4-year-old son likes to watch the worms theme and alos gety a kick out of seeing 5,000 penguins(or whatever) starting at once...

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

@puppyluvr
The instruction you have quoted for restarting the pinboard by clicking on .xinitrc has problems.
.xinitrc is used to start several daemon processes, rerunning it will cause multiple instances of these processes
to restart the ROX pinboard without further implications try

puppyluvr · Posted: Thu 30 Oct 2008, 16:22 Post subject:

Thanks Will, suggestion removed... Very Happy

@I have a pet for XFishtank Desktop, and am working on XEarth...
Root window eye-candy Very Happy

puppyluvr · Posted: Tue 04 Nov 2008, 21:26 Post subject: South Park anyone??

Hello,
Southpark theme for Xpenguins!! Very Happy

Faller=Kenny
Skateboarder=Cartman
Climber Left=Kyle
Climber Right=Stan
Floater=Mr Mackie

Sweet................

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

Got a download link for that?

puppyluvr · Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2008, 10:05 Post subject:

Hello amigo,,

Very Happy

Not yet, as I havnt quite finished it yet, so I havnt uploaded it anywhere..So I Tar`d it up for ya..Well call this an alpha! Very Happy

2 directorys in the tarball:
XPark...Put this in /usr/local/share/Xpenguins/Themes
Extras: 3 scripts.( plus icons)
Put these in root, where they are easy to find.
XPenguins starts a menu to let you chose which theme..
XPark starts the XPark Theme automatically..
XParkOFF kills Xpenguins / XPark and restarts ROX..

Enjoy...Jay...

Edit: This is the G-rated version, in the PG version, Cartman is more himself...
Also, if you start this Theme from the console, you will get a few error msgs about image sizes...Im workin on it. Very Happy

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 16 Nov 2008, 14:06 Post subject:

Hello,
Well, I tarred up 10 Themes for Xpenguins, including my own XPark Theme, which now has 10 characters!! Very Happy

Just put them in /usr/local/share/xpenguins/themes...
Also made an XFireworks Pet..(from BSD).. It is set up for older hardware, so it runs very fast on newer machines..I have posted a script below to launch it and configure it to run slower..
XPenguins, XFireworks, and XScreensaver .Pets are all at my Buddapup link below...
Jay...

swen · Joined: 16 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

I'm new to Puppy. I downloaded the desktop toy and installed it, but I don't seem to be able to do anything with it. Help, please, and remember that I'm a beginer, please

puppyluvr · Posted: Fri 21 Nov 2008, 19:32 Post subject:

Hello swen,
To launch XPenguins in default mode, there should be a menu entry in "Fun"..
However, you will have to manually turn ROX on and off...The attached scripts will do it automatically, and give you a theme menu...
If you want more than one Theme, there are a few in a post above with instructions..
The scripts to launch and close Xpenguins, along with a theme menu, are attached below...
The scripts for Xfireworks are in a post above...

swen · Joined: 16 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

Many thanks. I can see this forum will be used quite alot.

puppyluvr · Posted: Fri 21 Nov 2008, 23:45 Post subject:

You`re Welcome, and Welcome aboard!!!
Very Happy

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Jay

You're a nutter Wink

love it!

Aitch Smile

puppyluvr · Posted: Sun 23 Nov 2008, 00:26 Post subject:

Aitch,
Yea, I love these toys...although..
The XPark thing is prob infringement, though I drew all the images, but I figure, after all they have done, Matt and Trey aint gonna sue me...If they do, at least I get to meet them...LOL...
Very Happy

Jay...