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[zigbert]

Pwidgets
Desktop widgets for Puppy
It's a utility to use conky and xonclock as the engine for desktop apps.

Download
username: puppy
password: linux
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Delete /root/.pwidgets before upgrading from older version
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Pwidgets-2.2.0 (261 kb) - Puppy 3/4 - Includes all dependencies - Optimized conky 1.6.1, Wallpaper setter, xonclock...

Pwidgets_extras-2.2.0 (557 kb) - Conky 1.7.1 + heavy bling
Pwidgets_upup-2.0.8-1 (201 kb) - Puppy 5

Included widgets in base package:
Alarm
Battery
Birthday
Calendar
Clock_analog
Clock_digital
Cpu_bar
Cpu_graph
Downspeed
Drive_space
EUR_USD
Horoscope
Mail
OsmoTasks
Pet
Pmusic
Processes
Puppylinux
PuppyLogo
Puppyspace
Ram_bar
Ram_graph
Reminder
RssFeed
ScrollText
SlideShow
Sun
Temp_cpu
Today
Weather
Wireless
WorldTime

- Check wiki for extra widgets and more info.
- Quick reference
- Langauge support

Note!
If you have looked into Pwidgets poor theming, please note that it is possible to make individual themes for each widget. See /root/.pwidgets/themes/DeepThought/. Here you see 'main' and 'Ram'. Main theme is used when no individual theme exist. All widgets with DeepThought theme are goldish, but the Ram widget are blue.


Special thanks to 01micko, trio and tasmod for help and testing!!!
Sigmund Berglund



Changelog
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Version 2.2.0 (15.Nov 2009)
- Fixed for multiuser Puppy. (thanks to Pizzasgood)
- improved theme management.
- Doubleclick in list (right) --> open plugin.
- Simplified language handling.
- Puppyspace widget has been renamed to Space_Puppy_filesystem
- Drivespace widget has been renamed to Space_drives
- Bugfix: Pmusic widget
- Bugfix: Today widget
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Version 2.1.1 (31.Oct 2009)
- Temp_cpu widget now supports eee machines (thanks to 01micko and tempestuous)
- New widgets: Reminder (thanks to 01micko), Birthday.
- Improved hadling of Pwidgets pids when closing (thanks to patriot)
- Bugfix: Link to wikipage (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: Widgets position when using more than 1 screen. (thanks to pyro)
- Bugfix: Calender when active day is 1 - 9.
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Version 2.1.0 (22.Sep 2009)
- Updated conky (thanks to patriot)
- New widget: EUR_USD (thanks to MinHundHettePerro)
- New widget (in extra package): WeatherX (thanks to 01micko)
- New widget (in extra package): Cpu_gauge, and Mem_gauge (thanks to tasmod)
- New widget (in extra package): Image (thanks to 01micko)
- New clockskin (thanks to dejan555)
- Patched wallpaper setter for Puppy 4.3 (thanks to 01micko)
- Puppylinux widget includes kernel nr (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Syntax errors. (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: App killed at startup if xwininfo missed. (thanks to sketchman)
- Bugfix: Digits between every number in the Puppylinux widget (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: Weather widget must have "HEIGHT=100" instead of 85. (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: "Puppy Linux" should be "Puppy Linux" (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: Weather Widget: show °F instead of just F (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: Calender widget in Puppy 4.3 fails
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Version 2.0.8 (16.May 2009)
- Autodetection of all languages in ISO 639-1.
- Kill all processes when close gui with window manager.
- Analog clock plugin updated. (thanks to trio)
- PuppySpace widget: Red if 20% OR 100mb remains.
- Puppylinux widget has got a dot between all digits. (thanks to 01micko and trio)
- Alarm widget updated. (thanks to 01micko)
- Chinese support (thanks to sasaqqdan)
- Bugfix: kill pid when close window via window manager.
- Bugfix: Show Pwidgets version number in 'about' dialog.
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Version 2.0.7 (17.Apr 2009)
- Widgets: Sun, Alarm, CPU_Temp, ScrollText (thanks to MinHundHettePerro, tasmod, 01micko and trio)
- Auto sleep value at startup (thanks to patriot)
- Pdingobats updated (thanks to 01micko)
- Window not sizable
- Bugfix: Weather missed a icon (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: apply right sidebar, then apply left sidebar, you'll get both sidebars (thanks to trio)
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Version 2.0.6 (20.Mar 2009)
- New plugin: Worldtime, Calendar (thanks to tasmod and Minhundhettepero)
- Updated wireless widget, downspeed plugin (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Tv-fix - yet another time (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Text length in wireless widget (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Text size in drive_space widget
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Version 2.0.5 (19.Mar 2009)
- New widget: Drive_space
- New plugin: Downspeed (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Weather celcius symbol (thanks to 01micko)
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Version 2.0.4 (18.Mar 2009)
- Plugin: weather (thanks to 01micko and trio)
- Msg: Changing clock-skin. (thanks to trio)
- Msg when changing wallpaper and fixwidgets updates sidebar.
- Bugfix: Tv plugin ( thanks to trio)
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Version 2.0.3 (17.Mar 2009)
- Use Patriots hacked conky for speedup and size-shrink
- Pwidgets package contains now ALL dependencies.
- Tv and Slideshow wigdets are moved to Pwidgets_extra package.
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Version 2.0.2 (16.Mar 2009)
- Desktop is not redrawn after bootup (thanks to Patriot for his hacked xonclock)
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Version 2.0.1 (15.Mar 2009)
- Default settings are set to match WhoDos settings in Puppy 4.2rc3.
- New Plugins: Horoscope, Pet, RssFeed (thanks to trio and 01micko)
- New clockskin - JQ8lite (thanks to jebaJQ8)
- Increase xonclock sleep value from 0.2 to 1 second (thanks to WhoDo)
- Bugfix: Set clock arm color other than 'theme' (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Start html-browser with new pid (thanks to trio)
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Version 2.0 (13.Mar 2009)
- Several new widgets. (thanks to tasmod, 01micko and trio)
- Plugin support.
- Set widgets background (sidebar). (thanks to trio)
- Several sidebars included. (thanks to 01micko, trio and WhoDo)
- Several plugins included. (thanks to trio and 01micko)
- Save (and load) widgets configuration.
- Run several configurations at the same time.
- Improved handling of themes.
- Included several new themes. (thanks to 01micko and tasmod)
- Several new clockskins. (thanks to jebaJQ8 and 01micko)
- Pwidgets are generally faster.
- Start/Stop all Pwidgets processes. (thanks to tasmod)
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Version 1.0 (13.Feb 2009)
- Language support
- Simplified gui
- Store chosen theme in pwidgetsrc
- Update of rss widget. (thanks to trio)
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Version 0.8 (12.Feb 2009)
- Rss widget. (thanks to trio)
- OsmoTask widget. (thanks to trio)
- Wireless pet. (thanks to tasmod & trio)
- Link to www for more widgets.
- Removed call of fixPuppyPin (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Pet widget (thanks to 01micko)
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Version 0.7 (8.Feb 2009)
- Pet widget (thanks to 01micko)
- Use 'own_window_type override' to avoid conky widgets shows up in JWM pager.
- Simpler handling of farenheit in weather widget. (thanks to pistoi0)
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Version 0.6 (6.Feb 2009)
- Parallell rendering of xonclock, xli and conky. (to avoid many sleeps)
- Show title in window heading (thanks to tasmod)
- Bugfix: Ensure slideshow frame draws below images (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Slideshow fails when more that 8 pics in slide. (thanks to micko01)
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Version 0.5 (5.Feb 2009)
- Pweather font. (thanks to jebaJQ8 and micko01)
- Slideshow will stretch image to fit frame (thanks to MU)
- Bugfix: The analog clock renders well (thanks to trio)
- Bugfix: Changed MONOFONT.TTF to monofont.ttf (thanks to trio)
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Version 0.4 (29.dec 2008)
- Slideshow widget for Photos (thanks to 01micko)
- Widget for Pmusic (thanks to wow)
- Not necessary to add 'fixwidgets &' to /root/.xinitrc (remove if you already have)
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Version 0.3 (20.dec 2008)
- New options dialog. Set vertical startpoint and desktop position.
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Version 0.2 (19.dec 2008)
- New infrastructure to freely add your own widgets.
- Theme support.
- Improved editing features of widget list. Up, down, remove widget.
- Weather widget available (thanks to sintot)
- Battery / Puppyspace widget turns red when status becomes critical (thanks to DC)
- Some minor widget improvements
- Bugfix: Analog-clock didn't show up until mouse-click (thanks to 01micko)

[trapster]

WaaaaaHOOOOOOO !!!!!!

Installing now.

[trapster]

Off to find some apps

[zigbert]

Use the conky package linked in the main post. It includes xli.

Sigmund

[trapster]

Too late, already found an xli.pet from petch.

The configs run on my desktop if I run them thru conky in a console.

This is with pwidgets in console trying to start battery:

[trapster]

This shows up when closing pwidgets window:

[01micko]

Been having a play, but can't seem to get analgue clock to work at all. I can't see a config file for it. Same result in Icewm or Jwm.

[WhoDo]

[Dingo]

a couple of silly questions

it is safe to use on Puppy 3.01?

amount of RAM needed for pwidget and concky is little or can bust many MB of RAM?

[01micko]

Btw, thankyou Zigbert for this cool tool.

Ok, been playing some more, tried to setup pwidgets simply with, "puppy linux", "analog clock" and "calender" in the right hand column. Hit apply,sure enough I had "PuppyLinux 4.10" at the top, a space where analog clock should go, then the calender.
I ran "fixwidgets" in a console and here is what happenned,

these shots overlap, you can see. Hope this sheds some light.

[WhoDo]

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Yes, it works great on 3.01....

@zigbert,
Dude, this is great..I love the easy configuration, just like Conkey.
One question, how to get it to write to the root desktop?? (Personal reasons)..
This is a winner, the choir sings on....
Hail Zigbert...

Puppy 3.01 with E-16 / Wbar / Gdesklets and Pwidgets

[zigbert]

No analog clock

Pwidgets package did not include the xonclock executable. I have uploaded it again. Download from main post.

Warren
The config button opens geany with the widgets config file(s). Maybe it would be better to rename button to 'Edit config file'.

There is no configs for the analog clock. But you can change the clock by setting another skin. The file is /root/.pwidgets/configs/Clock-analog.png


Sigmund

[01micko]

Works like a treat! Thanks again Zigbert, it may only be eye candy but it will sell Puppy to the masses!

[ttuuxxx]