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Ron · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 184 Location: Around Seattle

Mick,
Is fsck something that should be run periodically as a preventive measure?

Is there some kind of "manual" for writing widgets?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

It is recommended to run fsck periodically.. I'm not sure on the interval though, I guess that would vary depending on how intensely you change files in your filesystem, but I think once a month would be fine, unless you notice problems, often it will fix them.

There is no manual, we did have some howtos on the old wikki. Sigmund did write a howto but it is buried somewhere in theis rather large thread! A search may turn up something. Include 'zigbert', 'pwidgets', 'howto' in any search string.

Cheers

EDIT<---- here you go http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=257468#257468

Smile

EDT2.. I just realised that that is old info. Plugins are now at /usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/plugins.. so it basically still applies but most of the paths are now
/usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/
not
/root/.pwidgets/widgets/

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5244 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 2.3.1
See main post

- Puppylinux widget shows distro name (thanks to jrb)
- Extras pack is updated to work in a multiuser environment (thanks to 01micko)
- Minor improvement of Birthday-widget.
- Bugfix: sunday as first day of week in calender (thanks to 01micko)

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5244 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Mick
I have upgraded the extras-pack in the main post to your latest

Thank you
Sigmund

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Hi zigbert

Getting 404 not found messages for download links. Apparently, the older pets are being requested.

The requested URL /zigbert/pwidgets-2.3.0.pet was not found on this server.

The requested URL /zigbert/pwidgets_extras-2.2.4.pet was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Thanks,
Jim

Downloads fine now, Thanks for the updates.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5244 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

I am a bit too fast today Smile

fixed
Sigmund

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

@ Zigbert

I'm using the PWidgets application ( current build Nov 2010 ) on a USB flash drive installation.

I have noticed that I need to reset the CPU plugin each time if I move from a PC that has single or multiple core.

Is there a way that it could identify automatically between the two options ie single core or multicore cpu?

gjuhasz · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 120

All versions of pwidgets: if I switch to UTF-8, the Weather widget does not show Celsius/Fahrenheit after the number.
Something could be wrong with interpreting the degree character ° in case of UTF-8.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Hi Sigmund

Brown Mouse reported a problem with theming. I didn't get exact details but the widgets (except clock) lost all colour. I could reproduce the problem by just swapping out a widget but then I swapped them all out, refreshing, then adding them again the problem disappeared. I haven't looked too close yet but my hunch is maybe a bug in one of the themes?

Here is Brown Mouse' problem. It seems to be independent of which puppy version.

Cheers!

tazoc · Posted: Wed 15 Dec 2010, 17:40 Post subject: Thank you for Pwidgets!

Hi, Just wanted to thank you for the excellent work on Pwidgets. It is built into Lighthouse Pup 5.00G, with a few, mostly cosmetic modifications and works great in JWM, IceWM and even Xfce 4.

I modified Patriot's tweak for xonclock in Xfce in /usr/local/Pwidgets/func ~line 172:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5244 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5244 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

grimoire · Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 68

I've tested your pwidgets and it works great!

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5244 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Forgot to mention that version 2.3.2 is uploaded.
See main post.

Changelog
- No sidebar at default.
- Do not read cluster plugin at default
- Bugfix: xonclock in xfce (thanks to tazoc)

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 580 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day zigbert,

The config for the CPU-bar has nothing in its text entry? Last lines are missing?

As a work-around, I copy the "TEXT" from an earlier pwidgets cpu-bar config file that includes text for both CPUs plus the RAM so my pwidget shows both my CPUs usage and also the RAM usage:

TEXT
${color0}R A M ${color5}${membar 10,110}
${color0}CPU 1 ${color3} ${cpubar cpu1 10,105}
${color0}CPU 2 ${color6} ${cpubar cpu2 10,105}

Combining CPUs and RAM usage as coloured bars seems to me a better use of display screen space than the default needle-meters that also cover some of my partition/drive icons across the bottom of the monitor.

David S.