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MU · Last edited by MU on Sat 19 Nov 2005, 01:55; edited 12 times in total

This is a Task-Bar for Windowmanagers without one like oroborus.

Start it from the Dotpups-menue, or add "puppy-fbpanel&" to /root/.xinitrc

Homepage:
http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/

Screenshot on Puppy:
http://noforum.de/pics/fbpanel.jpg

This is a new version, that includes an automatic menue-generation based on the Program jwm2fbpanel-menu from Rarsa.

If you want to edit the preferences, look in the folder /root/.fbpanel/
Do NOT edit "default", as it will be automatically overwritten.
Instead, use "default-personal" and "default-personal2".

New update:
A new bottom panel with the pager and easy to custimize Quick-launch-buttons now can be shown/hidden by a click on the "gears"-icon.
The Quicklaunch-icons use a configurationfile like this:

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

When I implied that I would use fbpanel with oberous wm,
I meant that if the menu-structure was simplified. Maybe ther is a way for the fbpanel to call on puppy's menu ?
Anybody know a way for this to work ?

bombayrockers · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 421 Location: Mumbai, India

This is my suggestion
some one with c experience needs to change the menu code in fbpanel to handle jwmrc.
rarsa has already worked with jwm menu and created the jwm2xdg convertor. I have seen joes site the maker of jwm his xdg converter has now been integrated into jwm 1.0.
may be he can help.

rarsa · Posted: Thu 17 Nov 2005, 16:07 Post subject:

I haven't had a chance to check on fbpanel.

fbpanel may already have that functionality.

If it does not, of course we could have a look at the code and see how difficult it would be to add a plugin with the XDG menu functionality.

I just checked the project page and there is no reference to how to create plugins. Again, the code may give us the answer.

In any case, Generating the fbpanel menu from the XDG structure should be quite easy.

It would have been easier if the configuration file was XML, I wonder why they decided a C like syntax for the configuration that requires ad-hoc parsing.

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

Great Job rarsa tell us when you need tester's & question's of course.

rarsa · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 02:37 Post subject:

OK, here it is.

I'm posting a puppy1.0.6 standard configuration file. It must go to /root/.fbpanel/default to be the default panel.

If you want to name differently, you will need to start fbpanel with the -p option.

I created a small utility to convert a JWM menu to an fbpanel menu.

the only glitch right now is that fbpanel seems to require the full path for the icons. I haven't added that inteligence to the utility so I just added the path manually.

Here is the program (in case you want to try it). The program is not necessary to use the menu, just to regenerate it if you need.

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

Okay I tried it it works. But it looks as if you edited the fbpanel-menu ?
Unless I am wrong ? Is this your xdg menu thingy ?

Is there a way that people will not have to "make" & "make install"
Or you were just helping out ? If so And I like it I will gladly after errors are solved try and make a fbpanel puppy complete & orboruswm dotpup. Try.

Thanks rarsa.

MU · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 09:37 Post subject:

I updated the dotpup.
Now it includes Rarsas new program.
I also added a puppybasic-script, that sets the Paths for the icons and adds a "Restart fbpanel" -Menueentry.

If you want to add it to .xinitrc, use "puppy-fbpanel", not "fbpanel".

Many thanks to Rarsa for his excellent program Exclamation

Mark

rarsa · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 10:27 Post subject: Re: ok

MU · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 10:39 Post subject:

I had a bug in the "Restart fbpanel".

Please install the dotpup again.

Mark

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

rarsa is there a way to get rid of these virtual desktops ?
I only need the one I am using. I can understand why people need more than the one they are staring at though. Thanks.
Also gonna have to find something better than oroborus it is small but limited compared to others.

rarsa · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 12:24 Post subject: Re: question ?

MU · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 14:15 Post subject:

klh, what do you miss with oroborus?

It can be customized by editing /root/.oroborusrc-personal

It is also 100% compliant with my Window-Control:
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=2592

oroborus has no grafical tools, so they must be added seperately by 3rd-party-developpers.
But it has excellent support of the NetWM/EWMH-specifications from http://freedesktop.org
So you can easily develop tools, especially PuppyBasic is prepared for this.

If you miss something, tell me, and I will try to add it.

Greets, Mark

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

The first thing I noticed is resizing. I can maximize & minimize
windows and what have you. But can't manually resize windows.
And it might be me but it seems slow. It looks nice with the windows feel and rarsa made magig with fbpanel. One question about fbpanel rarsa. And I migh have already asked. But did you manually edit the menu or use your xdg menu thingy ?

MU will keep looking for other "issues". I am glad to hear that it has extras available by third party dev. So far so good, looks slow, responds nicely has an okay feel to it. Thanks.

MU · Posted: Fri 18 Nov 2005, 14:25 Post subject:

you can resize Windows by dragging the corners.
If not, which theme do you use?

Mark