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#31 Post by trapster »

Someway say "darker look"?

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#32 Post by steve_s »

Nice! 8) Transparent menu looks good...hadn't tried that, but may have to give it a go.

Any fluxbox themes that you like, Trapster? Links?

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#33 Post by trapster »

ahem...you meant fluxbox styles?? :)
I use a tweaked variation of fisionbox style with the GTK blueheart theme.
Many fluxbox styles can be found Here

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! fisionBox for fluxbox.


! Miscellaneous settings...
style.name:	fisionBox-al
style.author:	me
style.date:	jue oct 9 2008
style.credits:me
style.comments:			for  fluxbox 1.14 dependencies: xv
		

! Toolbar settings...
toolbar.button:	Flat Solid Horizontal
toolbar.button.color:	#020202
toolbar.button.colorTo:	#000000
toolbar.button.picColor:	#FFEC8B
toolbar.button.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

toolbar.button.pressed:	Flat Solid Horizontal
toolbar.button.pressed.color:	#FFEC8B
toolbar.button.pressed.colorTo:	#FFEC8B
toolbar.button.pressed.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

toolbar.label:	Flat Solid Horizontal
toolbar.label.color:	#000000
toolbar.label.colorTo:	#000000
toolbar.label.textColor:	#FFEC8B
toolbar.label.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

toolbar.windowLabel:	Flat Solid Horizontal
toolbar.windowLabel.color:	#020202
toolbar.windowLabel.colorTo:	#000000
toolbar.windowLabel.textColor:	#FFEC8B
toolbar.windowLabel.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

toolbar.clock:	Flat Solid Horizontal
toolbar.clock.color:	#020202
toolbar.clock.colorTo:	#000000
toolbar.clock.textColor:	#FFEC8B
toolbar.clock.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

toolbar:	Flat Solid Horizontal
toolbar.color:	#FFFFFF
toolbar.colorTo:	#FFFFFF
toolbar.textColor:	#020202
toolbar.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
toolbar.justify:	Center

toolbar.workspace.font: dejavu sans-13:italic

! Menu settings...
menu.frame:	Flat Solid Horizontal
menu.frame.color:	#020202
menu.frame.colorTo:	#000000
menu.frame.textColor:	#FFEC8B
menu.frame.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
menu.frame.justify:	Right

menu.title:	Flat Solid Horizontal
menu.title.color:	#020202
menu.title.colorTo:	#000000
menu.title.textColor:	#FFEC8B
menu.title.font: dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
menu.title.justify:	Center

menu.hilite:	Flat Solid Horizontal
menu.hilite.color:	#FFEC8B
menu.hilite.colorTo:	#FFEC8B
menu.hilite.textColor:	#020202

menu.bullet:	Diamond
menu.bullet.position:	Right
menu.frame.disableColor:	#020202

! Window settings...
window.button.focus:	raised gradient diagonal
window.button.focus.color:	rgb:60/70/80
window.button.focus.colorTo:	rgb:20/24/28
window.button.focus.picColor:	white

window.button.unfocus:	raised gradient diagonal
window.button.unfocus.color:	rgb:60/70/80
window.button.unfocus.colorTo:	rgb:20/24/28
window.button.unfocus.picColor:	gray

window.grip.focus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.grip.focus.color:	#FFEC8B
window.grip.focus.colorTo:	#FFEC8B

window.grip.unfocus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.grip.unfocus.color:	#020202
window.grip.unfocus.colorTo:	#000000

window.handle.focus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.handle.focus.color:	#020202
window.handle.focus.colorTo:	#000000

window.handle.unfocus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.handle.unfocus.color:	#020202
window.handle.unfocus.colorTo:	#000000

window.label.focus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.label.focus.color:	#020202
window.label.focus.colorTo:	#000000
window.label.focus.textColor:	#FFEC8B
window.label.focus.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
window.label.focus.justify:	Center

window.font:dejavu sans-*-*-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
window.justify:	Center
window.label.unfocus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.label.unfocus.color:	#384551
window.label.unfocus.colorTo:	#000000
window.label.unfocus.textColor:	#888800

window.title.focus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.title.focus.color:	#020202
window.title.focus.colorTo:	#000000

window.title.unfocus:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.title.unfocus.color:	#020202
window.title.unfocus.colorTo:	#000000

window.button.pressed:	Flat Solid Horizontal
window.button.pressed.color:	#FFEC8B
window.button.pressed.colorTo:	#000000

window.frame.focusColor:	#020202
window.frame.unfocusColor:	#020202
handleWidth:	6
frameWidth:	6
bevelWidth:	0
borderWidth:	0
borderColor:	#FFEC8B
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#34 Post by steve_s »

Yes, "styles"...don't know how I could mix up that with the word "themes". 8) You should see me when I'm downloading themes versus gtk styles (each labelled accordingly)...which folder was that? crap, I saved it in the wrong one! etc. :wink:

Thanks for the link and the feedback.

*Edit: oh, man! I think I just switched 'em again in my explanation..ugh! :wink:

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#35 Post by steve_s »

Ok, trapster, or whomever else, is there some trick to getting pwidgets to work on fluxbox? I installed .1 and restarted my x screen and no widgets.

I understand that .2 just came out...maybe I need to switch?

I've got the pinboard commented out on .xinitrc...does that matter? :?

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#36 Post by redandwhitestripes »

Steve, it's my favourite version of Puppy :-)
Do you - or anyone else - know how I can get it to run from RAM after it's installed on my hard drive?

Oh and how do we get the transparency effects on the menus?

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#37 Post by steve_s »

redandwhitestripes wrote:Steve, it's my favourite version of Puppy :-)
Do you - or anyone else - know how I can get it to run from RAM after it's installed on my hard drive?

Oh and how do we get the transparency effects on the menus?
Actually, I might be able to help with both...when Puppy is done via a frugal, rather than full, install, it runs essentially like a livecd, being loaded to ram. Puppy is different in that way.

At first I would install Puppy as I would usually do an install, using up the whole hard drive. But now I select frugal, then change the boot loader (usually grub) and point it to the installed file (usually explained during the frugal install by Puppy). So, even though my hard drive may be an ext2 or ext3 filesystem like the "normal" linux install, it has essentially a blank drive save for the frugal install. Hope that makes sense.

As far as transparencies, when you right click via the menu in this version, you'll the fluxbox menu option at the top, then configure than at the bottom of that is transparency. I've never used it, but I would probably start there if I was looking into transparencies.

Perhaps someone else can help us out with that aspect of it...

Oh, and glad you like the puplet. 8)

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#38 Post by `f00 »

steve_s wrote:<snip> no widgets.
<mo'snip>
I've got the pinboard commented out on .xinitrc...does that matter? :?
Likely not, unless pwidgets has been changed yet again - oddly for some wms (like 'box-styles) it was a bit conflicted since it would start up the bg from /root/Startup/show_widgets by running .. not sure as I'm not in Pup atm but it did cause some oddness with Blackbox and Afterstep, both of which work better without PuppyPin making waves or the ROX-background from being set. I used a trifling mod on that pwidgets script in /root/Startup .. basically you stop it from loading puppypin or doing a fix* as it did in an early version .. instead use pwidgets_exec (and again, I think you have to give the path maybe .. I guess at scripts sometimes 'til they work, lol...

Anyhow, that's how I got it to work in BB and Afterstep - it may have changed since then ;) .. and ymmv (I only use it to display a custom 'conkywidget' and the Processes one)

Looking forward to having a 'patch' installer if that can be done realistically since a few recent dl's are deathly slow on dialup (hahaha, P42b1 is still dribbling in after ... ... ...)

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#39 Post by trapster »

steve_s wrote:Ok, trapster, or whomever else, is there some trick to getting pwidgets to work on fluxbox? I installed .1 and restarted my x screen and no widgets.

I understand that .2 just came out...maybe I need to switch?

I've got the pinboard commented out on .xinitrc...does that matter? :?
As I like some icons on my desktop, I do use the puppypin in .xinitrc. Below is what mine looks like as I cannot remember what was original or what else I've commented out.
I also use fbsetbg in /root/.fluxbox/startup.

I haven't played much with pwidgets but as you can see in the screenshot above, the clock does work :D

/root/.xinitrc

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#relocates right-side icons to actual right-side of screen...
/usr/sbin/fixPuppyPin /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin #v1.0.7

rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin

#if [ $PUPMODE -eq 5 ];then #v2.17
# setrox2backdrop /usr/share/backgrounds/welcome.png
# #...sets background image, written into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
#else
# #v2.17 i think need this on 2nd boot, to change welcome.png to default.jpg...
# if [ ! -f /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg ];then
#  cp /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg
#  setrox2backdrop /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg
# fi
#fi
#added xli for puppy 4.10
#xli -fillscreen -onroot /root/.config/tmp/bg_img
##v1.0.5
/root/.fluxbox/startup

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# You can set your favourite wallpaper here if you don't want
# to do it from your style.
#
#fbsetbg -f /usr/share/backgrounds/Reflection.jpg
background=`cat /root/.config/wallpaper/bg_img`
fbsetbg -f $background
#xli added for Puppy 4.10
#xli -fillscreen -onroot /root/.config/tmp/bg_img
#
# This sets a black background

#/usr/bin/fbsetroot -solid black
This is using puppy410
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#40 Post by steve_s »

Thanks, trapster! Ok, I can uncomment that line (which is the only thing different) but I don't want all the icons (or any, really, hence my reason for fluxbox) so how do I have pwidgets without the icons?

Oh, and I discovered this little trick for keeping the background that you finished with last. I had issues with the startup setting, so I looked around. I use fbsetbg in the menu to set the background in this version, so that is what I used for this trick.

All you have to do is edit the file /root/.fluxbox/init

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geany /root/.fluxbox/init
Find the line that has rootCommand in it (it was blank when I first found it and add fbsetbg -l (that's "l" as in "last wallpaper set)" so it looks like this:

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session.screen0.rootCommand:	fbsetbg -l
Which seems to have the same effect as editing the startup like you said, trapster, but it seemed to be easier for me.

Doesn't answer my pwidgets issue, though...

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#41 Post by steve_s »

redandwhitestripes: I mentioned earlier about transparency, but I wanted to add a follow up.

It should be noted that many of the fluxbox themes that have been pointed out by myself and trapster (thanks!) on various sites are clear/transparent. So, if you pick a menu/fluxbox style that is glass or transparent or something like that than it may take care of what you are looking for.

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Small widget with RED DOT at bottom right.

#42 Post by Dave W. »

Steve,

I wasn't sure where to post this, but what the heck is that?

Thanks, and sorry to be a bother.

Dave

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#43 Post by steve_s »

Dave W. wrote:Steve,

I wasn't sure where to post this, but what the heck is that?

Thanks, and sorry to be a bother.

Dave
At the bottom right? It should be the volume control dial...if you sorta drag your mouse over it, it will turn up or down. Try it while listening to a movie or mp3 or something..is that what you are talking about?

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#44 Post by Dave W. »

Steve,

Yes, that is exactly what I'm talking about. If it doesn't work on my old box, I'll let you know.

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#45 Post by steve_s »

Oh, I thought this looked pretty cool..I found the fluxbox style, the gtk2 theme and the wallpaper. I zipped it up with a readme to explain where to put everything and even gave instructions on installing ttuuxxx's Seamonkey theme if you wanted that too (like in the screenshots). Tell me if you like it... 8)
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#46 Post by Stevo954 »

Good work Steve, I love it. I remembered Fluxbox from DSL back in the day. One of my few complaints about Puppy and most puplets is the Windows 95 look of JWM and IceWM.
XFCE is nice but too heavy for my old Dell 566mhz Celeron.
This is PERFECT.
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#47 Post by steve_s »

Stevo954 wrote:Good work Steve, I love it. I remembered Fluxbox from DSL back in the day. One of my few complaints about Puppy and most puplets is the Windows 95 look of JWM and IceWM.
XFCE is nice but too heavy for my old Dell 566mhz Celeron.
This is PERFECT.
Excellent, and great wallpaper.. 8)

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What about a PupFlux version based on Puppy 4,2?

#48 Post by beambot »

Hey steve_s,

will be there a PupFlux Version based on the new Puppy 4.2?
i like your derivate and use it on my usbstick?

good work, go on with it!

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PupFlux & PupFluxLite

#49 Post by Roy »

steve_s:

This looks absolutely wonderful -- especially the default background on PupFluxLite! P-L-E-A-S-E, let us know when an X-Delta patch is available for the Puppy retro kernel (2.6.21.7) so that I can run this on my netbook computer. [The standard kernel version (2.6.25.16) is a broken distro that will not even load to the boot menu on these machines and download connections at my current location are extremely slow/unreliable, hence my enthusiasm for a retro-kernel X-Delta patch.]

If there was ever a great idea for 1024x600 screen netbooks (running a standard JWM desktop or simply switching to fluxbox WM -- with a full-functioned distro which doesn't consume an entire Solid State Disk with bloat), this is it!! The standard JWM screen can be shared with new users while the fluxbox manager fills my own desires. Sorry if I sound a bit overzealous, but I am truly in awe....

-Roy

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#50 Post by steve_s »

Roy wrote:steve_s:

This looks absolutely wonderful -- especially the default background on PupFluxLite! P-L-E-A-S-E, let us know when an X-Delta patch is available for the Puppy retro kernel (2.6.21.7) so that I can run this on my netbook computer. [The standard kernel version (2.6.25.16) is a broken distro that will not even load to the boot menu on these machines and download connections at my current location are extremely slow/unreliable, hence my enthusiasm for a retro-kernel X-Delta patch.]

If there was ever a great idea for 1024x600 screen netbooks (running a standard JWM desktop or simply switching to fluxbox WM -- with a full-functioned distro which doesn't consume an entire Solid State Disk with bloat), this is it!! The standard JWM screen can be shared with new users while the fluxbox manager fills my own desires. Sorry if I sound a bit overzealous, but I am truly in awe....

-Roy
I've got the patch just no way to upload it as it a little big to post...send me a pm about an email address and maybe I'll see if I can just send you the patch...glad you like the distro, roy.

beambot: maybe...I don't see why not...maybe I'll find a way to upload the patch and see if someone can pick it up for a mirror; that way one could just patch 4.2...like I told roy, I'll check on it...

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