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[musher0]

Yep, your modified line did the trick! No more errors with chmod.
Many thanks!

As to demnu, at one point, I tried to compile it and it wouldn't.
Maybe I was too much of a Linux newbie at that time.
I still would like to try it, out of curiosity, but it's not urgent.
I've invested a lot of time in my 4+ aemenu "concepts" (
and these serve me quite well for now.

Once you find a menu system you can adapt to your own
"logic", you get hooked, I suppose.

[jemimah]

If you create a .dmenu directory, and uncomment the following line, and rerun the script:
#cp "$file" /root/.dmenu
you can try my vertical version of dmenu.

Installing the attached dmenu and xbindkeys pets and running the xbindkeys command will bring up dmenu when you press F10. It's not a menu replacement, more of an augmentation, so you loose nothing of your investment.

(these are the first pets I've tried to create, hopefully it works)

[musher0]

[musher0]

Ok, got the downloads. Trying...

[jemimah]

Yeah rerun the modified wmx script. The attachment disappeared because there was a problem with the first pet and you probably tried to download while I was trying upload the new one.

[musher0]

Ok, found the

#cp "$file" /root/.dmenu

line towards the bottom of your wmx_menu
script, and uncommented it.

Downloaded the two pets and created the .dmenu folder.
Launched xbindkeys, and have hit F10.

Works fine. This dmenu is a neat little utility.
(Ugly, but neat!) (No offense intended!)

I believe the still experimental "firebox" wm has
incorporated something like it.

Anyway, thanks again!

[musher0]

(Oops. Repeat of previous post. Deleted by author. Sorry about that.)

[musher0]

(I hope this will be posted in the wmx forum...)

If anybody's interested:

In wmx 7's config.h, lines 81-82 (perhaps lines 79-80, or thereabouts), I managed to make wmx call aemenu with the mouse left click, by changing these two lines :

// What to run to get a new window (from the "New" menu option)
#define CONFIG_NEW_WINDOW_LABEL "New"
#define CONFIG_NEW_WINDOW_COMMAND "mrxvt"

to:

// What to run to get a new window (from the "New" menu option)
#define CONFIG_NEW_WINDOW_LABEL "Menu_principal"
#define CONFIG_NEW_WINDOW_COMMAND "aemenu"

Of course, you'll have to recompile wmx and have already installed a working copy of aemenu-gtk (with a "aemenu" symlink). I've installed
my aemenu in /usr/X11R7/bin, and I've put the menu(s) in /etc/X11/aewm.

The result is something like this:

which gets developed to this, when you release the left mouse button:

(N.B. The small picture [wmx] should be viewed first, before the aemenu illustration.)

That's my basic aemenu "concept". Very simple. From there, anyone can build aemenu's for any purpose. Just follow the instructions in the aemenu docs.

Your aemenu will have a structure similar to this:

////////////////////////////
-wide config file for aewm clients

cmd "--=> Menu_principal <=--" ""
menu "Bureau..."
cmd "...précédent" "~/my-applications/Systeme/ae/Retour.sh"
cmd "...suivant" "~/my-applications/Systeme/ae/Aller.sh"
menu "Bureaux echinus"
cmd "...1 (main)" "wmctrl -s 0 && mrxvt -geometry 83x27+378+475"
cmd "...2 (web)" "wmctrl -s 1 && mrxvt -geometry 83x27+378+475"
cmd "...3 (dos)" "wmctrl -s 2 && rox ~/my-applications/dos && ~/my-applications/dos/dosbox.sh"
cmd "...4 (mus)" "wmctrl -s 3 && rox ~/my-applications/Medias && rox ~/my-applications/Medias/Radio"
cmd "...5 (gfx)" "wmctrl -s 4 && mrxvt -geometry 83x27+378+475"
cmd "...6 (misc)" "wmctrl -s 5 && rox ~/my-applications/Systeme && aemenu -rc /etc/X11/aewm/disques"
end
# [etc., etc.]
////////////////////////////
As you can see, you can insert some sophistication in the commands.

Enjoy!

[musher0]

Hello, all.

I've uploaded a slightly different wmx7 here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=361091#361091

The main differences with the first one I presented are:

Use of AltCar instead of Alt for window-related commands. The latter can now be controlled almost entirely with the right hand only.

The wmx window frame now comes in either rich gray or the former textured white (as in wmx6). Symlink your preferred one to filename "wmx" and you can then start wmx with "xwin wmx".

Complemented by ipager, stalonetray, wmctrl and aemenu, as well as jemimah's gen_menu_wmx.sh (see above), to make a more complete desktop environment. aemenu comes with meta-menu, disk menu and linux-structure menu. A few others of these icon-less menus are offered for your convenience. NOTE: You will have to edit and adapt these additional menus to the listing of disks / software you have on your machine.

Works fine under Puppy 3.02, Puppy 4.12, Puppy 4.3x and dpup. (Don't forget to make a good back-up of your pup-save file and store it somewhere safe before you install this window manager pet or any other important program.)

Those are the highlights. I will translate the rest of the initial announcement in French upon request.

Enjoy!

[musher0]

[`f00]

Thanks for putting this together - I'd tried the earlier and failed to appreciate it, now I do mmyes, either roxpanel or fbpanel work fairly well (and the ae-set may be useful in other wms if desired). Quite the interface, once one gets used to it. Looking forward to trying some of the newer flea-shakers

..attaching a screenie (if that's oki), since I resized for this forum's pp

[musher0]

Thank you, kind sir!

I enjoyed doing it, I'm glad others like it too. Once you get the knack of it, wmx can be more impressive on the screen than BeOS. I just extended the reach to Puppy; the real person to thank is wmx author Chris Cannam and his collaborators, at www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/

I see you have a nice choice of wm's, there. pekwm, openbox, etc. Did you create that start-up panel?

Nice backdrop too. If you care to use jemimah's dmenu, here's some colors that might go well with your picture.

# /usr/local/bin/dmenu-app -nb NavajoWhite3 -nf LemonChiffon1 -sb darkgreen -sf cornsilk

(Un-comment if you wish to use)

the -nb and -nf parameters are for the normal slate
the -sb and -sf are for the selected bar.
You can also use any other colour available in the Gcolor2 color chooser (graphics" sub-menu), by name, or if you quote them (e.g., "#A2C4E6"), in rgb fashion.

All the best!

[`f00]

The plogout was originally in the Macpups - I only ran into it about the time of Macpup Opera and it seemed such a simple useful f00lproof; interface that it was one of my first forays 'under the hood' so to speak (murgalua color references eluded me for a bit.. all I have done since is adapt it slightly to suit differing pups as needed). The bg is from AS (which in recent pups seems to have some command bugs?, tried to start ASRun from a console and it spit segfault* and the bg-xml editor eludes but most of the rest seems well enough). I tend to re-do styles and such frippery (new pekwm is a bit different). So much to learn, I have to chuckle at 'bored' folk