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XFCE 4.6.1 pet is now available from http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP

You need to install dbus and then dbus-glib packages before you install the xfce pet.

try dbus & dbus-glib from

ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3/

Dont worry if the pet installer complains about missing libxcb or libxcb-xlib as they are included in the xfce pet. Also dont worry about missing libgladeui, it isnt needed.

You also need to modify the hidden file /root/.xinitrc to either comment out the lines running rox or add if ... fi lines as below.

if [ "$CURRENTWM" = "jwm" ];then
#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
fi

Also comment out some of the lines for absvolume

if [ -f /usr/bin/absvolume ];then
# if [ "$MENU_BG" = "" ];then
absvolume &
# else
# absvolume -bg $MENU_BG &
# fi
fi

to run ; drop out of X [ctr-alt-bkspc] and enter xwin startxfce4

One thing to note is that this version does not have a menu editor. Xfce 4.6 has moved closer to XDG menus standard but it is not yet fully implemented - the Merge and Inline functionality do not work. That makes it hard to do a decent menu. You can edit the menu by hand by copying /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu to /root/.config/menus and editting the copied file. see http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu

You might also like to use the modified pupevent system for desktop drive icons in xfce (only puppy 4.1) also at the NOP site, xfce_pupevent_410.pet (rename the _410 bit as reqd).

[DMcCunney]

[techtype]

I assume this pet only works with a certain kernel??

[trapster]

Very nice...working on 410.
Memory usage seems very high, especially Thunar.
My fonts in fluxbox were changed when I used it and went back to fluxbox.

[dawnsboy]

Thank you for making this available. I have a full hdd install of 4.12 bare on my Eeepc 701. This package allows me to further customize my Puppy experience.

As a point of interest:

[DMcCunney]

[dawnsboy]

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DMcCunney: The reason you have a menu editor and two printer setups in the desktop settings IS because they are left over from the underlying version of XFCE that you have installed over. I dont think the menu editor will work with the new menu system, best to delete it along with other older XFCE files. I will have a go at compiling the verve plugin.

techtype: I dont see why it should be kernel specific?

[DMcCunney]

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some extra plugins for download. See main post.

[magerlab]

thank you gray
i also use keyboard plugin( from 4.4.2 )

[Feel]

Thank you!
The main package works perfectly on Puppy 4.00

[WarMocK]

Thank you for the package. That's gonna be among the first packages I will install when setting up my new test suite with g_pup.

A little request from my side: I'd like to know if someone here could apply the transparency patch for the XFCE-Panel to make the panel itself partially transparent while keeping icons and text opaque. I have absolutely NO experiences with compiling from scratch, and I don't have a worlking compiling environment atm (my old PC just croaked, and I need to assemble the new one now, which will take some time). Could somebody do that and provide a binary package then, please? *makes BIG puppy eyes* ó_ò

The patch (I don't know if it works for XFCE 4.6, too. It was written for 4.4 :-/):
http://svn.cross-lfs.org/svn/repos/patches/xfce4/xfce4-panel-invisibility-1.patch

And this is what it's supposed to look like:
http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr169/Arch-newb/Screenshot-22-1.jpg

[DMcCunney]

[Flash]

What is XFCE? An alternative file manager to ROX?