Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Dougal · Posted: Sat 10 Dec 2005, 04:54 Post subject: What happened with XFCE for Puppy?

I was looking to d/l it and it doesn't appear on any of the Dotpup pages/lists or the installer, only on the Wiki "wm" page (which links to the original Forum announcement).
Have people given up on it for some reason? I've installed it and the "shut down" options don't work, I end up killing X and using 'poweroff' or 'reboot'.

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I don't think anyone made a dotpup or unleashed package. It was discussed in the "Cutting Edge" forum here on this board. It was an experimental thing for Puppy. Maybe somoene is still working on it.

rarsa · Posted: Sat 10 Dec 2005, 08:38 Post subject:

In that original thread is all you need to run Xfce.

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2789

You may want to ask bombayrockers what's the latest news.

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

I had released a Xfce.pup in the additional pups and stuff section.

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2866&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=xfce

this dotpup contains the essential xfce desktop

desktop manager + window manager + some utilities ( system load mon, netload , volume control , battery mon)

To get it working you will have to edit your /root/.xinitrc. A xinitrc.pup is also available on the same page. either you can install that or manually edit your /root/.xinitrc to get xfce running.

You would also have to use rarsa puppy2xdg.pup available in cutting edge forum to get puppy apps in the xfce menu.

I started working on kde and I never released the xffm.pup, xfce-icons.pup. If you want them please request.

you can use the shudown and reboot roxapp by MU.

Dougal · Posted: Sun 11 Dec 2005, 08:18 Post subject:

I got it from that thread and installed it. Was just wondering why it wasn't listed in the Dotpup lists. Don't Dotpups posted on the Forum get added to the repositories?
The shutdown works now. Now MUT won't close after I use it.

Thanks.

ps- I was never too fond of xffm, I much prefer Rox.

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I was not aware of the dotpup.

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I'm going to have a tough time deciding what I like better...fluxbox vs xfce

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

I like both and it is difficult to decide what to use. For me the main goal is to be able to use kde apps from a wm that is kde compliant. Both of them are, but fluxbox has a very small footprint, so I prefer that.

However before I was using kde, xfce was choice for me because I was using the xfce-session manager + xfce. The session manager allows me to save and restore my sessions. I boot into puppy exactly the way I left it. I was also using the 6nome gtk theme to give uniform look to my gtk1 and gtk2 apps.

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I can't find puppy2xdg anywhere on the forum.

I found a mention of jwm2xdg, but no download for this. Is this what we're talking about?

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

puppy-xdgmenus-0.6.2.pup
available over here ->http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=2956

Guest · Guest

ok, I'll get it tonight when I get home from church.

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

Well, bad news. It didn't work like I expected.

I thought it would copy my menu that I had in my other window managers (IceWM, Fluxbox) to XFCE. That isn't what happened. Maybe I misunderstood something.

Instead, it created a new menu, in all of my window managers, that does not have everything in it that i need.

So that's a little frustrating. I want my old menu I had in Grafpup back (plus the menu entries of applications that I installed).

MU · Posted: Thu 15 Dec 2005, 01:20 Post subject:

Jcagle, the old menu (jwm, icewm) should be in the write-protected files (image.gz or usr_cram.fs).
So delete the new ones, and reboot - this will give you back the old ones (but without Dotpup-entries).
/root/.jwmrc
/root/.icewm/menu (or whereever it is in grafpup)

Fluxbox automatically creates it's menu from the JWM-menu, if you reload it.

Mark

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

Actually, the fluxbox menu is intact, now that I'm looking.

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I think I'm going to stick with Fluxbox. I'm just not crazy about XFCE anymore for some reason. There are things I like about Fluxbox that I don't see in XFCE.