How to Add a Launchbar To the Top of Your Screen, Puppy 4.3

[Jim1911]

Dave,

Thank you for this tutorial. The new launchbar works great.

Thanks,
Jim

EDIT: I reread your first post and discovered that I had overlooked the template file that also had to be changed. Your reply was quicker than my edit. You are fast.

[DaveS]

Dave,

Thank you for this tutorial. The new launchbar works great, however, I have one problem. Whenever, I add a pet or make any changes that affect the menu, I have to go back and edit the /root/.jwmrc to add the include code back. What file should this code be placed into so that the code is automatically included in updates?

Thanks,
Jim

OK, Jim, there is a template file which has to be edited. I mentioned it in the first section of the post. It is in /etc/xdg/templates and is called _root_jwmrc
Just add your tray include command there, and you will then be set.

[aarf]

note that My Documents as in

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<TrayButton popup="Puppy" icon="/usr/share/midi-icons/folder24.png">exec:rox /mnt/home/home/user/My Documents/puppy/</TrayButton> 
 

wont work because of the space in the address directory.

added restart.
now would now like to add screenshot it has something to do with /usr/share/applicatios/mtPaint-snapshot-screen-capture.desktop but i need help getting it into the launcher.

edit: so have fixed the blank space in the directory path by drag, drop and symlinking puppy folder to a different location.

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<TrayButton popup="Puppy" icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/themes/Silver-Marble/pet48.png">exec:rox /mnt/home/home/puppy/</TrayButton> 

also changed the icon.
didnt want to rename it because it is use by Xandros.

[DaveS]

For screen capture, I like to put that one in the bottom tray next to the menu button. Here is the code for that, which goes in .jwmrc-tray

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<TrayButton popup="Take Screenshot" icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/gtkam.png">exec:mtpaintsnapshot.sh</TrayButton>

Same code for the top tray.
When you see a file in Puppy with a *.sh extension, mtpaintsnapshot.sh in this case, it means it is a little text file that has been set to run as a program, or, a 'script'. I will add a post later giving some basic ideas about scripts, because they are the most incredibly useful things

[`f00]

(gr8 howto, DaveS )
..started up as includes in /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc - since I use wbar as a more-or-less universal launcher and conky for info (with htop for more detail if desired) in various wms, I break up the 'usual' .jwmrc-tray (and comment it out in the template) into these simple autohide trays for jwm..

0) .jwmrc-tray-bottom (fairly minimal, optional small pager)

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<JWM>
	<Tray  autohide="true" insert="right" x="0" y="-1" border="0" height="20" >
		<TrayButton popup="showdesktop" icon="mini-desktop.xpm">showdesktop</TrayButton>
		<Pager/>
		<!-- Additional TaskList attribute: maxwidth -->
		<TaskList maxwidth="80" />
	</Tray>
</JWM>

1) .jwmrc-tray-left (oversized pager)

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<JWM>
	<Tray autohide="true" border="0" y="40" halign="left" width="200" layout="vertical">
		<!-- Additional Pager attributes; width, height -->
		<Pager/>
	</Tray>
</JWM>

2) .jwmrc-tray-right (jwm-dock)

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<JWM>
	<Tray autohide="true" border="0" y="180" halign="right" width="32" layout="vertical">
		<Dock/>
	</Tray>
</JWM>

3) .jwmrc-tray-top (re-X button, xload/freemem)

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<JWM>
 <Tray autohide="true" insert="right" valign="top" halign="right" height="27" >
  <TrayButton icon="x24.png">exec:restartwm</TrayButton>  
		<Swallow name="xload" width="90">
			xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white -bg "#24163D"
		</Swallow>
		<Swallow name="freememapplet" width="33">
			freememapplet
		</Swallow>
 </Tray>
</JWM>

those were from my p412-bone1 and some things change (like using xrefresh from wbar more than the 'hard' re-X as well as modding the lower part of jwm mainmenu via the template to keep jwm-specific menu items in jwm), hope those few samples weren't too terribly off-topic for this thread..

[aarf]

For screen capture, I like to put that one in the bottom tray next to the menu button. Here is the code for that, which goes in .jwmrc-tray

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<TrayButton popup="Take Screenshot" icon="/usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/gtkam.png">exec:mtpaintsnapshot.sh</TrayButton>

Same code for the top tray.
When you see a file in Puppy with a *.sh extension, mtpaintsnapshot.sh in this case, it means it is a little text file that has been set to run as a program, or, a 'script'. I will add a post later giving some basic ideas about scripts, because they are the most incredibly useful things

your icon isnt my 430.
info about scripts sounds good even though i've got just about everything i needed now: java and opera10final (also java jin chess) all symlinked from outside the pupsave, top fast launcher, changed wallpaper and icons, pwidgets, wifidown button on desktop. i'm pretty satisfied. but if you have some other must haves i'm ready and willing to give them a try.

[DaveS]

Aarf, that particular icon is in Puppies 4.3.1, which I now use as my default Puppy because among other things, it uses Firefox instead of Seamonkey. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46727

Tip: often, you will be wanting to set up a quick launcher on a pop-up bar for something that is in the menu system. You can steal the command and icon from said menu system. They can be found in /root/.jwmrc

[DaveS]

'foo, thanks for that. Truth is, once you understand the basics, the only limitation is ones imagination. That is why I like hand configuring these things.

[DaveS]

if you have some other must haves i'm ready and willing to give them a try.

I usually add the back-up tool grsync http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 7918ae5aa2

It has one small bug in that when you open it for the very first time, if you want to add a file/directory via the little browse icon, you MUST pot something, anything, in the path window first, or it will fall over. this is due to not having a default grsync.ini file until after the first use.

For me, petmaker plus from Trio is a must have too. Install it, because I an going to mention it on this thread soon.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=290171

[alienjeff]

In scanning this thread, I didn't see anything regarding a valuable feature of JWM - namely the "-p" option, which parses the configuration file(s) and reports any problems. It's important to run "jwm -p" before restarting JWM with a new configuration file because if there's a syntax error in your configuration, you're going to be crippled with a very sick WM.

Trust me. Been there. Done that. Wasn't fun.

[DaveS]

In scanning this thread, I didn't see anything regarding a valuable feature of JWM - namely the "-p" option, which parses the configuration file(s) and reports any problems. It's important to run "jwm -p" before restarting JWM with a new configuration file because if there's a syntax error in your configuration, you're going to be crippled with a very sick WM.

Trust me. Been there. Done that. Wasn't fun.

Since the recent updates to JWM, rounded corners etc, jwm -p usually reports errors where there are none, so it can be a bit sketch relying on it..........

[alienjeff]

I assume the false flag error reports from "jwm -p" are on the Puppy user "enchanced" JWM, and not the official release of JWM, as I have experienced no such false flags with my Arch Linux installation of JWM v2.0.1.

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[jeff@kayak ~]$ jwm -v
JWM v2.0.1 by Joe Wingbermuehle
compiled options: confirm icons png shape xft xinerama xpm xrender 
system configuration: /etc/system.jwmrc

[`f00]

aj's still almost right about "current version", according to Joe's jwm homepage - revisiting here for some tippage

a) more recent jwm dotpets may overwrite a custom /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc (with the separated .jwmrc-tray-* includes) with a more-or-less 'standard' template so be aware of that when upgrading jwm with a dotpet - an alternative is to do multiple tray sections in the single /root/.jwmrc-tray file

b) some changes to accomodate new features such as the Pager array of rows and columns (jwm 500 and above)

BK's blog links from early 2011
JWM 500
Jwmconfig2 20101229-bk
JWM, Jwmconfig pkgs upgraded

.. most recent dotpet of jwm for me is jwm2-574-w5c, fwiw

.. there's a dropdown selector in jwmconfig,JWMtab->Tray Management->Tray Configuration Options->Virtual Desktops that stops at 2 rows (vertical), but you can type in 3 or more and that works nicely (or edit /root/.jwm/jwmrc-personal to suit your array preference) - here's a link to a fairly recent post of mine with more detail on futzing about with jwm tray stuff

further note - if the template is changed, you usually have to do a "fixmenus" and jwm reload, but merely editing tray file(s) only needs a quick reload of jwm to see results of your editing

[DaveS]

I should update this really to show how the additional tray can be specified in /root/.jwmrc-tray, by specifying a second tray inside two tray tags, <tray> </tray>, thus making the 'include' statement redundant.