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This .pet will install an autohide launchbar at the top of your screen with the standard desktop icons included. You can then remove the icons from your desktop, but still have them available. The bar is configurable, so you can add your own customisation as required. Tested in 4.3* and Quirky.



It is dead easy to install. First, just run the .pet included here. Then open a terminal/console window, and just type fixmenus and hit 'enter'
Not much will happen. A couple of lines will appear on the screen, then it will stop. Takes about 5 seconds. Close the terminal window.

Go to the menu button at the bottom left of the screen, click it, and select shutdown>restart jwm.

The screen will flash, and voila, your new menubar will be installed and activated. Just move the mouse pointer to the top of your screen, at it will appear.

Under The Hood

The .pet just installs a very tiny text file into the /root/ directory called .jwmrc-tray-top, and adds a line to the menu template in /etc/xdg/templates to activate the text file. Running fixmenus configures it, and re-starting JWM makes it available. The file in /root/, .jwmrc-tray-top is a hidden file, so you must set Rox filemanager to show hidden files before you can see it. If you want to change something, just load it into a text editor and go for it. The syntax is easy to follow.
If you make edits and want to test your syntax, save your changes, open a terminal window and type jwm -p
This will check for errors for you.
If you get in a dreadful mess, just re-install the .pet

Nice one Dave, just installed it in my own dpup build and it works a treat.

have a look at menu>desktop>change window manager>flwm {as opposed to jwm} in puppeeerc5 or fluppy03. it has all the icons along the top.

Does Quirky 1.00 use JWM? (I know it might seem a dumb question, but I thought it used something else)
Bones

bones01 wrote:Does Quirky 1.00 use JWM? (I know it might seem a dumb question, but I thought it used something else)
Bones

Certainly Q1.2(latest release) is JWM. Maybe some of the earlier beta releases did not?

I no longer have Quirky 1.00 installed (moved up to 1.20) but I seem to remember that Quirky 1.00 used Openbox/Fbpanel as default window manager.
HTH.

yes im pretty sure Quirky 1 was Openbox/Fbpanel