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[axiz]

Hello !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is my first contribution to the community!
Tint2 panel is the latest version, with libraries depencies (imlib2 + imlib ) compiled from source, also the latest versions.
Hope someone could use it!
Ah ... and this is my desktop with the panel in place:)

[8-bit]

A description of what your program is used for and what id does would help a lot!
Before now, I had never heard of tint2 Panel.

So what are its features?

[chrome307]

Source:

http://code.google.com/p/tint2/

tint2 is a simple panel/taskbar unintrusive and light (memory / cpu / aestetic). We try to get 'virtual desktop' and 'multi-monitor' easier to use. We follow freedesktop specifications.

0.11 features

•panel with taskbar, systray, clock and battery status
•easy to customize : color/transparency on font, icon, border and background
•pager like capability : send task from one workspace to another, switch workspace
•multi-monitor capability : one panel per monitor, show task from current monitor
•customize mouse event
•window manager's menu
•tooltip
•autohide
•clock timezones
•real & fake transparency with autodetection of composite manager
•panel's theme switcher 'tint2conf'

Click to view:

[WarMocK]

Tint2 is pretty nice (I used for a few POC desktop designs).
BUT it definitely needs the ability to add launcher buttons. For example, for a menu or for frequently used applications. That would make it a pretty good tool for window managers that come without a built-in panel, like openbox or metacity.

[axiz]

i guess.. gimmie will be better.. i will try to compile it later, but it has more dependencies..

picture of gimmie

[upnorth]

@axiz
Welcome to the forum, and thanks for the contribution



@warmock

The next release should have the launcher.

the svn trunk tint2 has the launcher incorporated now. I grabbed this 2 days ago, and it works fine so far:
svn checkout http://tint2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tint2-read-only

the tint2rc additions look like this (snarfed from the wiki)

# Panel
panel_items = LTSBC

#---------------------------------------------
# APPLICATION LAUNCHER
#---------------------------------------------
launcher = 1
launcher_padding = 2 4 2
launcher_background_id = 5
# Icon size
launcher_icon_size = 22
# Specify one or more icon theme names with launcher_icon_theme (e.g. oxygen, Tango), in decreasing order of priority
launcher_icon_theme = oxygen
launcher_icon_theme = nuoveXT2
launcher_icon_theme = Tango
# Each launcher_item_app must be a full path to a .desktop file
launcher_item_app = /home/ovi/.local/share/applications/poweroff.desktop
launcher_item_app = /home/ovi/.local/share/applications/lock.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/mandriva-drakconf.desktop

[WarMocK]

@upnorth
that's very good news, thank you.
tint2 looks very good in conjunction with the wbar dock. Add a very small window manager to the mix, and you get a decent-looking desktop environment that requires little ressources and runs even on very old machines. Can't wait for the new version to be released and give it another try.

[aragon]

@axiz

with which puppy-version is your package compiled?

aragon

[jogreer]

Hey I can't get tint2conf to run after having installed imlib, imlib2 and tint2 with your pet files:
"tint2conf: error while loading shared libraries: libImlib2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I don't have it compiled in the standard lucid puppy 5.1.1 kernel.
What to do?

EDIT: I fixed my own problem by running:
ln -s ln -s /usr/local/lib/libImlib2.so.1.4.4 /usr/lib/libImlib2.so
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libImlib2.so.1.4.4 /usr/lib/libImlib2.so.1

Python and python-gtk2 is also required, I noticed