Another one of those great threads that gets lost in the shuffle...battleshooter wrote:Wow, I haven't seen this thread in a long time.
In tinkering and thinking about this...battleshooter wrote: I hope to one day come back to this and get a more modular system going.
Turns out Pwidgets works quite well as a conky "manager" - for invoking/placing and saving conkies around the desktop. As far as I understand, the Pwidgets' devs have had to modify it's included conky, so as to allow "pseudo"-transparent conky backgrounds on the rox desktop.
With your approach (using feh) - that's no longer necessary. In fact, by including the Lua script I stumbled across - we can now have true transparency, opacity, and everything in between (semi-transparency)! I imagine not having to modify conky may make Pwidgets easier to maintain as Puppy evolves...?
I envision (ha! the easy part...) a complete .pet package that combines all of those elements into one - your four packages, the semi-transparent Lua script above, and Pwidgets (with it's included widget configs tweaked for these feh and Lua mods). Throw in some cool, complete conkies... sort of a "Pwidgets Pro".
Ideally, an included script to automagically modify .xinitrc and set_bg would be wonderous... but I know just enough to realize that may be difficult/impossible, or likely dangerous.
It'd probably be fairly large, too (like between 1-2Mb?). But, ooooh... so cool!
Bob