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[RSH]

Works fine in LazY Puppy now!

Any suggestions how to automatically refresh "wbar" after wallpaper has changed?

This would be very nice and useful!

Good work, so far.

[RSH]

Hi, rhadon.

I have eamined the scripts of wbar and found a solution to get also wbar refreshed.

Please use this script for your wallrefresh-script.

[rhadon]

Thanks for feedback, RSH.

Well, telling you that it's a problem of wbar, isn't really helpful.

I installed it just now for the first time. Right klick on wbar refreshes the background, but that's not automatic. Also 'Reload' button from the GUI does it. Then I tried some options from command line, but get mostly an error about a missing font.

Please try wbar from commanline. If there is an option which works for you and refreshes the background, I could integrate a request in wallrefresh-config to be executed after every refresh.

Wbar looks very nice, but my first thought was, it's pity that there is no autohide function (or I've overseen it). I'll play a little bit more with it, maybe I can give you later a better answer.

~Rolf

[pemasu]

Wallrefresh works great and it has even finnish webcam url preconfigured
Only one humble notification. Would it be better to locate wallrefresh folder to the /usr/local.....where all the other Puppy apps are located. /root could be better to be place for different kind configuration stuff and personal stuff inside preconfigured folders.

[rhadon]

Thanks for your kind feedback pemasu,

when I created this program, my intention was to have all scripts together in one folder. At this time it wasn't important for me where this was.

I think you are right, /usr/local or /usr/local/apps seems to be a better place. I'll do it.

btw., next version will have an additional entry where you can run a script after each refresh (e.g. if another application like wbar needs a separate refresh).

Greetings to suomi,
Rolf

Edit: I'm unsure, what do you think is best? /usr/local, /usr/local/apps/, /usr/share/ ? Everywhere are applications. I can't see any system.

[SFR]

Hi rhadon.

Good to see Wallrefresh still evolves.

[pemasu]

Yes.../usr/local is quite used location for Puppy applications. /usr/local/apps is Rox location for creating Rox Right clicks and it also has Rox-Filer with needed stuff. It wouldnt be good idea to put Puppy app there.

[rhadon]

New Wallrefresh-1.2, see 1st post please.

- I've added an additional entry which will be executed after each refresh.
If another running application needs to be refreshed separately, here is the place.
For an example, I've added a small script for refreshing wbar (thanks to RSH). The corresponding entry would be "/usr/local/wallrefresh/wbar-refresh" (without quotes).

- Also the path has changed from /root/ to /usr/local. The pictures are now in an separate folder.

Next on my ToDo list:
- internationalisation
- maybe something like downloading more often (if new picture is available) and saving each picture, but refreshing not so often. So e.g. a slideshow could be build (idea from RSH).

If no new faults (fingers crossed), I'm open for suggestions.

Btw., if you are using Pwidgets and find the Pwidget messages about Syncing annoying, you can comment out the line

[SFR]

Thanks, the Pacific shots look great!

As for suggestion:
Wouldn't be more convenient to place the URL file in, eg. /root (as hidden file, to not be distracting) and do not overwrite (during upgrading) if it already exists?
This would prevent the loss of custom links.
But, in case when a user will spoil something, there could be "Restore default URL list" button instead.

Greetings!

[rhadon]

@SFR

Next version will have a Restore function for URL . Thanks.
Also I'm working on another nice feature

~Rolf

[rhadon]

New WallRefresh-1.3, see 1st post please.

- New preview fuction
OK, there's a delay now between selecting a url and the actual preview, but I think it's worth (and more save).

- A simple Backup function.
Currently no restore funktion (sorry, SFR), but I think it's not a big deal to copy /usr/local/wallrefresh/URL.bkp back to /usr/local/wallrefresh/URL, if needed.

- I changed the refresh rate from minutes to seconds. Although I think that minutes are more userfriendly, maybe one wants to refresh faster.

- Also I changed 'gtkdialog' to 'gtkdialog4'.

Important: If you select a picture which is not available, then the program crashes. In this case you need to select a 'normal' wallpaper first. E.g. right click any icon on the desktop, select 'Backdrop', select 'Stretch' and any picture.

Have fun,
Rolf

[stu90]

Hi rhadon,
Testing on latest exprimo - i get error regarding scale2jpg not being found, is this available on the forum somewhere?

Regarding unavailable picture - Maybe apply a file check to see if an image is available locally before applying new background ? ( see script below)

I also noticed you have 'newscale' and 'currentscale' lines commented out - this will cause a sed error as it doesn't know what to change from and to.
If you want the scale to stay the same just comment out all the wallpaper scale bit.

Hope this helps

i have attached changed set_bg script below, just delete the fake .gz from the file name.

[rhadon]

Sorry, I've forgotten to add scale2jpg
I'll add it immediately to the pet, also here.
btw. it's an older program provided by Mark (MU).

@stu90
Thanks for help, and sorry for the annoyance. I'll take a look just after correcting the pet.

Regards,
Rolf

[stu90]

No problem rhadon - its all part of the fun in testing new software.

As i had vovchik picscale already installed i used that for the preview
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=53102

[SFR]