FbBox-5.0 - Released 23 Sept 2017

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#61 Post by radky »

FbBox-3.0

New release: see first post for description, changelog and download options.
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#62 Post by Terry H »

Installed FbBox-3.0 on slacko 6.3 32 bit. Added extra apps to top launcher. all working well. Great job. Thanks.

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#63 Post by radky »

Terry H wrote:Installed FbBox-3.0 on slacko 6.3 32 bit. Added extra apps to top launcher. all working well. Great job. Thanks.
Thank you Terry! :)
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FbBox-3.0

#64 Post by Billtoo »

It's looking good in Quirky Werewolf.

Thanks.
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#65 Post by radky »

Slacko-6.3.X and slacko64-6.3.X include the gdk_pixbuf library of slackware-14.1. In this scenario, menu icons with the .xpm extension do not resize correctly in fbpanel (see pupMd5sum and snap2 menu icons below). Consequently, 01micko has developed a patch for fbpanel which enables correct resizing of xpm menu icons in slacko.

This gdk_pixbuf patch is for fbpanel in 32/64 bit releases of slacko which are based on slackware-14.1. The patch is not required for other Puppy distros. Note: this patch is optional for slacko since xpm icons are infrequent in the menu and resizing of icons may not be an issue for you (most menu icons are png or svg).

The following pets (available in the first post of this thread) contain a single patched binary file (fbpanel) which will install to the /usr/bin folder:

fbanel-6.1_slackofix_32Bit.pet
fbanel-6.1_slackofix_64Bit.pet

Thank you 01micko!
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#66 Post by 01micko »

Just for the record..

Here are the sources found by radky

<-- https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora ... 23.src.rpm

It contains various patches too.

Attached is my fbpanel xpm loader patch.

To build.

- put my patch with the other patches in the source directory, and extract it with 'gunzip'.

- cd into the fbpanel-6.1 dir and run the following

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for i in ../*.patch; do patch -p1 < $i;done
./configure # plus options as needed
make
# optional but not necessary if fbbox installed; just copy the fbpanel binary to /usr/bin/
make install
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#67 Post by rodocop »

Please, folks, excuse me for noobish quiz but how to change menu button in FbPanel?
Is anywhere some sort of collections of such buttons? Are they compatible with ones for IceWM?

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#68 Post by radky »

rodocop wrote:Please, folks, excuse me for noobish quiz but how to change menu button in FbPanel?
Is anywhere some sort of collections of such buttons? Are they compatible with ones for IceWM?
Hi rodocop,

Currently, FbBox supports png, jpg and svg image formats for the menu button of fbpanel, but most of the optional buttons included in the installation are svg. Unlike small bitmap images, the svg images rescale correctly when you change the height of the panel.

In FbBox, the optional menu buttons are in the following folder: /usr/share/fbpanel/buttons

To change the current menu button, click the "Fbpanel configuration" launcher icon, then go to the Menu tab and choose an alternate menu button.

If I understand correctly, IceWM menu buttons are in the xpm bitmap format, but they work fine in FbBox-3.0 if you simply rename them to the png format. The next release of FbBox (3.1) is almost ready and I'll include direct support for xpm images.

In some of the IceWM themes available on the Puppy forum, the height of the xpm menu image is restricted to 20 pixels. Consequently, these small xpm images will appear slightly blurred when resized to the standard 28px height of fbpanel. However, there are many IceWM themes in which the height of the menu image is equal to or greater than 28px, in which case the button will display just fine.

The fbpanel image below shows a 32px IceWM button in the xpm format.

Thanks for your question! :)
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#69 Post by rodocop »

Thank you very much, radky!

You are doing great job with all your stuff! Love it!

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#70 Post by radky »

FbBox-4.0

New release, see first post.
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#71 Post by radky »

For those who install FbBox-4.0 to a Puppy distro with JWM global theming mediated by ptheme (e.g., Slacko >= 6.3.0), please note the following:

Changing the global theme (while in JWM) may generate an error report if the name of a menu application contains an unescaped ampersand character.

Consequently, in this scenario, please edit line #3 of /usr/share/applications/wmswitcher.desktop.

Change & to and

Open a terminal and run fixmenus, then jwm -restart
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#72 Post by KP3FT »

Great job, I love this desktop manager. Running it on TahrPup 6.0.5 32bit, and found a nice advantage. Using Guvcview was a problem in TahrPup with JWM because the mouse cursor would jump off the edge of Guvcview's video window when trying to resize it. Fbbox fixed that problem... a whole lot easier to resize using the touchpad now.

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#73 Post by radky »

Thank you KP3FT! :)
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Pelo

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#74 Post by Pelo »

pet downloaded. I will test on a Puppy Slacko. Feed back coming soon.

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#75 Post by torm »

Must be the best OOTB desktop I've seen.. !

May suggest installing on "clean" savefolder/install to get the full impression.


Sidenote:
where did I see size setting for launchbar icons? could be usable for non-transparent themes...

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#76 Post by radky »

torm wrote:Must be the best OOTB desktop I've seen.. !

Sidenote:
where did I see size setting for launchbar icons? could be usable for non-transparent themes...
Go to Fbpanel Configuration Manager -> Main -> Geometry -> Size -> Icon size

For the accessory launchbar, this option provides adjustable padding between the panel margin and launcher icons.

For the main panel, this option impacts all icons including the menu button, launcher icons, minified window icons (tasklist), and notification icons. It does not alter the clock or pager (desktop switcher).

Thanks for downloading FbBox and for your kind comments.

The next release will feature several enhancements including an optional SysInfoBar (3rd panel) similar to conky.
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#77 Post by musher0 »

Hi, radky.

Once upon a time, you had a FbBoxlocales.pet available? ;)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 944#835085

Congratulations on preparing this outstanding package for Puppy.

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#78 Post by radky »

musher0,

Limited localization files were available for an initial release of FbBox, but scripts have changed significantly since then and those loc files are no longer applicable. The next version (English only) is currently in beta testing and should be available soon.

The FbBox configuration files comprise thousands of code lines and there are multiple relatively complex GUIs, so internationalization would be no easy task.

Thanks for testing FbBox and for your cordial comments. :)
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#79 Post by augras »

Hi radky,
I think your FbBox will be my new wm.
I'm still looking for how to resolve the margins problem.
This afternoon i try to put the menus in french. It was easy for the menu by right click on the desktop and the most part of the menu in the panel. But the bottom of this menu don't want to stay in french ! (Control Center, Search, run and Shutdown)
I change the names as i want in /root/.config/fbpane/default after the panel was stopped and restart the panel and it's ok. But after x or wm restart or reboot this part of the menu is again in english. It seems that the default file is automatically generate and that my changes are erase with a restart.
Were must i make my changes fo this part of the menu ?
Thanks,
Philippe

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#80 Post by radky »

Hi augras,

A French mo pack for FbBox should be possible. I'll send it to you for testing when finished. Please check your PM later today.
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