needa new gui

Curious · Last edited by Curious on Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:06 am; edited 3 times in total

This post has been superceded by later ones / patch unification.

Chris has said this will go into the next version of iDesk. Yay me. :-)

It's a big diff, sadly, as emacs chewed on his formatting.

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~alana/files/idesk/idesk-glow-0.3.diff

Apply it with patch -p1 to your idesk sources, and rebuild. Keep in mind the gentoo sources are already patched during the ebuild on bugzilla.

Add a "Transparency" clause to your .ideskrc, between 0 and 255.

dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

Thanks. ImageMagic was just installed prior to KOffice so now I have it

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Thanks alot Curious, you saved the day with idesk for me!

It's working over here now... and I applied that patch, nice.

Again, thanks alot

Sandro · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 55

Thanks Courios, you transparency-patch works great!

How is it possible to use both transparency-patch and your lock-patch together?

Curious · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 9:03 pm Post subject:

dioxmat · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:49 pm Post subject:

idesk mirror : http://hackergene.com/idesk.html .
btw, Curious, how are things doing with your patches ? and do you have any ETA for idesk 0.4 ? :)

Curious · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 5:18 pm Post subject:

Curious · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 1:57 am Post subject:

Alright, I've unified the patches, put them on my webpage, and posted a comment on freshmeat. Go nuts, folks. Let me know if they give you any grief ( apart from the patch being massively oversize ).

And Ivan, I apologise for misidentifying your desktop above. It looks really nice though!

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tj · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 12:50 pm Post subject:

hi everyone

bear with me as I'm pure n00b - I've been shamelessly trying to emulate kappax's desktop using the files he selflessly posted

for the life of me I can't get the wmapps and bbpager to spring up when flux loads - it's like my slit list is ignored

my thoughts are:

1. I use gdm as a login so no .xinitrc

2. I'm doing something wrong with the slitlist - should I use exec in front or put the -w & after the docapps?

3. do I need a bbtools folder in my /usr/share/commonbox/fluxbox folder?

4 should I be using bbpager.nobb as it's flux?

thanks for any replies :oops:

Sandro · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 55

hi

The slitlist file only specifies the position of your dockable apps. You also have to start them before launching fluxbox.
If you are using gdm, you could edit /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox like this:

tj · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:28 pm Post subject:

hey sandro

thanks for the reply

I edited the Sessions file as you suggested and also added my wmdockapps in there (bad idea?)

for some reason the bbpager wants to go vertical even though in kappax's init it is horizontal

any thoughts (should it be bbpager.nobb?)

thanks again

Sandro · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 55

bbpager.nobb should be located in /usr/share/bbtools.
To force loading /usr/share/bbtools/bbpager.nobb it can be launched with

exec bbpager -n -w &

tj · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:00 pm Post subject:

thanks sandro

I am almost there :roll:

should I launch all the other doc apps in gdm sessions or just confine them to the slitlist?

Sandro · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 55

Start them in the session file, similar to bbpager. Later if you don't like the dockapps' position you can change this in your slitlist.

hth
Sandro

ps.: More and more this thread gets OT... :roll:

tj · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:33 pm Post subject:

well it ain't as pretty as kappax's yet but I almost got it

how do I get the wmdockapps spread either side of the bbpager in the order I want?

also what app is this on the far left? > http://djoimania.bei.t-online.de/fluxtec.jpg

last question - my bbpager does not look as good with my theme as either of the above users'

any tips

thanks again sandro - I think I almost know that I know nothing lol :wink:

kappax · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:36 pm Post subject:

kappax · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:38 pm Post subject:

my .xinitrc is now here.

http:/yellowk.n3.net/~kappax/fluxbox

kappax · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject:

tj · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:50 pm Post subject:

thanks guys

it looks better now (had to knowck the workspaces down to 10 (?)

the slit still doesn't look quite right - but I have to hit the hay now

thanks again - be back tomorrow

tj · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 3:43 pm Post subject:

hi again

thanks very much to sandros and kappax for the help last night

the desktop looks good now

still interested to know what/where the app at left is/can be found in this screenshot http://djoimania.bei.t-online.de/fluxtec.jpg

all and any answers appreciated