pypanel with openbox

rush_ad · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:54 am Post subject: pypanel with openbox

someone help me get pypanel working with openbox. i emerged pypanel and when i run pypanel it gives me errors and doesnt start.
how do i configure pypanel?

also, some help on opnebox wallpapers and menu editing will be great.

Enlighted One · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 24

To set your wallpaper I use Esetroot, it works fairly well.
For editing your menu, edit the menu.xml file in $Home/.config/openbox directory.

aslocum · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:11 pm Post subject:

for wallpaper there is a nice script:

http://tr.openmonkey.com/files/openbox/bgmenu.rb

download it and take it to ~/.config/openbox for example.
you need to emerge ruby to get it work. a little how-to is at the beginning from the file.

ooh.. you need bsetbg too.. not sure.. i think it was in the fluxbox package. you can get it here http://tr.openmonkey.com/files/openbox/bsetbg and just place in your /usr/bin (as root)

Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: pypanel with openbox

rush_ad · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject:

i'll make sure i say please next time but for now, thanks a lot. and by the way
thre is no ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml. i'll be glad if i can get someone's menu file and i'll follow that to creat mine.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

MrGreen · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 211

what version of Pypanel do you have ...

config file should be in your /home/<username> .pypanelrc..

HTH

rush_ad · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:

thanks a lot. foud the file.

jaysire · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 4

Pypanel gave me a heap of errors when I ran it as root. Running it as a normal user worked well though.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

BTW, I prefer feh much over Esetroot because feh saves a file called ~/.fehbg which includes the full command needed to set the backdrop to the previous one used. From there you just add eval `cat ~/.fehbg` to ~/.xinitrc. I have a bit of useful tips on it in the Fluxbox goodies section on my website. However, I plan on adding that to the Linux tips section instead.