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jxn
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I am also facing the same issue, clicking on the icons doesnt do anything. btw i am running kde with engage here. |
yes, clicking on the image icon should bring the program back up; this works flawlessly for me, but I'm using enlightenment (DR16.7.1). Does right-click bring up a small menu on the bar? Does left click do anything at all? Also, what DE/WM are you using nsahoo? |
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sgaap
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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start out xcompmgr with the -C flag, for example
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Yes, I know this will work, but it will also get rid of the shadow of my panel and that is something I dont want 
I guess i'll have to wait for composite support for engage/e17
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Rosjahh
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I noticed that I have to hold down the left mouse button down a little bit longer than "a normal click" to bring programs back to the forefground |
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lude
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| trumee wrote: | | I am also facing the same issue, clicking on the icons doesnt do anything. btw i am running kde with engage here. |
Gotta hold the mouse button down for a bit, it's tricky at first, but makes sense afterwards. |
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Kurse
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jxn
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Rosjahh wrote: | | I noticed that I have to hold down the left mouse button down a little bit longer than "a normal click" to bring programs back to the forefground |
Ah, i guess I just do it automatically. The feel is just like that on a Mac with OSX. I'm not sure if it's possible to configure this or not, but my guess would be it can at least be configured from the theme level. |
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MrApples
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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im not sure if i remember correctly but i think that was in the theme config
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Rosjahh
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Some other things:
I like the auto-hide function. But when I enable it, the docker moves to the center of my dual screen setup (xinerama), which essentially makes the docker appear a little bit on both screens. When I don't enable the auto-hide funtion, it just shows on the left screen. Somebody knows if it's possible to have engage only on the left screen while auto-hide is enabled?
Also, when, options.grab_min_icons and options.grab_app_icons are enabled, engage will automatically grab (ugly) icons for each application, but the customs *.eet icons are never used. Does somebody know if it is possible to let engage first check if there is a custom *.eet icon available, and only if it doesn't find one, make an automatic icon?
TIP: You can have a nice clock in your engage. See this file in engage cvs. Necessary file are also to be found in e cvs. |
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MrApples
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:58 am Post subject: |
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i dont believe you can have it get the default icons when set to custom themes, but that would make a good request
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sillymrman
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I've installed Engage through portage. I had a problem that was mentioned here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=174279&start=150
(I was getting the following error:
| Quote: | You should _really_ create /home/derm/.e/apps/engage/mapping and populate it
You should _really_ create /home/derm/.e/apps/engage/launcher and populate it |
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I made those directories and then the error went away. As it turns out, you need to download 'build_icon.sh' from the cvs pages (linked above) and run give it each icon you want, one by one. That gives you some icons. (I'm not familiar with shell scripts so I don't know how to pass it "The GIMP" as a variable so that it will recognize it as also needing the Gimp icon...)
I still have one problem, however. Well, two actually. One is that I get that funky shadow that other people were complaining about and the second thing is that whenever I right click on the bar and click on "Configuration", I get the following output in my console:
| Quote: | | /bin/sh: line 1: examine: command not found |
Anyone have any ideas? |
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otti
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To add other icons with build_icons.sh you simply type for instance:
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# ./build_icon.sh Firefox /usr/bin/firefox Firefox-bin Firefox /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-icon.png
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From the Faq:
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Q: How do I know what arguments to use for the build_icon.sh?
A: Easy :
1) Application title - the text you wish to appear above the icon
2) Command - the command used to start (or spawn another instance of) the app
i.e. "mozilla" or "Eterm --borderless"
3) Window class }
4) Window name } If you do not know these values go to the "remember" settin$
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And to use the configuration of engage you have to install examine:
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# esearch examine
* app-misc/examine [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.0.1.20041016
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 1,024 kB
Homepage: http://www.enlightenment.org/
Description: configuration library for applications based on the EFL
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btsdev
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: engage problems |
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I'm on the amd64 platform and I use fluxbox. I emerged engage and it works when i run 'engage' but there's absolutely no help included besides the terse engage --help. 'examine engage' didn't work so i emerged examine. once i did that, 'examine engage' returns an error:
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brian@newcastle brian $ examine engage
examine: connect to engage failed: -5
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If engage is running though, I can however right click and click 'configure' and it does run examine for it. the interface, however, is INSANELY buggy and takes like 15 tries to type a number in one of the text boxes.
When i run engage from a terminal, I get this information:
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You should _really_ create /home/brian/.e/apps/engage/mapping and populate it
You should _really_ create /home/brian/.e/apps/engage/launcher and populate it
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but I go there and there's nothing and there's no help on google and the examine program for engage has no options for adding buttons.
In addition, I get some weird bugs when trying to use engage regularly with the default question mark icons and launching new programs while it's running.
some times if i open up gaim and sign on when engage is running, it seg faults immediately and gives me an error like:
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Application handle already freed!
BAD PROGRAMMER BAD PROGRAMMER
Go fix your code!
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most of the time when i launch apps, it only adds icons for every few programs and when i click on an icon representing a running program, i have to do a slow mousedown before mouseup to get focus on the program represented by the icon :/
All of this is pretty disappointing because I can tell that this app has some potential.
Maybe we can figure out together how to get engage running more reliably. |
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MrApples
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:29 am Post subject: Re: engage problems |
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| btsdev wrote: |
When i run engage from a terminal, I get this information:
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You should _really_ create /home/brian/.e/apps/engage/mapping and populate it
You should _really_ create /home/brian/.e/apps/engage/launcher and populate it
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but I go there and there's nothing and there's no help on google and the examine program for engage has no options for adding buttons. |
see the posts above for a solution...
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jxn
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | brian@newcastle brian $ examine engageexamine: connect to engage failed: -5 |
To run examine on an app, you must have that app running already, at least that is my experience. |
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HandyAndE
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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The documentation for these unsupported keyworded apps is in CVS, or at least in the package you install from - try extracting that and reading README or INSTALL or FAQ
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viperlin
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:20 am Post subject: |
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mine crashes on right click with | Code: | | engage: symbol lookup error: engage: undefined symbol: ewl_object_set_fill_policy |
so i cant set my icons.
oh well, was just trying to get this to work again to make a pretty screenshot 
thought i might report it here so at least threres some record of this error
have fun engaging, and happy boxing day |
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tecknojunky
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| Quote: | | Which OS-X like Dock Application is best? |
I did not know there was so many. I tried gdesklet before but found it to be very slow and unpleasant. Engage is fast, slick and efficient. I have absolutely no envie to try anything else, now that I've been spoiled with Engage. Add a vote from me.
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xxxabg
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:48 am Post subject: hwo to make a simple icon panel? |
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I don't want to use kiba-dock or avant-window-navigator, because of I have to enable compiz and it will break down my system sometimes.
Besides that, is there a simple way to make a simple icon panel such as AWN?
I found a screensnap:
http://www.gentoo.org/images/shots/Bildschirmfoto.png
Is it a real panel? How to make it?
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xxxabg
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Thanks so mush if anyone could help.
Evan |
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think kooldock requires composite support. I've been running it for a while and it works greak. |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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merged above three posts here.
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| you merged this post with a post from 2004? Is engage even in portage anymore? |
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keet
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject: OSX-style dock |
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I tried to figure out how to install engage, but I decided that if the instructions are so difficult to find that it's probably not well-supported in Gentoo anyway.
I'm using avant-window-navigator, and it works nicely. Plus I didn't need any overlays or anything, just to add it to my /etc/portage/package.keywords file.
Still, I am definitely interested if anyone finds anything better that is actually in portage. |
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