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timmfin · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

Ok, right now yelp will crash on my if I open it all in fluxbox, I will see if I get it to work at all first.

edit: I am having the same problem as you. When I'm in gnome yelp will start with a crash error if idesk was loaded in the x startup scripts (I used gdm's session configs), but if if idesk is started after gnome is up and running (the middle click reloading will not work either) yelp works fine.

I guess it is the same problem causing yelp to do this as well as never start for me in fluxbox, hmmm. I don't know a whole lot about what goes on when x starts up or when gnome starts up, but I wonder if there is some process setup or something. When idesk opens a file it only just uses a sh system call to get the program going, nothing facy. I don't see why that should make a difference. Hmm, this will be harder...

alsh · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:59 am Post subject:

I installed the dev version from the website and configuration and running went smooth. Only issue is I want them to be on the bottomleft horizontal but they always start up vertical to the top right. I set the SnapOrigin to bottom left with no luck...

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

timmfin · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:35 pm Post subject:

alsh: All the snap orgin options work for me, I think that I have confused you with the snap settings I have set up. I've drawn a cude ascii diagram below to try to illustrate how things currently work.

alsh · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:57 pm Post subject:

Ok the diagram helped me get the idea of the snap thing, still didnt fix the problem, but I noticed in my .lnk files for each icon I left the coords at X: 0, Y: 0 and when I play around with those I can get the icons to go wherever I want, so with a little bit of toying I got them set straight

Im sure the 1024 width thing wasnt helping at all either, thanks for the help.
Edit: Got a screenshot up so you can see what I was going for and that I got it working

... its here

timmfin · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject:

You know that you can drag the icons around with the mouse right? Well that is if the icons are unlocked (double right click to lock or unlock them).

alsh · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:17 pm Post subject:

timmfin · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 9:38 pm Post subject:

Cool, you mind if I use that pic in my screenshots section?

hook · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject:

timmfin, it would be great if you would have an icons section

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alsh · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject:

CYwolf · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:14 am Post subject: Single-click behaviour

Hi timmfin, I'm enjoying using idesk but the single-click behaviour (execute on mouse-down) was bugging me, so I changed it to execute on mouse-up. With this patch you can also move icons around while in SingleClick mode.

You should be able to make out my changes in this screenshot (higher quality png).

I also removed the double-click processing from XIcon.cpp because it became redundant.

Thanks for your good work (and same to the other team members).

timmfin · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

xlyz: By chance are you running idesk in your xinitrc with nohup? That seemed to fix a few similar problems, but it is just a hunch in your case.

hook: Sure I think that would be a good idea. Right now there would probably only be a few links to svg icon packgages, but that is better than nothing. Maybe it will encourage more svg icon creation.

CYwolf: Hey thanks, I didn't think about the whole click release thing. I've added that change. If you want to be on the credits page let me know. Oh yea, I will appreciate any patches you make in the future as well.

Jeff In Motion · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 8

I don't want to drive this thread too off topic, but how's that SVG zooming feature coming along? As soon as I heard you were putting SVG support into idesk and people were talking about being able to make your icons huge and still look good -- I was definitely thinking rather about the possibility of zoom/magnification. I'm really glad to see on your website that there is mention of development being done on it. Any word on the status?

-Jeff In Motion

hook · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: SVG zooming

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

Yoannez · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 12:04 am Post subject:

Hi

How do I put a wallpaper on a desktop draw by idesk and waimea?
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hook · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 1:16 pm Post subject:

timmfin · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 3:10 pm Post subject:

jeff in motion: Well, I have not worked on that all, but some of the things curious was working on would really make some improvement in that area. Unfortunatly it seems like I have lost contact with him and I have not heard any futher information in a long time. So I'm assuming that he is not working on it anymore. I'm sorry that it hasn't happened yet, I really can't code for idesk during the school year (unfortunately I'm one of those overachiever types).

Yoannez · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 5:13 pm Post subject:

hook:

What package install bsetbg ?
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hook · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject:

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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

timmfin: any news about the fix of yelp crash?

dvd666 · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

Hi, I also have a Xft problem....here's my output: