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Dougal · Last edited by Dougal on Sun 12 Apr 2009, 05:33; edited 1 time in total

A while ago some people were asking about a good launch-bar to use with Enlightenment...

At some stage I discovered Wbar: pretty fancy, light and (obviously) not part of the g/K mafia.

Note that I didn't make a dotpet out of it, since you will need to set up the config file (/root/dot.wbar by default).

I've included Imlib2 with it.

You should also run "wbar --help" to see the various ways of running it -- unfortunately a lot of the options have to be supplied when launching it (rather than being set in the config file).
You will need to run it with "-above-desk", so it'll be seen over the Rox pinboard.

Here are two images: one when it's left alone, the other with the cursor over it (all the movement and resizing are controllable).

Lobster · Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2007, 00:51 Post subject:

Have placed a link here, which also details the unusual Enlightenment window manager and running it on Puppy
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/EnlightenmentWM

tahaselim · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Ankara, Turkey

Dougal

after installing Enlightment dotpup, am I good to go with your taskbar?

or should I do lots o' configurations and launching stuff?

Taha Selim

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

Dougal,
very shiny, nice toy

tahaselim
You don't need enlightenment to use this it, is just similar to the launchbar (?) used in enlightenment.
It is running quite happily for me in jwm.

tahaselim · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Ankara, Turkey

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

To get the tray out of the way you can edit .jwmrc-tray and set the tray to autohide=true or you could set the y coordinate to 0 to move it to the top of the screen.

To get it to start on boot is not completely straightforward. It uses fake transparency by recording a picture of what is underneath it when it starts and if it starts before jwm has completed initialising its window ends up with a titlebar and all the other decoration.
I got success by starting it in .xinitrc using

tahaselim · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Ankara, Turkey

Which means , in fact we have two trays on the screen JWM taskbar and Wbar.

I got how I can configure it to start except for the Swallow entry part.

Dougal · Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2007, 07:49 Post subject:

tahaselim · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Ankara, Turkey

dasch · Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 13

just wondering on the questions regarding a launchbar for enlightentment. what about engage?

dreamlinux looks great having combined engage with xfce.

Rhino · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 10:42 Post subject:

I must say that I am very impressed with wbar. It appears to be fairly simple to configure, stable and works well. To get it to work properly on startup with jwm I used swallow in the tray to get it to render properly.

Just add the following code to /root/.jwmrc-tray between xload and minixcal.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I wrote a small script that parses your PuppyPin file and creates a wbar config file based on your desktop icons. You can then edit PuppyPin and remove the icons from your desktop.

Dougal · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 19:08 Post subject:

Rhino · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 19:17 Post subject:

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

Thats interesting Rhino, I've tried using swallow but it is still on the tasklist. It may be because I am using jwm 2.01 I presume you are using the stock 1.8. I also notice that you haven't put in the -above-desk switch but it is still being shown above the pinboard.