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aragon · #81 Post by **aragon** » Wed 30 Apr 2008, 15:01

hi steve,

maybe you'll try this

<TaskListStyle>
<Font>FreeSans-12:bold</Font>
<ActiveForeground>white</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>black:#9dbbdb</ActiveBackground>
<Foreground>white</Foreground>
<Background>gray50:black</Background>
</TaskListStyle>

for tasklist.

cheers
aragon

HairyWill · #82 Post by **HairyWill** » Wed 30 Apr 2008, 15:54

stevenbinion wrote:How can I make a new theme I've created default from the very fist launch of the CD?

put it in /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme
If you want the user to be able to switch back to it after trying something else then you should pick a name for it and copy the format of the existing theme files.

The theme selector and jwm configurator do some on the fly editing of the jwmrc-tray so you probably should test that these work ok on your tray definition. My jwm config is usually so off wack that I don't trust the automatic tools to play with it, I currently have 16 trays defined.

stevenbinion · #83 Post by **stevenbinion** » Wed 30 Apr 2008, 16:56

Thanks to both of you for the suggestions, I'll try them both out as soon as I get home.

iwigo · #84 Post by **iwigo** » Fri 02 May 2008, 14:09

could yo make a dotpup for each theme? some of them are fantastic but i don't know how to install them

magerlab · #85 Post by **magerlab** » Mon 05 May 2008, 05:44

i like the idea of having two trays like xfce
is it possible to have programms inserted into the upper tray?

i did not think jwm could be tweaked so nice!

aragon · #86 Post by **aragon** » Mon 05 May 2008, 08:39

dear magerlab,

yes, it is possible to insert programs to the upper tray (as both are theoretically the same).

if you look at the .jwmrc-tray, there are section like

Code: Select all

<TrayButton popup="Show desktop" icon="showdesk16.xpm">showdesktop</TrayButton>

with those commands you can insert buttons/programs in both trays (as i'm not posting this from my puppy, please check!).

as allways: please backup first.

cheers
aragon

SDash · #87 Post by **SDash** » Wed 21 May 2008, 18:15

In this topic I tried out the XFCE themes and I liked them at first. But then I started to prefer having all of my links and task bar on the bottom so I tried to uninstall the themes but only the icons would be uninstalled and under JWM config I would still see the XFCE option.

Is it just me or do others have a problem with this?
I also tried to change to other JWM themes but it only changes the color theme of the XFCE look.

I want the normal JWM look back but I've settled with openbox in the fatdog.sfs package.

Thanks

magerlab · #88 Post by **magerlab** » Thu 22 May 2008, 06:29

it all can be done just by editing /root/.jwmrc-tray in geany( or leafpad)

say you have a line like this
Tray autohide="true" insert="right" x="0" y="-1" valign="top" halign="center" height="48" >
just change "top" to "bottom" and yo'll have tray at bottom

i'm sticked to 2 tray jwm
it 's cool

Eyes-Only · #89 Post by **Eyes-Only** » Sat 24 May 2008, 21:41

Nice shot magerlab! I really like the looks of that "Faux-XFCE" desktop of yours. So I've saved it in my Puppy Files directory to use as a shot of "What Puppy Can Do" when I go to show him off to friends.

I also like your menu button. I think you've used it as such? The "Puppy"? I done likewise with my LXPanel only I used the brown one as my desktop wallpaper is the old "Murkel 2.14" Puppy shot.

Thanks for sharing that screen-pic magerlab!

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

magerlab · #90 Post by **magerlab** » Mon 26 May 2008, 14:14

I wonder if it's possible to use svg icons for menu and buttons?

i did not realize that jwm can be configured so nice!
the only thing i dislike is the bug with gxine full screen

prit1 · #91 Post by **prit1** » Mon 26 May 2008, 15:17

@magerlab: I dont have the Gxine fullscreen problem in 3.01 and 4.00 when I use the light icewm package from Ttuuxxx. But with Jwm I do have this problem.

magerlab · #92 Post by **magerlab** » Mon 26 May 2008, 21:42

yes, it's a jwm problem
but icewm for some reason( i still do not know) can not show window titles in unicode
so i now use more jwm and openbox +lxpanel
i hope that gxine problem will be solved ( or another player wiil be used in puppy

)

big_bass · #93 Post by **big_bass** » Tue 10 Jun 2008, 15:41

magerlab wrote:yes, it's a jwm problem
but icewm for some reason( i still do not know) can not show window titles in unicode
so i now use more jwm and openbox +lxpanel
i hope that gxine problem will be solved ( or another player wiil be used in puppy )

gxine in puppy 4.00 is the best gxine yet ( Barry K did a great job with it )
it was downgraded and extra xine codecs were added
it is larger now but well worth the extra weight

I tested it with many formats all worked
*some formats you may need to drag and drop but thats an easy fix

open some more formats with gxine puppy 4.00
download these they are all tar.gz so you more control what to install
the first one on the list is instructions the rest are MIME-types
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9911
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9909
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9908
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9907

INSTUCTIONS where to place these mime types so you gain some more formats that you can open using gxine or any other media player

This will take you there fast

open console paste this

rox -s /root/Choices/MIME-types

open the folder
and place the three files (the above that you downloaded )there
now your default media player can launch them from saved files

big_bass

Evil20071 · #94 Post by **Evil20071** » Fri 04 Jul 2008, 01:25

Ok. I've tried several of these, and, though they show up in my JWM manager, they don't apply when selected, even after JWM and full system reboot. Any ideas why?

vg1 · #95 Post by **vg1** » Fri 11 Jul 2008, 12:04

Here are some new themes for dingo4:
- black-IV - similar to icewm's Vista-Black-IV
- black-IV-slate - similar to above but with slightly livelier colours
- Lightlooks-Gold - for those who prefer lighter colours

Fonts are included. They may not render well on your screen, or if you don't like them, just comment them out, erase or change them. You can also override them in your jwmrc-personal file.

The themes can also be used in p3, or any version with jwm 2.0 or higher. In that case you need to manually apply the 'taskliststyle' colours to the blinker, xload & mini-volume in yout jwmrc-tray file.

For those who liked my 'black-vg' theme but found the fonts too big & imposing [as did I] I have also included a slightly modified - 'black-vg-sf' theme.I had my jwmrc-tray file set to override fonts and hadn't noticed while I was testing that theme. I have reduced them here. I like them better this way. Of course, they can easily be reduced as above, this is ready-made for those who prefer them that way.

vg

steve_s · #96 Post by **steve_s** » Sun 13 Jul 2008, 23:06

Sort of off topic, but in the same ballpark:

Bottom left hand corner, "Menu" button: how do I change the font color?

WhoDo · #97 Post by **WhoDo** » Mon 14 Jul 2008, 08:06

Evil20071 wrote:Ok. I've tried several of these, and, though they show up in my JWM manager, they don't apply when selected, even after JWM and full system reboot. Any ideas why?

More info required. What version of Puppy? What version of JWM? What version of Gtk?

Answers to these questions may lead us to the problem.

Cheers

steve_s · #98 Post by **steve_s** » Mon 14 Jul 2008, 13:27

Evil20071 wrote:Ok. I've tried several of these, and, though they show up in my JWM manager, they don't apply when selected, even after JWM and full system reboot. Any ideas why?

This is a suggestion coming from out of the blue, but it may be in how the file is being saved...my suggestion is to open up another theme in geany, have your new theme already copied into clipboard, select all on the old theme in geany, paste the new theme onto the old one, then save the now-new theme as a DIFFERENT name in the .jwm themes directory. That way you ensure the file is in exactly the same format...

Of course, whodo may be right, suggesting that simply more info may be needed...

brymway · #99 Post by **brymway** » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 01:45

I know that this is a killjoy but will someone please tell me the best way to manually change JWM themes? I'm using Dingo and I've downloaded some of the themes here but they don't show up in the JWM configuaration panel.

vg1 · #100 Post by **vg1** » Mon 21 Jul 2008, 08:54

Steve_s -
'Menu' button color & font is in the <TrayStyle> section, same as clock.

brymway -
any themes [properly written] copied to the /.jwm/themes folder should automatically appear in your JWM configuration panel. If they don't then something is wrong with your system. To test this take an original theme from Dingo, change something [say font or colour] and save with -test appended to the name. It should immediately appear in the JWM config. panel. If you want the .png thumbs to appear alongside then also copy these and name them appropriately, appending -test to them.

To use manually copy the theme [both -jwmrc & -colors] to /.jwm [ie one level up] and rename to jwmrc-theme & jwmrc-colors. Or using a text editor copy & paste all from the theme [-jwmrc & -colors] to the current jwmrc-theme & jwmrc-colors respectively.

Does it work now?

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