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MU · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008, 17:12 Post subject: test: lxpanel 0.3.8.1

related topic:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25118&start=30

I just compiled lxpanel 0.3.8.1.

In muppy 0084 beta2, with Gnome.sfs installaed, so I cannot guarantee, it works on other systems.
It does NOT include Plinejs patch, so it uses XDG menus (/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu).
Like this I have the education category.
And german menus in my german version of Muppy.

Let me know if it works, and what needs changes.

PLEASE READ THE RELEASENOTES BEFORE YOU INSTALL:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=230961#230961

Mark

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

Thank You, Mark!
i just was looking for a panel for new boxpup that i lke so much

i can say that this panel works although it crashes when i try to change a shortcut application ( i installed this version of lxpanel from zenwalk some days before and it had the same bug with segfault message whe i ran it in console)
i want to use boxpup on eee pc, so i'd like to have an autohide option if possible

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

Mark,

I've been using OpenBox and Lxpanel for a while, works pretty nice. Two problems:

1) On boot, Lxpanel is blank until you click the mouse.

2) Openbox doesn't focus Seamonkey's download dialogs correctly.

Anyway, I had compiled Lxpanel 0.3.8.1 patching it like Jason did, so it generates it's own menus. You can find a tarball with Lxpanel and Openbox here:

http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/kirk/openbox-lxpanel/

The patched source for Lxpanel 0.3.8.1 is there too.

Edit: This is good for anyone who wants to watch Flash video full-screen. You will also need a newer version of Flash, the one included in Puppy is broke.

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 950

MU · Posted: Sun 07 Sep 2008, 03:27 Post subject:

thanks wow.
The screenshots look great Smile

To logout, you can create a script:
/usr/local/bin/lxsession-logout

wow · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 950

I'm attaching my patch to merge all puppy specific categories into the default LXPanel menu structure(multi lang).

off-topic??:
I uninstalled LXSession-Lite-0.3.6 because it can't remembers the applications in use when you logout, and I installed LXSession-0.3.2 again. I hacked the logout dialog as I did with LXSession-Lite. Now I can use the session manager to manage my mixed desktop environment. The patch is attached bellow.

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

i tested lxpanel in puppy 3 and it does not crash when i add an application launch icon
but in box pup based on dingo it crashes
why i happens so?

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

i tested lxpanel in puppyrus ( based on puppy 3) and in box pup ( based on dingo)
in puppyrus it does not crash when i add an aplication launch icon, but in box pup it crashes
why it happens so?

MU · Posted: Tue 09 Sep 2008, 15:06 Post subject:

I updated the pet in the first message.

ATTENTION:
This includes some files, that overwrite files from older versions, you might backup those first!

Changes:
includes wow's lxpanel patch to display icons and more files (well done wow, thanks!).
On my system, I do not get new categories like "Filemanagers", but now the filemanagers are visible in "system utilities".
Before, they were not visible at all.

Added:
/usr/bin/lxpanel
/usr/bin/lxpanelcfg
These now point to the files in /usr/local/lxpanel-0.3.8.1/bin/

I added my own /usr/local/bin/lxsession-logout described above.

Added:
/root/.icewm/startuplx
/root/my-applications/bin/starticewmlx

These run icewm without tray and blinky.
You could add lxpanel to startuplx, it is not added by default, as Muppy has a more complex startsystem.
You then could start icewm with lxpanel by typing
xwin starticewmlx

Added:
a default configuration in
/root/.config/lxpanel/default/

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magerlab:
with Plinejs lxpanel compiled in Puppy4, I had crashes in Puppy3.
This happened, when the tray was used.
You might remove the tray with an editor from /root/.config/lxpanel/default/panel.
Maybe that works.
If yes, you had to recompile it in Puppy 4, to use it with the tray.

Mark

disciple · Posted: Wed 12 Nov 2008, 21:58 Post subject:

FYI in Puppy 4.1.1 it also needs libxcb-xlib.so.0 and libxcb.so.1

disciple · Posted: Wed 12 Nov 2008, 22:19 Post subject:

They are at http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/bugs/libxcb-1.0.pet

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 02 Jan 2009, 14:17 Post subject:

Hi Guys sometime ago I was messing around with lxde which uses lxpanel, well what thinking why not one of you download the icewm sources and in the when your configuring it you can disable the taskbar and menu, just about anything, that would make icewm really lite, and a perfect match for lxpanel, plus you could start up lxpanel in the icewm startup file and not even touch /root/.xinitrc which is a blessing in its own.
just change the etc/windowmanager file to icewm-sessions and restart Xserver.
I 'like the idea because you could easily cutdown the icewm themes to just the window decorations and with that, it could look like xp,vista,make, my puppy paws, etc.
anyways I would do it but I have too much going at this point.
ttuuxxx

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

i think that icewm is sufficient itself
it has it's own panel and can show network and battery status( no need for plugins or blinky)
also it support app launchers

and the panel can autohide unlike lxpanel

my favorite for now is openobx or xfce4 but i always think of icewm also as a chioce

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro

Here's an alternative dialog for logout, it also adds a shutdown icon at the and of panel: