IceWM Themes Exchange

[6tr6tr]

I didn't have any other icon options, just the same old boring ones. (which are cute, but I was hoping for more of them)

Wallpaper doesn't change auto either. I have all the wallpapers, but I thought the whole thing would change together... but its not a big deal. I just wanted to know if it was possible.

Install EZpup-4.0v5 add-on and you should get a full set of new icons, extra wallpapers and a whole bunch of themes as well.


Hope that helps.

I just installed EZpup-4.0v5 and now I've lost a few things from my taskbar:
1. I can no longer click on the CPU-Load box to see the processes running
2. There's no longer a box showing the internet traffic
3. There's no quick-launch icon on the left for XTerm (Console)

How do I get those features back?

[6tr6tr]

I had this wallpaper, but then I had to do a renstall of puppy and lost it:




I thought I knew where to get it but I can't find it.... anyone have any idea where to get this? I think its called Smooth Emerald Theta. But I can't find it searching for that.

Emms

If you like "Theta Space" its part of a Fractal collection, Have a look here at maybe 100 different ones including Theta Space
http://sgeier.net/fractals/indexe.php
ttuuxxx

How do I get that Mac OSX-like taskbar with the icons that you have in that picture?

[Eyes-Only]

Howdy 6tr6tr!

That "Mac-style" dock bar/icon bar at the top of that screenshot is called "Wbar" and you may obtain a copy of it for your Puppy at this page in the software section here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=19742

It's great and I've installed it to all of my other distros as well! Can't be without it now.

I hope this has helped?

Amicalement/Cheers!

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

[Fossil]

The fractal wallpaper is a form created by 'fractal flames'.
Do a Google for 'Apophysis' and you will find many incredible examples. It might also prove to be an interesting experiment to run the Windows-based Apophysis executable under Wine.

[WhoDo]

I just installed EZpup-4.0v5 and now I've lost a few things from my taskbar:
1. I can no longer click on the CPU-Load box to see the processes running
2. There's no longer a box showing the internet traffic
3. There's no quick-launch icon on the left for XTerm (Console)

How do I get those features back?

Items 1 & 2 are found in the /root/.icewm/preferences file

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#  Command to run on CPU status
CPUStatusCommand="iu_gps"

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#  Show network status on task bar (Linux only)
TaskBarShowNetStatus=0 # 0/1

You can add a quick-launch icon for your console by editing /root/.icewm/toolbar file. Mine is below as an example - simply copy or move the terminal "prog" command outside the "}" that closes the quicklaunch menu list.

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#Quick Launch Menu
menu "Quick Launch" folder24 {
	prog Rxvt xterm_16x16 rxvt -sl 999
	prog "Rxvt black" xterm_16x16 rxvt -rv +sb -sl 999
	prog "Kill Process" mini-run /usr/local/pprocess/pprocess
#	prog Aterm xterm_16x16 aterm -tr -sl 999
	prog "Reload desktop" run1616 rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
	prog "Puppy Notes" mini-edit puppy-editor /root/my-documents/puppy-notes.txt
	prog "Internet Browser" mozicon32 puppy-browser
	prog Email mini-mail puppy-email
	prog "My RoxApps" run1616 rox /root/my-roxapps
	prog Rox home rox
        prog "edit quick launch" mini-edit leafpad /root/.icewm/toolbar
        prog "edit startup" mini-edit leafpad /root/.icewm/startup
#        prog "edit trayicons" mini-edit leafpad /usr/local/xystray-trayicons/run-xystray
#        prog "edit menu-preferences" mini-edit leafpad /usr/local/jwm2icewm-menu/menu.rc
#        prog "edit weather-app" mini-edit leafpad /etc/wmweather.conf
 }
prog "Shutdown" exit wmpoweroff
prog "Volume" mixer pvolume-mixer.tcl
prog "Screenshot" camera mtpaintsnapshot.sh
#prog "RDP Client" pc-2x remotedesktopclient

Your original "preferences" and "toolbar" files should still be in the /root/.icewm directory as backups. You could simply compare them with the new ones and copy back the differences, too.

Hope that helps

[murre]

Hello all!

Im a total newbie with puppy. I have installed puppy 4.1 and installed Ezpup 4, but how do i change theme? Where can i find icewm settings?

Can someone tell in easy steps how to do? I have searched the forum but cannot find a simple "idiots guide" how do do it.

Thanks in advance!

[_MegadetH_]

Hi! I need a icewm theme very similar to mac os tiger or leopard. can you help me?
Is there a theme ready to be installed?

[DC]

Q for WhoDo,

Whist trying to increase the text size of my taskbar clock (QuanX-Who theme) I came across this forum post
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/IceWM
where it was noted that only when copying Xft fonts into the default theme allowed font changes to be made. Which proved to be true in my case.(nice big clock now)
The change seems to date from 2003. I've looked at other themes and they don't have the font section.
So I'm a bit confused with whats correct. I know it worked in my case. but whats the correct way of setting theme fonts for IceWM in Puppy 4.1

thanks

DC

[WhoDo]

Im a total newbie with puppy. I have installed puppy 4.1 and installed Ezpup 4, but how do i change theme? Where can i find icewm settings?

In order to change themes after installing EZpup, you need to use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to exit to a command line and then type:

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xwin icewm-session

That will start the IceWM window manager. Go menu>settings>themes to click on your new theme. Then choose menu>Window Manager>Restart IceWM to see the change.

IceWM settings are controlled by the preferences and prefoverride files in /root/.icewm directory (hidden. click on the eye icon in your toolbar to view hidden files).

In EZpup I have included tronkel's basic IceWM Configuration utility - menu>Xdesktop>IceWM Configuration - for some of the simpler settings. The rest involve manual edits to the preferences files as mentioned.

You might also consider a visit to the EZpup Help page of the wiki for more detailed advice.

Hope that helps.

[WhoDo]

Hi! I need a icewm theme very similar to mac os tiger or leopard. can you help me?
Is there a theme ready to be installed?

Check back through this thread for Abby-Mac, Abby-Leopard and MacRetro.

Hope that helps.

[WhoDo]

I know it worked in my case. but whats the correct way of setting theme fonts for IceWM in Puppy 4.1

Theme fonts get overridden by the size assignments in /root/.icewm/prefoverride file, so that may explain why changing the default.theme file may have no effect in some cases. I'll look up the Xft issue and see what that's about. Thanks for the link.

Hope that helps.

[DC]

Theme fonts get overridden by the size assignments in /root/.icewm/prefoverride file

Had a look at my prefoverride file and all thats in there is Icon paths


DC

[WhoDo]

Theme fonts get overridden by the size assignments in /root/.icewm/prefoverride file

Had a look at my prefoverride file and all thats in there is Icon paths

Here is my prefoverride for comparison:

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# Font Specification
TitleFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13:bold
MenuFontNameXft         =   sans-serif:size=13
MinimizedWindowFontNameXft   =   sans-serif:size=13
ActiveButtonFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
NormalButtonFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
ToolButtonFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
NormalWorkspaceFontNameXft   =   sans-serif:size=13
ActiveWorkspaceFontNameXft   =   sans-serif:size=13
QuickSwitchFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
ListBoxFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
StatusFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
ToolTipFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft   =   sans-serif:size=13
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft   =   sans-serif:size=13
ClockFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13
InputFontNameXft      =   sans-serif:size=13

MenuIconSize=22
SmallIconSize=22 #sets toolbar height, too.
LargeIconSize=24
HugeIconSize=32 

#  Command to run on clock
ClockCommand="minixcal"

#Network status monitor
#NetIdleColor=""

The font assignments shown could live in your default.theme file instead, if you want to set them individually. I guess that answers your original question, too.

Hope that helps, DC.

[afecelis]

Whodo, I want to thank you and everyone in the community for such a commitment to making the puppy so powerful and beautiful!

I'm totally overwhelmed by it! It's my 3rd day working with puppy and as I understand how things work I keep making it better and better!

Thanks for your support and for the love printed in all the things you do.

regards,

Alvaro

[Bambi]

Hi, i have installed EZpup4 but i have lost some things on my taskbar.
I had a look through the preferences file but cant find it.

I am using a laptop and used to have the remaining battery as a percentage in the bottom right hand corner but now i dont.

I also had the amount of remaining hdd space and a better looking cpu chart, are these recoverable?

Please can someone help me?

Thanks

[WhoDo]

Hi, i have installed EZpup4 but i have lost some things on my taskbar.
I had a look through the preferences file but cant find it.

I am using a laptop and used to have the remaining battery as a percentage in the bottom right hand corner but now i dont.

I also had the amount of remaining hdd space and a better looking cpu chart, are these recoverable?

The battery meter is in JWM, the original window manager. I'm pretty sure that ttuuxxx or someone has made an IceWM version that you can add. Use Puppy Google Search to find it.

As for your CPU chart, the settings for that are controlled by /root/.icewm/preferences. You can check the settings in /root/.jwmrc_tray for the colour combination you liked and then transfer those to IceWM's preferences or prefoverride. You will find the correct syntax in the IceWM Manual.

Hope that helps

[Bambi]

Thanks WhoDo, one last Q
I got the batter meter back, that's all good, but the CPU part confuses me.

This is what i want the CPU to be

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xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white =bg gray45
^from JVM

But i see no where in the ice pref to change the colors.
How can i do this?

Thanks

[WhoDo]

This is what i want the CPU to be

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xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white =bg gray45

But i see no where in the ice pref to change the colors.
How can i do this?

Oops! My bad. The colours are actually set in the IceWM theme default.theme file @ /root/.icewm/themes/{themename}/default.theme - here is the relevant code section:

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ColorCPUStatusUser="rgb:ff/00/00"
ColorCPUStatusSystem="rgb:ff/ff/ff"
ColorCPUStatusNice="rgb:be/be/be"

The numbers are the hex equivalent so you can specify almost any colour combination you like. Those entered above should give you the colour combination you want BUT you may not want it in your new theme. It may be better to go with a transparent background for example. Use Menu>Graphic>ColorExplorer to find a combination that suits.

Hope that helps

[pa_mcclamrock]

Here's a download link to a .PET package I just created (about 2 MB or so), for JaniceM in the Beginners' Help sub-forum who is just getting started with IceWM, containing the themes I use: [EDITED: New link here, old free file hosting site pooped out, now use this link: http://www.adrive.com/public/fa3101d4c6 ... 92998.html].

Thanks to WhoDo for the Golden_Mood and Xtreme-Animated themes; willhunt for numerous themes selected from the massive "icepak" package (including QuanX, Velvet themes, Elberg themes, Smooth themes, IceQua, icemucha, IceBergX, liQuid, Silver, Shiney-single); and even me, for my very simple but colorful themes (Autumnalia, Winterblue, Greenery, RoyalPurple). This package will put the themes in /usr/share/icewm/themes.

David McClamrock

[dejan555]

Here's my first icewm theme with dark red gradients:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/12/26 ... et-1.0.pet

And here's my puppy wallpaper, if it has to go to some other topic, please move it and tell me where:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2280/243 ... df7c0d.jpg