JWM 2.0.1 Enhancements and Fixes

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#201 Post by joel »

yea if its more than a few it'd be a hassle, how'd you fix it?

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#202 Post by abushcrafter »

Look at disciple's post.

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#203 Post by abushcrafter »

I have found that I can only have one option enabled at a time . How do I enable both the win and menu keys?

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#204 Post by abushcrafter »

This is being a right pain. I can't find any documentation on how I can have the windows and menu keys enabled at the same time! In-fact the Xorg website is awful to browse! Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Btw how do I set/(does one already exist?) a hotkey for the right click menu?

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#205 Post by disciple »

Btw how do I set/(does one already exist?) a hotkey for the right click menu?
That's what the menu key is.
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#206 Post by abushcrafter »

I know but If I can only have the menu key or the windows keys then I would like the windows keys with a hotkey for the right click menu function, But I prefer to get both working.

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#207 Post by disciple »

I think even if your keyboard didn't physically have a menu key you could use xmodmap to use another key for one.
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#208 Post by abushcrafter »

Thanks for your opinion. So could you help me with that? I have tried reading up but have not had much success.

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#209 Post by disciple »

Say you want to use the Print Scrn key:
- open a terminal
- run

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xev
(Not in many recent puppies - get it at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 431#244431)
- press the Print Scrn key and see what keycode it says is assigned to that key. For me it is 111.
- put a line in ~/.Xmodmap like this and save the file

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keycode 111 = Menu
- reboot the computer (or probably just restart X, but I'm not certain), or run (IIRC)

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xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
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#210 Post by abushcrafter »

Thanks very muchly. I'm happy :D.

Btw does puppy use the print screen key by default for something?

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Suggest Supporting Desktop Specific Startup Commands

#211 Post by sazeile »

I'm in the process of converting the in-laws from Windows to Puppy Linux. After getting over the "it's different" learning curve they really like it, especially the virtual desktops. "It's like having multiple computers". They also like the quick boot time and I'm looking forward to not spending my holidays chasing viruses. One of the things that they asked for was to be able to have the system auto start different applications on each desktop. AOL email on one desktop and Yahoo email on another.

Disciple helped me to achieve this effect by using xte in a startup script to switch between the desktops and start the apps. See:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 493#380493

It works well but the screen flashes and I had to add sleep statements to allow the apps to get started before switching desktops. Otherwise the app will land on whichever desktop is active when the app completes launch.

My suggestion would be to allow the StartupCommand to be included within the Desktop tag. At startup the user would immediately see desktop one while the apps on the other desktops are launching in the background.

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Localise right click windows and taskbar pop-up menu?

#212 Post by Argolance »

Hello!
Working on a French version of Puppy, I was wondering how the pop-up menu (right click on windows titlebar or taskbar: Send to, Layer, Stick [....] Kill, Close) could be converted to French? Where are the system files that could be changed?
Thank you a lot!

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Re: Localise right click windows and taskbar pop-up menu?

#213 Post by ttuuxxx »

Argolance wrote:Hello!
Working on a French version of Puppy, I was wondering how the pop-up menu (right click on windows titlebar or taskbar: Send to, Layer, Stick [....] Kill, Close) could be converted to French? Where are the system files that could be changed?
Thank you a lot!
download and extract the latest sources
http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/snapsho ... 64.tar.bz2
and go to /jwm-464/src/root.c <--- right "Open as Text"
and also jwm-464/src/winmenu.c <--- right "Open as Text"
just search for the names you want changed and change them, then compile it and then replace your current one, If I was you I would search each file in /jwm-464/src/ for a common word like Kill each time just change it to the same word,


Or I would PM http://murga-linux.com/puppy/privmsg.ph ... ost&u=4477 that is our most active french user, and if it has been done, he's done it already :)
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#214 Post by ttuuxxx »

Also there is a french version of puppy linux by that same user http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=toutou
if his JWM is in french, you could simply copy and replace your jwm with that one, I'm not sure if he converted it or not.
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#215 Post by Argolance »

Hello!
Thanks for your reply, I'll take a look at the source files you mentioned and try. The French version I am modestly working on is... Toutou LINUX... and the pop up menu is actually... in English !
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#216 Post by Argolance »

Hello,
@ttuuxxx
Thank you for the steps to follow, I tried and... succeed! 8)
Best regards!

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#217 Post by ttuuxxx »

Argolance wrote:Hello,
@ttuuxxx
Thank you for the steps to follow, I tried and... succeed! 8)
Best regards!
Can you tar.gz your sources and post them on here so other can enjoy it also please:)
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#218 Post by Argolance »

I will...
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#219 Post by disciple »

I reported a bug here where JWM displays the window size of Pizzasgood's new retrovol program incorrectly http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 227#380227
He thinks the problem is with JWM, or possibly GTK is giving JWM the wrong numbers. Would anyone here have any idea if JWM is to blame or not?
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#220 Post by Argolance »

Hello,
My test with jwm-464.tar.bz2 was successful but some little things seem to be a bit problematic. I don't know exactly the reason...
My question: Is it better to work on this latest tar.bz2 file or on the one that comes with Puppy 4.31? If this one is 'better' than that one, what is please the version of jWM I have to download?
Thank you for your kind attention.
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