Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[dejan555]

Nice ttuuxxx, I'll try this one with xfce panel

[ttuuxxx]

[disciple]

Why are you using metacity with the xfce panel? If you're going to include the xfce libs surely you might as well just use xfwm...

[dejan555]

I'll just enable iconified windows on pinboard and maybe add stalone tray and simple puppy menu

[ttuuxxx]

[disciple]

[url]The reason why is that it lakes less resources. [/url]
Are you sure? I thought Metacity and xfwm4 used almost identical resources. But if you could find another panel you could get rid of all the xfce libs...
Maybe something like opaco panel is worth trying... I think it should correctly handle (i.e. ignore for a panel) utility windows and things, like Metacity and Xfce: http://www.claudiocamacho.org/projects/opaco.php

[ttuuxxx]

Hi disciple thanks for taking a interest in this, 2.14X has always had about 60% of the xfce libs due to it has xfburn being included from day one and later on thunar was added to the desktop for a alternative FM, but rox is still default. The size of libs plus plugins 1124kb expanded or 474kb pet, I only keep what is actually needed to run the parts I use, compared to last xfce desktop pet on puppy was around 6MB compressed. That would be too large.
ttuuxxx

[upnorth]

I installed the metacity pet in lupq and ran it with tint2, it works fine - no menu though. But, this little gem works:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=440615#440615

Just installed the theme-setter pet too.Time to try out the new 214X.

[dejan555]

I played with Simple Puppy Menu by aragon here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51138

I made a systray icon for it to launch it from tray using this code from Barry's blog: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01489 so it can be used to embed menu in systray on panels such as tint2 and stalonetray, here's a pet, after installing aragon's SPM and this pet just run spm-tray to launch it.

[upnorth]

Thanks! Great tray app - does the job.

I got it so it only launches for the metacity & tint2 combination:

added to .xinitrc just below the fbpanel & lxpanel stuff:

[clarf]

Hi,

I liked metacity in 214X-top3 but Xface panel seems big. I tried some combinations, finally found one that meet my requirements metacity with lxpanel.

lxpanel 0.5.5 takes almost same resources than metacity (look in htop)

In the attached picture you can see lxpanel in action, supports transparency even in tray icon and plugins, also has nice plugins (in the picture form left to right: volume control, Network Status, Clock, CPU Monitor), a taskbar, desktop pager, launcher and Menu.

It´s very fast and includes a control Panel. Even the Dropbear Server icons is displayed correctly.

Note 1: lxpanel crashed when I tried to change its position and JWM was active, no problems found with metacity.

Note2: upnorth, In my opinion the code should be modified to take advantage of PATH environment variable:

[disciple]

The main disadvantage of LXpanel is that (last time I checked anyway) they deliberately removed the code to ignore utility windows (and similar things)... the only reason I personally would ever use metacity (or xfce) is because they handle these properly, so I'd want a panel that did too.

[clarf]

[technosaurus]

If you want the swall0w function, there is a vala appllication call AllTray that will let almost any tray bite off more than it can normally chew. I have tested it before, but since I still predominantly use jwm, I sent it to /dev/null.

[clarf]

Thanks for the Alltray tip technosaurus, Sadly It doesn´t have the functionality that I´m searching for.

I need to show the application window information to the tray. It fails to show freememapplet or mini-volume window info into the taskbar, instead it uses a static icon to show application functionality. It´s not equal to the swallow functionality provided by JWM.

I think those applications need to be patched to send information directly to tray, if lxpanel or Xfcepanel don´t have a swallow plugin...

Thanks any way
clarf