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autogestion · Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 187 Location: Barcelona, España

Gracias ttuuxxx, aurora ha mejorado con tu aporte. Thanks, ttuuxxx, Aurora theme is now better.

UberNoob · Joined: 23 Jan 2010 Posts: 33 Location: Potsdam NY USA

Here is a replacement "Start" button for your JWM tray. To use it, edit ~/.jwmrc-tray and look for a line near the top that look like:
<TrayButton label="Start" icon="mini-dog.xpm">root:3</TrayButton>

and change it to read:
<TrayButton icon="puppystart.png">root:3</TrayButton>

NEXT:
add the file puppystart.png to /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons

NEXT:
restart JWM and voila!

NOTE:
The button will autoscale to whatever height your JWM tray is set for but looks best (I think) with a tray height of 32

Enjoy!

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2786 Location: Montenegro

That looks neat, thanks!

puppyluvr · Posted: Fri 12 Mar 2010, 17:43 Post subject:

Hello,
Well, it used to take a minute to make a new jwm theme, but the theme maker is just too easy... Rolling Eyes

LOL..

walter leonardo · Joined: 10 Dec 2009 Posts: 234

hello
theme jwm-black-metal Very Happy

walter90 · Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 283 Location: Pennsylvania, USA

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2786 Location: Montenegro

Works fine for me walter, on my screenie you can also see in console list of files that were in pet, it doesn't have any postinstall script or menu button it's only one jwmrc file inside themes dir and two preview files.

WhoDo · Posted: Fri 21 May 2010, 22:52 Post subject: DarkGradient theme

Here is my DarkGradient theme for Lucid Puppy 5.0 - you will need to add the upup logo to the menu button yourself and select the inbuilt Gradient Grey GTK theme to achieve the overall look.

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1575 Location: Austin, TX, USA

thefixer · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 50

um, Puppy 4.3.1, ran the pet, nothing happened, lol, do I need to restartx manually?

stu90 · Posted: Sun 01 Aug 2010, 23:03 Post subject: Re: uh Subject description: uh

`f00 · Posted: Tue 03 Aug 2010, 13:14 Post subject: Subject description: "the pet"

@thefixer
If it was the jwm thememaker dotpet, yes a restart X server should get jwm thememaker on the menu (in desktop category as I recall) .. or you could simply do 'fixmenus' in a console and reload jwm. jwm thememaker is a fun ui for if you feel challenged manually modifying jwm themes or just want a quickie Laughing

Otherwise if it was a new theme dotpet for jwm, it should show as a choice (as per the post above) if it is a simple jwm theme (usually a file or two in /root/.jwm/themes and perhaps some optional images for a theme 'preview' on the jwmconfig ui, choose theme page).

A few dotpets (or other packages) may add fonts or backgrounds or what-have-you for a certain look - I'm partial to using x or kcompmgr and opacity tags in jwm sometimes..

hth Smile

Mr.Swillis · Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 2

Hi Everyone,

Hijacking the thread here to see if I can learn something about JWM. I'm not actually using Puppy, but rather Arch Linux and have been messing around with lightweight WMs lately. I discovered JWM recently and LOVE the simplicity (goes along well with the Arch mantra). I've figured just about everything out, except some theming details. After doing some googling, I've found that most of the information about JWM is actually found here.

I saw Patriot's post about making enhancements to JWM to allow for things like round corners in the window borders, but never found out exactly *how* to configure that. I believe I have the correct version of JWM (2.0.1-5), but haven't found any details for giving the borders round edges in the jwmrc files. If anyone can give me some pointers or even provide a copy of an example theme in a regular tgz archive, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Swill

Mr.Swillis · Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 2

Ok, nevermind. I was able to hack up what I needed by installing Lupu to a thumb drive and yanking all the JWM related goods. You guys definitely have some cool stuff here. It's nice to see some new life being breathed into this awesome lightweight WM.

Keep up all the good work!

Swill

`f00

quickie greenish jwm theme and some other stuff here

rats, I forgot a 'colors' file (oh well Neutral

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a colors file actually does help for some odd reason (or so it seems), so in reaction to all the day's green..

meh, I should test Trio's newish themer, but old habits (almost older than testing, lol) are well-worn. And a bump of a good 'site for bgs (good in this case being simple and non-invasive, imho-such-as-'tis-afaict). direct linkage to the 190k 1600x1200 .jpg bg that inspired this theme, although the theme can certainly be used with other images (if you like, there's more imagery at http://sgeier.net/fractals/indexe.php). here's today's sample embedimg..

and links to earlier screenies in p412, pulp3 @129k as well as the short cadillac pup it was created in, mp511 @248k