Blinky v0.8, now in stores!

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Blinky v0.8, now in stores!

#1 Post by lior2b »

I had the time lately to give Blinky the love it deserves, so I added some stuff and produced the 0.8 release :) v0.8 handles better the computer redrawing, has -v (or --version) command line argument, features an enhanced option window and forces it to open only once, and generally is a lot cooler 8) .

Please upgrade Blinky to v0.8 in the next Puppy (1.0.9 / 109 / 200 or whatever name it shall get :lol: ), thanks!
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#2 Post by Leon »

lior2b wrote:I had the time lately to give Blinky the love it deserves, so I added some stuff and produced the 0.8 release :) v0.8 handles better the computer redrawing, has -v (or --version) command line argument, features an enhanced option window and forces it to open only once, and generally is a lot cooler 8) .
Thank you, lior2b.

When using previous version of Blinky I tried to change the background color to:

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blinky -bg "#EEDFCC"
but it stays gray.

I tried Blinky 0.8 in Puppy2a-11apr06 and it solved the problem. 8)
I mentioned the solution in Puppy developer forum:
http://www.puppyos.com/nfphpbb/viewtopic.php?t=21

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#3 Post by Lobster »

lior2b Nice job!
Nathan has already added it to Puppy 1.09 I believe
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy109

Which will also have:
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#4 Post by lior2b »

Leon, Puppy 1.0.8 and Puppy 2 previews use Blinky 0.6 which doesn't have this feature... I'm glad you updated and got the wanted results :)

Lobster thanks! It means that JWM will be in 1.0.9 too? If so, upgrading to the latest JWM should be on the list too! (I hope JWM 1.6 will be released soon)
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#5 Post by Nathan F »

There hasn't been an official resolution to the issue of which window manager will be used, but in order to make some progress we're moving forward with JWM. As of right now it's version 1.4 with Blinky 0.8 but JWM may get the upgrade as well. I've been rereading through a bunch of posts (many of Lior2b's) and working to improve the default configuration first.

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#6 Post by MU »

I got a request, if Blinky can be used in Icewm-ultra.
It required only a slight modification, to run as "eggtrayicon" instead of as Gtkwindow.
This trayicon now can be used in all windowmanagers supporting trayicons (KDE, Fluxbox etc.).
Just 4 lines in blinky.c were changed.

Binary and source:
http://dotpups.de/diverse-tgz/Blinky-0. ... ayicon.tgz

Extract for example to /root
Add this to your startupfiles (.xinitrc for other windowmanagers or /root/.icewm/startup for icewm-ultra):
/root/blinky-0.8-patched-trayicon/src/blinky &

To deactivate the inbuilt connection-status of icewm, edit /root/.icewm/preferences.

Replace
TaskBarShowNetStatus=1 # 0/1
with:
TaskBarShowNetStatus=0 # 0/1

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I compiled it in Puppy 2.10, tell me if it does not work in older ones, then I will recompile in Puppy 108.

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#7 Post by WhoDo »

MU wrote:I got a request, if Blinky can be used in Icewm-ultra.
It required only a slight modification, to run as "eggtrayicon" instead of as Gtkwindow.
...[snip]...
I compiled it in Puppy 2.10, tell me if it does not work in older ones, then I will recompile in Puppy 108.

Mark
Hi Mark,

Tried to run Blinky as suggested but it doesn't want to play. I'm using Puppy 2.02CE.

Cheers,

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#8 Post by MU »

ok, please download again, I compiled it in Puppy 108 now :)
http://dotpups.de/diverse-tgz/Blinky-0. ... ayicon.tgz
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MU wrote:ok, please download again, I compiled it in Puppy 108 now :)
http://dotpups.de/diverse-tgz/Blinky-0. ... ayicon.tgz
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Magnificent Mark! Thank you! It works like a charm.
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#10 Post by ttuuxxx »

Leon wrote:
lior2b wrote:I had the time lately to give Blinky the love it deserves, so I added some stuff and produced the 0.8 release :) v0.8 handles better the computer redrawing, has -v (or --version) command line argument, features an enhanced option window and forces it to open only once, and generally is a lot cooler 8) .
Thank you, lior2b.

When using previous version of Blinky I tried to change the background color to:

Code: Select all

blinky -bg "#EEDFCC"
but it stays gray.

I tried Blinky 0.8 in Puppy2a-11apr06 and it solved the problem. 8)
I mentioned the solution in Puppy developer forum:
http://www.puppyos.com/nfphpbb/viewtopic.php?t=21
hi Leon that link is dead and i'm also trying to change blinky's background to black, any ideas?
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#11 Post by disciple »

The solution was to use Blinky 0.8 :)
But presumably any recent puppies will already have it?

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#12 Post by ttuuxxx »

disciple wrote:The solution was to use Blinky 0.8 :)
But presumably any recent puppies will already have it?
which folder / file/ location do I change blinky's background colour? , any examples?
I would like to have it black in colour. I've already spent hours trying to get it coloured .
Thanks for your quick response
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#13 Post by WhoDo »

ttuuxxx wrote:which folder / file/ location do I change blinky's background colour? , any examples?
I would like to have it black in colour. I've already spent hours trying to get it coloured .
You pass the parameter to blinky in startup as follows:

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sleep 3 && /root/my-applications/blinky-0.8/blinky -bg "#ffffff" &
That's from memory but you get the point. Use the -bg to set the background to the following color code.
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#14 Post by HairyWill »

also
blinky -bg ""
will give it a transparent background
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#15 Post by Blesphemy206 »

HairyWill wrote:also
blinky -bg ""
will give it a transparent background
HELP! I can't get a transparent background. I am doing this, but have to be in trouble somewhere else in the coding. Where should I start to look??
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#16 Post by nikozan »

Thanks for that file! lior2b !

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#17 Post by ttuuxxx »

nikozan wrote:Thanks for that file! lior2b !
Its been updated since than also, The sources is found at Barry's sources repo
http://bkhome.org/sources/alphabetical/b/
username:puppy
password:linux
and early this year Barry made a blinky app from scratch and micko add new right click menus and Icon themes
below is a pet ready to install/or use as a template when the compile sources package.
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#18 Post by 01micko »

Ok, where else to post this? This seems ok. (network_tray)

This is Barry's latest source (includes i18n) hacked for tray icon changing (same as ttuuxxx above) and also hacked to show IP address on a LAN on mouse over.. someone requested that .. somewhere???

I'm not sure how it will react with ppp connections though as it looks for the IP with ifconfig, though if the IP is NULL there is a check for that. Might be ok, reports needed.

Attached is the source and a pet compiled in latest slacko-beta (ymmv). Someone might want to use the pet as a template and compile for wary/lupu/whatever. This has a frisbee compatible startup script designed by rerwin. It makes no difference whether you have frisbee installed or not, but if you are running frisbee it will not show.

Edit: reuploaded pet, bug in change icons script
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#19 Post by pemasu »

This worked in precise puppy:
gcc -o network_tray network_tray.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`

instead of the invocation in the ./compile script.

Cheers and thanks.

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#20 Post by Keef »

The pet works fine on Akita 13.
(think it was gcmartin who wanted the IP address. He does like his LANs, does gc...)

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