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[Geoffrey]

I just recently tried a copy of Lucid 5.2.5 and installed wbar and pwidgets from the package manager.

I was wondering why wbar didn't refresh when the wallpaper was changed, yet pwidgets does, so I had a look to see what could be done about it, pwidgets uses fixwidgets
located in /usr/sbin to update the widgets, but when it's not active renames it to fixwidgets.bak, so I could create a new fixwidgets script so that wbar could use it.

Wbar uses the wstart script in /root/Startup to run, so to get it to run from fixwidgets it needs to be disabled, the easiest way is to do that is to create a script in Startup that kills wbar thus
allowing the fixwidgets script to run it instead, this way no changes to wbar are needed, just doing this allows the wallpaper changer to refresh wbar,
but if I have pwidgets and wish to run it I had to reconfiguer how it runs.

To change pwidget to allow it to run either by itself or with wbar, it needs to have a few minor changes made to the func script located in /usr/local/pwidgets and 4 scripts in /usr/sbin.

Pwidget looks to see if fixwidgets is in usr/sbin to see if it is running, so I created a blank file called pwidgets-running.bak that is placed in usr/sbin and edited the
/usr/local/pwidgets/func.

create the 3 other scripts: fixwidgets.bak which is the original with wbar added, "fixwidgets" which only has wbar startup, this isn't really needed, but is there
only if you already have wbar installed, as pwigets will create it when it's stopped from the "fixwidgets-wbar.bak".

new code for the func script

-stopstart) replace "fixwidgets" with "pwidgets-running"

[dalebednell]

Hi dude
I'm following your link not shore where do i find this file
newcode for fixwidgets.bak, edit this with pwidgets stopped or it won't exist.

Add these lines:
#refresh wbar
killall wbar
exec /root/Startup/wstart &
can you help talk me through it thanks