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[DaveS]

Stu, I dont know why, but pfbpanel also exists in /sbin

[stu90]

Hi DaveS,

I had a look in /sbin i don't have any pfbpanel in there on lucid 260?

Could you check to make sure system uptime is not active in the pfbpanel gui - also what happens when you put this command in the terminal, do you get a double readout?

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature

cheers.

[DaveS]

[stu90]

Hi DaveS,

I guess you must have something like TZ00 and TZ01 directories in thermal_zone and the * is picking up both temperature files

Could you try this command in terminal - do you get just the one temperature number?

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature | awk 'NR>1{print $2}'

cheers.

[stu90]

Hi again DaveS,
Forget about my post above, it works in the terminal but for some reason not in the script.
Instead try:
awk 'NR==1 {print $2}' /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature

[DaveS]

[DaveS]

[stu90]

Hi DaveS,
Transparency works correctly i just changed the shading to black so it matches the shading of the terminal setup up with urxvtset.

[DaveS]

[stu90]

Swap fbpanel menu for openbox menu

This is a quick guide for swamping the fbpanel menu for openbox right click menu - tested in Lucid puppy.

Step 1.
First download then install the xdotool-2.20110530.1-3.pet at the bottom of this post.

Step 2.
Now we need to edit the openbox rc.xml file to make a new key binding.
Navigate to /root/.config/openbox/rc.xml and open the file as text ( right mouse click open as text)

This is the code we need to add at around line 157:

[magerlab]

very usefull and nice additions to fbpanel:)
the only thing i need is to change white font to black. can this be done anyhow?

[DaveS]

[stu90]

Here is a mini guide and the scripts needed to add a pipe menu to openbox that will display all .jpg and .png images in a directory as a menu entry and then apply which ever is selected as a desktop wallpaper.



First download the two scripts at the bottom of this post - then right click > rename and delete the fake .gz extension for both scripts.
Now right click on each script > properties and tick the three boxes under the Exec column - this makes the scripts executable.
If you open this script as text near the top you will see

setwalle script:
This is the script that sets the background wallpaper - move this to /usr/bin

wallp.sh script:
This is the script that generates the openbox pipe menu - move this to /etc/xdg/openbox/scripts
(if you don't have a scripts directory there create one then put wallp.sh inside it.)
If you open this script as text near the top is:
WALLDIR="/usr/share/backgrounds"
This is the directory the script looks in for wallpapers - if your wallpapers are stored in a different directory delete the path between to two quote marks and enter the path to you own wallpaper directory.
WALLDIR="/path/to/my/wallpapers"

This next part can be quite tricky as we now need to add to the main openbox menu the new wallpaper pipe menu.

[d(O o O)b]

The entire thread is absolutely brilliant
So glad I relocated from Redmond

[DaveS]