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musher0 · Last edited by musher0 on Sun 23 Jun 2013, 08:39; edited 1 time in total

Hello, all.

Here's xcalc back in Puppy with a skin slightly adapted from what someone did in the ArchLinux forums.
Shades of grey get boring, right? Smile

It's sort of an XResource file that xcalc calls. If you don't like it, copy the original skin from ~/my-applications/backup back to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XCalc. Anyway, you'll see.

Enjoy.

musher0

musher0 · Posted: Sat 19 Jan 2013, 14:55 Post subject:

Here's another, wider, model for xcalc. It's made to look like the wider calculators bookkeepers and accountants use.

The attached code will simply replace the one at

Pelo · Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2013, 20:38 Post subject: Xcalc Subject description: go on

Good idea ! I keep the first one

Flash · Posted: Mon 21 Jan 2013, 22:09 Post subject:

Works in Slacko 5.4 Smile

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 423 Location: Greece

These are perfect!! Thanks! Very Happy

jess4now · Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Posts: 1

Precise Puppy version 5.4.3

Works great!

A sight for tired eyes.

musher0 · Posted: Wed 13 Feb 2013, 16:40 Post subject:

Thanks, guys. Smile

gameboyab · Joined: 01 Sep 2012 Posts: 42 Location: Anytown, USA

This skin works great! Very Happy

The default, black on white, is a real eye strain.

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1016

Real nice

musher0 · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2013, 15:46 Post subject:

Thanks, guys!

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

It looks way better than vanilla xcalc, thanks musher Smile

musher0 · Posted: Sat 22 Jun 2013, 19:51 Post subject:

Thanks, Tman.

Since I first wrote that post, I discovered that xcalc also responds to an external "-geometry" parameter from the command line or in its Xcalc.desktop, like so:

musher0 · Posted: Mon 04 Nov 2013, 18:37 Post subject:

Hello, puppyists. Smile

Back to this oldie again. I discovered a couple more things about it.

* The errors reported in red hat forums and here (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=632166&sort=lastpost#632166), by linuxcbon, can be avoided by sending them to the black hole. A rough and tough solution, but it works.

* xcalc and also xclock accept the -title parameter. It's either un-
documented or the ancient docs got lost traveling in the eons. In any
case, instead of having a plain "xcalc" in the title bar, you can have "xcalc
Number Cruncher", for example.

Here's a nice little script that sums it all up, to put in your
/root/my-applications/bin folder under the filename "xcalc.sh"