The volume control appears when I switch to JWM, so it's an IceWM problem.
So far, the only way I can get it to show up is if I run icewmtray and absvolume from a terminal window, but I just can't get it to do it by itself and it's gone when I close the terminal. I tried editing /root/icewm/startup and /usr/bin/starticewm with no success.
The slider control takes up ⅔ of the little slider window area with some dead space at the bottom.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
I found the buttons for multiple desktops. Edit: /root/icewm/preferences and make sure that TaskBarShowWorkspaces=1. (Only if anybody's curious about how I fixed it. It's not default like that on Windows.)
I recommend other new users to poke around inside this file and others under /root/icewm and its subdirectories. You get to tweak a lot of the little things that make learning a new operating system fun ¦ ).
I guess I can do without the easy access to the terminal since I'm becoming accustomed to using it. It's just frustrating when you click on an icon and nothing happens. Thankfully the CPU monitor is enabled by default on XP-like so you know when it's not doing anything and can run it in rxvt to see the error that's supposed to be displayed. I would probably have shouted a lot of obscenities at my computer recommending some physically impossible activities that it could do with itself if that weren't there.
There is extensive support for Wine built-in to XP-like, so here's a tip I picked up from somewhere else on these forums:
/root/Choices/MIME-types/application_x-ms-dos-executable
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#!/bin/bash
cd "${@%/*}"
wine "$@"
It made a big difference for me, so whoever's making a list for lvds should add this right after the keyboard thing and Xfe.
And what about a separate download for extra themes like a Vista pack? I always ran XP with a skinned Vista Black look.
Throw away Aqualung, all the other rippers and players included are much better. Set gxine as the default player because it has more of a Media Player-esque look and feel. In fact, there are too many. Most of these should be removed to cut the filesize.
Set it so that when you double-click on the speaker icon in the task bar, it runs ZMixer. Just like we're used to in windows.
Edit the numbers in /root/icewm/ledclock to look like a Windows XP clock.
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I found the post about Wine that I was talking about earlier:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... d9e8c1523f
The posting by mikeb
There seem to be a lot of stuff in the menu that's not installed. It should be cleaned up a little.
...I wonder if it would be easier to start from scratch, that way you know exactly what's there and what you're doing. Also, I took a loss in performance when I migrated from WinXP to this, so there might be a problem. Even my .jar executables run slower.
Now that I think about it, it probably would be best to start with a fresh 4.31 and strip it down, then add WinXP-like stuff to it... anyway, back to the monologue:
Change the default font for dialog boxes & file windows. Windows users are accustomed to being able to tell the difference between ‘I’, ‘i’, and ‘l’. (Especially when a situation arises [like a linux install] that necessitates typing filenames containing those letters in a terminal window.) Those letters all being a straight line is more of a Macintosh thing, and even they can see the dot over the ‘i’ without squinting. I wouldn't mind it at all if DejaVu were to suddenly go missing.
JWM isn't properly configured. That should be set up for those who (need to / would like to) squeeze more speed out of their system.
Make a separate entry in /root/.icewm/toolbar to supply a menu of links to configuration files that can be edited. XWindows is far from user friendly in comparison to Windows; the best way to snag new users is by showing off how much it can be tweaked under the hood. And I think this could be helped by including a caveat that Linux is not and never has been intended to be user friendly. XWindows is just a GUI for Linux, but if you can run Linux, that makes you a “power user