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Gracias ttuuxxx, aurora ha mejorado con tu aporte. Thanks, ttuuxxx, Aurora theme is now better.

Here is a replacement "Start" button for your JWM tray. To use it, edit ~/.jwmrc-tray and look for a line near the top that look like:
<TrayButton label="Start" icon="mini-dog.xpm">root:3</TrayButton>

and change it to read:
<TrayButton icon="puppystart.png">root:3</TrayButton>

NEXT:
add the file puppystart.png to /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons

NEXT:
restart JWM and voila!

NOTE:
The button will autoscale to whatever height your JWM tray is set for but looks best (I think) with a tray height of 32

Enjoy!

That looks neat, thanks!

Hello,
Well, it used to take a minute to make a new jwm theme, but the theme maker is just too easy... LOL..

hello
theme jwm-black-metal

steve_s wrote:This theme came about to compliment the Delta icon theme on the Icon Themes exchange thread...

Enjoy!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 966#297966

This one wiped out my taskbar. It completely blanked my jwmtray files. I can get them back by copying the files from another Puppy but why does it do that?

Also, the start button is distorted. The actual button is ok but the green part saying menu is tiny.[/url]

Works fine for me walter, on my screenie you can also see in console list of files that were in pet, it doesn't have any postinstall script or menu button it's only one jwmrc file inside themes dir and two preview files.

Here is my DarkGradient theme for Lucid Puppy 5.0 - you will need to add the upup logo to the menu button yourself and select the inbuilt Gradient Grey GTK theme to achieve the overall look.

walter90 wrote:

steve_s wrote:This theme came about to compliment the Delta icon theme on the Icon Themes exchange thread...

Enjoy!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 966#297966

This one wiped out my taskbar. It completely blanked my jwmtray files. I can get them back by copying the files from another Puppy but why does it do that?

Also, the start button is distorted. The actual button is ok but the green part saying menu is tiny.[/url]

Weird...I made it with the jwm theme maker in 4.2.1, if that helps. No idea why it would jack anything at all...I didn't even do any tweaking.

um, Puppy 4.3.1, ran the pet, nothing happened, lol, do I need to restartx manually?

thefixer wrote:um, Puppy 4.3.1, ran the pet, nothing happened, lol, do I need to restartx manually?

Have a look in:
Menu>desktop>Desktop Settings> JWM configuration - Choose a JWM theme

see if what ever theme you downloaded is in there.

@thefixer
If it was the jwm thememaker dotpet, yes a restart X server should get jwm thememaker on the menu (in desktop category as I recall) .. or you could simply do 'fixmenus' in a console and reload jwm. jwm thememaker is a fun ui for if you feel challenged manually modifying jwm themes or just want a quickie

Otherwise if it was a new theme dotpet for jwm, it should show as a choice (as per the post above) if it is a simple jwm theme (usually a file or two in /root/.jwm/themes and perhaps some optional images for a theme 'preview' on the jwmconfig ui, choose theme page).

A few dotpets (or other packages) may add fonts or backgrounds or what-have-you for a certain look - I'm partial to using x or kcompmgr and opacity tags in jwm sometimes..

hth

Hi Everyone,

Hijacking the thread here to see if I can learn something about JWM. I'm not actually using Puppy, but rather Arch Linux and have been messing around with lightweight WMs lately. I discovered JWM recently and LOVE the simplicity (goes along well with the Arch mantra). I've figured just about everything out, except some theming details. After doing some googling, I've found that most of the information about JWM is actually found here.

I saw Patriot's post about making enhancements to JWM to allow for things like round corners in the window borders, but never found out exactly *how* to configure that. I believe I have the correct version of JWM (2.0.1-5), but haven't found any details for giving the borders round edges in the jwmrc files. If anyone can give me some pointers or even provide a copy of an example theme in a regular tgz archive, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Swill

Ok, nevermind. I was able to hack up what I needed by installing Lupu to a thumb drive and yanking all the JWM related goods. You guys definitely have some cool stuff here. It's nice to see some new life being breathed into this awesome lightweight WM.

Keep up all the good work!

Swill

quickie greenish jwm theme and some other stuff here

rats, I forgot a 'colors' file (oh well )
___`110317addending___
a colors file actually does help for some odd reason (or so it seems), so in reaction to all the day's green..

meh, I should test Trio's newish themer, but old habits (almost older than testing, lol) are well-worn. And a bump of a good 'site for bgs (good in this case being simple and non-invasive, imho-such-as-'tis-afaict). direct linkage to the 190k 1600x1200 .jpg bg that inspired this theme, although the theme can certainly be used with other images (if you like, there's more imagery at http://sgeier.net/fractals/indexe.php). here's today's sample embedimg..

and links to earlier screenies in p412, pulp3 @129k as well as the short cadillac pup it was created in, mp511 @248k

Here is a pet containing 4 custom Jwm themes made by me.

EDIT: The picture below is for 1 of the 4 themes in the pack. They are pretty damn nice, even if I do say so myself. Enjoy!

The original themes have been tweaked - Oct. 18, 2011

Tman wrote:Here is a pet containing 6 custom Jwm Themes made by me.
The picture below is for 1 of the 6 themes in the pack. They are pretty damn nice, if I do say so myself. Enjoy!

Nice, Tman!

I heartily agree Tman! Those are some of the very best JWM themes to have graced Puppy in some time now! Truly eye-catching. Please do keep up the great work and I, for one, am looking forward to see what else you just may have in store up your sleeve.

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"

Thanks guys. I am fairly new to the forum, so your support is
appreciated. ''

Here's my theme.

steve_s wrote:Nice, Dean!

Thanks