Wbar: a fancy launchbar (using Imlib2)

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#46 Post by Eyes-Only »

@Prit1: These options are really terrific!! I never would've given it a second thought that wbar could've done all these fabulous things until I read the above post by you and then saw your fantastic screenie in the screenshot thread. Truly remarkable! 8)

Thanks so very much for posting all of the above per my request in the other thread---I really appreciate this more than you'll ever know. I've been really thankful for having wbar as it's made my computer work a lot easier for me. Now with these settings? Far more stunning as well.

Thank you once again Prit1!

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#47 Post by prit1 »

@Eyes-only:

Am glad this helps you. Even I really love the wbar. Thanks should go to the folks on this thread who revealed this application and provided all the required information.

The only thing I am yet to make out is how to make wbar appear automatically on startup. Right now, I have to click on the desktop for the wbar to appear.

Anyone knows how to do this?

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#48 Post by ttuuxxx »

prit1 wrote:@Eyes-only:

Am glad this helps you. Even I really love the wbar. Thanks should go to the folks on this thread who revealed this application and provided all the required information.

The only thing I am yet to make out is how to make wbar appear automatically on startup. Right now, I have to click on the desktop for the wbar to appear.

Anyone knows how to do this?
Hi Prit1,I had it working in icewm by placing these lines


<Swallow name="wbar">
wbar -pos top &
</Swallow>

in the /root/.icewm/startup about mid way and worked for me that way
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#49 Post by prit1 »

Thanks Ttuuxxx. I will try this. If I remember, I was trying to use the startup script and it kept hanging my system. I will try again. :)

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#50 Post by Eyes-Only »

Hi Prit1,

In all of my "starticewm" files (I have 5 distros installed and use IceWM on each) in "/usr/bin" I have the following line now placed in the coding:

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sleep 1 ; wbar -above-desk -bpress -balfa 0 &
...and wbar starts up just fine. You may want to add the "-pos top" parameter in there somewhere though if you want wbar on top. I run mine on the bottom as I have a "fake gnome-look" to my IceWM in most cases.

Depending upon your processor speed as well you may want to change the "sleep" parameter to make it either 2 or 3, depending upon whether wbar gives you just an iconic menu, or comes up in a windowed background. You'll see what I mean I think. ;)

I start wbar this way in about all of my window managers or desktop environments (I run a lot of different ones), along with a lot of other programmes that run for me in the background, like conky, numlockx, ROX pinboard/desktop (when outside of Puppy), etc.

I hope this has helped?

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#51 Post by prit1 »

@Eyes-only: I will give this a try. Is this the same in JWM also? I understand the wbar commands and options, but just the location of where it should be invoked from.

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#52 Post by Eyes-Only »

Hi Prit1,

Well... unfortunately in Puppy there's no real "startjwm" file. :( Myself, I seldom ever use JWM, instead preferring IceWM, KDE, or Fluxbox over JWM anyday.

Now in Puppy, unlike most other distros which install and use JWM, Barry has placed the window manager in "/usr/X11R7/bin/" it would seem (someone correct me if I'm wrong, please?), so it would be a case of going in there and making a simplified "startjwm" file which points to JWM which holds all these start up commands that you have.

If you do this, however, then you'd have to remember that the way to restart JWM would no longer be "xwin JWM" but instead "xwin startjwm", see what I mean Prit1?

So someone else here must have an easier way as I'm known for taking the "most unconventional route" whenever I do something. :( But then and again, I work with a lot of other distros besides Puppy which I fix over for my own use as well and this is basically how I have the "startjwm" on my other distros.

Sorry if I'm now not much help and have compounded and confused the issue.

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#53 Post by Eyes-Only »

Here Prit, this is an example (and for anyone else who's interested) of what I have in my "startjwm" file in Linux Mint Daryna 4.0. This file is found in "/usr/bin" and after being made is set to "executable" as it's a script file:

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#!/bin/bash
#File made by Eyes-Only as a hack to start screensaver, numberlock, and lefthanded mouse in Linux Mint.
#November 27, 2007

if [ -f /root/.xset.sh ];then
 #this is created by /usr/bin/gxsetshell...
 eval "/root/.xset.sh"
fi

rox -p /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROXdesktop

numlockx &
southpaw &
conky &
wbar -above-desk -pos top -bpress -balfa 0 &

exec /usr/bin/jwm
Of course, to those who've coded for Puppy some of that will look mightily familiar. But Puppy is where I teethed. LOL!

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#54 Post by prit1 »

@Eyes-only.

When I was using -above-desk as a wbar option in JWM, I get WBAR on the task list. To remove this I stopped using this option.

Dont you see this on your task list?

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#55 Post by Eyes-Only »

Sorry it took me a bit to reply here as I was off in another section and forgot I had email Prit. :oops:

It's been awhile since I've used JWM so I'm trying to think... I've never used wbar in Puppy with JWM so I couldn't say, I only use it with IceWM, KDE, and Fluxbox in Puppy, sorry.

Seems so the last time I used it in Linux Mint I didn't get wbar showing on the taskbar---but I DID get conky showing there, which perplexed the life out of me because I have the taskbar setting turned off in the conky configuration file like Pizza showed a long time ago. But no, I don't seem to recall wbar showing in Linux Mint. Of course, we're comparing two different distros here, so just because it didn't show in Mint doesn't mean it shouldn't show in Puppy and need yet another way to be hidden, see what I mean? (Phew! My English is bad tonight I think!)

I hope this somehow helped?

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#56 Post by magerlab »

i installed a version from gslapt it comes with
very nice icons
it works fine and i put it into MU -autostart programm
the only thing i don't like that wbar starts before backgruond is set
so it has black background
is there a way to avoid this?

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#57 Post by trapster »

you can always start it from .xinitrc right before
#exec $CURRENTWM

mine:

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sleep 3 ; wbar -above-desk -pos top -balfa 0 &
sleep 3 ; /usr/local/bin/remind &
#exec $CURRENTWM
#v2.11 GuestToo suggested this improvement...
which $CURRENTWM && exec $CURRENTWM
[ -x $CURRENTWM ] && exec $CURRENTWM
exec jwm

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#58 Post by Meshica7 »

Hello folks!

Please excuse my lack of Linux knowledge,but I would like to get the bar running on my machine and have not a clue on how to start it.I downloaded the tar and extracted it to my documents folder but have no idea of how to start the program! A walk through would be greatley appreciated. :D

Thanx!

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#59 Post by Wolf Pup »

Made wbar into a .pet package (overwrites any .wbar in /root , so backup if you dont.)
Needs imlib2 to work.

wbar-1.3.3.pet
md5sum

imlib2-1.4.1.pet
md5sum
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#60 Post by Eyes-Only »

Wow! This is GREAT Wolfpup! Thanks for making this a lot easier for many of us! Thumbs up!


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#61 Post by richard.a »

Wolf Pup wrote:Made wbar into a .pet package (overwrites any .wbar in /root , so backup if you dont.)
Needs imlib2-1.4.0 to work.

wbar-1.3.3.pet
md5sum

imlib2-1.4.0.pet
md5sum
Works very nicely, and thank you for the opportunity to try it out.


I've tried it on 2.16ez, 2.16 without ez, and 2.15ce, and 3.00, and it's on the basis of seeing it in operation on those, I make the following observation, nothing to do with your packaging of the product, though, but on the product itself.

I believe it would look and behave appropriately on a system that uses the KDE desktop with "Zoom Icons" enabled (like the Mac taskbar has).

I think it looks out of place when run in conjunction with the Ice-Wm or JWM desktops that puppy uses because it isn't harmonious with their operation.

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#62 Post by Jaybekay »

Wolf Pup wrote:Made wbar into a .pet package (overwrites any .wbar in /root , so backup if you dont.)
Needs imlib2-1.4.0 to work.
Wow! Does wbar ever make a big difference to JWM. Thanks for the .pet packages. It made wbar super easy to get going.

I'm not big on eye candy other than a decent wallpaper and icons. But since I always line up my most used application icons along the top of the screen anyway, wbar is a nice addition. My brother in law loves the dock in OS X, now my little Puppy gets something dock-ish.

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#63 Post by wolfwatcher51 »

Hello Jaybekay, nice job with wbar.

I was wondering if you have tried it with a dark, but not absolute black background? When i tried darker backgrounds than the blue one like yours, I got a black rectangle around wbar. When you first change the background the rectangle looks like a snapshot of the blue background until you reboot.

I have set my codes for wbar to be like those from prit1, earlier in the thread, except I put them in .inixtric (sp?). Thanks, Chris.

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#64 Post by prit1 »

@wolfwatcher51: I just replied on your other thread.

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#65 Post by Jaybekay »

Hi wolfwatcher
Is this what you are talking about? (picture is worth a thousand words)
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Mine does this when I change backgrounds. I just right click around the wbar to turn it off (with the old background) and then left click to turn it on with the new background. It would be nice if it could auto update like conky does

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