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wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Hey all,

Sorry for the delay in responding, bad couple of days followed by more of the same.

prit1,
I am using icewm and start wbar from .xintric. I had sleep 3 at the beginning of the line when I was still getting the block. Following your success, I changed it to sleep 6 and it worked just fine. WhoDo had me use sleep 6 to get blinky to behave also. Now both look good. I noticed Meshica7 used 85 for his -balkfa value. Did you use something similar for your setup?

Meshica7,
Could you please post a copy of the file so I can replace it myself? I am using fatfree puppy and I have no experience with GIMP at all. I like your results and doubt I will live long enough to learn enough gimp to duplicate them. I can not even draw stick figures. Smile

Off Topic, please excuse. Did you ever get your graphical interface from CatDude working? Mine works, but the website where the various screens are hosted just goes into a continious load/reload. I hope you faired better.

WhoDo,
Nice new avatar. Sometimes you just gotta shake things up. Nice work, did you create it?

Thanks all, Chris.

Meshica7 · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 44

Wolf..

Sure,I will post it later this eve when I get home.
And no,I did not fair any better with the graphical interface.Sorry!
Crying or Very sad

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

@wolfwatcher51: Am glad it worked for you. I used -balfa 80. You can play around with the values and settle for the one you think looks the best.

WhoDo · Posted: Mon 12 May 2008, 17:43 Post subject:

Meshica7 · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 44

Here's the OS X Wbar backbar as promised.
Just right click on the image below and "save image as" to your hard drive.Then replace the osxbackbar.png file in /usr/share/wbar/wbar.icons with the new file.
Note:You can download it directly to the wbar.icons folder if you wish and accept the "replace" option when prompted,Just remember to save a copy of the original backbar png somewhere safe in case you don't fancy the new one Cool

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wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Meshica7,

Thanks for the file, I installed it and adjusted my -balfa setting and whoo whoo it looks great.

When I moved wbar to the bottom, it was partly covered by the task bar. I guess bottom means bottom of screen not window. I did not know how to adjust this, so i moved the task bar to the top. Not ideal, but I also hid it and I think it may grow on me.

I am very noob, but I am using grub with graphical, the first one they made. I have not tried the newer one because I cannot get onto the web site given to get the different screens. If you would like to go back and forth asking me what I have where, I would be happy to try and help that way. I hope that makes sense, Chris.

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

Here is another background for wbar.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

Any chance for one in "reverse" for using at the top?

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

Is this what you wanted?

Meshica7 · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 44

Hello folks!

Looks like we got something going here....

I am working on some different backbars to share with you all.I took the backbar that prit uploaded and did some gimpin' to the files.So here are 3 more.A transperant bar,a black glossy bar, and a flame bar (for those who like it hot!).Enjoy!

Note:Remember to rename the files to osxbarback before you use them and make a copy of your original.i have all of my different backbars in a folder called Wbar Backbars in my home directory and swicth them out when I get the urge.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I can't see the bottom one

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 540 Location: Los Angeles

It is transparent.. lol

We can better use the option-balfa 0 to make any back bar to be transparent.

wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Hello all,

Wbar and gDesklets make for one cool looking puppy if I do say so myself.

I use icewm and have moved the taskbar to the top and hidden it. My wbar is bottom, or center bottom and I like it there a lot.

Is there a (easy) way to move it up from the bottom a little? I think it would just look a little better to be up some. When I had the taskbar at the bottom and unhidden, I could not place wbar at the bottom because it was partially covered by the task bar.

Thanks in advance and keep up all the good work on this thing, Chris.

wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Nobody knows how to do this?

Thanks, Chris.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I expect you are going to have to modify the C source and recompile it.