Wbar: a fancy launchbar (using Imlib2)

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#76 Post by wolfwatcher51 »

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.:) 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.

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#77 Post by Meshica7 »

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!
:cry:
Thanx!

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#78 Post by prit1 »

@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.

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#79 Post by WhoDo »

wolfwatcher51 wrote:Nice new avatar. Sometimes you just gotta shake things up. Nice work, did you create it?
Nope. Got it online as the result of a ttuuxxx post about cute tux icons.
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#80 Post by Meshica7 »

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 8) .
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#81 Post by wolfwatcher51 »

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.

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#82 Post by prit1 »

Here is another background for wbar.
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#83 Post by trapster »

Any chance for one in "reverse" for using at the top?
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#84 Post by prit1 »

Is this what you wanted?
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More wbar backbars...

#85 Post by Meshica7 »

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.
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#86 Post by HairyWill »

I can't see the bottom one
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#87 Post by prit1 »

:) It is transparent.. lol

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

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#88 Post by wolfwatcher51 »

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.

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#89 Post by wolfwatcher51 »

Nobody knows how to do this?

Thanks, Chris.

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#90 Post by HairyWill »

I expect you are going to have to modify the C source and recompile it.
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#91 Post by WhoDo »

wolfwatcher51 wrote:Nobody knows how to do this?
To fix the location of something like partview (which graphically displays the amount of free space on mounted partitions) you can make a change like this to set the window's opening position:

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#wm geometry . +90-35
wm geometry . +90-60
That is possible because partview is an editable script. OTOH, wbar is a compiled binary program and you would have to alter the source and recompile. Not so easy. My guess is that's why you've had no answer. Try PM'ing Dougal, who compiled the original for Puppy, or find the source yourself and recompile with appropriate options.

Hope that helps
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#92 Post by wolfwatcher51 »

WhoDo.

Thanks for the reply.

OK, got it. Seems like something that should already be in it, but then we are thankful for what we have. :D

P.S. Find the source code and recompile myself with the appropriate options. I do not think I have had the good fortune to have met, in person, an Australian before. Glad to see you guys have a sense of humor, Chris.

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#93 Post by PS31791 »

Jaybekay wrote:
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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wahhh howd you get conky to work

ive been at it for 2 hours D:
i suck at this

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No wbar for xfce

#94 Post by mill0001 »

Hi Guys. Lee the noob here with a ? about wbar. Has any one tried it in Puppy 4.00 NOP? I been tryin all kinds of different things now for about a week to get it to work and it just won't start. Can wbar be made to work with xfce4 or is it just impossible? If any one has a possible solution to this I would be greatly thankful.

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#95 Post by prit1 »

@mill0001: The latest puplet called Tigerpup is an Xfce (and Compiz) I believe. This uses Wbar.

It should be easily usable in Xfce also.

Edit: I just tried adding wbar to my NOP 4 install and it worked without a problem. Please explain what you are trying to do. Where is the code to start wbar? From where did you install Wbar?
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