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

Whodo is right, I am able to access the wbar instructions on the new site even without a login or registration. It should work for anyone.

wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

Hello WhoDo and prit1,

Edited post: updated status

After I installed wbar per the instructions it opened fine and looked good. I went back in to add prit1's code to that in the how to, and rebooted. When loaded, wbar was there with the changes, but hotpup icons were gone. I could neither restart x server or reboot.

Decided to use the standard windoze fix and used the restart button on the box. When it rebooted I had both the wbar and the hotpup icons. Blinky seems to be missing for some reason.

Going for broke I tried editing the .wbar file. I changed the icon,program and text for the browser. Rebooted,changes took and worked.

I have an install icon on the desktop that points to dotpup. I put that in the .wbar file, changed the icon saved and rebooted. No wbar oops! Finally had to delete the entry,save reboot, back in business. Could you please tell me what goes in wbar to execute dotpup/puppy package manager? Thanks.

If I have not worn out my time with you, the last piece is the gdesklets part. Almost there! I cannot get the program to d'load with firefox or ie on the windoze box. Something about my d'load manager making too many connections or something like that. When I tried on the puppy box, using dillo, it could not load the page, maybe some problem with the redirect to the d'load page. Any ideas on how to proceed? You wouldn't happen to have written a how to for gdesklets by chance? Thanks, Chris.

nic2109 · Posted: Mon 12 May 2008, 18:07 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Mon 12 May 2008, 18:21 Post subject:

nic2109 · Posted: Tue 13 May 2008, 18:48 Post subject:

Eyes-Only · Posted: Tue 13 May 2008, 22:58 Post subject:

Those are some very handsome screenshots Nick! And I should think that what with the excellent clarity of them WhoDo shouldn't have too much problem at all, what with knowing his abilities as I do. Of course the one thing which I was never able to copy over into a Linux theme (outside of the KDE desktop that is) was how Mac's place the menubar into the "taskbar". I was able, however, when making a "Faux-Mac" theme using my shell on 98se to recreate a "pseudo-effect" which looked like the Mac menubar but didn't work of course as the words were printed into a "3rd layer" which would show. Rather complicated to explain unless you worked with the shell programme unfortunately.

Thanks though for those shots. Mac has one of the most beautiful and attractive GUIs around.

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

WhoDo · Posted: Wed 14 May 2008, 06:16 Post subject:

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

Joshas · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 26

There is a patch for GTK to display menu items in taskbar (Gnome and XFCE). More info here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868 . One could make a plugin for LXPanel to display menu items, but it would be a lot of work, and I'm not sure if it is worth it.

6tr6tr · Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 44

6tr6tr · Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 44

OK, figured it out as well as a few other changes:

1. Open /root/.icewm/prefoverride
2. Add line:
MenuMouseTracking=1
3. Save
4. Restart IceWm (under StartMenu->Windows)

And then you can also add these lines to allow shutdown via the menu (Why wasn't it in there to begin with?)

ShutdownCommand="wmpoweroff"
RebootCommand="wmreboot"
ShowLogoutMenu=1

jeljr · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 7

I've been following this with interest as I am a Mac user, actually I'm on Puppy 90% of the time now, my wife has the G5 IMac. I like MacPup, especially the wbar and the window buttons being on the left side, wish it used 3.01 though. I am also using NOP and the window features are great, the equivalent of OsX and Expose' where putting the cursor off screen in the upper right shows all open windows was one of the great extras with Tiger. Yes I dream of combining the two for a nearly complete Os X experience. I've noticed nobody has mentioned the scroll bar for paging up and down within a window has both direction arrows at the bottom of the scroll bar in OS X. It took some getting used to, but now I really like it. Don't know how complicated that would be to create. I've fiddled with ways to hide the wbar to simulate a true dock without any real success. Keep up the great work.
Joel

6tr6tr · Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 44

Some issues with IceKDE installed (anyone know how to fix?):

1. Clock is no longer clickable
2. When I set Network status to show in taskbar, it's invisible (but it is there and clickable, but the processes/cpu-load runs over the clickable space visually)
3. Seamonkey's icon space is still on the task bar but invisible (still clickable)

Also, does anyone know how to uninstall ice-kde? It's different than just a theme. It made some other major changes that, even when I choose other themes, it's still controlling/forcing certain things.

nic2109 · Posted: Sat 24 May 2008, 08:07 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 24 May 2008, 20:17 Post subject: