pWidgets 2.5.8

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#3046 Post by vicmz »

I've been trying the latest Pwidgets and it seems more stable in my installs now. It doesn't stop anymore when I restart or reboot, only when I stop it manually. The colour themes issue I mentioned above remains, but all plugins work. It gives a nice touch to my desktop, especially used with Openbox:

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#3047 Post by Brown Mouse »

Apologies if this has been mentioned before.
I cant seem to get the cpu bar to show in the latest Slacko5.4.

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#3048 Post by vicmz »

Not sure if that number 7 is meant to be there, but I thought you may want to know. A user has reported something similar with the weather plugins:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 472#670472
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#3049 Post by Flash858 »

Hey - That mysterious "7" is an orphaned character in the configuration file for the pmusic widget.

Just click "pmusic" on the left side, and then file-->show widget(s) config file, and you will see the number 7 kicking about on the first line of the last section like this:

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${color2}${font Pdingobats:bold:size=20}7${font DejaVu :style=bold:size=14}${color0}Pmusic${font Ionic Charge :size=26}${alignr}${color1}${execi 1 /usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/scripts/Pmusic time}${font Monofonto :size=18}


It is right there after the font size=20 before the $ sign. Just delete it, save, and click "apply" in the pwidgets dialog. If you have a custom color theme, you may have to apply that as well, as it often defaults to another.

Several of the widgets have these random characters in them, but they are easy to find once you track down one of them.

Cheers!
Currently happily running Puppy Xenial 7.5 64-bit , and Ubuntu Mate 18.04 ... :D

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#3050 Post by Argolance »

Hello,
I installed Pwidgets 2.4.1 running Puppy Precise 5.4.3 and this is what I get (see picture): calendar doesn't show days of the month anymore. Tried a previous release ( 2.3.8 ): same thing! This didn't happen running Racy 5.3 rand Precise 5.4.1.

How could this be solved?
Thank you!

Cordialement.
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#3051 Post by bignono1 »

Am also getting the same problem with the calendar on precise 543 , and the CPU bar does not work , the Cpu graph and Cpu gauge are ok but not the Cpu bar.

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#3052 Post by davids45 »

G'day,

My pwidget calendar has also decided it's now a one-day-a-month (the actual day number is displayed but nothing else in the now blank calendar space).

Regarding the CPU widget, I've combined the RAM bar and the two CPU bars with the Puppy Space widget by adding (copying) the display lines for the RAM and CPU bars (from their configuation files) to the end of the Puppy_space widget config file - so one widget shows four bars (RAM/drive space, RAM in use, then CPU usages):
#this is a Pwidgets config file
#the actual building of the graphics is defined in bottom of this file, - after 'TEXT'.

#Puppy space. Free space on Puppys virtual filesystem

#### PWIDGETS #####
HEIGHT=130
OFFSET_X_LEFT=40
OFFSET_X_RIGHT=40


#### CONKY ####
#COLORS --- 0:headings 1:base-info 2:extra-info 3:markers 5:green 6:red
#Colors are defined in theme-files, - NOT here.
color0 A2914E
color1 666666
color2 bbbbbb
color3 ffab00
color5 499D3A
color6 red

background yes
own_window yes
own_window_type roxdesktop
#own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_colour hotpink
double_buffer yes
total_run_times 0
update_interval 2
minimum_size 140 5
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 2
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_color white
default_shade_color 333333
default_outline_color red
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
use_spacer none
#font fixed
use_xft yes
xftfont monofonto:size=12

TEXT
${color2}${font Pdingobats:bold:size=20}:${font DejaVu:bold:size=13}$alignc${color0}Puppy Space
${font}${color1}${fs_size /}${if_empty ${execi 4 /usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/scripts/Space_Puppy_filesystem}}${color6}${else}${color5}${endif}$alignr ${fs_free /}
${fs_bar 10 /}
${color0}R A M ${color5}${membar 10,110}
${color0}CPU 1 ${color3} ${cpubar cpu1 10,105}
${color0}CPU 2 ${color6} ${cpubar cpu2 10,105}
I had to increase the resulting widget height to display the four bars.

Maybe this will work for you as I haven't had a problem with this widget, just the calendar.

David S.

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#3053 Post by Argolance »

Hello,
These are lines found in the xerrs.log file:

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Conky: invalid configuration file '/root/.pwidgets/widgets/Ram_gauge'
Conky: invalid configuration file '/root/.pwidgets/widgets/Cpu_gauge'
/usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/scripts/Calendar: line 5: cal: command not found
Don't know if this could help?

Cordialement.

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#3054 Post by vicmz »

Confirmed -- fresh Pwidgets install in fresh Precise 5.4.3 frugal install, the calendar widget is playing hide-and-seek, :lol: it shows the current date only, none of the other days or the days and month are displayed. This didn't happen in Precise 5.4.2, so I wonder what did I do to get this bug? Other widgets run fine.
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#3055 Post by 666philb »

there seems to be a symlink missing ..... symlink /bin/busybox to /usr/bin and rename the link cal
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#3056 Post by davids45 »

G'day 666philb,
Thanks for finding the pwidget calendar fix.
Now I know what year it is, and what month. And the day too :D .
David S.

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#3057 Post by vicmz »

Thank you 666philb :lol:
I typed in the terminal:

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ln -s /bin/busybox /usr/bin/cal
Then added back the calendar widget, and volià !
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#3058 Post by Argolance »

Hello,
... The same goes for me.
Thank you 666philb!

Cordialement.
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#3059 Post by bignono1 »

Thank you Mr_Fricks ,or 666philb.

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#3060 Post by sszindian »

Weather Module:

Pwidgets-2.4.1

Everything in Pwidgets works fine for me except... the 'Weather Module' disappears from desktop after an Internet session. Only way to get it back is re-load the Pwidgets program.

My question: Does anyone know if this is a Pwidgets fault or a wolf fault as it happens with all the newer puppy's... and... is there a fix for it?

(I mentioned this problem over in the Upup-Precise forum also)

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#3061 Post by BarryK »

666philb wrote:there seems to be a symlink missing ..... symlink /bin/busybox to /usr/bin and rename the link cal
Yes, the 'cal' symlink is missing. Thanks for finding that.

I have fixed it:
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#3062 Post by der-schutzhund »

I'm using 2.3.8 under Lazy and have the problem that the drives are not displayed correctly. It is not recognized if a drive is mounted or unmounted. And the free memory is not shown. I try around a bit and found the following effect:
If I mount all the drives, then pwidgets start, click it once to the right button below and update it then everything works normally.
Can I automate this?

Grettings

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#3063 Post by Argolance »

Hello,
zigbert wrote:If you have looked into Pwidgets poor theming, please note that it is possible to make individual themes for each widget. See /root/.pwidgets/themes/DeepThought/. Here you see 'main' and 'Ram'. Main theme is used when no individual theme exist. All widgets with DeepThought theme are goldish, but the Ram widget are blue.
(This directory doesn't exist: /root/.pwidgets/themes/DeepThought/...) Where could I find more explanations about this?
I would like to load widgets themes matching with the current jwm/gtk theme when changed. So, is it possible to set a pwidget theme using simple command line?

Thank you.

Cordialement.
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#3064 Post by zigbert »

Argolance
DeepThought is old. Please check out /usr/local/pwidgets/widgets/themes/Startdust-orange. There you will see the 'main' theme which is global while the others is bound to a unique widget with the same naming.

By redefining the THEME variable in $HOME/.pwidgets/pwidgetsrc you can choose the theme of your liking.


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#3065 Post by Argolance »

Hello zigbert,
Thanks.
And what about the complete "gettextization" of Pwidgets? Many (French and others) users are often asking for. I wanted to try to make it, but, with the improvements of gtkdialog, I wondered if you were not working on a new version? So it would be then useless...

Cordialement.

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