pWidgets 2.5.8
Still plugging away trying to get a slideshow with 'xlideshow'. The problem is scaling. The 'iscale' option in xli only scales by factor. So I searched, thought and searched. First I thought maybe to use Rox thumbnails. There are also lots of thumbnail executables on the web, many way too bloated or need libs or other dependancies.
You know where I I found the most probable solution? Yes, you guessed it, right here on this forum!
Mid this year Mark, aka MU, created a small script called 'scale2pic'. Very useful and preserves aspect ratio. It is 13K compressed, installed without a hitch.
Anyway, after a couple of weeks I may be able to come up with a pre-alpha. Wait and see...
You know where I I found the most probable solution? Yes, you guessed it, right here on this forum!
Mid this year Mark, aka MU, created a small script called 'scale2pic'. Very useful and preserves aspect ratio. It is 13K compressed, installed without a hitch.
Anyway, after a couple of weeks I may be able to come up with a pre-alpha. Wait and see...
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works for me
It highlighted a problem with the interaction between jwm, xli and the X server (possibly just xvesa).
If my jwm config contains a desktop definition such asthen xli -onroot .......... crashes X (that is xvesa because xorg doesn't work on this machine at all)
It is a marginal problem because I think that the only way to get a jwm config like this in puppy at the moment is to hand code it.
It highlighted a problem with the interaction between jwm, xli and the X server (possibly just xvesa).
If my jwm config contains a desktop definition such as
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<!-- Number of virtual desktops -->
<Desktops count="3">
<Desktop>
<Background type="gradient">#3A6EA5:#0F58A5</Background>
</Desktop>
<Desktop>
<Background type="gradient">#000000:#FFFFFF</Background>
</Desktop>
<Desktop>
<Background type="gradient">#FF0000:#FFFFFF</Background>
</Desktop>
</Desktops>
It is a marginal problem because I think that the only way to get a jwm config like this in puppy at the moment is to hand code it.
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Installed Pwidgets 0.2.
Bug in "Battery"
The first line under "TEXT" in ~/.pwidgets/configs/battery is wrong, one too many "$" at start of line. (BTW I guessed, literally )
is I think how it should be; it works.
Also I had the same issue as when I installed pwidgets0.1 with the fonts. Something went wild with my install and I had to replace /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/MONOFONT.TTF with a fresh copy from the package.
PS,updated analog clock HOWTO
PPS, weather widget works great!
Bug in "Battery"
The first line under "TEXT" in ~/.pwidgets/configs/battery is wrong, one too many "$" at start of line. (BTW I guessed, literally )
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${font DejaVu:bold:size=13}
Also I had the same issue as when I installed pwidgets0.1 with the fonts. Something went wild with my install and I had to replace /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/MONOFONT.TTF with a fresh copy from the package.
PS,updated analog clock HOWTO
PPS, weather widget works great!
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Last edited by 01micko on Fri 19 Dec 2008, 15:04, edited 1 time in total.
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Hello All
This may seem like a dumb question,
but how does one change the position where the widgets are located. (see attached image)
I would like them to start a little further down on the desktop.
What file do i need to edit in order to achieve this ?
As to the analog clock skins,
i used those that came in MU's gdesklets-0.36-i586-2gsb-MU-200clocks.pet
as posted here: gDesklets 0.36 beta (Only for Puppy-3)
Rename the .pet to .tgz and extract it somewhere,
you will get a directory called: gdesklets-0.36-i586-2gsb-MU-200clocks
you will find most of the clocks in: gdesklets-0.36-i586-2gsb-MU-200clocks/usr/lib/gdesklets/Displays/Clock/gfx/clocks
I renamed: /root/.pwidgets/misc/Clock-analog.png
then created a symlink to whatever took my fancy out of the 200 clocks.
I tested with these, and they worked OK
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This may seem like a dumb question,
but how does one change the position where the widgets are located. (see attached image)
I would like them to start a little further down on the desktop.
What file do i need to edit in order to achieve this ?
As to the analog clock skins,
i used those that came in MU's gdesklets-0.36-i586-2gsb-MU-200clocks.pet
as posted here: gDesklets 0.36 beta (Only for Puppy-3)
Rename the .pet to .tgz and extract it somewhere,
you will get a directory called: gdesklets-0.36-i586-2gsb-MU-200clocks
you will find most of the clocks in: gdesklets-0.36-i586-2gsb-MU-200clocks/usr/lib/gdesklets/Displays/Clock/gfx/clocks
I renamed: /root/.pwidgets/misc/Clock-analog.png
then created a symlink to whatever took my fancy out of the 200 clocks.
I tested with these, and they worked OK
- earth.png = 186x186
BallClockAqua.png = 128x128
arne49.png = 144x144
arne1.png = 170x170
Rainbow.png = 197x197
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This is kind of crappy, Not Pwidgets by any means, I was building a icewm release that included a new gtk theme, Pwidgets, new Icewm them, I had been working on it for about 2 weeks, and it was ready, I was just waiting for Pwidgets 0.2 to be release and I was going to upgrade it, So I got home from work yesterday and my PC 's were off and I asked my wife "Why is my Pc's off" She said "Power outage" grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
So I lost about 60 hrs of work, I should of backup the files, but the power never goes out here, Maybe once in 8 years, Then I load up puppy and and the first thing I see is "Pwidgets 0.2" , thats like kicking someone when he already down. LOL
Well back to it again, I really liked the themes I made, boy they were nice. This time I'll backup.
ttuuxxx
So I lost about 60 hrs of work, I should of backup the files, but the power never goes out here, Maybe once in 8 years, Then I load up puppy and and the first thing I see is "Pwidgets 0.2" , thats like kicking someone when he already down. LOL
Well back to it again, I really liked the themes I made, boy they were nice. This time I'll backup.
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
zigbert
Your pace of development is astounding!
I still have that installation issue where the monofont does the wild thing on this system. Easy fixed but I need to investigate. Any clues? Using IBM r31 Thinkpad, CeleronM 1066, 512 ram, run live cd, 412, ... any more info needed?
BTW, updated previous posts in this thread and my HOWTO for the analog clock skins. CatDude, added your suggestion to HOWTO.
Cheers
Your pace of development is astounding!
I still have that installation issue where the monofont does the wild thing on this system. Easy fixed but I need to investigate. Any clues? Using IBM r31 Thinkpad, CeleronM 1066, 512 ram, run live cd, 412, ... any more info needed?
BTW, updated previous posts in this thread and my HOWTO for the analog clock skins. CatDude, added your suggestion to HOWTO.
Cheers
Last edited by 01micko on Mon 22 Dec 2008, 01:23, edited 1 time in total.
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Hi guys
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.
Sigmund
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.
Sigmund
well, i found a serious bug involving the analog clock in 0.3.
when the analog clock.png loads, the rox pinboard will not let you do anything and the rox filer will not either.
i think it's something in the script for loading the clock.
and i noticed that pwidgets does not seem to like updating itself when you save changes.
these would be good to fix for 0.4. but when a bugfix is made, expect it to be in PupCore, as well as the other DeepThought themes.
- J-Bob
#EDIT: It only refuses to when you have the analogclock.png addon.
i'll remove this in a rebranding, CoreWidgets, if that's fine with you?
when the analog clock.png loads, the rox pinboard will not let you do anything and the rox filer will not either.
i think it's something in the script for loading the clock.
and i noticed that pwidgets does not seem to like updating itself when you save changes.
these would be good to fix for 0.4. but when a bugfix is made, expect it to be in PupCore, as well as the other DeepThought themes.
- J-Bob
#EDIT: It only refuses to when you have the analogclock.png addon.
i'll remove this in a rebranding, CoreWidgets, if that's fine with you?
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It's been a long time.
It's been a long time.
J-Bob
I think the trouble with resizing the pinboard comes from the attempt to fix the rendering of the Analog-clock. 01micko has made a fix for that which uses xevent to auto-click on the desktop to show clock. This might give trouble, and you could try to remove/change the code in /usr/sbin/fixwidgets.
Sigmund
I thought there already was such a splash ???what if you made it run a small program which would disappear after pwidgets finishes loading, like a splash screen. that should be harmless and inconspicuous enough.
I think the trouble with resizing the pinboard comes from the attempt to fix the rendering of the Analog-clock. 01micko has made a fix for that which uses xevent to auto-click on the desktop to show clock. This might give trouble, and you could try to remove/change the code in /usr/sbin/fixwidgets.
Sigmund
Depending on the speed of your machine and what WM you use you may have to increase the sleep values for xevent. This may fix your problem. You may have to alter the cursor return coordinates as well. I have discussed this earlier in this thread. I'm working on a better fix.J-Bob wrote:actually, it attempts to resize the current active window. which is often the pinboard.
what if you made it run a small program which would disappear after pwidgets finishes loading, like a splash screen. that should be harmless and inconspicuous enough.
what do you thing Zigbert?
Slight oversight with my fix, there may be problems if you have your task bar at the top of the screen, but that can be addressed maybe in your main post zigbert? My fix is just a basic convenience type of thing designed for JWM with task bar on the bottom with limited testing in Icewm.
Hope that helps.
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