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Lobster wrote:Pwidgets 0.7 is much improved but I eventually had several widgets open but only the clock displaying. Maybe I need to do an x restart . . . Nope - not that. It seems something to do with the refreshing of the program . . .
Code glitch in Pwidgets-0.7 ... trio is on to it in the Pwidgets thread.
Lobster wrote:I would urge going for Beta (you get more testers and feedback) if possible on the next release - the feature set is there?
Pretty much. David McClamrock is working on a package for inclusion but features are mostly set now.
Lobster wrote:I believe the 100MB is a good idea and I feel we will get a 4.2 Barebones provided (maybe from Wolfpup) usually within a few days - this would enable two official versions?
It's currently 96Mb but that's without CUPS. We'll need to shoehorn that one in before we get to RC stage.
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ttuuxxx wrote:Butttttttt pmount is still broken for my sata2 and also when I click preferences it crashes. (I like the single row, not the tab version :wink: )
Pmount hasn't been updated AFAIK so there has to be a dependency issue. What does it say when run from a console and the preferences is clicked?
ttuuxxx wrote:also that damn 'insert key' problem is back!!! Funny when I compiled seamonkey it was fine and now its back, I read somewhere it was a gdk issue
Did you compile with debug enabled? To quote from Robert Duval in Days of Thunder (talking to a stock car with a leaking tranny) "This is not the answer I expected from you!"
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ttuuxxx wrote:a free memory applet goes, I've never seen it leave the IceWm taskbar, I compiled it on series 4 and its been stable ever since, I've seen it fly off jwm tons of times but never icewm, I guess we could put a long delay, and have it tested.
It's a timing issue. I've had it in Icewm plenty of times and it's always resolved by tinkering with the sleep settings on startup. I think there are so many applications vying for a start (what with Pwidgets, XonClock, Xpad, blinky, freememapplet, Parcellite, etc) that something has to clash with something else sometime. Reducing the number of autostarting apps is probably the best solution. I'd take Xpad and Parcellite out of the autostart equation if it was up to me. Disabling the net and cpu activity blocks in Icewm would probably also help and give us a cleaner task bar and system tray area. :idea:
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ttuuxxx wrote:this is all the info pmount gives me when I run it via command line
/pmount: line 290: 19889 Terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter
That's all normal. So when you have pmount running and click the preferences it just quits with no other error or indication at the cli?
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ttuuxxx wrote:this is all the info pmount gives me when I run it via command line
/pmount: line 290: 19889 Terminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter
That's all normal. So when you have pmount running and click the preferences it just quits with no other error or indication at the cli?
yes it just disappears, and when I click on my sata2 drive it just disappears and doesn't give any newer messages.
as for the timing on icewm goes, I'll get rid of the net+cpu status and xpad, no problem and maybe increase free memory applet, It don't have any issues on my pc with icewm but I do have a fast pc, maybe on older pc timing could be a issue. Its hard to fix things like that when you don't have the problem in front of you. But could we hold off on killig parcellite please and keep it as a last resort. It takes almost no memory and its my most beloved program :)

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#51 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hey WhoDo it you see Patriot's JWM ? really kind of cool.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1630/jwmalphabk5.png
still has the ugly _--X buttons but rounded corners and transparent menus :)
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ttuuxxx wrote:Ps anyone tried the Cups package on page 1 I made?
and
@ttuuxxx

I will definitely give it a try, but I'm at work for the day and will be late home today so it may not be for another day and a half.

Where would you prefer feedback - here or in another thread?
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ttuuxxx wrote:I'll get rid of the net+cpu status and xpad, no problem and maybe increase free memory applet, ...[snip]... But could we hold off on killig parcellite please and keep it as a last resort. It takes almost no memory and its my most beloved program :)
I wasn't talking about dumping it ... just not autostarting it. :roll: Getting rid of the status blocks and Xpad may be enough. We'll see how that goes. :wink:
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nic2109 wrote:
ttuuxxx wrote:Ps anyone tried the Cups package on page 1 I made?
and
@ttuuxxx

I will definitely give it a try, but I'm at work for the day and will be late home today so it may not be for another day and a half.

Where would you prefer feedback - here or in another thread?
Thanks Nick it will be a good start, I guess we can have the responses in thread, that way maybe others will see it and join along :)
If it gets over blown which it probably won't Then maybe a thread.
thanks once again
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ttuuxxx wrote:Hey WhoDo it you see Patriot's JWM ? really kind of cool.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1630/jwmalphabk5.png
still has the ugly _--X buttons but rounded corners and transparent menus :)
Yeah, it looks good. :shock: According to Barry's blog, Hairywill has taken on maintaining and hacking JWM for woof as well. That could be good for JWM and us. I don't know how old Patriot's alpha is, but you'd think the maintainers at JWM would want that out there with features like that. :?
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#56 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hey WhoDo do you have a printer? maybe try the cups package if you do :)
I would like to get the ball rolling on this cups thing. You see the printer I have is a Canon pixma ip5200 with a ciss. but cannon only made drivers for ip4200 and well I can configure around 90% but can't print do to the lack of proper drivers. The latest Gutenprint doesn't full support either grrrrr.
But I can do all the configs, just can do a paper test.
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#57 Post by Ray MK »

Hi

Latest geaney 0.16 is nice and seems much faster than previous
version on my ram challenged laptop. (91mb ram & 1ghz celeron proc.)

Very Nice

Question - went to change wallpaper and the View (preview) option did not work in either JWM or IceWm.
Have changes to viewers been made that could have had an impact here?

Was working in 4.1.2 but I did not try in 4.2 before now.

Hopefully nothing serious.

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Ray MK wrote:Hi

Latest geaney 0.16 is nice and seems much faster than previous
version on my ram challenged laptop. (91mb ram & 1ghz celeron proc.)

Very Nice

Question - went to change wallpaper and the View (preview) option did not work in either JWM or IceWm.
Have changes to viewers been made that could have had an impact here?

Was working in 4.1.2 but I did not try in 4.2 before now.

Hopefully nothing serious.

Best regards - Ray
I just tried the wallpaper setter and it works fine.
/Menu/Desktop/Wallpaper Setter and the location of wall papers is /usr/share/backgrounds
but the pre-viewer doesn't because we don't have gview installed
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Ray MK wrote:Question - went to change wallpaper and the View (preview) option did not work in either JWM or IceWm.
Have changes to viewers been made that could have had an impact here?
If you do file preferences you can see that the imageviewer is set to gview, it should be gpicview. Either the code needs to search for a number of picture viewers or possibly it should be set to defaultimage viewer.
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#60 Post by ttuuxxx »

also /usr/local/bin/defaultimageviewer
is set to gview and should be set to exec gpicview "$@"
but it still doesn't preview
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I also liked the older version better where you used to see a thumbnail along the right column in series 3
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#62 Post by pa_mcclamrock »

ttuuxxx wrote:hi guys do you really want items removed from the IceWM taskbar and if so which its do you think should be on the chopping block?
on the right side maybe the icewm network and cpuload? Since we have blinky and free memory. You can always see the cpu load via htop
on the left side we have
xterm, default browser, rox, pfind, sound, desktop 1,2
its you, you tell me and I'll remove, and do you want show desktop back?
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I'd say at least remove all the little icons that duplicate the functions of big desktop icons, and definitely put "Show Desktop" back. (Me, I have only Start, Show Desktop, one desktop, and the clock; almost 85% of the taskbar shows running apps.)

Pfind should have a big desktop icon, not a little taskbar icon; I've got a big desktop icon for it (courtesy of Mandriva, even though there's no Pfind in Mandriva) if you haven't got one handy. Also, I don't think it's an improvement to have the little yellow sticky-pad thingy pop up automatically.
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WhoDo wrote:
jrb wrote:I have reconfigured the load_sfs.pet for 420. It now puts a link to load_sfs in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/.application_x-squashfs-image making it work in Rox right-clicks.
Ok but I'll hang on to this before implementing. Hairywill may patch the later version of Rox filer or I may revert to the earlier version 2.6.1 which uses OpenWith rather than SendTo.
load_sfs sounds interesting
What will happen if someone inadvertently runs it twice on the same sfs?

I don't know about SendTo vs OpenWith. The action open with makes more sense than send to but it is probably better to use rox as unpatched as possible. Who was it that changed it originally, why?

My ipw2200 wireless still will not load.

Has anyone mentioned that ptray is missing icons until you open the configurator and hit apply?

I find the patched version of gxine irritating as it complains about my lack of optical drive and doesn't go to fullscreen. You might consider the updated jwm patch I released today and unpatched gxine.
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#64 Post by Ray MK »

Hi

Menu/internet/icon for Opera10.sfs works (shows) in IceWm

BUT no icon in JWM (at least not when Opera10.sfs is loaded)
Didn't try Opera10.pet

The Opera browser works very well in both window managers.
As does Seamonkey 1.1.14 - very slick in both WM's.

Especially since I'm using a ram challenged laptop
(91mb ram & 1ghz celeron proc.)

I prefer JWM at present because it has a battery indicator in the tray.
Very usefull when using the EeePc 701SD.

However the tray autohide feature seems to be disabled at present.
Tried usual menu/desktop/JWM conf/ but not working.

Again very useful with EeePC - as was the battery low warning
(both audio & visual) in Raffy's Breeezy.

Very nicely done - alerted one in good time before a total battery
failure. Could we include similar in 4.2ce - That would be brilliant.

As always - very best regards - Ray

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Ray MK wrote:Hi

Menu/internet/icon for Opera10.sfs works (shows) in IceWm

BUT no icon in JWM (at least not when Opera10.sfs is loaded)
Didn't try Opera10.pet

The Opera browser works very well in both window managers.
As does Seamonkey 1.1.14 - very slick in both WM's.

Especially since I'm using a ram challenged laptop
(91mb ram & 1ghz celeron proc.)

I prefer JWM at present because it has a battery indicator in the tray.
Very usefull when using the EeePc 701SD.

However the tray autohide feature seems to be disabled at present.
Tried usual menu/desktop/JWM conf/ but not working.

Again very useful with EeePC - as was the battery low warning
(both audio & visual) in Raffy's Breeezy.

Very nicely done - alerted one in good time before a total battery
failure. Could we include similar in 4.2ce - That would be brilliant.

As always - very best regards - Ray
Hey Ray IceWM has a nice battery monitor also but you have to enable it it in the configs, I don't have a laptop that I use to help you out , But others on here have it running and probably could help you set it up.
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