(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hello,
Critters, Fish, Fireworks, and more..


Note: XPuppy leaves your cursor an X after shutting it off...
Restarting X will fix it, as will the "Desktop/Cursor selector"..
Or a reboot...Or live with it...LOL
Fixed XFishtank GUI buttons and links to info and about files...
XEarth leaves a residual image on the root window after shutoff, you can leave it for your Penguins to play in front of, or run XFireworks to blank the root window again, then shut XFireworks back off... XEarth is set to view from the moon, but can be edited in the launch script @ /root/my-roxapps/X-Toys/XEarth/xearth
And the "squish" pet still works with the new GUI version of XPenguins...
As usual, in the GUI, click to start, click to stop...
GUI menu entry under "Fun"...
Enjoy...

Jay....

Hello,
Xfishtank, fish swimming around your monitor...
Installs and operates same as above pet..
Click on, click off....
(Select "gtk_stock_ok" in the message window...)
Menu entry in "Fun" and icon in my-roxapps...
Enjoy...

Hello,
As root window toys, these must turn off Rox to run...
So your icons will disappear, and your background will turn black...
However, those of you running another Window Manager, ie Enlightenment, the background should stay, for the toys to play in front of...
Of course, clicking the menu item / icon again will return your desktop to its original state...

Also, these can be run together, just remember to end each one seperately..
IE If you run 2 or more at the same time, and click to end one, your desktop will return as normal, but the other(s) will continue to run on the root desktop, "below" the Rox desktop, in the background, consuming resources.....OK??

This is a great toy for the desktop. Also a good screen saver option.

Idea for improvement,
Have icon in taskbar when operating to make an easy place to click off and on.
Or maybe right mouse click to turn off.
Small issue
Xpenguins if you select cancel the desktop stays black and to get the desktop back you have to restart Xpenguins, select ok so it runs, then select Xpenguins.
Just seems a little hard to control.

Thanks! I do like it

Xfishtank also seems a little hard to control by not having something on the taskbar to click on to turn off.

Hello,
@bigpup,
Yea, when I am finished with MultiPup, I plan t make a Gui to launch / kill all the X-Toys....ie.. Xpenguins, Xfishtank, Xsnow, Xantfarm, Xeyes, Xcetera....
Did you try my XPark theme??? I am a big fan, and worked very hard on it...

xfishtank and xearth I know since suse 6.2 ( kernel 2.0/2.2 ) :
( I remember the background light-blue )
( nice way to have the Desktop icons disabeled )

Hello,
New GUI with 6 toys...see first post...

Hello,
2 weeks and not 1 complaint????
No feature requests???
Come on people...

Hello,
OK.... 2000+ views, IDK how many downloads, and 8 posts???
So, it either works fine, or it sux.. LOL

Look, if you are using it, and it works, give me a "it works on 'xxxx'" OK
If it doesnt work.. (Compiz/Beryl) let me know..

Anyone finds more of these root window toys they want added....

To-do:
Make X-Toys into a screensaver..

Seriously, have you people seen my "X-Park" characters??
Every one drawn on MTPaint...
X-Penguins characters are a blast to make...
Maybe a Puppy who hunts and eats Bill Gates??? (Already got him!!)

nice

Did you make these?

Do you have more?

just tested this out in dpup 5.x.14 with jwm it works great! but its not doing anything in e17, any idea how to get it going in enlightenment?

Hello,
Although I am the "Father of E-17" on Puppy with BuddaPup, the man to ask is Runtt21 as he is the "Man" with E-17, and his Macpup efforts have made him the "Puppy and E-17" expert.....
BTW, they work fine on E-16, which I love...
I thought they worked on E-17 too..
Are you on Macpup, or what???

@Edit, OK, I see you are on DPup, which I dont have ATM...

Hello,
Well, 3250 views..
Anyone using this??
Just curious......
Bump... LOL...

Brilliant! Works fab in sc0ttmans "Akita" v8 (Puppy4.2 x Wary 5.1 hybrid). Love the effects, and so easy to implement with your GUI that even my kids are having a ball with it - all effects going simultaneously and interchanging the Critter themes in XPenguins to get the most amusing "backgrounds" alongside their games. Do you have any plans in posting a bit of a "how-to" with your use of mtpaint to create the XPark animations as an example, maybe, please ?

PS They particularly love the exploding "Bill", even though they have little knowledge of the Microsoft environment (school computer use ) and no idea who the cartoon is about...

I've had a great time with the fish tank, in particular, on some of the Slacko 4 and 5 series....i have a great shot of one of my daughter's cats that i used as a background.....worked a treat too, because it looked as if the kittypuss was trying to get to the fish and his eyes appeared to be focused right on them

Did have a screenie of it but i don't know where it is, probably in another pupsave on a different flash drive..

And...thank you, Puppyluvr...

Hello,
The theme files, and their config`s are in:
/usr/local/share/xpenguins/themes..
The artwork is fairly simple, the config file does all the work...

update: dpup 5.x.14 with e17: after launching X-ToysGUI from the console only the xpyppy curser chaser works.

http://imagebin.org/219896

am I doing something wrong?

Edit: did a ctrl+alt+backspace, and for a brief second the globe was visible!

puppyluvr wrote: Hello,
The theme files, and their config`s are in:
/usr/local/share/xpenguins/themes..
The artwork is fairly simple, the config file does all the work...

Thanks Jay - I'll try it out "down the track",
Cheers!

update: dpup 5.x.14 with e17: after launching X-ToysGUI from the console only the xpyppy curser chaser works.

http://imagebin.org/219896

am I doing something wrong?

Edit: did a ctrl+alt+backspace, and for a brief second the globe was visible!

Enlightenment -17 uses the theme.edj and background.edj in /root/.e/ directories .

It seems that it is not possible to get over these .edj s . Maybe the screensaver settings can do .

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I am surprised about having posted here once and must have forgotten about it due to a HDD failure leaving three partitions with Puppy unrecoverable .

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Due to my own imlibs i have installed the X-Toys .pet by extracting it and cp manually and looked into the other two .pets .

Surprisingly i have compiled latest xfishtank from sid sources which creates a xfishtank binary, not a x_fish_tank binary .

Am rearranging the script codes a li'lle bit but it seems overall ok .

f.e.: or replaced rox -p=/root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin with rox -p=$HOME/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin

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Working well so far .

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One Q : How do i alter settings in xearth to show my location and not Perth ?

The date command seems not be used by xearth
and having have compiled my kernels i did not adjust the time that time
so many of my kernels also show
Linux puppypc 2.6.30.9-i586-dpup005-Celeron2G #6 SMP Sat Jan 15 13:35:51 GMT-8 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
in uname -a

Hello,
Karl, the launch script is in /root/my-roxapps/xearth..
It is set to view from the moon...

#!/bin/sh
rox -p=
xearth -pos moon &

xearth --help

in a terminal will reveal the configs.. As well as the website...

I forgot that E-17 overwrites the root window, where my Toys live.. Which means they run, but cannot be seen.. Ironically, cairo dock is root window, and they can run there, but I dont know enough about E-17 to answer how to kill the Enlightenment desktop, like the program kills the rox desktop, to allow the root window to display, other than thru the F# hotkeys, which is not an acceptable answer, as it disables the desktop...
Runtt21 would know how, I will bet...
He is the E-17/Puppy guru, as the man is obsessed...
@Edit..
As I recall, Macpup has xpenguins... Or it is available for it..
But it may need to be converted to E-17`s edj format for E-17 to see it...
Guess I`ll have to boot up my Macpup and see if I have solved this before.. LOL.. I use 11 Pups ATM, so memory doesnt serve me so well....

I do so love the desktop this way, sans icons, but fully functional, and actually, these toys changed my concept of a desktop.. Lupen is icon free, using cairo-dock, and 'right click' menus..
Icons suck!!!!!
Damn Windoze legacy we have to get away from, I say!!!!