DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT WORKS ON C1000, AND NO GARUNTEES ON ANYTHING. IF YOU BRICK IT, IT'S YOUR FAULT

This took a while to figure out, but it turned out to be super simple
first, you need XFCE4 installed, you can find the ipkg at:

http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/cacko/pdaXrom/....2_armv5tel.ipk

(if someone can make an ipkg of just the panel, that would rock)

and a somewhat vanilla install.

first, backup .xinitrc:



next, edit .xinitrc with your favorite text editor (SciTE works nicely).

find this line:



and change it to:



restart X server, and enjoy

<not working ATM>
to change the background, read this:
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/docume...398.html#AEN401
the file is in /home/root/.matchbox/mb-desktop-background
</not working ATM>

Things that don't work:

A) When you end your session, any systray applets will have to be put back in apon startx

The backrgound color is an ugly glue, and i have no idea why , the config file is being weird, as well

C) closing the lid won't blank the screen

D) right click is going to be different for apps and for the panel <<edit>> maybe it works... i'm confused on this one

and i'm sure many more problems that i haven't discovered yet

i'm not a coder, so don't expect me to fix things... but i hope somebody who is a coder will take on those problems

Things that are fixed:

Over vanilla matchbox:

A) it's got a taskbar

Over XCFE4.2.2:

A) matchbox-desktop (that's a plus for me, anyway)
auto-rotate works
C)Fn+symbol keys work

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Have Fun!

Well I do know that backgrounding a process doesn't detach it from the terminal, so that is why killing it will kill the background process too, but I can't remember how to solve that one, sorry!

This doesn't work for me

1. fresh install of RC 10.4

2. fresh install of XFCE onto a newly formatted ext2 SD card

3 . Install Systray

4. Install Taskbar

5. Edit .xinitrc

6. add taksbar, systray, menu

7. turn off zaurus, press on button again

8. CRASH!!!!

9. startx

10. x starts w/ some retarded "thing" at the bottom (small box, moves but does nothing). Pretty panel is gone.


*argh*


I like XFCE, i just wish that they would drop matchbox.


Louis

Did you try and open a default xfce session (startxfce4) before you edited your xinitrc to load the xfce4/matchbox/openbox custom job?

no... why would i need to do that?? what do you think i'm doing wrong? the panel worked until i turned off the z.

louis

to check default install of xfce4, verify it works properly

the default XFCE4 install works properly

Any screen shots?