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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: benplaut on July 31, 2005, 05:12:58 pm
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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 (http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/cacko/pdaXrom/1.1.0/rc10/chero/old/xfce4_4.2.2_armv5tel.ipk)
(if someone can make an ipkg of just the panel, that would rock)
and a somewhat vanilla install.
first, backup .xinitrc:
cp ~./.xinitrc .xinitrc.bak
next, edit .xinitrc with your favorite text editor (SciTE works nicely).
find this line:
eval "matchbox-panel --no-flip $MBORIENT" 2>/dev/null
and change it to:
eval "xfce4-panel"
restart X server, and enjoy
<not working ATM>
to change the background, read this:
http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/docume...398.html#AEN401 (http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/documentation/manual/x398.html#AEN401)
the file is in /home/root/.matchbox/mb-desktop-background
</not working ATM>
[span style=\'font-size:12pt;line-height:100%\']Things that don't work:[/span]
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
[span style=\'font-size:12pt;line-height:100%\']Things that are fixed:[/span]
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!
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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!
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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
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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
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Did you try and open a default xfce session (startxfce4) before you edited your xinitrc to load the xfce4/matchbox/openbox custom job?
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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
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
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Did you try and open a default xfce session (startxfce4) before you edited your xinitrc to load the xfce4/matchbox/openbox custom job?
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to check default install of xfce4, verify it works properly
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the default XFCE4 install works properly
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Any screen shots?