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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: Fluxbox 0.9.10

« on: November 10, 2004, 10:19:26 pm »

thank you guys!!

now let's test this cute window manager

--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: Fluxbox 0.9.10

« on: November 09, 2004, 11:47:49 pm »

thanks dz! but still no background image, neither a way to set it

Changing system styles works fine, but when i change to the only one user style that is present, the wallpaper does not appear. where in the theme config file is defined that image?  is it possible to define a wallpaper anywhere in the fluxbox menus? does fbsetbg actually work? yeah, i know, RTFM


--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Most important missing/to be fixed in pdaXrom?

« on: November 09, 2004, 11:05:46 pm »

My "missing/to be fixed/wished" stuff

[C860 + Kathrin RC5]

- X server stops catching keyboard and mouse events suddenly. The only thing to do is to kill X via ssh or removing the battery and turn the Z again

- Gaim still segfaults when messaging a MSN user.

- A system monitor that shows the "real" CPU load

- In "Lan & WiFi", when you create a new profile and then go to the next tab (tcp/ip & dns), the "Obtain tcp info auto" option is blank, but the fields "ip address", "subnet mask" and "gateway" are disabled, so you cannot define your own settings. You have to check the "Obtain tcp info auto" option and then uncheck it again in order the disabled fields become available.  The same goes for the next section (DNS), and the next tab "Wireless". I know this is not a big problem, but seems it's easy to fix

- A easier way to switch between network schemes. Maybe click in some kind of network status applet (say, the wireless applet) and pick up the desired scheme from a list in a popup

- A way to blank the display but not to suspend the pda.

- A taskbar would be nice

- xkbdlauncher script gives a few errors and exits (actually, the keyboard applet doesn't launch any keyboard)

- When switch to portrait mode, the applications font increases (is this a feature?) and cause some apps to behave anormally. in Galculator, the text in the buttons are half displayed. KA/PI resizes itself constantly about 4 times and the toolbar become almost hidden when maximizing.

 
don't know if i am repeating the same stuff posted before by someone else, but i've just installed RC5 this morning and that was what i found


--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: Fluxbox 0.9.10

« on: November 09, 2004, 09:56:03 pm »

Hi bastichelaar

i've installed the packages you've given in the first post (fluxbox and the theme). then i've backed up my .xinitrc and created a new one that only contains "exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox"

then i start X by using "startx" and the fluxbox taskbar appears, but not the desktop, so I just can see that gray-grid background from the X server

What should i tweak to get the fluxbox desktop or set the background?

there's a script called "fbsetbg" in your fluxbox ipk. i figured out it was for setting the background, so i gave a try this way:

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fbsetbg -f /path/to/my/background/image
but then appears an xmessage that says it can't find an app to set the wallpaper with, and suggests me to install Eterm. No wallpaper is set

any hint?

thanks

--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: Fluxbox 0.9.10

« on: November 08, 2004, 07:20:57 pm »

nice!!  

does fluxbox support keyboard shortcuts for the icons in the desktop?

I've been pimpin' my desktop in my free time, but i've not tried fluxbox

am currently using ROX + XFCE



(sorry for my poor english )

Edit:
i forgot: the taskbar shown in your screenshot is really cute!  i use xfce's taskbar, but it's kinnda ugly.

does that taskbar supports notification area (or whatever that's called)?

--Jenn

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Desktop screenshot thread!

« on: November 08, 2004, 06:09:19 pm »

XFCE?  Did you compile it yourself?  I haven't come across it in any of the pdaxrom feeds.

it was in the unstable feed at pdaxrom.org, but i can't find it there, now

am running pdaxrom RC3, btw

i don't know if something has changed in the feeds since then  


--Jenn

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Desktop screenshot thread!

« on: November 08, 2004, 05:13:00 pm »

Very cool.  What window manager is that?  How about the file manager?

The desktop manager and the file manager is ROX.
The window manager is XFCE

The icons on the bottom center of the desktop are manually arranged to emulate the feeling of OS X

ROX lets you to define a custom icon to a particular file or directory or to a mime type, what is cool

XFCE gives you the option to change which window buttons are displayed and their position

The icons are taken from GnoMetal, an iconset for gnome2 i found at themes.freshmeat

The xmms skin is xTunes, also found at freshmeat, i guess

Either way, I don't know whether to think it's cool looking or to feel dirty that it looks so much like a mac and so little like *nix

OSX is *nix    don't you like osx?

Regardless, nice job

thanks

--Jenn

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Themes, Icons, and Backgrounds / Desktop screenshot thread!

« on: November 07, 2004, 10:17:37 pm »

 


--Jenn

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General Discussion / Who are you and where are you from?

« on: August 28, 2004, 12:17:44 am »

Jennifer Schneider, 21, from Germany, am just a student (and a geekette )

sony desktop pc (FreeBSD) and Zaurus C860 (pdaXrom)

and i love music


--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kathrin RC2 and Gaim

« on: August 27, 2004, 06:21:48 pm »

finally found that post

thanks!!!!

--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kathrin RC2 available now

« on: August 27, 2004, 06:18:18 pm »

a few newbie questions:

- Is the right Shift key disabled in this release? (it looses its function when I start X)
- How do I get "Caps. Lock" function? (Fn + Tab doesn't work)
- How do I get "Del" function? (Fn + Backspace doesn't work)

thanks!!!

--Jenn

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kathrin RC2 and Gaim

« on: August 27, 2004, 05:39:11 pm »

Hi,

I've installed the last pdaXrom (1.1 RC2) on my C860.

It was nice to see that Gaim is installed by default, however, i've never been able to contact my friends from my Z, since the OS update, 'cause Gaim segfaults every time i try to contact my friends or try to send a file

So i ran Gaim in debug mode (gaim -d) and found out that Gaim dies with the following message as soon as I press [ENTER] to send the message:

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conversation: typed...
msn: C: NS 000: XFR 12 SB
g_log: file session.c: line 134 (msn_session_find_swboard): assertion `session != NULL' failed
g_log: file switchboard.c: line 625 (msn_switchboard_new): assertion `session != NULL' failed
g_log: file switchboard.c: line 838 (msn_switchboard_request): assertion `swboard != NULL' failed
g_log: file switchboard.c: line 732 (msn_switchboard_request_add_user): assertion `swboard != NULL' failed

Gaim has segfaulted and .... blah, blah, blah
The same is happening when I try to send a file, but no error messages are displayed

This happens only with the MSN account.

Any hints?

by the way, my hardware config is:

Zaurus C860
SanDisk Connect CF Wireless Card


--Jenn