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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fbpanel Documentation

« on: October 21, 2007, 06:21:05 am »

Can you tell us why fbpanel is better than matchbox-panel ? (memory usage, added features, ...)
I just know that there is a taskbar included and makefbmenu that generates the menu scanning .desktop files.
Can you have windows overlapping the panel ? may be that's more of a window manager issue...
I am using Fluxbox partially because of this missing feature and true fullscreen also.

Thanks

EDIT: after reading the doc I can answer some of my questions.
Indeed, windows can overlap the panel, you can configure the panel this way setting SetPartialStrut variable in ~/.fbpanel directory

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     # Reserve panel's space so that it will not be covered by maximazied windows
     # legal values are boolean
     # SetPartialStrut = true

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: October 18, 2007, 03:38:46 pm »

Thanks for the explanations

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fluxbox_1.0.0

« on: October 18, 2007, 12:44:07 pm »

I was messing with fluxkeys from fluxconf 0.9.9 but it segfaults quite often and erases my key file.
So, if you still want to use fluxconf because it's convenient, easy, a GUI, don't forget to backup your ~/.fluxbox directory
Also, if you want to update your menu because you installed a new package, you may have heard about fb_generate_menu but I wouldn't recommend it. The menu generated is then not very pda friendly(lots of submenus). So I would say, to be safe, edit all your fluxbox config files manually, it's almost as fast and you won't have surprises.

You are warned

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2

« on: October 18, 2007, 12:37:51 pm »

why not installing the package the usual way like this;
- 1st way: in a terminal

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wget http://z.drun.net/packages/libtool_1.5.22_armv5tel.ipk
ipkg install /path_to_the_downloaded_package_file/libtool_1.5.22_arm5vtel.ipk- 2nd way:

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wget http://z.drun.net/packages/libtool_1.5.22_armv5tel.ipkopen the package manager, click on first icon on the top left corner and find your package in the open file dialog
- 3rd way:
open the package manager and go to settings
add

kazakov13 http://z.drun.net/packages

to the feeds
click on the update icon
go to available packages and install what you want

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fluxbox_1.0.0

« on: October 16, 2007, 12:48:41 pm »

I fixed the Alt drag problem in  fluxbox_1.0.0
Edit ~/.fluxbox/init and change line 79

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session.modKey: Mod3
session.useMod1: trueto

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session.modKey: Mod1
session.useMod1: true

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fluxbox_1.0.0

« on: October 16, 2007, 09:24:56 am »

at least I am not the only one to notice that.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Fluxbox_1.0.0

« on: October 15, 2007, 03:22:56 pm »

I tried the new fluxbox_1.0.0 package from Capnfish. (compiled for pdaxrom latest 2.6 kernel)
Right click doesn't work on the desktop(pressing Fn + tap).
Alt + tap on a window doesn't drag the window either.
If I substitute the fluxbox_1.0.0 binary file(just the binary file) with the fluxbox_1.0rc2 binary from Dtruchan(compiled for ),
right click shows the root menu on the desktop but alt + tap on a window doesn't drag the window.
If I substitute the fluxbox_1.0.0 binary file with the fluxbox_0.9.12 binary from Meanie(compiled for beta3),
right click shows the root menu on the desktop AND alt + tap on a window drags the window
I repeat, I just exchanged the fluxbox binary file and didn't touch to any of the config files.

So it seems none of the configuration files can affect the right click and Alt drag behaviour ?
Is fluxbox_1.0.0 just not compiled for the right kernel ?

Of course everything works under openbox

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Installed Openbox_3.4.4 And Obconf_2.0.2

« on: October 12, 2007, 05:06:04 pm »

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Want Compiled Thread?

« on: October 10, 2007, 02:29:37 pm »

Talking about openbox 3.4.4, it is worth compiling obconf 2.0.2 too

Thanks

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxii13v2: First Collection Of Experiences

« on: October 04, 2007, 01:47:55 pm »

1.- I would like to pin some new icons to the desktop (does not seem to be straightforward with openbox),

on an default pdaxrom install, openbox is only the window manager, openbox doesn't handle the background, icons, ... this is the task of matchbox-desktop and there is no way for it to pin new icons(no pinboard). On pdaxii13(v2 or not) you can choose to use matchbox-desktop or rox to handle the desktop with pdaxcfg.

2.- have the taskbar/panel autohiding if possible (with a small token to open it somewhere),

Similarly, the panel is handheld by matchbox-panel, so no autohiding feature

3.- have the panel available in all the desktops,

Same as above, I don't know of any way to have it on all desktops

4.- be able to switch desktops without using the keyboard in some unobtrusive way (so no hanging windows on the desktop - rather an applet in the tray/panel),

there is a plugin called matchbox-pager that sits in the panel and when you click on it you can see the pager(4 desktops in a minimized window)

5.- have some file manager similar to rox. However I do not like that rox screws up that nice icon navigation I like so much,

Again, On pdaxii13(v2 or not) you can choose to use matchbox-desktop or rox to handle the desktop with pdaxcfg. Another file manager that can handle icons, background on the desktop is pcman file manager(so that it replaces matchbox-desktop and rox-filer), other file managers are xfe(needs libfox), emelfm2, thunar(needs xfce libs).

6.- improve my WLAN connecting/disconnecting experience

I don't know

7.- comments on PIM apps?

Clearly, we are switching to using the Pimlico suite but it's still in an early stage of development. KDE-pim is too heavy, slow, not pda friendly-gui in my opinion

I think you should try Icewm to answer many of your requests:
autohiding panel, pager and taskbar integrated in the panel
It is already polished by meanie, if you have it installed, just run xdm from the cli before starting X session to choose your window manager and change it to icewm instead of openbox.
And combine it with rox or pcmanfm to get icons on the desktop and a pretty, fast file manager.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Want Compiled Thread?

« on: September 24, 2007, 12:45:59 pm »

Well I tried the fluxbox 1.0rc3 posted earlier in this thread with PdaxiiV2 alpha1 and its not very stable.

The first issue I have is when I try to adjust the main bar width it will freeze for 5 seconds each time I try to increase the bar width. It also does the same pause when you try to change the with styles.

The other Issuse I am having is when I try to start an application like abiword, tasks, or any program for that matter fluxbox will crash back to the console.

In the earlier versions of pdaxii I used the fluxbox 1.0 rc2 compiled in this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21726&st=30   by dtruchan. That one worked great and was faster then all of the others and had none of the issues above. But sadly it no longer works with the latest pdaxiiv2.

So Im going to repeat my request for a compile of the latest Fluxbox 1.0 rc3.

Also Dtruchan compiled fluxbox with the following options:

Compiled options (- => disabled):
-DEBUG
EWMH
-GNOME
-IMLIB2
-KDE
NLS
REMEMBER
RENDER
SHAPE
SLIT
TOOLBAR
XFT
-XINERAMA
XMB
XPM

Thanks again for anyone able to do this!
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I agree with on the fact that fluxbox 1.0rc2 was faster, I didn't try fluxbox 1.0rc3 on pdaxiiv2

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Want Compiled Thread?

« on: September 22, 2007, 03:36:02 pm »

Thank you, I just had to symlink libvte.so.4.4.0 to libvte.so.9
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Or you could upgrade to my vte

[a href=\"http://z.drun.net/packages/vte_0.16.8_armv5tel.ipk]http://z.drun.net/packages/vte_0.16.8_armv5tel.ipk[/url]
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Indeed, that fixes it. As I had an older version of vte already installed, it didn't appear in the available packages in the package manager, so I didn't know a newest one was available. We need desperately a command that list upgradable packages, may be someone will come up with one. Let's hope
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ipkg test-upgrade |grep upgraded
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Always there when we need him .... thanks

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Want Compiled Thread?

« on: September 22, 2007, 08:39:18 am »

Thank you, I just had to symlink libvte.so.4.4.0 to libvte.so.9
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Or you could upgrade to my vte

[a href=\"http://z.drun.net/packages/vte_0.16.8_armv5tel.ipk]http://z.drun.net/packages/vte_0.16.8_armv5tel.ipk[/url]
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Indeed, that fixes it. As I had an older version of vte already installed, it didn't appear in the available packages in the package manager, so I didn't know a newest one was available. We need desperately a command that list upgradable packages, may be someone will come up with one. Let's hope

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Want Compiled Thread?

« on: September 19, 2007, 03:06:13 pm »

Can someone compile RoxTerm 1.7.4 (fullscreen view, tabs, everything Terminal has without xfce libs)
Source here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124080
Thanks
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Thank you, I just had to symlink libvte.so.4.4.0 to libvte.so.9

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Want Compiled Thread?

« on: September 19, 2007, 08:36:42 am »

Can someone compile RoxTerm 1.7.4 (fullscreen view, tabs, everything Terminal has without xfce libs)
Source here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124080
Thanks