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benplaut

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« on: July 31, 2005, 05:12:58 pm »
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:

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cp ~./.xinitrc .xinitrc.bak
next, edit .xinitrc with your favorite text editor (SciTE works nicely).

find this line:

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eval "matchbox-panel --no-flip $MBORIENT" 2>/dev/null

and change it to:

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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
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!  
« Last Edit: August 01, 2005, 12:43:58 am by benplaut »

gromituk

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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2005, 05:43:42 pm »
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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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2005, 12:41:59 pm »
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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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2005, 01:50:34 pm »
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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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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2005, 02:06:33 pm »
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.

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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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« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2005, 03:18:31 pm »
to check default install of xfce4, verify it works properly
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« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2005, 08:56:03 pm »
the default XFCE4 install works properly

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« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2005, 04:47:17 am »
Any screen shots?
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