@ slapfish : adeskbar is not really good with "fake-transparency" .. need more work ( again )

@ slipshot :  oops .. forgot to say :  new dependency ( check if add/remove applications and reload menu ) -  pyinotify

sudo apt-get install python-pyinotify

Description: simple Linux inotify Python bindings
pyinotify is a simple wrapper for the Linux inotify mechanism.
.
inotify is a Linux Kernel feature available since 2.6.13. inotify makes
it possible for applications to easily be notified of filesystem changes.

But I take a look if it's possible to do the same stuff with "gio" ( gtk ) ..  Thanks for feedback guys  smile

Hello .. and Happy new year  big_smile

need some "beta tester" for next release : adeskbar.0.4.3-all.deb

what's new ?

0.4.3   - fix bug in "tasklist"
        - tasklist now follow icon size
        - adeskbar should refresh on "gtk icon theme" change
        - menu(s) should auto-update when add/remove applications

@Unia: yes , it's a bug. not yet fixed.

Hi Unia,

You can easily check dependencies for adeskbar :

ADcomp wrote:
adeskbar --check

http://www.ad-comp.be/public/images/screenshot/06-2010/adeskbar_check_mod2.png

So If you want to install all python modules for plugins :

sudo apt-get install python-wnck python-gmenu python-xlib python-vte python-xdg python-alsaaudio gnome-menus

Hi UberBang,

If you need help for some part of  your project, I'm here  smile

@deh : you found a bug .. ( one more ). I take a look and try to push an update soon as possible. Thanks for feedback

@deh :  log is stored in  .config/adeskbar/output.log

cat  ~/.config/adeskbar/output.log

or you can launch adeskbar like this , so you can check log into your terminal :

python /usr/share/adeskbar/main.py

@atomicbricks :  smile  .. Thanks for info

@themainliner :  yes , adeskabar is not yet ready for multiple screens

An update should come soon

anonymous wrote:

However I noticed that Adeskbar doesn't respect the last line "TryExec=gnome-terminal".

True .. I only check 'Name", "Exec" and "Icon".  ( added to my todo-list )

@doomonyou : Thank you  smile

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Hi,

Thanks for comment/feedback  big_smile

And sorry about delay, but no time to read all post/email atm .. but a new RC of madbox is coming soon ( replace slim with lxdm because slim seem to crash sometimes )

Compiz "standalone"

http://www.ad-comp.be/public/images/screenshot/2010-12/.madbox_1_s.jpg . http://www.ad-comp.be/public/images/screenshot/2010-12/.madbox_2_s.jpg

http://www.ad-comp.be/public/images/screenshot/2010-12/.madbox_3_s.jpg . http://www.ad-comp.be/public/images/screenshot/2010-12/.madbox_4_s.jpg

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@gnomic :  with my netbook , when I close/open the lid,  it correctly suspend/resume ( screen + wifi  ok ). I don't know what's going wrong for you .. hmm    sorry , I can't help

edit:

Do you try this after install or  in live mode ?

@Mark76 :  it's not related to ubuntu .. It's the same for debian.

deb : trans-follow.0.3-all.deb

What you need :  transset-df, xcompmgr and python-wnck :

sudo apt-get install transset-df xcompmgr python-wnck

Install trans-follow with gdebi or dpkg :

sudo dpkg -i trans-follow.0.3-all.deb

If you want to add an entry to your openbox menu (  ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml )

<menu execute="ob-trans-follow" id="trans-follow" label="Trans-Follow" />

@veon : yes, it's a bug in v0.3.9 -- Try this :  add "tasklist' plugin ,  double click to edit and simply click ok .. now refresh, it should work fine

@guantas : not yet but it's on my todo list

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anonymous wrote:

When running Adeskbar from a terminal, I get these warnings: [..]

yes .. I know. It's a very old bug in wnck sad ..   1st time they made changes in 'def' file to fix it  but next time they change code and forget to change "def" so the bug is always there.
But It's not really a big deal at the moment , just boring because it always show these warnings ..

anonymous wrote:

On Arch Linux I installed python-pyalsaaudio but "adeskbar --check" does not recognize it as installed.

Can you check this in a terminal ? do you have soome error ?

adcomp@desktop:~$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import alsaaudio
>>> 
anonymous wrote:

If I do not enable the Labels for the Session Control plugin, I get some border around the reboot icon:

already fixed in  v0.4.3 ( coming soon )

anonymous wrote:

Why is the max zoom factor 1.3?

When you set zoom factor to hight , Icons doesn't look good .. I need to find a better way to do this. So I set max to 1.3

anonymous wrote:

If the zoomed-in icon is taller than Adeskbar it gets cutoff. Is there a way to fix that?

This works only with composite .. noway to do the same thing without composite atm.

anonymous wrote:

What is the difference between the Menu and Menu (simple) plugins?

Menu is a drop menu like gnome-menu or xfce-menu .. Menu (simple) is my custom menu

http://www.ad-comp.be/public/projets/ADeskBar/images/05-2010/menu.png


anonymous wrote:

For the tasklist plugin is it possible to have the same icon size as the rest of the dock?
For the tasklist plugin is it possible to have the same icon effects as the rest of the dock?

not yet .. should be ok in next release

anonymous wrote:

Is it possible to stop Adeskbar from autohiding when you have a menu activated (such as Menu, Window List, etc)?

already fixed for v0.4.3

--

Thanks for feedback  smile

@pablokal : next update should be ok with python3

@veon : what version of python-gtk2 is avaible on crunchbang 9.04 ?

@anonymous :  yes , possible. added to my (long) todo list smile

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hEllo .. smile

Sorry about delay , but I had some trouble to upload the iso image ... Tried several times but always failed ( wrong md5sum ).
As usual, take care : madbox is only a "demo" livecd  .. not a real ubuntu install.

@Hackuity :  from live.gnome.org

Capturing your GDM screen

[..] This part is a bit tricky as you have already logged off and do not have access to The Gimp or any other graphical screen capture application.
The best way around is to create a small script that switches from the text console to the graphical screen and takes the picture automatically. This script can be created by issuing the following command in your console:

echo "chvt 7 ; sleep 5 ; XAUTHORITY=/var/gdm/:0.Xauth DISPLAY=:0.0 import -window root /tmp/gdm-shot.png" > /tmp/capture

Note: This assumes your login screen is in VT7, meaning that you press CTRL+ALT+F7 to switch to your graphical screen
Now log off to the GDM screen and hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch to your text console. Log in as root and type sh /tmp/capture. The screen will switch to GDM and after five seconds you will hear a BEEP. If everything worked as expected, your screenshot will be located at /tmp/gdm-shot.png
Note that import is part of the ImageMagick package .
If you have xnest installed, you can also use gdmthemetester.

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anonymous wrote:

what panel is in the screenshots?

it's adeskbar  big_smile  .. what else ?  wink

anonymous wrote:

Also why did you switch away from LXDM?

because I really like slim .. simple to configure/theme. And lxdm add some lx(de) dependencies ( not too much , but I don't need them )

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hello .. madbox 10.10 is ready  big_smile   ( I need to upload image iso )

I remove gdm ( yes , again I user slim .. I really don't feel good with gdm ) , vlc ( replaced by gnome-mplayer. Why? too many Qt dependencies ) and "software center" to reduce the size of iso image ( before +420Mb , now -390Mo ). So it should be ok to use 'toram' with 512Mb of ram.

Here some screenshots I take after install on my netbook :

madbox_10.10_1 . madbox_10.10_1 . madbox_10.10_1 . madbox_10.10_1

Bye

All you want is on the wiki .. : http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/theming

Hi all ,

I found a nice review of ADeskBar on webupd8 :  cool  cool

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/adeskbar … nload.html

toketin wrote:

[..] option "reserve space at screen edge" does it serve to prevent the maximized windows to go behind the bar? Because if i active this option i can't see any change

yes .. but it only works with "fixed" mode ( aka panel )

toketin wrote:

P.s. isn't there a way to notify a changement in a process in the tasklist? For example in xchat when someone queries me

not yet .. but it's on my todo list

@demosthenese : hum .. usually the entry Exec is something like this : Exec=command <%a-z> .. So I split if I found a "%" in Exec.
But with digikam , the result is :

digikam -caption "

not good .. sad  looking for a work around ( next update )

@demosthenese : ok , found what's wrong with "drive_c"
Can you check you digikam.desktop (  /usr/share/applications/kde4/digikam.desktop ? ) and give me "Exec=..." entry ?