westwest wrote:Hi, i've attempted to install echinus on this Puppy.
Installed the echinus Pet compiled for it,
then the suggested necessary libs Pet,
then consolidated the three Pets for the taskbar/menu,
and installed that.
Echinus boots from the command line (startx echinus)
but no taskbar/menu,
although i can use ROX just fine.
Could there be detailed instructions to install echinus
on this otherwise faultless pup?
Thanks!
Hi westwest.
My bad... echinus has a simplistic task bar called ourico, but I opted to go with
bmpanel2 instead, which is a complete task-and-tray bar, with themes. I should have
included the following:
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#!/bin/sh
# ~/root/Startup/if-echinus.sh
####
WndwMgR="`cat /etc/windowmanager`"
if [ "$WndwMgR" = "echinus" ];then
/usr/bin/bmpanel2 --theme=Light-T 2>/dev/null &
# /opt/local/bin/horloge_brique.sh &
/opt/local/bin/xload.sh &
/root/.echinus/Combinaisons.sh &
# config-xClock.sh &
fi
rox ~/.config/autostart/*.desktop
if [ "$WndwMgR" != "jwm" ];then
[ -f /usr/bin/xcompmgr ] && xcompmgr -C -l -20 -t 5 -c -r 5 &>/dev/null & # -F -f -n -o 90
fi
sleep 0.5s
This /root/Startup/if-echinus.sh script defines a different behavior when starting the
echinus or jwm window manager.
As you can see, if echinus is the WM, then we also run bmpanel2. I've commented
out the line for xclock ("horloge") in case you do not have it.
Please find attached a pet archive of it. Sorry for the delay. I had forum member
augras on PM directing me through the final stages of setting up the new repo for
my material.
Thanks for your understanding. Please let me know if this little script works as
expected on your set-up? TIA.
Finally, you can experiment with the bmpanel2 themes if you wish. The bmpanel2
themes are at /usr/share/bmpanel2/themes. There are 50 themes for bmpanel2 in
that directory.
To try them out, open a console and first type:
if you have bmpanel2 runnning. Then, again in console, type, for example,
or any other name of theme in the list at
/usr/share/bmpanel2/themes.
Once satisfied with your choice, open the if-echinus.sh script in your geany editor
and replace the Light-T theme with the one you prefer on the bmpanel2 line. (Don't
edit anything else on that line, please.)
Save the script, go back to the initial black console with Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace, and
restart echinus by typing
IHTH.
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P.S. There are more configurations you can do for bmpanel2:
1) you can juggle the order of some of the items in the bar (tasks, desks, tray,
font, launchpad) for a particular theme, by editing file:
/usr/share/bmpanel2/themes/Name_of_Theme/theme
2) you can specify the launchpad items you want by editing file
/root/.config/bmpanel2/bmpanel2rc.
In both cases, make sure to make a back-up first.
I'll also do a little tutorial on how to change echinus themes in a coming post.