Re: [Lxp-users] Congratulations on LXP + a couple questions/comments + offer to translate to Portug
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Re: [Lxp-users] Congratulations on LXP + a couple questions/comments + offer to translate to Portuguese and French
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From: Jean A. <jda...@ya...> - 2007-10-16 01:06:37
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Thanks for your reply, Myles! :) More from me below: Myles Green wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:25 +0100 > Jean Ackle <jda...@ya...> wrote: > > >> Congratulations for a great job to all the developers of lxp! >> >> It looks good, feels a lot better than the original ice-wm and >> overall provides a much pleasant experience! >> Well done! :-) >> > > Thanks! We're glad you are enjoying it. > > >> Now the questions: >> >> First off, I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS Dapper Drake... >> >> 1. Both my Thunderbird and my Pidgin apps are local installs, not >> from .deb packages, thus installed in /usr/local. >> For that I had to add a few paths to the icon-path list - no prob >> with that. BUT as you can see in the attached picture, the icons for >> those apps do not include their "transparency", i.e., they have a >> "boxed" background color around them, which BTW does not happen with >> the icons for the same apps in the >> toolbar./usr/local/thunderbird/icons/mozicon50.xpm I'm guessing the >> concerned icons are: >> * /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/50x50/apps/thunderbird.xpm (symlink >> pointing to /usr/local/thunderbird/icons/mozicon50.xpm) >> * /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pidgin.svg (this is >> the automatically selected one as, before I added the scalable >> version of the Pidgin icon, I could get no icon for it at all) >> > > Right, this is caused by the icons being a size other than 32x32. If > you use The GIMP to re-size these icons then you will end up with a > transparent background for the icons in question. [ NB: The main (root) > menu uses 32x32 icons, the taskbar and sub-menus use 16x16 icons.] > I haven't sorted this out for Thunderbird yet (resizing it in Gimp). However, Pidgin does provide a 32x32 icon, only in .png format - guess that format is not supported...? I know, I can export it to .xpm in th Gimp as well... :) > >> 2. I'm using the ROX-Desktop which poses two questions: >> >> 2.1. If I select it from the "Switch desktop" tray-applet, I'll get a >> default, almost blank ROX desktop, whereas if I invoke it with >> "-p=jean" it will then load that particular pinboard which I had >> already previously setup. >> Is it possible to edit how (with what command-line like option) will >> the "Switch desktop" applet call ROX? How? >> I currently have ROX running from the ~/.lxp-icewm/startup file I >> copied from ~/.icewm so this is not an actual problem for me but it >> does diminish that great applet's >> usefulness... :-( >> > > Take a look at /usr/bin/lxp-switch-desktop (it's a script not a binary) > and you will be able to edit it so it calls ROX the way you want. > I've edited /usr/bin/lxp-switch-desktop as you suggested and now selecting rox from the taskbar-icon works perfectly. However, I'd assume that'd set rox as the default desktop environment. Thus I removed the rox entry I had in ~/.lxp-icewm/startup, hoping it would nonetheless be started up automatically. That did not happen. Contents of ~/.lxp-icewm/.defaultdesktop is: rox Also tried with both nautilus and kdesktop. None seems to be set as default. :-( AND... something reallly odd: in my ~/.lxp-icewm/startup script, I have a line to play a login sound and it worked great til I started playing with the the "Switch desktop" icon... So I thought for some strange reason my ~/.lxp-icewm/startup script might have stopped being executed. So I added conky to it just to see if that was true but conky DID get started! Now I'm really confused! I DO have sound though - I actually tried executing the sound-play command from xterm and it worked. I can't figure how this lack of sound playing from the startup script might be related to the Switch desktop icon and this whole issue but there WAS a relation in time... And maybe you guys can figure something out of this...? > > >> 2.2. ROX is taking over the desktop background (as it always does >> even if you don't set it up to load any image or color) but I kind of >> like the background lxp comes with. Only... I could not find where it >> is located (so I can use it with ROX). Even issuing "dpkg -L lxp" and >> "dpkg -L lxp-icewm" gave me nothing to work with. >> > > /usr/share/lxp-icewm/themes/LookXP-Human/wallpaper.png > Done! Worked perfectly, of course! Thanks! :) > >> Also, in plain ol' icewm, I used to just shut down icewmbg as it was >> doing nothing useful anyway. But when I do that in lxp and without >> the ROX desktop... I get that exact same lxp background! So I guess >> you're loading it in some other way...? Would be nice to be able to >> free up the memory used by it if needed... >> > > Have you checked to see if lxp-icewmbg is actually running? You can do > that by entering the following command in an xterm: > > ps ax | grep icewmbg > Actually... with all of the above I didn't even care to notice that anymore... But I can restore my setup to the previous state and check for that if you want. However when logging into lxp (to try the default desktop thing) I did not always get the same result! Rox was NEVER up BUT the background might be either a black background or the lxp background... However I did have (and already had it before a line in my startup script to kill icewmbg (now lxp-icewmbg)... > and it should show you that it (lxp-icewmbg) isn't running. Once it > sets the background image it exits. You can lessen the amount of RAM > being used by converting 'wallpaper.png' into a JPeg image (GIMP is > your friend ;-) ) and modifying the entry for the background in > /usr/share/lxp-icewm/themes/LookXP-Human/default.theme, it's near the > bottom in the 'Desktop' section. Of course, you need to be root (or use > the sudo command) in order to make these changes :-) > Thanks! GREAT TIP! :-D > > >> For the translations' offer: >> >> I've seen of your sourceforge.net page lxp is presently translated >> only to English and Spanish. >> I can translate it to Portuguese and French too if you like. >> Nontheless, I have experience in translating applications only with >> Firefox (to pt-PT) and by that I mean receiving HTML and XML files >> and returning the messages in there translated. I have no real >> experience with say gettext or whatever you use (I've spontaneously >> done one small one a while back for a very small project - the >> developper never came back to me or, that I'm aware of, used it). >> Also... Not sure in what time I can do it - this month's going to be >> quite busy for me... >> > > You could do the translations and post them here so one of us can add > them to the packages. > TODO-TODO-TODO! But can't promise when... I'm looking for a job in either a) another city or b) another country... > On behalf of the team I'd like to thank you for your kind words and > your contribution to the translations. I hope I was able to answer your > questions adequately enough for you to "tweak" LXP to suit your > desires. > > Regards, Myles > Thank you Myles! You've been a big help! Cheers! Jean > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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