That's a shame. 32-bit systems would probably benefit the most by having a lighter-weight desktop that still looks well.
OpenBox Re-spin
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
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Re: OpenBox Re-spin
This is the first release candidate version of MX-Openbox (18.2). Features of this version include:
-- xfdesktop (Desktop icons & wallpaper management)
-- Thunar integration and file management
-- Openbox keybindings (listed on the Desktop via Conky)
-- Significant Conky presence on the Desktop
-- Memory footprint of about 285MB
-- Extensive Desktop eye-candy (compositor, icons, themes)
-- Tint2 integration on the dekstop for panle & taskbar management
-- Menus include obmenu & xfce menus (via right mouse-click on the Desktop wallpaper)
-- synapse semantic launcher integration
-- Chromium, Thunderbird, Geany, Mousepad, Conky-manager, LightDM installed and linked to the Openbox environment
-- obmenu-generator/ obmenu implementation
-- ~20 wallpapers installed and available. xfdesktop allows for random wallpaper appearance.
If there are items you'd like added to the environment, please let me know. I, also, would appreciate reports of bugs or glitches (I'm sure they are there.).
Desktop Screenshots (4)
https://ibb.co/2Fks7Jk
https://ibb.co/qdtMVp0
https://ibb.co/0nrbfz3
https://ibb.co/R7fHZ95
The Current download may be accessed here:
http://treemagic.org/MX%20Desktops/MX-Openbox-rc
-- xfdesktop (Desktop icons & wallpaper management)
-- Thunar integration and file management
-- Openbox keybindings (listed on the Desktop via Conky)
-- Significant Conky presence on the Desktop
-- Memory footprint of about 285MB
-- Extensive Desktop eye-candy (compositor, icons, themes)
-- Tint2 integration on the dekstop for panle & taskbar management
-- Menus include obmenu & xfce menus (via right mouse-click on the Desktop wallpaper)
-- synapse semantic launcher integration
-- Chromium, Thunderbird, Geany, Mousepad, Conky-manager, LightDM installed and linked to the Openbox environment
-- obmenu-generator/ obmenu implementation
-- ~20 wallpapers installed and available. xfdesktop allows for random wallpaper appearance.
If there are items you'd like added to the environment, please let me know. I, also, would appreciate reports of bugs or glitches (I'm sure they are there.).
Desktop Screenshots (4)
https://ibb.co/2Fks7Jk
https://ibb.co/qdtMVp0
https://ibb.co/0nrbfz3
https://ibb.co/R7fHZ95
The Current download may be accessed here:
http://treemagic.org/MX%20Desktops/MX-Openbox-rc
Last edited by manyroads on Sun May 19, 2019 2:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Pax vobiscum,
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
Hello manyroads,
First of all, my English isn't that good, I hope you understand me anyway.
Great work, thank you so much. I installed Openbox-RC1 in a VM and am very happy. I found only small problems:
many greetings gosia
First of all, my English isn't that good, I hope you understand me anyway.
Great work, thank you so much. I installed Openbox-RC1 in a VM and am very happy. I found only small problems:
- Conky doesn't start automatically, is that what you want?
- Menu "Accessories" -> "MX Updater" is available twice and doesn't work (/usr/bin/apt-notifier-unhide-icon doesn't exist)
- Menu "Other": all items report only the Openbox error "Text was empty (or contained only space)".
many greetings gosia
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
Your English is just fine. If German is your native tongue, I work well in that language... :lipsrsealed:gosia wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 4:33 pm Hello manyroads,
First of all, my English isn't that good, I hope you understand me anyway.
[...]
[...]
- Conky doesn't start automatically, is that what you want?
- Menu "Accessories" -> "MX Updater" is available twice and doesn't work (/usr/bin/apt-notifier-unhide-icon doesn't exist)
- Menu "Other": all items report only the Openbox error "Text was empty (or contained only space)".
Conky should have started autmatically. There should be a conky-startup.sh symlink that points to the .conky file folder and starts. It worked for me in my testing. Please check that out.
As for MX Links in the obmenu they are all mal-formed and do not function correctly. I'm not certain what can be done. If you right-click on the Desktop you'll see the xfce menu default, those should all function. I'm uncertain how to reconcile the two menus.
The wallpapers work fine for me, but my screen is 1920 wide... you will need a flat dark background in order to get things functioning nicely on your screen, from the sounds of it.
Here are some excellent sources for wallpapers (all are free)
http://pixabay.com
http://pxhere.com
http://wallpaperplay.com/board/debian-wallpapers
Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
manyroads
Conky doesn't start on the live iso because:
demo@mx1:~
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 demo demo 39 May 15 20:14 conky-startup.sh -> /home/manyroads/.conky/conky-startup.sh
you have the link pointing to /home/manyroads
and conky-startup.sh shows:
sleep -5s
killall conky
cd "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky"
conky -c "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky/.OpenBox-KeyBindings" &
cd "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky"
conky -c "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky/.conkyrc" &
your /etc/skel is the same - need to change from /home/manyroads to /home/$USER
Earl
Conky doesn't start on the live iso because:
demo@mx1:~
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 demo demo 39 May 15 20:14 conky-startup.sh -> /home/manyroads/.conky/conky-startup.sh
you have the link pointing to /home/manyroads
and conky-startup.sh shows:
sleep -5s
killall conky
cd "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky"
conky -c "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky/.OpenBox-KeyBindings" &
cd "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky"
conky -c "/home/manyroads/.conky/ManyRoads-Multi-Conky/.conkyrc" &
your /etc/skel is the same - need to change from /home/manyroads to /home/$USER
Earl
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
I just downloaded manyroad's iso. Looking at it it looks like the apt-notifier package has been removed but one of it's .desktop files, /etc/xdg/autostart/mx-updater-autostart-xdg.desktop, is still installed. I think if you remove that file the MX Updater menu entries should go away.
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
Thank you for the insights. I'll do what I can. So far nothing sounds too hard.
Edit:
Here are a pile of debian wallpapers that should work.
http://treemagic.org/debian_wallpapers.tar.gz
I will likely include them in the next install.
Edit:
Here are a pile of debian wallpapers that should work.
http://treemagic.org/debian_wallpapers.tar.gz
I will likely include them in the next install.
Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
For those who like openbox, you probably remember #! (crunch bang). Well I thought that it might be fun to name this 'for fun' openbox respin.
I have something(s) to start it off... but I'd like other pithy, clever suggestions as well. If we get a few good ones, I'll make a poll to decide.
My criteria for the name is that it be easily represented using a couple of mathematical or computer science symbols, like #!
Here are a couple candidates to kick things off:
(mx,ob) it is the "open" interval of mx to openbox.
mx^ob is the logical conjuntion of mx & openbox
I have something(s) to start it off... but I'd like other pithy, clever suggestions as well. If we get a few good ones, I'll make a poll to decide.
My criteria for the name is that it be easily represented using a couple of mathematical or computer science symbols, like #!
Here are a couple candidates to kick things off:
(mx,ob) it is the "open" interval of mx to openbox.
mx^ob is the logical conjuntion of mx & openbox
Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
Hello all.
I have fixed all reported bugs (by my testing) and changed the wallpapers to be more screen-size independent. Unless I hear otherwise, I think this release is very close to being 'ready for prime-time'.
You may download the current RC from here (it should be uploaded/available about 1930 UTC today 19 May 2019) :
http://treemagic.org/MX%20Desktops/MX-Openbox-rc
I have fixed all reported bugs (by my testing) and changed the wallpapers to be more screen-size independent. Unless I hear otherwise, I think this release is very close to being 'ready for prime-time'.
You may download the current RC from here (it should be uploaded/available about 1930 UTC today 19 May 2019) :
http://treemagic.org/MX%20Desktops/MX-Openbox-rc
Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Mark Rabideau - ManyRoads Genealogy -or- eirenicon llc. (geeky stuff)
i3wm, bspwm, hlwm, dwm, spectrwm ~ Linux #449130
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: OpenBox Re-spin
manyroads
Just downloaded rc2 and installed to Virtualbox.
You fixed the conky startup, but the info it shows???
System Information
User:mark@xxxxxx
Disk USE
System SSD
NETWORK
WAN IP XXXXXXXXXX
Info needs to be deleted from somewhere.
Also for Thunar to Browse Network I had to install gvfs-backends
Will continue to look through it - keep up the good work.
Earl
Just downloaded rc2 and installed to Virtualbox.
You fixed the conky startup, but the info it shows???
System Information
User:mark@xxxxxx
Disk USE
System SSD
NETWORK
WAN IP XXXXXXXXXX
Info needs to be deleted from somewhere.
Also for Thunar to Browse Network I had to install gvfs-backends
Will continue to look through it - keep up the good work.
Earl