Openbox : updated configuration files New New !

[melodie]

Hi,
You will find a new set of configuration files here: http://meets.free.fr/files/openbox-configs.tar.bz2

http://meets.free.fr/files/openbox-configs.tar.xz

Please check visually the differences, you may not want to replace the configurations you have already setup by yourself...;

A few things which you should use, which I added/replaced in autostart.sh:

# Authentication agent
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

In the scripts directory, the files have changed, please use them instead of the previous ones, the code is better, and in autostart.sh you can remove all the part related to the xcompmgr effects and replace it with the lines:
# nice transparency, fadings, shadows.
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xcompmgr.sh restore

the same for xsnow:
# Xsnow. And now let is snow ! (With Santa Klaus, sledge... )
~/.config/openbox/scripts/xsnow.sh restore

Thanks to mimas for the 2 scripts ! They are also in use in PCLinuxOS Education (the latest).

If you want Xsnow, you will have to compile it and install the binary to your /home/user/.local/bin or to /usr/local/bin, because it is not in the repos and there is no package request section available at the moment... or get it in the last Openbox Bonsai. (under /usr/local/bin)

Regards,
Mélodie

[jlf001]

Thanks mimas and Mélodie.

Jeff

[melodie]

Hello,

I just replaced the tarball with a new new set : the languages are now in a sub-directory, the main files are symlinks to the translated files, and more important : the polkit authentication agent is now automatically selected according to the architecture. So it is ready for the future 64bits versions to come. This is at the beginning of the autostart.sh file.

The new link is in the first post. Please try it and let me know if you notice anything to fix that I could have missed.

Thanks !
Mélodie

[jlf001]

The new link is in the first post. Please try it and let me know if you notice anything to fix that I could have missed.

Thanks !
Mélodie

Hi,

I just tried it and all seems fine.  Running with your latest Bonsai in Virtualbox.

Jeff

[melodie]

Hello Jeff !

Thank you very much !! 

[Taco.22]

Sorry, been a bit slack on trying this! 

Edited the relevant lines into autostart.sh and menu.xml. All works well. 
Then took the shutdown command from menu.xml and added a key command to it in .rc.  Replaces my previous hal based one.  All works.  Two key strokes and the 'puter shuts down.  All good. 

Thanks Melodie.   

[clarms]

If you want Xsnow, you will have to compile it .......

This is a while back now, and just wondering, were you able to compile it with the "cc" (gcc) example in the readme?

I had to find an imake src rpm that had xmkmf to create a working makefile. I have a working xsnow src rpm now.

[melodie]

If you want Xsnow, you will have to compile it .......

This is a while back now, and just wondering, were you able to compile it with the "cc" (gcc) example in the readme?

I had to find an imake src rpm that had xmkmf to create a working makefile. I have a working xsnow src rpm now.

Frankly I don't remember, I think I had no problem at all compiling, just following the readme. It is great that you have done a src rpm ! The package request section might not have been available...

Do you think you can make a rpm package as well, and send it to Neal's dropbox ? That would be very nice !

Regards,
Mélodie

[clarms]

Frankly I don't remember, I think I had no problem at all compiling, just following the readme. It is great that you have done a src rpm ! The package request section might not have been available...

Do you think you can make a rpm package as well, and send it to Neal's dropbox ? That would be very nice !

Regards,
Mélodie

I don't know if that would work. The version 1.42 of xsnow would not compile from the readme example and instead needed xmkmf from imake that does not exist in pclinuxos. After finding another distros imake src rpm and slightly modifying the specfile to build, the xmkmf made a proper makefile for xsnow to compile. The imake package is only used for xsnow. 

Do you have a different version of xsnow? If it compiles on it's own that would eliminate the need for imake.

[melodie]

Hi,

You will find my answer with the solution here : Xsnow compiling successful, in order to not fall out of topic.