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Offline Tony

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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2012, 07:37:20 AM »
Quote from: Crow on August 29, 2012, 02:37:43 PM
Have you right clicked the bar?  it happens to  me from time to time and that fix it.
That's a little funny actually as I thought the Wbar was meant to have a Black background, as it always has for me.

After reading Crow's suggestion of simply right clicking on Wbar, the Black background has gone. Heck it looks a lot better !  :D
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2012, 07:46:40 AM »
Does wbar support "fake transparency" the same way that cairo-dock does?  I use Cairo with fake transparency enabled (my LXDE doesn't do well with OpenGL yet), and I notice sometimes it is slow to refresh the background for the dock bar when I change desktops.

Couldn't swear to it, but this may be a similar issue?


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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2012, 03:29:54 PM »
Okay, i think, i found the mistake...
Can you check if you have installed
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/etc/xdg/autostart/wbar.desktop?
Remove it from there as root, and try again
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# (en) Wait 10 seconds before starts up.
# (de) 10 Sekunden warten bis zum starten.
sleep 3
#
#parcellite &
#gkrellm &
#xbindkeys &
cpufreq &
##############
sleep 10 # or higher #
##############
wbar &
Works now?
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2012, 03:18:56 PM »
I feel an Elephant in the Thread  ???  ::)
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2012, 04:09:52 PM »
Quote from: Tony on October 03, 2012, 03:18:56 PM
I feel an Elephant in the Thread  ???  ::)

And "the elephant is like a hand fan"   :)
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2012, 06:46:16 AM »
I felt a little sad that no one had replied to daniel, whether the script had worked for them, or not ; posting like there's an "uncomfortable silence", or an 'Elephant in the room' ; however Crow I learnt something from your comment, looking at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

I've become very fond of this Forum as there are so many people with a great depth of knowledge about all sorts of things. Healthy Culture !
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2012, 12:06:18 PM »
It is amazing...
All peoples cries if anything not working, but if i need an info, there comes nothing...  ::)
This is PClinuxOS  ;D
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2012, 02:08:16 PM »
Quote from: Tony on October 04, 2012, 06:46:16 AM
I felt a little sad that no one had replied to daniel, whether the script had worked for them, or not ; posting like there's an "uncomfortable silence", or an 'Elephant in the room' ; however Crow I learnt something from your comment, looking at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

I've become very fond of this Forum as there are so many people with a great depth of knowledge about all sorts of things. Healthy Culture !


Your "Elephant in the room" phrase made me remind that story, it's a metaphor about the relativity and fragmentation of knowledge and truth (and how we don't question what we think we witnessed) that I liked to use when working with families because even children understand it easily   :)

The richness of this forum is the variety of backgrounds of people that post, you have mechanics and chefs, monkeys and dogs, and even a socialite and a fairy the comes here from time to time   ;D   ;D
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2012, 11:03:08 PM »
Quote from: daniel on October 04, 2012, 12:06:18 PM
It is amazing...
All peoples cries if anything not working, but if i need an info, there comes nothing...  ::)
This is PClinuxOS  ;D
It does feel a bit like a Holiday season here at the moment. Then again I had an operation a fews weeks ago and are a bit "out of it" still really  :P The Answers come with patience; "I've been told", daniel  ;)
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Your "Elephant in the room" phrase made me remind that story, it's a metaphor about the relativity and fragmentation of knowledge and truth (and how we don't question what we think we witnessed) that I liked to use when working with families because even children understand it easily  :)
Yeah, is a great story. I enjoyed the philosophy behind it, deep but easily understood !
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2012, 05:35:24 AM »
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Even an Odd Australian  Cheesy

That seems like a pleonasm   ;)
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #25 on: October 05, 2012, 07:26:14 AM »
Quote from: Aleph on August 26, 2012, 02:24:03 AM
Hi friends,

this is not very important, but many times (not always) the Wbar background is black when I start PCLOS. I reload Wbar and the background appears.

Is possible solve this problem?

Thanks.

Did you load the composite manager ?   try to start :  xcompmgr -Ff -Cc & before wbar ?
If you have no composite manager, it would create this symptom.

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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #26 on: October 05, 2012, 08:09:18 AM »
Please excuse me PerfMonk; Hey!, and welcome to The Forum: PCLOS.
Quote from: Crow on October 05, 2012, 05:35:24 AM
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Even an Odd Australian  Cheesy

That seems like a pleonasm   ;)
You're onto me Crow  ;D
A copiousness, verbosity, afflicts me in general. Guilty as charged, long-windedness, loquacity, is a major problem that annoys me even.  ;)    
To be concise; what a pleasure, and so many more on my 'Post Count'. :D

Let the "Wbar black background" fix continue, with my apologies to all involved; I'll try to cut down on my verbiage.
BTW, a simple 'Right Click' did remove the black background on the Wbar in my case.
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2012, 07:19:01 AM »
Sorry for to be lost...

The last 3 days Wbar was working well for me, without black background. Chance or because the last updates? I don't know and will be observing...


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Did you load the composite manager ?   try to start :  xcompmgr -Ff -Cc & before wbar ?
If you have no composite manager, it would create this symptom.

No idea about it, sorry...
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2012, 07:53:50 AM »
Latest change on wbar package is
Removing of wbar.desktop file from /etc/xdg/autostart

Not everybody can, or want use a composite manager....

My fix for it under LXDE is, to use lxautostart, and all will be fine.
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Re: Wbar black background
« Reply #29 on: October 06, 2012, 12:52:13 PM »
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My fix for it under LXDE is, to use lxautostart, and all will be fine.

Thanks daniel, at the moment wbar is running well.
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