Hello all,
Strange thing happened yesterday. I posted a reply, fairly involved, and after submitting it I clicked to view post and read it. When I came back to see if I had any replies, it was gone. I can not imagine there was anything in it that would have offended anybody and require deleting. I can log in, so not banned....strange.
Anyway, to ask for help again. On page four of this thread WhoDo has a screenshot of his new theme, Dark Saphire...WOW NICE!
I very much want to have a setup just like his. From my reading and looking, I will need mrvxt for the transparent console, Wbar for the icon bar (if that is what it is called), HotPup for the drive graphics and Gdesklets for the calendar, weather and clock.
I have found the .pets for hotpup and mrvxt and installed them. Funny, now that I see mrxvt I realize that when I installed fat free 301, the desktop icon was calling for mrvxt and I changed it to rvxt. So, I changed it back to mrxvt.
Hotpup seems to be displaying fine. What is the procedure to use it to mount or unmount a drive? I tried eject to unmount and got an error, then somehow got the window asking to leave, unmount, or whatever. I probably did not use the correct procedure?
Mrvxt also installed fine and I got the desktop icon to open it. The top bar looks like WhoDo's, but is not shaped or transparent like his. How do I accomplish this?
Finally, I have read a bit on Wbar, but still do not quite get it. I found a tarball and I think I know how to get it uncompressed, but then not sure. A post by Dougal says I will need to make a config file and that is why imlib2 is included. Then warnings to use wbar help to see how to use it as you need to supply options when you first start it. Also, the -above-desk need seems to be a maybe yes, maybe no.
I am so noob and, frankly, not one to just punch buttons and hope. If you do not know how to do something, what chance do you have to unscrew it up? So, could y'all please help with explicit instructions so I can get started. Once installed and working, I can then experiment and see more. Just me, but too late to change now
Any chance some kind sole has put everything needed to get wbar installed and ready to go into a .pet? I think that would help alot.
Two last things, in looking into my "eye candy project" I have seen some things that have apparently grown into some other things or been incorporated into some thing, like EZpup, so are kind of out dated. So, how can i search for things and restrict the results to 2007-2008?
Apparently icedock is disabled in EZpup by default, but enabled in muppy. How can I enable it to see what it is and rather I want it or not? The screenshots I have seen are not that clear. I am guessing it is a preconfigured display similar to gdesklets?
Thanks in advance, I am sure your help will be used by a lot more people than just me. Chris.