Help me spice up my Desktop!

archlyn · 08-11-2005, 08:05 PM

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Originally posted by cs-cam
Not true. I've used it in fluxbox before, works great as a launcher. You need to download a set (or make them yourself) of eap files from somewhere like get-e.org and then copy the ones you want to ~/.e/e/applications/engage and they'll appear in engage and you can launch your apps from it.

Hrmmm... I read that in the README or something. Or at least I thought I did. Guess I was wrong.

If nothing else fails, I found a good one called (surprise, surprise!) fbpanel. I like engage though. Can you tell me how I set it up as a launcher? when it starts now, it's just a taskbar.

EDIT: I GOT IT!!! YOU ROCK! m(\/)m

Also, isn there any way to make gkrellm persistant across all desktops in fluxbox? It only shows up on desktop 1

fouldsy · 08-12-2005, 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by archlyn
Also, isn there any way to make gkrellm persistant across all desktops in fluxbox? It only shows up on desktop 1

How have you launched gkrellm? The easiest way is to stick it into the slit on loading fluxbox, which can be done by editing ~/.fluxbox/apps and adding:

Code:

[startup] {gkrellm -w}

Anything loading into the slit should be available on all desktops. If you're loading it normally, it will only appear on the one desktop in the same way any app will. Try it first by "gkrellm -w", the "-w" drops it into the slit, and then moving through your desktops to make sure it appears on them all. The position of the slit can be adjusted by right-clicking on the desktop and going to Configuration | Slit | Placement

archlyn · 08-12-2005, 09:09 AM

That's how I used to start Gkrellm, but that in itself has other issues.

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s it possible to configure the fluxbox slits so that, say, GKrellm can be on one part of the screen (upper right corner for example) and another item in the slit can be in a different place (ie having an application launcher at the bottom of the screen)?

Or maybe having more than one slit?

@ cs-cam:
Is there any way to remove the tint from the background of engage? Also, is there an editor for .eet files such as ~/.e/apps/engage/config.eet?

misunderstruck · 08-12-2005, 09:48 AM

If you launch gkrellm outside the slit (that is, as gkrellm & without the "-w"), you can make it show on all the desktops by making it sticky. With a normal window in fluxbox, there's a button on the top left corner you use to stick the window, but because gkrellm is borderless, I believe you need to Alt+RightClick on it (EDIT: sorry, I was thinking of a different wm. In Fluxbox you need to middle-click on the desktop to get the Workspace Menu, select the current workspace, select gkrellm, and then you can do the rest of this-->) and you will get a window menu for it, where you can set the level (I set it to the destop level so other windows can be moved over it) and the stickiness, among other things. That way gkrellm will be on all the desktops and you will still have the slit free for whatever else you need it for.

Here is a good bit of info about Engage:
http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/_pages/4.2.html

Since you are using Engage outside of the new Enlightenment, you will want to read the parts about the standalone version. Transparency is very easily done in the standalone (the module version is for E17 only):

Code:

engage -b "#00000000" -B "#00000000"

There are a number of other command line options you can use to configure the look of Engage, and then of course you can throw the whole line into your ~/.fluxbox/startup file and it will be taken care of when you start!

You should check out this page as well:
http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English/_pages/3.3.html
Engage uses .eap files for it's icons, and you need to have them for whatever applications you use, otherwise you get green question marks in the task bar portion. If you look under the Themes section of Get-E.org, you will find a number of pre-made .eap sets. Being a regular user of E17 myself, I have a number of them created as well, which I could post if you'd like. (Oh yeah, and the standalone version of Engage can also make normal eap icons look like the Gentoo theme glass-globes too without making you edit anything.)